Policing of NB anti-fracking actions to top $4.3 million
from the Times & Transcript, Dec 5, 2013.
Posted on December 5, 2013, in Oil & Gas, State Security Forces and tagged anti-fracking New Brunswick, Elsipogtog First Nation, Indigenous resistance, Mi’kmaq, native blockades, native resistance, New Brunswick shale gas protests, RCMP, RCMP and Natives, repression, SWN Resources Canada. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
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“We would rather spend that money on hospitals, on education, or several other different things, but it’s something we have to do,” Northrup said.
Blatant emotion driven spin by the colonial press.
He did not however fully explain why they HAVE to go onto other people’s unceded territories and completely destroy them. Why they HAVE to leave those territories without the elements that the people who own those lands need to continue to exist.
Also having spoken to many, many end users and observed the mechanism’s behind the hospital and education and am only perplexed as to why anyone would waste any resources or energy on such ineffective and corporate cushioning systems as those systems are. Personally I would not go the the hospital if I was sick, I would not enter the education system if I wanted to be educated, and I certainly would never call a cop if I needed help because those current systems only make matters worse not better.
The fact that they are using these ineffective tools as an emotional trigger to launch an attack and demonize the Mi’kmaq who are only doing what they have always done since the settlers came, attempting to protect their territories. culture and all people, is far more insulting to all human beings than they realize.
Spin it the other way, thanks to the Mi’kmaq four point three million dollars won’t be wasted on other corporate subsidies that the colonial settlers have created to aid their plutocracies for the benefit of no one.