WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW?

Lesslie Askin, 71, shocked to be deemed a Kinder Morgan terror threat

A 71-year-old B.C. grandmother was shocked to learn her recent research for an upcoming National Energy Board hearing triggered a national security investigation.

Lesslie Askin says that on Aug. 3, she photographed Kinder Morgan’s aging storage tanks at the base of Burnaby Mountain.

Ten days later, she learned she was a terror suspect.

"There's a knock on the door, and there are two RCMP officers at the door," she told CBC News. "The chap who asked all the questions was an investigator with the national security division."

Askin says she was taking the photographs for her presentation at the upcoming National Energy Board hearings into Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline.

The $5.4 billion dollar pipeline expansion, if approved, would move an additional 590,000 barrels per day of bitumen and oil products from Alberta through Kinder Morgan's facilities in Burnaby, B.C., and onto tanker ships.

The Burnaby terminal has 13 storage tanks that hold up to 250,000 cubic metres of crude and refined oil products. The company is proposing to add an additional 13 tanks.

"In order to show the NEB the condition of these tanks, which is the focus of my opposition—these tanks are over 60 years old—To bring that fact home, to me, a picture is worth a thousand words," Askin said.

The retired systems analyst and grandmother says she noticed a white truck with security vehicles watching her as she finished taking about a dozen photographs.

"They were totally interested in what I was doing and I was just leaving with my camera, going back to my vehicle," she said.

Askin insists she never trespassed, and all the photographs she showed CBC News appear to have been taken from outside the fence.


'I'm 71... not a threatening person.'

Askin questions why she received so much attention from the RCMP E-Division's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (E-INSET), which is made of up RCMP officers, Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) agents and the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA).

"I have never had any interaction with the law," she said. "I'm 71 years old. I have no criminal record. I'm not a threatening person."

Kinder Morgan Canada confirms one of its security guards reported Askin to the RCMP, but in a statement the company said she was being evasive.

"The security person approached the unknown individual and the person fled the scene," Kinder Morgan's statement says.

Askin refutes that version of events.

"A vehicle came, drove up, a big white truck with a couple guys in it and they had the criss-cross vests... They looked at me and I smiled, because I pretty much knew who they were, and I waved and so on, and sort of gave them the opportunity to speak to me, which they didn't do," she said.

RCMP bombed oil site in 'dirty tricks' campaign

in their investigation into sabotage in the Alberta's oil patch.

The revelation came at the bail hearing Thursday of two farmers who the Crown says have turned their complaints that oil industry pollution is making their families ill into acts of vandalism and mischief.

Their lawyer produced evidence that the RCMP bombed a wellsite and that they did it with the full support of the energy company that owned it. The Crown admits the allegations are true.

The police have been under pressure from the industry and the government to put an end to two years of attacks which have caused millions of dollars in damage.

Lawyer Richard Secord told Court of Queen's Bench that when Alberta Energy Co. and police blew up an AEC shed last Oct. 14, they blamed it on his client, farmer Wiebo Ludwig.

Secord also claims AEC offered to buy a neighbour's property for $109,000 if he gave them information about Ludwig.

Ludwig and Richard Boonstra face nine charges involving vandalism at energy installations.

They were denied bail.

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so status quo for canada


e: I would also like to point out who voted for said bill C-51:
See the breakdown here

Liberals continue being the PC except with the chance that they aren't book burners (and that's a definite maybe)

author=LockeZ
Suspecting and questioning someone without holding them illegally or hurting them when they do suspicious stuff seems quite legal and normal. Blowing up your own property is weird, but not against the law. What's notable here, exactly?

if that is normal then you must be american

author=LockeZ
Suspecting and questioning someone without holding them illegally or hurting them when they do suspicious stuff seems quite legal and normal. Blowing up your own property is weird, but not against the law. What's notable here, exactly?

This is referred to as a "false flag", LockeZ. When government's do this, they do so to blame whoever they can make look really scary to the people and then start enacting laws that strip down basic rights.

If you believe this isn't a problem, then you're part of the problem.

Edit: AHH!!! The Supreme Court just ruled against the NSA. It turns out that the scope of the Patriot Act doesn't include spying on your own citizens without just cause.

I didn't catch that they were framing anyone for the explosion. It sounded to me like they just blew up their own oil platform and then no one was implicated. Based on my experience from watching every season of 24, I assume it was part of some elaborate undercover operation, and Jack Bauer was forced to blow up the oil platform to win the trust of the terrorists who had blown up the previous oil platforms. Fortunately he managed to get the oil company's consent and they were able to evacuate the personnel from the oil site before the explostion.

Innocent until proven guilty applies to the police too.

Meanwhile, a bill to kill anyone deemed homosexual "with a bullet or whatever is convenient" cannot be prevented from advancing in California.

What can direct democracy do for you?

It's the Illuminati

author=Yellow Magic
It's the Illuminati

more like the plutocracy amirite?

Nah, next event is self-insert/Real Life cameo~ That's gonna be hella fun! Short silly shit-fest. ^.^ Happy birthday rmn i hope you like shit gams! :DDD

author=pianotm
Meanwhile, a bill to kill anyone deemed homosexual "with a bullet or whatever is convenient" cannot be prevented from advancing in California.

What can direct democracy do for you?

On the bright side, anyone who starts making wild threats of shootings will have the CIA on their asses for "terrorist activities". This is assuming this kind of thing sees the light of day, which it won't on account of this little bit of information:

"Though California Attorney General Kamala Harris has no real options to stop a measure from ending up on the ballot if the criteria are met, the state’s Supreme Court can step in and invalidate the measure. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, which first reported the story, the state Supreme Court can keep a measure off the ballot if they rule it violates California’s constitution."

The bill in its entirety can be found here. Check out that $1 million fine for literally anyone who doesn't spew hatred towards the LGBTQ+. Do you really think anyone would:

A. actually pay that?
B. vote for a bill that allows that?

It's insanity of the highest order that anyone who has any knowledge of the Third Reich should immediately be able to identify, right-wing hyper-conservatives included.

Just because someone leaves a letter in your mailbox doesn't mean they're the postal service.

Cool TurkeyDawg! You can start with every project of mine ever :3

If anyone needs a reason to join the banter on the official IRC channel:

<slash>my life will not be adversely affected if Sai thinks batman is capable of conditioning all humans to believing in the Patriot Act