Being a good little girl... that's bad

Law...Lawful...Lawfully???

From a report just out showing how our ‘Law & Justice’ system is utilised by industry against government and people:

[In October 2017, the Scottish parliament voted in favour of its government’s decision to extend a moratorium on shale gas production (“fracking”) that had been placed in 2015. This followed an extensive public consultation and the government commissioning six reports on unconventional oil and gas extraction that covered economic effects; decommissioning, site restoration, and aftercare of industrial sites; climate change; seismic activity; health effects; and community level effects from transportation.

Despite this thorough process, the petrochemical multinational INEOS took the Scottish government to court on the grounds that the effective ban on shale gas production is “unlawful” and that ministers have misused their power and made “very serious errors.” INEOS has also applied for financial compensation. Meanwhile, central government argues that shale gas will enhance the UK’s energy security, create jobs, and boost the economy and that “world class regulation” will keep communities and the environment safe.]
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Yesterday the Police Evidence Gatherers were filming as the Wednesday Women began to disperse after completing our 44th ‘Women’s Call for Calm’ and I asked what on earth there was to get evidence of… it had been entirely peaceful and as it had been the previous 43 times. As he replied that they get evidence too of when behaviour was good… something snapped inside me like those luminous, glowing plastic things you get in nightclubs and the burning glow of how it felt is nestled like acid and still burning through my veins.

I think he’d expected me to be happy that I’d lived up to being a good girl today… they have no bloody idea of what it is that has got us to this roadside for over 520 days, no idea of what’s going on inside us that forces us through obligation to be here at all.

The ‘good’ I do is when I impact a dangerous industry and impede its progress to the ultimate outcome of harming our children – that’s ‘BEING GOOD’… locking onto a device to prevent passage of dangerous substances, occupying a field for 3 weeks to let the neighbours know how close they were to a future frack site, slowly walking to cost a vile industry time and money… GOOD GOOD GOOD… and the good I likely have yet to do, will not in any way be defined that way by courts of (misappropriated) law that are supposed to dispense justice but instead get used as a corporate tool to facilitate progress and damn the expense or collateral damage.

Today I got up as early as always to go to the side of the road… but haven’t made it there yet. What will I do when I get there? Be a bloody ornament of no consequence? Just another ribbon on the hedge to dangle daintily out of harm’s way whilst gifted the opportunity to watch as the site surges and grows under the weight of its brutal ability to manipulate and buy the time of our law courts… to listen to the clanging and whirring as the machinery gouges through our landscape passing through our precious aquifer and watch as fools turn up to work inside the compound – soon to be inhaling methane and intake silica sand to fester in their lungs as they wander in blissful, chosen ignorance of the danger they are in and the harm they facilitate.

These people and this industry along with our compliant UK government are playing Russian Roulette with our children’s lives and futures… but it’s ‘lawful’ because a courtroom where Justice was supposed to reign supreme… was abused and the laws that were created to protect the vulnerable, were manipulated to fit the purpose of commerce instead.

What about this situation is reflective of anything we interpret to mean ‘justice’?

Until this week (when the frackers took us all to court as ‘Persons Unknown’), there have been opportunities to do more than wave a banner, there was the ability to take non-violent ACTION in order to impact the industry and raise awareness; now there are limitations that have invisibly and totally reshaped the landscape of the past 520 days. The road looks the same but there are unseen boundaries policed by unseen cameras in order to dictate our behaviour… we’re effectively caged, it’s just you can’t see the bars.

Things are in transition... it’s ‘what to’ that’s the thing though. Fracking is I suppose – the predictable outcome of a corrupted system that has given away the truth of ‘JUSTICE’ and set the price so high that only the powerful can access the changeling that ‘justice’ has become.

So what now for us? It really will be a moment by moment thing as we test our boundaries, our rights and our-selves to see what limits are and what becomes when law and obligation meet in opposition...

We’re told no that if we protest fracking, in particular places and ways… that we will be dealt with in the courts and that they’ve taken actions that inhibit our ability to exercise our Articles 10 & 11 Rights to non-violently protest.

Meanwhile.. the political system, the planning system and the judicial system are infiltrated and hijacked by vested interests… lawfully guided through because the corrupt have become the law-makers.

I’m just pouring a cuppa and gathering up my knitting now… I’ll get up to the transit lounge of my life on the A583 shortly and be another one of the decorations that are found there. I’ll be very bad and I’ll fail the children miserably by having no impact whatsoever – but the evidence gatherers will smile and the faces watching the CCTV will be content that ‘law’ was abided by and their version of ‘good’ prevailed.

My greatest fear and what will certainly dictate my personal choices… is that THIS is set to become our new ‘NORMAL’ and that if weeks pass and this injunction holds (if we act against the temporary one they’s say that’s why they need the permanent and if we do nothing, they will say it’s working!)… then our days can only look like this and that’s a normal I’m not willing to get used to or bequeath to my grandchild. A VOICE in our society is vital – or it’s just a totalitarian regime where harm can come without consequence.

This issue then of supreme importance is the fight to find and then preserve JUSTICE...