Brian Zinchuk suggests something’s wrong when professional protesters don’t seem to have any real jobs. Why do we have to deal these people? Why should they influence anything?

Our sister publication, Burnaby Now, is at the focal point of the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline project, with the terminus of the pipeline in that Lower Mainland community.

On March 17, they ran a story about protestors getting arrested for zip-tying themselves to fences and what not. The Burnaby RCMP stepped in, enforcing a recently-imposed permanent court injunction on protests within five metres of the pipeline terminal entrance. We carried their story on pipelinenews.ca. More than one person pointed out the irony that they used oil-based plastic zip ties to protest an oil pipeline.

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http://naturalgasnow.org/dont-professional-protestors-real-jobs/