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samuel@cs.ubc.ca (Stephen Samuel) writes:

> A provincial judge today sentenced 44 forest protectors to a total of
> 5 1/2 years in jail and approximataly eighty thousand dollars in fines
> for being on a public roadway. 
> 
This is NOT true. The 44 were convicted of violating a court injunction 
barring them from blockading a logging road - not for being on a public 
roadway. None of the other protestors who were also present at the site, 
but not illegally blocking the road were arrested.

> The fourty four protesters were all arrested on a logging road in 
> Clayoquot Sound where they were protesting a government decision to 
> allow logging on over 85% of the commercially viable forest land
> in the area. The harshest sentance was 60 days in jail and a $3000
> fine handed to a local physician.
> 

No, they were arrested for breaking the law. There is a court injunction 
in existence barring them from physically blocking the road. No one is 
preventing them from PROTESTING any government decision. They are free to 
lobby government MLAs, organize petitions, run for public office, etc - 
in short they are perfectly free to make any kind of protest they want. 
They just aren't free to break the law, that's all. If they don't like 
the law, they should try to change THAT, not ignore it.

> Greenpeace and Friends of Clayoquot sound have both criticized the
> actions.
> 

If you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.



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