Harsha Walia (left) makes her #KMFace at Toronto Police during the 2010 G20
There was bad news for the protesters who’ve been causing trouble on Burnaby Mountain the past few weeks. After spending the past week in damage control, trying to reassure their followers there was no way Kinder Morgan could win their injunction, KM won in a very big way. Associate Chief Justice Austin Cullen made it clear that the protester’s antics were well beyond what one would call free speech:
“I am satisfied that as much as the right of the public dissent must be carefully protected, what is at issue in the present case goes beyond that.”
Just a couple days earlier Kinder Morgan announced that they have no intention to pursue financial damages against the protesters. That wasn’t good enough for SFU professor, and gifted amateur protester Lynne Quarmby, who was quoted in the Vancouver Observer spreading FUD explaining how she’s still worried KM will sue. BROKE Burnaby has made it clear they don’t plan to encourage others to violate the injunction- Quarmby has said she’s uncertain if she will.
But behind all of the sweet demeanor of professor Quarmby, and the innocent stance taken by BROKE Burnaby, there’s a dark side to the protests. We’ll cover more of this in the upcoming Kinder Morgan Protest Unmasked Part III (Part I can be read here). But for today there’s some breaking news, despite their attempts to appear innocent, and disapproving of militant tactics, this evening BROKE promoted an event led in-part by Canada’s most visible advocate for protest violence…
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