Eric Bijeau Followup
Remember him? Since the New Brunswick protest ended, Eric Bijeau seems to have gone underground. But the protest in which he participated has reverberated among all the Communists (although I don't understand why he isn't getting any Baby Seal Clubber support).
From Christopher Hall:
Resistance Is Futile: All Effective Protests Will Be Put Down
Monday, September 12 2005 @ 11:49 AM MDT
By Christopher Hall
When record high fuel prices washed over our continent after Hurricane Katrina washed over the American Gulf Coast, truckers in New Brunswick, Canada started what they hoped would be a continent-wide protest against high fuel prices. Hundreds of big rigs stopped along the Trans-Canada Highway, at weigh scales and truck stops, and on other routes in the northwestern part of the province.
The protest was effective and couldn't be ignored: Some grocery stores in northern New Brunswick started running out of fresh produce, meat and milk after 3 days, while farmers were complaining about shortages of animal feed. Ironically, even some gas stations also closed due to fuel shortages....
Eric Bijeau, spokesman for the protesters, estimated that at one point as many as 1,000 trucks were been stopped in the northern New Brunswick blockade, a figure the police disputed. He said he hoped the protest spreads to other provinces and into the United States.
"We are being screwed by the refineries," Bijeau said.
Bijeau said the group he represents, the New Brunswick Northwest Truckers Association, sent a letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin asking that the federal government step in and stop profiteering by the major refineries. "We are asking you to intervene at the refiners' level, where it is clearly demonstrated that the refiners' profit margin has increased from .09 cents per litre to .43 cents per litre," the truckers stated in their letter. "The costs are too much. They are driving people out of business. We have to do something... This is a clear case of the rich gouging the poor."...
Now, as the realities of Peak Oil, the coming energy crisis and inevitable economic collapse become more and more obvious to all and are starting to seriously affect us here at home instead of just the poor, exploited people of other countries, the New Brunswick provincial government has clearly stated their position that they will tolerate absolutely no form of effective protest or civil disobedience and will use whatever means necessary (implying the possibility of the use of deadly force) to continue business as usual. Our politicians have said outright that they do not favor or support reducing the taxation on fuel, have no intent to do so and say they are powerless over the oil companies and world markets. Any assistance they have proposed, although well-intentionally aimed at low-income families, does not even begin to alleviate the current increases, let alone the inevitable future ones.
Because of Hurricane Katrina and the record fuel prices it helped create, the gloves are now off and the laws and policies the governments (both in the U.S. and Canada) have put in place since 9/11 under the guise of "the war on terrorism" and "national security" will be used to ensure that any effective protest or civil disobedience about any serious issue will be put down- by deadly force if all else fails. What has happened to the independent truckers in New Brunswick will also happen to any other group or organization that decides to make an effective stand. As we plunge further into the bleak future and economic chaos of Peak Oil, martial law will be the only way for the government to deal with the economic refugees that will be created. The politicians know this and have actually been preparing for it behind closed doors for many years now.
What is being played out on the highways of New Brunswick and in the "evacuee centers" of the American Gulf Coast after Katrina are simply practice sessions for when the trouble really starts. As more and more economic refugees are created by the effects of global warming or as people default on their mortgages, go into bankruptcy and lose everything they worked so hard for because they have to buy fuel to go to work and heat their homes, there will be an inevitable and righteous undercurrent of anger that is going to boil to the surface.
The government now wants you to know in no uncertain terms that they will not tolerate any crap from you if you have a problem with being broke, freezing and homeless and they will grasp at any straw and do anything they have to in order to maintain the status quo: Larger, growing profits for big business and larger, growing pressures on ordinary citizens to continue to provide them. Those truckers were not just protesting for themselves, they were protesting for us too. Now, Louise, exactly who's holding who hostage?
B08083 was saying this as early as August:
There’s a Storm of Anger brewing on the Horizon.
Rumors are circulating all over the country this week on the C.B. Radio about the High fuel prices. I heard Truckers were annoucing on the East coast off of I-95 at Exit 91 on Wed. they were shutting down Exit ramps to prohibt others from being able to access the Fuel Stations.
Truck Drivers around this nation are starting to discuss the possiblity of a Convoy to protest the Oil Companies Economic Tactics in this strugggle of Earning a steady income.
Stories are also circulating around the NET already about a possible trucker strike.
This Blog will detail the collection of articles about the Trucker Rebellion that triggers the “Explosion of the Economic Bubble.”
The site documents the New Brunswick incident, and several others.
Meanwhile, Eric Bijeau lays low, and not even highly esteemed Major General Bennett C. Landreneau (a/k/a "Mr. Effective") can find him.
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