Now you might think of the Mounties as kind of like deadly do-rights. They always get

their man. They ride around in the musical ride with their red jackets. The Mounties

make no mistake. They are a vicious colonial militia. They were formed in order to break

the backs of the indigenous resistance on the prairies to open up the lands to railways

and western expansion by settlers. And they are still doing that job here on the colonial

frontier in northern BC except these days they have helicopters and attack dogs and all

the rest of it.

The response from the authorities like the police, whenever there is a protest against

oil companies, it is always different from how they respond to order protests. After

about two hours of a standoff, they just wind up the ride squad and just march the men.

You know, I remember them forming together. I remember a bunch of set of puffed up turkeys

they were going, and then we went in and surrounded all these poor kids and started arresting

them and moving on.

So technically, the investigation is still on and I can't plan around it. I can't. And

I don't know when it's going to end, so I don't know how long it will take.

When the former colonies acquired independence in the advent of decolonization largely after

the Second World War and the advent of the United Nations, the former imperial powers

needed a legal system to protect the economic interests of their corporations.

When I went to surrender to the FBI, I thought it was going to be kind of a straightforward

more of a like a clerical matter, but I ended up being put into shackles and taken into

custody for a good part of the day without a lot of explanation of what was happening

or why that was necessary.

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