graeme
Trouble in River City.
Posted on: 07/03/2013 18:47
My. Irving, the man who owns everything in New Brunswick including all the newspapers and the government, is determined to develop shale gas in New Brunswick. But, New Brunswickers, normally the most sheep-like people I have ever seen, are furious. Despite years of relentless propaganda and outright lying by the Irving press, there is a mass anger at what is happening.
The focus is now at a reservation where large numbers are gathered. It's been peaceful so far as the protest is concerned. But police have so far made 40 or so arrests, some of them quite violent, though I saw now sign of resistance by those arrrested.
The company drilling there is SWN, one of several companies planning to find thousands of wells which, among other things, will produce millions of litres of highly toxic waste water which, so far, seems to be being dumped into the Bay of Funday. We and the government don't even know what the toxic chemicals are because the companies refuse to tell us.
The process, though producing a fuel slightly less polluting than gas, released even more dealy gasses into the atmosphere in process of the mining of it.
The province's chief medical officer has warned against developing shale gas as being far to harmful to health, even to life, and too the environment. The newspapers and the government ignored her, as they also ignored the unanimous voice of the whole medical profession. Indeed, they have now launched a vicious campaign of retaliation against the whole medicare system = which Mr. Irving would like to privatize, anyway.
Most recently, a protestor suffered a hit and run by an SWN truck. The sixty or so police on the scene were so busy arresting people standing around that they didn't notice. I'd be willing to get the driver was an American who is now safely shielded back in the US. Our government is most unlikely to ask for extradition.
This is going to get very ugly, indeed. Today, I had to write the most brutal blog I have ever written. I had to. It was in response to a stunningly unethical (I once taught journalism ethics), lying, and inflammatory opinion column by a man who is normally a top flight journalist. I can only assume Mr. Irving leaned on him.
(My blog scored a record readership for one day within an hour of appearing.)
I expect serious violence very slyly triggered by SWN. The shale gas companies need violence. That puts all the police and even the army at their disposal.
Churches are going ahead with pancake breakfasts, lobster suppers and and lawn sales. I mean, what possible moral issue could there be in all this. The sermons will likely be, as usual, about how prettily God's birds chirp in the summer. And we'll all sing "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam".
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Alex
Posted on: 07/03/2013 20:14
Someone will be threathening you with a lawyer soon. I wonder how long it will take. If they do threaten you with a lawsuit you should be ready to respond and use it as an opportunity to further expose Irving's thugs, and paid supporters.
Here a link for those who do not know where your blog is.
http://themonctongrimes-dripdrain.blogspot.ca/2013/07/july-3-crashing-di...
graeme
Posted on: 07/04/2013 14:03
Oh, I don't doubt there's a pretty full dossier on me. In our new society, people like me end up on RCMP/CSIS files. in fact, that's been true for a very long time. Tommy doublas was spied on for years.
The shame of the churches is that there's no need to spy on them.
PKBC
Posted on: 07/08/2013 05:10
Graham..believe me, the RCMP etc are not the slightest bit interested in you. They haven't done that sort of thing in 30 or 40 years. Your actions, comments and believes are predictable. And I guess thats what makes you a boring, self-absorped medocrity..
Blessings
Alex
Posted on: 07/08/2013 11:36
Well according to information coming out of the US, Europe, and South AMerica, police forces are casting a much wider net in it's surviellence of individuals. Prism is just oone tool the US uses. I suspect both the RCMP, and CSIS have multiple more people that they follow, than they did during the cold war.
Already the train derailment and explosion in Lac Megantic is being blamed on the left and environmentalists by Sun News.
I suspect that right now the RCMP and CSIS will use the train explosion in order to further probe all of the information they have stored on activists. Including the type of people who have viewed or commented on blogs like Graemes
You can be ppretty sure that in order to find suspects they are doing an examination of the meta data, to further justfied exploring stored but unexamined emails, etc. of evryone active on the left and environmental causes in Canada.
Howevr Graeme is unlikely to be targeted as he is likely seen as too old,. BUt that will not protect him aganist lawyers who would sue.
ie.
Hamilton-based Anglican bishop suing blogger
Cleric claims he is portrayed as thief, fetishist and atheist
PKBC
Posted on: 07/08/2013 13:51
I agree that Graham is too old and too irrelevant to be a source of interest to anyone. But I think it's an enormous stretch to suggest that the RCMP is snooping on "left wingers." Progressive, thoughtful thinkers exist everywhere, on university campuses, under bushes and yes, even in the RCMP
Alex
Posted on: 07/08/2013 17:00
But I think it's an enormous stretch to suggest that the RCMP is snooping on "left wingers." Progressive, thoughtful thinkers exist everywhere, on university campuses, under bushes and yes, even in the RCMP
And yet revelations (leaks( for the past few weeks have clearly shown that almost every every other western nation is spying on it's own, We also know that the RCMP used to burn down barns, and infiltrate various groups up to the 90s.
Just because some RCMP officers are progressive, (and the current commissioner is at least, the post progressive thinking one in it's history) does not all of them are, nor is CSIS.
And Graeme may be older, but he is hardly irrelevant. History shows that citizen that speak out are extremely important as agents of change.
Certain a Blog like his in Moncton is extremely threatening to the status quo, and it will not be long before Irvings lawyers are sending him letters. JUst wait, I have family in New Brunswick, I know how they work.
graeme
Posted on: 07/08/2013 17:15
PKBC -delightful to the completely uninformed opinions who has no other source than what he believes - on the basis of no evidence at all.
In fact
1. The information slipped out less that a year ago that the RCMP spies on environmentalists, resports on them to top business leaders twice a year.
2.I'm on a list in the US as a supporter of Palestinian terrorists. It's quite public. (Given time, I'll remember the name of the group. It targets professors in Canada and the US, is run by an Israeli front, and reported to the white house. (I don't know whether it's still in business. But I'm sure its' still on the web.)
3. Age has nothing to do with it. They spied on Tommy Douglas up to his death.
5. As for progressive thinkers in police forces -well, I worked closely with police as a social group worker (street gangs), contact visitor at the pen for National Black Coalition, and as pistol instructor for a police force. Forgive me if I know more about their thinking than you do.
6. We are all spied on by US intelligence. You may not have noticed it, (probably not), but over a year ago Canada and the US agreed the police forces and intelligence in either country could operate in the other.
7. Again to catch you up on the news, the White House has admitted to keeping tabs undsicriminately on millions of people in the US -and all the e mail they tap is easily available - even from Canada. We have complete cooperation with US spy agencies. So if you think even you aren`t being spied on, you`re living in a cloud.
8. And you are living on a cloud. - in the 1930s, you would have been standing in a crowd and shouting, `Sieg Heil`.
that`s no exaggeration. that`s what a lot of Canadians and americans (just like you) are doing today.
graeme
Posted on: 07/08/2013 17:21
Of course, none of this will change your mind. It was like this in the 1930s, millions of patriotic, church-going, devout Germans chanting for der fuehrer. We seem to refuse to allow ourselves to see what it happening. - and get quite indignant with anyone who suggests that all is not going as it should.
You don`t have to be important to get spied on. Anne Franck could have told you something about that.
PKBC
Posted on: 07/08/2013 20:51
Graeme..the only reason the RCMP would "spy" on you might be because of any sort of criminal activity you may have engaged in such as drug activity, child abuse (physical or otherwise) or something of that nature. And that may explain why you have difficulty entering the US. Believe me I know what I speak of. And I know you'd like to be on an RCMP "List" As for the US I have no knowledge of that. You are consumed by hatred of anyone who does not agree with you; I would laugh, but I find your ilk so depressing that I cannot laugh. I am not entirely sure of the dark secrets you hold, but they have left you a bitter, angry old man who refuses to see any light. I don't remember the 1930s, you seem to have personal knowledge of that era. I'm not sure what you're suggesting, is IRVING a modern day Hitler or is Stephen Harper the beast that has arisen again? I doubt it; however, I will confess it is possible. I don't believe it though. I've learned to have a little faith in the common decency of ordinary people who reject extremists such as Hitler or Stephen Harper or Irving or even you. And I think that it is what really bothers you.
If you and your kind wish to believe that you're being spied on, well nothings stopping you and I guess that gives you peace of mind and soul. I prefer to be an devotee of truth and enquire. And thats what cops do day in day out. Sorry to disappoint you....
graeme
Posted on: 07/09/2013 21:07
You have no idea what you're talking about. Nor will you pay the slightest attention to anything you hear.
PKBC
Posted on: 07/09/2013 22:42
No Graham I do know what I'm talking about and that is what disturbs you...extremists such as you and Hitler have no time for independent thought and feel threatened by people who think differently...
Alex
Posted on: 07/09/2013 23:39
\..the only reason the RCMP would "spy" on you might be because of any sort of criminal activity you may have engaged in such as drug activity, child abuse (physical or otherwise) or something of that nature.
Even the RCMP admits to spying on academics and environmentalists.
From just last year (May 2012)
RCMP exposed: Police spying on opponents of Enbridge pipeline, documents show
According to the documents, the RCMP unit gathered intelligence from unspecified "industry reports," newspapers and websites, and Facebook and Flickr photo accounts.
They also appear to have monitored private meetings, including one between First Nations and environmental organizations held in Fraser Lake, B.C., at the end of November, which Thomas says was not announced publicly.
The meeting's purpose was "to strengthen the alliance between First Nations and environmental groups opposing Enbridge," an intelligence report from December states.
Enbridge declined to comment about whether it has been exchanging information with the RCMP.
The monthly intelligence reports note that the oil company "will experience increasingly intense protest activity due to the environmental sensitivity of the Northern Gateway path, combined with the fact that the territory has never been ceded to the Crown by First Nations in B.C."
As for the RCMP sping on academics, a whole book has been writeen about it.
It's called
Spying 101: The RCMP's Secret Activities at Canadian Universities
http://www.amazon.ca/Spying-101-Activities-Universities-1917-1997/dp/080...
If you attended a Canadian university in the past eighty years, it's possible that, unbeknownst to you, Canadian security agents were surveying you, your fellow students, and your professors for 'subversive' tendencies and behaviour. Since the end of the First World War, members of the RCMP have infiltrated the campuses of Canada's universities and colleges to spy, meet informants, gather information, and on occasion, to attend classes. Why they were there is the subject of a new book by Steve Hewitt.
Spying 101 provides new insight on the previously secret operations of one of Canada's most powerful institutions and best-known national symbols, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For more than eighty years, the RCMP and its younger counterpart, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), have been conducting covert investigations within the hallowed halls of Canadian universities in an attempt to discover 'subversive' activity among faculty, employees, and students, and, periodically, to hunt for spies and terrorists.