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You know it was wrong when even one of the key Mohawks behind the original blockade is disgusted by attempts to derail a CN freight train.

Still, strangely, some believe lighting wooden skids on fire to jam under a moving train is a retaliatory and justified civil protest over gas pipeline grievances and not a crime.

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Of course the Criminal Code of Canada makes it clear.

Under Section 248, “Interfering with transportation facilities,” it states “every one who, with intent to endanger the safety of any person, places anything on or does anything to any property that is used for or in connection with the transportation of persons or goods by land, water or air that is likely to cause death or bodily harm to persons is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life.”

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Life in prison! You read it right.

No wonder Andrew Brant went to social media to scold those throwing rocks, setting fires and dropping impediments on the tracks near Tyendinaga.

“I hope you are proud for what you did in front of the whole world today,” Brant said in a Facebook live commentary at 10 p.m. Wednesday. “You don’t react like that. It’s exactly what they want you to do.”