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980. Blockade the pier (resign)

The middle-aged man with big nose said angrily: "We are just coming to the town to do investigations. We are not bad guys..."

"Investigation? What to investigate?" Qin Shiou reached out and drew, "Look, almost everyone in the town is here. Do you want to investigate who is willing to use your money to move out of the island and leave our hometown? Well, I'll ask you!"

Qin Shiou jumped onto the front of the pickup truck and shouted: "Who would like to collect money from a chemical factory, and then move to St. Johns and leave his hometown to the chemical factory to pollute it?!"

"Whoever wants to stand up and say!"

The sound fell, and there were only some people's heavy breathing.

Qin Shiou's questioning is actually unethical. His words are facts, but he kidnapped people to a moral level. In addition, in this case, even if someone wants to take money to move away, they dare not emerge. When they come out, they will be the enemy of the town.

However, people's hearts are selfish.

Qin Shiou has been silently dedicating to the town, attracting tourists, establishing wireless base stations, developing fossil museums, asking Odom to build a community hospital, etc. It was after he came to bid farewell to the town that the town was reborn and turned into a paradise.

He did this but did not want to be Lei Feng for nothing. He was doing it for the sake of gaining money. Now is the time for him to gain the support of the townspeople.

The Dow Chemicals people also understood this and shouted with a big nose: ~ ∫long~ ∫wind~ ∫text~ "You do this now, it is unfair to the townspeople. Who would expose your choice in such an occasion..."

Qin Shiou stopped him from speaking and interrupted him and shouted, "Why can't you? Are you doing something despicable? Why can't you tell us openly? Also, even if we all move to St. Johns, you can provide us with housing, but what about work? How can we make a living?!"

The reason why Hughes didn't want the chemical factory to set foot on the island is that once he moved to St. Johns, the grocery store would go bankrupt. Because this store is doing tourist business, tourists will not come to visit the chemical factory.

So he followed Qin Shiou and roared: "Tell me! What do we rely on for food?! Where do we work?! Do you Dow Chemical Industry raise us for the rest of our lives? Where are our children?!"

“Yes, where do we go to work!”

"What should we do in the future?"

"We are all fishermen and don't have any social security. How can we live when we leave the town when we are old?"

Canada's social security system is very advanced, which is famous all over the world, but no matter how advanced it is, it is like other countries. People who do not pay taxes do not have pensions or pensions. Instead, they rely on a mutual aid fund in the town. This is something that rich people in the town take the lead, and they will disappear after leaving the town.

In this way, if the fishermen go to the urban community and leave the farewell town, their life will be unimaginable in the future.

The townspeople were excited and began to criticize the bad situations they might encounter after leaving the town and bid farewell to them. In this case, everyone would not think about the good side. As a result, the more they discussed the bad side, the more they were, and the conclusion was that they could not leave the town at all.

Xiao Houss immediately became active again. Without the baseball bat, he snatched a stick from his buddy and waved his hand to let the Dow Chemical employees get out, otherwise he would be ready to get beaten.

When the employees saw that the situation was not good, they had already aroused the anger of the town people, and they rushed into the minibus, which drove to the dock of the town. They needed to drive on the ferry before leaving, and the ferry was not yet on its way.

Hani found the ferry driver and told him that no one would leave the island again today, and just let him drive the boat and take the minibus away. They were about to block the dock.

As soon as Qin Shiou heard this, he knew that Hamre had called Hani. It seemed that this political ally was still very reliable.

When the ferry left, Hani directed the fishermen to drive all the boats on the island. Qin Shiou also moved his boat to the public pier, blocking the dock's location, so that the boat would not be able to dock when it came.

Qin Shiou now has only the most ships. The farewell horn and the Harvest are not small boats. He still has four Sea Boxers. Now he does not use Sea Boxes to prevent fish stealing ships, so he sent them together.

Seeing the ships of all sizes blocking the dock, he took a deep breath and shouted to the busy townsmen: "Okay, everyone, it's time for us to fight against the government! Defend our hometown! Chemical plants will never be allowed to destroy our hometown!"

The townsmen yelled loudly: "Defend the hometown! Boycott the chemical factory!"

After more than two hours of busyness, the townspeople gradually dissipated. Qin Shiou called out black knife and told him not to look at the fishing ground. He led the fishermen to guard the dock and was on duty 24 hours a day, and the chemical factory ships were not allowed to dock.

The confrontation has officially begun.

Black Knife asked, "What if they insist on leaning on it?"

"Then use your gun to drive them away!" Qin Shiou said sternly.

Black Knife saluted a military salute and said seriously: "Abide by the order, sir!"

Qin Shiou went to find Hani, who was frowning. When he saw him, he shook his head and said, "I am really worried that something will happen. What if the people from the Tao are too tough?"

At this time, we can see the difference between the leader. Although Hamre always posed as a British aristocratic demeanor, he was not afraid of trouble. If he was here, he would definitely tell Qin Shiou that the people of the Dow are the most fun and tough.

When they fight head-on, they are not afraid of anyone unless the Dow can move the army. But if the Canadian army is sent to suppress civilians, it will be troublesome and it is possible to cause a big wave of international public opinion.

Hani was afraid that Dow Chemical would go through legal channels to sue them, but Qin Shiou had decided to play rogues to the end, because similar things were precedent in Canada. Previously, a town in BC Province refused to build a garbage disposal plant next to the town, and then confronted the police who came to mediate with a gun.

Not to mention Nedahua, next door to the United States, they just experienced the "last farmer" incident last year, and the aftermath has not stopped yet.

The "Last Farmer" incident refers to the fact that in April last year, under the directive of the Federal Land Administration and the National Park Service, the Nevada state police used nine helicopters and 200 policemen and snipers to violently clear the "Last Farmer" Clefen Bundy, intending to confiscate a total of more than 900 cows he grazed.

The cause of the incident was that the farmer refused to purchase a grazing permit since 1990. In the western United States, nomads had to graz on federal land and regularly paid grazing fees to the government in exchange for grazing permits.

Bundy claimed that the 600,000 acres of farms were inherited from 1870. At that time, there was no Federal Land Bureau, so he did not need to pay the fees. The federal government said that according to the law, Bundy owed 1.1 million yuan, which was controversial for 20 years, and finally decided to clear the site by force last year.

As a result, after the violent conflict began, Clefen Bundy, with large-scale public attention and support, gathered a group of cowboys with weapons and flags to gather around the U.S. police camp.

In the end, the US federal government made concessions and compromised, directing the clearing mission to direct the sheriff to shake hands with the rancher Bondy. The clearing and seizure operations were terminated, and the police returned the confiscated cattle to the farmer.
Chapter completed!
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