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Posted on | May 19, 2010 | Comments Off

The Royal Bank of Canada was targeted by a shadowy group called Direct Action in Ottawa. One of the RBC banks was firebombed the other day by this group as part of their protest against RBC and greater corporate Kanada. Like most groups that commit stupid crimes that endanger the innocent, they posted their manifesto shortly after the attack. Here is a snippet:

“Royal Bank Canada is one of the planet’s greenest companies” according to one of its own brochures. Coporate Kanada saw fit to include RBC as one of the top 50 in a competition dubbed Canada’s Greenest Employers, which purports to recognize organizations that have created “a culture of environmental awareness.” Yet RBC is now the major financier of Alberta’s tar sands, one of the largest industrial projects in human history and perhaps the most destructive. The tar sands, now the cause of the second fastest rate of deforestation on the planet, are slated to expand several times its current size.

Dudes! I’d take your manifesto a wee bit more seriously if you hadn’t been caught on camera driving away in an SUV! Come one. If you are going to attack “Corporate Kanada” for it’s anti environmental activities, the least you could do is drive up to the site you are going to firebomb in a Smart Car. Seriously – an SUV? I hope it was at least a hybrid. Maybe you can contact the makers of Smart Cars and get them to sponsor you. Or better yet, ride up on a bicycle.  Now that’s environmentally conscientious!

What makes me think these nobs don’t see the irony of  using an SUV to strike in the name of environmentalism.

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