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In article <mgFT9B1w165w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca writes:
>ggauvrea@unixg.ubc.ca (Gwethalyn Gauvreau) writes:
>
>The organized and concerted attempt to prevent MB from carrying out legal
>and lawful activities has rightly met with a court injunction enjoining
>the protesters from blocking the road.  Once the injunction was granted,
>it became the people of B.C. that the protesters were thumbing their
>noses at, not MB. The protesters have decided by themselves that they're

Well the majority of the people in BC are NOT in favour of the current
government policy WRT to Clayoquot so perhaps it's more like the left hand
trying to get the attention of the right hand.

>If you want to violate a court injunction, you're breaking the law. If
>you break the law, you should be prepared to take the consequences
>without whining.

That's true.

>I'd have absolutely no problem with the protesters demonstrating their
>opposition to the decision. I do have a problem with people, misguided or
>not, who have decided that they should engage in a concerted way to block
>Mac-Blo from engaging in logging that follows the principles as set out
>in the Clayoquot compromise by the people of B.C. through their
>government. In fact, the orchestrated protest at Kennedy River, as

Exactly, it's the government that made this *BAD* decision. Not the people.
In fact one of the reasons that the NDP got in was through the efforts of
people now violently opposed to what is happening in Clayoquot (can you say
sold out, I knew you could).

>presently constituted, has all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to
>violate the injunction.

Well, you have to get the attention of the government somehow. Merely voting
them in doesn't seem to count anymore.

>Personally, I hope Premier Harcourt doesn't cave in to these people, and
>that he continues to support the responsible compromise reached.

He already did cave in to the special interest groups. It would be nice if
he simply went back to what he/they said they where going to do WRT to the
environment etc.

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