I wish I could have ridden in on the coattails of Alexandra Morton and her spectacular court victory in insisting the federal government do its duty around fish farms and stop leaving the future of wild salmon to a privatizing fish farm crazed BC premier. Truly, Alexandra Morton has fought and won a magnificent battle for all of us and her active supporters are also to be congratulated. Morton's success in the Supreme Court of British Columbia is unprecedented. And she didn't break the law.The Supreme Court of BC is an extremely conservative body. It was surprising to me to learn years ago that an environmental activist who comes into the court via an act of peaceful civil disobedience is more repugnant to most of the judges on our Supreme Court than a premeditated murderer. The way the law works around environment protests and blockades is that they can give rise to court ordered injunctions and one who is arrested under an injunction cannot even argue against the injunction in court because there is an iron clad rule against this. It is truly a maddening rule that in my opinion is so corporation friendly and lop sided that it constitutes a moral criminality in itself. Which brings me to my own latest court skirmish.Unsurprisingly, last week I lost my civil suit against Kiewit Sons Co, an employee of that U.S. company, and Kevin Falcon, The Ministry of Transportation, and Sea to Sky. The judge held no sympathy with my allegations of Assault on my third blockage at Eagleridge Bluffs in 2006 on which my complaints against all the others were hung. The Three P's, you know? However, I am used to court rejection. But hope springs eternal in the human breast. And I still have an appeal coming up on April 22, 2009. This is to appeal my original arrest and incarceration for the same events at Eagleridge. Eagleridge Bluff lives! Betty Krawczyk
Vancouver
