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Syncrude sues Greenpeace; long live the Light Brigade!

To end the day, my accolades to Syncrude for suing Greenpeace for sending innocent young fools out to die on the end of a tailings pipeline. 

I have previously written about a blog site where one of the kids describes how scared he was, and how he had been deluded about how dangerous what he would be doing was. 

Syncrude must sue Greenpeace for irresponsibility in sending kids into danger.  Greenpeace acted no better than an old British general sending lower class soldiers out to die:

“Forward, the Light Brigade!”
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
    Someone had blunder’d:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
     Rode the six hundred.

If one of those kids had died, we can be sure Greenpeace would be sanctimonious about the death and would be suing Syncrude for dangerous conditions. 

If Syncrude achieves no more than keeping irresponsible managers in Greenpeace from endangering innocent young fools, they will have achieved something. 

 

1 comment

1 RBW { 08.29.08 at 4:40 pm }

Thank you for your insights. If Greenpeace isn’t going to protect these idealistic young people, Syncrude and the Courts will.

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