“Very Honorable Man”: Far-Left Pipeline Protesters Stand By Arrested Leader Exposed as Violent Rapist and Drug Dealer

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“Let his past be.” This exposes the hypocrisy of the left. If Pedro Gutierrez were a pro-freedom activist, the left would be demanding that everyone he ever stood in an elevator with denounce him and apologize, and stop all work on anything with which he was associated. But when one of their own turns out to be a violent criminal, they close ranks and defend him.

“Pipeline Protesters Stand By Arrested Leader Exposed as Rapist,” by Brent Scher, Washington Free Beacon, March 6, 2017:

Environmentalists in Texas are standing by their leader even after it was revealed he had been imprisoned for various charges, including rape by force, and has been on the run from authorities for over a decade.

Protesters were shocked this week when Pedro Rabago Gutierrez, who went by Pete Hefflin while leading protests at the site of the Trans-Pecos Pipeline in West Texas, was arrested and had his criminal history and true identity exposed.

Gutierrez had not been seen since he was released on parole from California in 2002 after a long series of serious crimes. He was first imprisoned in 1984 on charges of forcible rape and drug possession with an intent to sell, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Gutierrez was released in 1990 but failed to stay out of legal trouble, according to the report. He was reimprisoned numerous times for parole violations and then convicted in 1998 for having sex with a minor. California authorities lost track of him after his 2002 parole.

But in November 2016, Gutierrez emerged as an environmentalist in Texas protesting a Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting over a proposed pipeline that would carry natural gas from the state into Mexico. He became a vocal leader of the protest, eventually rising to become the activists’ head of security and ceremonies. He also was made a board member of the Society of Native Nations.

Many activists at the camp are standing by the man they knew as Pete Hefflin despite the serious charges that brought about his arrest.

Lori Glover, who owns the land containing the protest site and plays a leading role in protest activities, said she was “privileged” to have worked with him.

“He served his time, made a new start,” Glover told the Chronicle. “I was unaware of any of this past history. Despite that, I feel very privileged to have worked with Pete Hefflin.”

Her husband, Mark Glover, called Hefflin an “honorable man” and wrote off his criminal history by pointing out that “American Indians have an incredibly high incarceration rate.”

“I’ve known Pete Hefflin for six months and I’ve found him to be a very honorable man and I will stand by him any day,” Mark Glover said. “American Indians have an incredibly high incarceration rate, and if he’s served prison time, I wouldn’t doubt it. But we believe in redemption and we believe in Pete Hefflin.”

Pete Hefflin has claimed to be a member of the Mescalero Apache tribe. It is unclear if that is also a misrepresentation.

Lise Lyseggen, a protester who has donated money to the protest group using GoFundMe, wrote on Facebook that people should “let his past be” and that he should be released so that he could “continue his good work for people.”

“Let his past be. Most people,have something in their past,thath [sic] they are not to proud off [sic]. let him out,so he can still continue his good work for people. It happend’s [sic] a looooong time ago,bury it,” wrote Lyseggen [sic throughout]. 

Josh Michener, an active protester who announced he was leaving the camp this week due to personal issues, explained the arrest in a Facebook Live video, claiming that camp “leadership” was being “targeted.”

“They’re targeting leadership,” Michener said. “They’re trying to find anything and everything they can dig up from the past.”…

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Chris Wolf

7 years ago

We have an insurgency in this country today, composed Hispanic immigrants, muslim jihadis and disaffected, drug addicted, radical propagandized would-be heirs of the greatest country in history.

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Liatris Spicata

7 years ago

Reply to  Chris Wolf

The interests of good government would be served if we in some appropriate manner restricted the voting franchise. Ironic, no, that excessive responsiveness to the popular will is undermining, and even threatening, representative democracy in the USA?

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Jack Ma

7 years ago

Getting a little tired of this. Unfortunately this is what 8 years of socialism has created. I was never a fan of President Obama, but not once did I riot. Not once did I say he wasn’t my president. I respected the voice of the majority, even if it wasn’t my voice.

Thanks to Obama, we have expensive health insurance forced on all of us. Even auto insurance is forced on us (thank god for $25/month Insurance Panda coverage). What’s next? Mandatory phone insurance? We have taxes on top of taxes and our freedoms are slowly disappearing.

Obama has a duty to set the record straight, and saycondemn this madness. The rioters won’t listen to Trump.

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Mahou Shoujo

7 years ago

This is the type of human rubbish the left and its minions like environmentalists attract. Decent people will have nothing to do with the violent irresponsibility and outright hypocrisy of liberal democrats and environmentalist. They are a magnet for imbeciles.

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pipo

7 years ago

Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I have been in prison twice (long time and little time) and I am on the right. Done wrong things and do not regret. And perhaps I am in for an another time, but this is political because I hate pislam.

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Mahou Shoujo

7 years ago

Reply to  pipo

Your loathing of islam is sufficient penance for whatever you have done in the past.

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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020

7 years ago

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Really?

7 years ago

Reply to  AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020

Hollywood loves pedophiles because Hollywood is run by them.

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Mary Seres

7 years ago

Well maybe Lori Glover would allow her daughter to spend the night in the house with this man alone and see how devoted to him she would be in the morning. I know it says in the end times men’s eye’s will be blinded but this is beyond absurd.

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Janet

7 years ago

Only the left would describe a scumbag as an honorable man. I imagine the woman he raped would beg to differ!

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GandalfsTrouserpress

7 years ago

Libtard logic in full effect.

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santashandler

7 years ago

Boo Hoo, they are taking their leader. This is the caliber of garbage the mentally disordered left looks up to.

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dhd123

7 years ago

head of security and ceremonies

Ceremonies? What do they do, give each other participation trophies?
“American Indians have an incredibly high incarceration rate.”
Its the fire water.

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Mike Kevins

7 years ago

This is why the left “appears” to be winning. They stand together, no matter what. If a Republican said a dirty word ten years ago, his fellow Repugnants would gleefully throw him under the bus and wag their tails while wsaiting for the lamestream press to say, “Good boy!”

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Joe1938

7 years ago

This type of character is not atypical of the left.

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Really?

7 years ago

These liberals should allow this rapist to baby sit their children to prove their points.

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