This video, by comedian Scott Vrooman, originally appeared on the Toronto Star.
American energy corporation Kinder Morgan filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against five pipeline protestors in Burnaby, B.C., because apparently nobody told them the average income of a pipeline protestor.
The National Energy Board – an anagram of “regulatory capture” — ruled that the City of Burnaby can’t stop Kinder from carrying out its work, so now the protestors are accused of trespassing in their own city’s park. Kinder solved the Not In My Backyard problem by taking the backyard.
The company also claims that protestors’ angry facial expressions constitute (Read more…)