There is a reader's comment at the bottom of yesterday's post. It asks what we should do to stop Shale gas exploration.
First - can it be stopped?
Yes, it can be stopped. It has been stopped, even turned back after it began, in parts of the US and Canada and Europe.
What will not stop it is violence. The people behind shale gas would love to see violence (and I suspect they will see it in parts of Canada and the US this summer.) Violence gives them, with the help of the scum of the journalism world, the chance to drive public support away from the protestors; and to call in the police. Violence gives them a chance to call in a violence that the protestors cannot match.
I'm quite sure that the recent decision to call off an "information" meeting because there had been a threat of violence was a setup. I don't believe they would call off a meeting without a serious and very credible threat. But SWN has presented no evidence of such a threat. And it would be very naive to think that SWN would keep such a threat so secret. On the contrary, it would splash its information all over the news media because of the damage it would do to the anti-shale gas movement.
It was a setup. and the Irving press played along with it.
It is quite possible, even likely, that SWN will create violence with mysterious attacks on its own people and equipment. These people act exactly like mafia - because they are exactly like mafia. And, in such a case, depend on the Irving Press to follow their lead without question.
All of that will easily convince the people of New Brunswick that the protestors are in the wrong. This is a province that has been government by fear of the rich and powerful going back well over a century and a half. We have further been numbed by a lying a frivolous press - the only provincial press I know of that has routinely been condemned in federal studies.
The chances of violence across Canada are going to be especially strong this summer now that Harper has stirred up racism among his supporters to carry out a war against native peoples. He wants them out of his way. He wants the treaties out of his way. He wants that to get uncontrolled access to resources - like shale gas. As part of his campaign, he is starving reserves of money that is owing to them for decent housing and sanitation. And he is spending rumours that the reserves are corrupt. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
What makes these tactics possible on the shale gas issue is that the anti-shale gas movement is still too small, and it demonstrations too small. So long as that is the case, private news media of all sorts will play down the credibility of the movement. (Journalists are as sheep-like as they come.) Even the CBC, which has been far the best source of news about this issue) may well lose its independence within weeks as Harper has prepared legislation to destroy it.
All this means the movement has to be even more active in recruiting members, and in ensuring that demonstrations are large. It has to encourage people to read the only alternative print media we have,
The Monctron Free Press.
That won't be easy. Getting New Brunswickers to publicly take stands and to think independemtly and without fear makes walking on water look easy. (It might even be useful - and easier - to get people to demonstrate against the Moncton TandT.)
We need more (and more open) opponents to shale gas. We need t o reveal the Irving press for the manipulative and lying work it does.
And, in the very near future, we must get rid the Liberals and the Conservatives who suck at the Irving teats. Admittedly, some of them can be forgiven on the grounds of stupidity (Mr. Flemming springs to mind). But as long as those two, wretched parties remain in power, this province will sink ever deeper into poverty to make billionaires richer.
As it is, we are destroying our own people, owu children - and now our own lands and waters. (Incidentatlly, where are they going to put the toxic waste water from the wells?)
The fundamental problem of New Brunswick is an aristocracy of wealth that has looted this province for generations. They can get away with it only so long as New Brunswickers act like sheep.
With large, active and open opposition in public, with our votes in provincial elections (and municipal ones), we can, for ourselves and our children, beat these greedy, thieving and destructive bastards.
Yes. They can be stopped.
First - can it be stopped?
Yes, it can be stopped. It has been stopped, even turned back after it began, in parts of the US and Canada and Europe.
What will not stop it is violence. The people behind shale gas would love to see violence (and I suspect they will see it in parts of Canada and the US this summer.) Violence gives them, with the help of the scum of the journalism world, the chance to drive public support away from the protestors; and to call in the police. Violence gives them a chance to call in a violence that the protestors cannot match.
I'm quite sure that the recent decision to call off an "information" meeting because there had been a threat of violence was a setup. I don't believe they would call off a meeting without a serious and very credible threat. But SWN has presented no evidence of such a threat. And it would be very naive to think that SWN would keep such a threat so secret. On the contrary, it would splash its information all over the news media because of the damage it would do to the anti-shale gas movement.
It was a setup. and the Irving press played along with it.
It is quite possible, even likely, that SWN will create violence with mysterious attacks on its own people and equipment. These people act exactly like mafia - because they are exactly like mafia. And, in such a case, depend on the Irving Press to follow their lead without question.
All of that will easily convince the people of New Brunswick that the protestors are in the wrong. This is a province that has been government by fear of the rich and powerful going back well over a century and a half. We have further been numbed by a lying a frivolous press - the only provincial press I know of that has routinely been condemned in federal studies.
The chances of violence across Canada are going to be especially strong this summer now that Harper has stirred up racism among his supporters to carry out a war against native peoples. He wants them out of his way. He wants the treaties out of his way. He wants that to get uncontrolled access to resources - like shale gas. As part of his campaign, he is starving reserves of money that is owing to them for decent housing and sanitation. And he is spending rumours that the reserves are corrupt. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
What makes these tactics possible on the shale gas issue is that the anti-shale gas movement is still too small, and it demonstrations too small. So long as that is the case, private news media of all sorts will play down the credibility of the movement. (Journalists are as sheep-like as they come.) Even the CBC, which has been far the best source of news about this issue) may well lose its independence within weeks as Harper has prepared legislation to destroy it.
All this means the movement has to be even more active in recruiting members, and in ensuring that demonstrations are large. It has to encourage people to read the only alternative print media we have,
The Monctron Free Press.
That won't be easy. Getting New Brunswickers to publicly take stands and to think independemtly and without fear makes walking on water look easy. (It might even be useful - and easier - to get people to demonstrate against the Moncton TandT.)
We need more (and more open) opponents to shale gas. We need t o reveal the Irving press for the manipulative and lying work it does.
And, in the very near future, we must get rid the Liberals and the Conservatives who suck at the Irving teats. Admittedly, some of them can be forgiven on the grounds of stupidity (Mr. Flemming springs to mind). But as long as those two, wretched parties remain in power, this province will sink ever deeper into poverty to make billionaires richer.
As it is, we are destroying our own people, owu children - and now our own lands and waters. (Incidentatlly, where are they going to put the toxic waste water from the wells?)
The fundamental problem of New Brunswick is an aristocracy of wealth that has looted this province for generations. They can get away with it only so long as New Brunswickers act like sheep.
With large, active and open opposition in public, with our votes in provincial elections (and municipal ones), we can, for ourselves and our children, beat these greedy, thieving and destructive bastards.
Yes. They can be stopped.
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