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In article <25lipjINNrt7@lucille.cs.ubc.ca>, samuel@cs.ubc.ca (Stephen Samuel) writes:
>emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca writes:
>
>>sl@vanbc.wimsey.com (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>
>>> In article <mgFT9B1w165w@ham.almanac.bc.ca> emd@ham.almanac.bc.ca writes:
>>> >ggauvrea@unixg.ubc.ca (Gwethalyn Gauvreau) writes:
>>> >
>>> 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.
>
>>Sez who? A small number of self-appointed environmental "saviours"?
>
>Most of the people I've talked to would like to have this thing changed.
>Many are disappointed that they don't think they can go out there themselves.
>between 20 and 30% actually support a BLOCKADE being used to stop the logging
>and that was in a survey commissioned by MacBlo, who would presumably have
>set up the questions to discourage that kind of answer.

and I think it would be fair to say that many who *say* they support
the illegal blockade will find (*ahem!*) `good' reasons why they can't
participate when push comes to shove.

>
>The violation is not willy-nilly. For MOST of the people out there, it is
>carefully considered.  People who arrive at the peace camp expecting to
>get arrested are strongly suggested to take a short course so that they
>are more aware of what they face.

Peace camp? This isn't an example of a peace camp any more than Kent State
was a love-in... this is a confrontation. In fact, it has the potential
to be a violent confrontation... one in which the lives of citizens could
be threatened by environmental zealots. Do you interpret their noble goal
as `peaceful' and therefore describe the entire affair as such? I don't!




Don
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