🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <291kmg$6u7@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
Nancy Horsman <leon@chem.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>  Those persons who were conceived to be active  protestors  were
>served  a  Writ  of  Summons  from  the  Supreme Court of British
>Columbia  on  September  16.  On  the  advice  of  lawyers,   the
>protestors  decided  to  leave  the  site at 16th Avenue and East
>Mall. None of those involved could afford the  impoverishment  of
>years of litigation in the courts should the University bring its
>heavily-punitive injunction against the group.
>
>
>  The restraining order sought by the  UBC  administration  would
>have  brought criminal charges, including trespass, intimidation,
>nuisance,   obstruction,   interference,   conspiracy.   Attached
>affidavits asserted vandalism and theft.
>

I'm amazed...to find that the courts actually protect an individual's or
business's property rights. With a socialist NDP government in BC,
and the general anti-individual, pro-collective; anti-property 
government-knows-best attitude in Canada, I would have expected different.
Maybe there's hope yet. Maybe not: one still cant cut down a tree
or build something on your property without running into some idiotic
law.
>
>
>  In short, the restraint would ensure that no person,  known  or
>"unknown,"  might  act  on  individual conscience without putting
>*all* persons at risk.

My individual conscience tells me I should break into your house, 
invite my friends in, trash the place, and call it an "enlightened
social statement".

>
>
>  The University  now  has  a  powerful  corporate  tool  in  the
>restraining  order.  A  Board  of  Governors' agreement this past
>summer assured that the University would follow public process in
>its  plans  from  now  on: as it happens, the first act of public
>process, not two  months  later,  found  the  UBC  administration
>asking  the  Supreme Court of B.C. for a criminal reading against
>its own students and neigbours.
>
amazing how ordinary protection of life and property gets distorted
for the purposes of the back-to-nature-destroy-all-civilisation-trees-have
-feelings-too-man's-place-in-nature-is-to-shiver-in-the-dark zealots.

one day, probably too late, people will realise what the real "green"
agenda is: destroy civilisation, take us back to the stone ages, and
reduce man to just another forest creature scraping for roots and bugs
with our bare hands like some savage.

>  Finally, the South Campus Plan would change the whole nature of
>the  University,  from  a  public  institution  to a private one.
>Perhaps president David  Strangway  envisions  a  Corporation  of
>Advanced  Engineering  as  the  future for this Point Grey campus
>(see *Vancouver Sun*, July 30, 1993).

I take it that bothers you?
>
>
>
>                                    Nancy Horsman


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