Two news items struck me recently: Latest polls showing that the NDP is slipping in its lead. Pipeline giants spending mega bucks to promote pipelines across B.C. on TV.
I wonder if these two things are connected? If so, it shows that the general public has not learned to think independently yet.
Here we are going to be supporting pipelines and tanker traffic with our tax dollars, which could be redirected to promote sustainable energy. The cost to the taxpayers of a spill cleanup will be massive.
Too bad an honest politician gets penalized for having a good idea.
But of course, in the old days, people with new ideas (Earth is not flat, Earth turns around the sun) were threatened with death and, at the very least, excommunication by the Catholic church.
Today’s version (corporations) of the Church of Rome pay for ads with mega bucks and destroy careers and democracy.
If we don’t learn from the lessons of history, we are bound to repeat the mistakes. Holy Inquisition cannot be far behind!
Eva Lyman
