The crime scene of the bombingVANCOUVER — Gas industry employees have been put on alert and the RCMP's terrorist unit has been called in following an attempt to blow up a sour gas pipeline near Dawson Creek, in northeastern British Columbia.
Concerns were raised after a hunter found a two-metre-deep crater blasted out of the earth beneath an EnCana line that carries 60 million cubic feet of gas a day to the Steep Rock gas plant.
“This is a targeted attack on the infrastructure of British Columbia,” RCMP Sergeant Tim Shields said Wednesday in explaining why the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team has been called in to help other police units with the investigation.
Now, here's another report. It notes that Sgt. Shields had astonishingly, before any evidence could back him up, claimed that it wasn't necessarily terrorism. Emphasis mine...
"How on earth anyone could declare this was not terrorism at this early stage is beyond me. Terrorism is associated with an attempt by threat or actual violence … to change policy," said Harris, former chief of strategic planning for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and now a private security expert.
Proof that it's, indeed, a terror threat:
The previous week, suspicious handwritten letters arrived at newspapers and a TV station in Dawson Creek calling EnCana Corp. and other energy companies "terrorists" for expanding "deadly" gas wells and giving the firms a deadline to shut down operations, including the gas plant served by the pipeline.
"You have until Oct. 11, 2008 (Saturday, 12 noon) to close down your operations … and leave the area until further notice," the letters said.
Now, terrorism isn't just an Islamofascistic thing. It can also be a far-Left thing, an enviro-fascist thing, which isn't surprising in light of the extreme hysteria brought upon the world thanks to the fearmongering of such folks as Al Gore and David Suzuki, who can be fingered as helping encourage crazy extremists who would do such a thing as bomb a pipeline. One needs to look at what the terrorists actually communicated, in order to begin to analyze...
"We will not negotiate with terrorists, which you are, as you keep on endangering our families with crazy expansion of deadly gas wells in our homelands," the letters said.
Hmm. Whose "homelands"? Interesting. The "homeland" is Canada, isn't it? Or do the terrorists consider it something else? You know, they sound a lot like the PLO, which isn't a pleasant thought, having that type of organization right here in Canada. We've had enough trouble with the FLQ already!
For his part, Sgt. Shields rationalizes:
"We just don't want to start using the word terrorism at this point. It gives credence and maybe satisfaction to the people who are involved in setting this explosive off," he said.
Ah. We can read between the lines with that. I see that it's not a categorical denial of it being terrorism, but rather a psychops thing, which I actually believe is a rational course of action, as to go around yelling, "The terrorists are blowing stuff up as we speak!" would needlessly drive folks to a panic, which would only further the agenda of the terrorists, who would see their propaganda/awareness /forcing political hands aims being achieved with such panic.
In my analysis, yes, this is terrorism. Clearly. After all, that which walks and quacks like a duck, plus looks exactly like one, definitely is one!
