Comment: "With the magic of Facebook and other forms of social media I thought you should hear something from me. I have been fighting the pipeline located on the edge of Alpine for the last two years. Our protests to date have had no influence on the pipeline construction in large part because in Texas, Iowa, and many other states the oil and gas industry owns most politicians. Although most of my local friends concentrate their anger on the pipeline in their backyard I use every opportunity I can to mention that our crazy national policy is to exhaust our oil and gas resources as quickly as possible.

The reasons our country is doing this is because of the immediate profits to be made and the widespread belief that renewable, non-polluting energy will solve all of our problems. My point is that we need to use our energy resources as slowly and efficiently as possible for the benefit of future generations.

I ended up being one of three people volunteering to be arrested and did so because I am old, retired, and in general have less to lose than most of my friends. In doing so I got the chance to talk to many reporters which was the primary reason to conduct the protest. Whether the publicity we and others like those in other states generate will change anything remains to be seen but without it nothing will change.

I have been surprised and pleased by the reaction of many of my friends most of whom wholeheartedly support my actions. I anticipate a court date early next year and hopefully a small fine. My time in jail was very short and our actions were even supported by the police and we were well treated."

Roger Siglin

"I didn't have any injuries or illnesses that could warrant a TUE, but I don't think I am the only one who doped, otherwise I would have always been first. Everything is done quite easily: you write to them saying you have an injury, what medication you need, including a seal of approval by the doctor of the diagnosis, which is forged. In five minutes you can get permission to use banned substances," he said, TASS reported.

"They let me know about TUEs the moment I signed a contract with a top team. We all planned in advance, the doctor said, when we needed to take the substance glucocorticosteroid when you succumbed to fatigue, I could lose weight, but nevertheless not feel weakness in my muscles or any weariness," he added.

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