Gawain Towler has a timely piece in The Critic about green activist violence, contrasting it with the treatment of truckers in Ottawa. Well worth reading as a reminder of how absurdly unbalanced mainstream media coverage is.
Terrorism for thee but not for me?
Whilst truckers are treated like criminals, green activists are running riot
There has been an outbreak of political violence in Canada. A member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was hurt and people going about their daily business were threatened by masked men with axes. Roads were blocked with barricades, Millions of dollars of damage was caused. At one point some of the workers were trapped in a building while the demonstrator tried to set light to it with them still inside.
This happened on Thursday night. It didn’t happen in Ottawa where hundreds of truck drivers maintained their protest despite emergency powers being granted to the authorities...
No this attack took place, not in Ottawa, but in British Columbia, at an industrial site. This is what the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) had to say: “Shortly after midnight, Houston RCMP was called to the Marten Forest Service Road (FSR) after Coastal Gas Link (CGL) security reported acts of violence at their work site…approximately 20 people, some armed with axes, were attacking security guards and smashing their vehicle windows…
2 comments:
"people going about their daily business were threatened by masked men with axes..."
I hope the wood for the axe handles was responsibly sourced from renewable forests.
Sam - I bet the handles were plastic as most seem to be these days.
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