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I have watched some videos of Burkhardt’s news conferences, and all I can say is it’s no wonder the people of Lac-Megantic are mad at him.  Everything that comes out of his mouth demonstrates how hard it is to be compassionate and snarky at the same time.   He says the locomotive had been tampered with.  He says emphatically that it is “definitely true.”  He says the firemen are the ones who tampered with it.  Then he says, “Now, were they negligent in their tampering?  I think not.” Well of course they weren’t negligent, but they weren’t tampering either.  The word “tampering” means something even worse than negligence.  It means to engage secretly or improperly in something.  Obviously, Burkhardt has carefully chosen the word, “tampering” to make something sinister in order to create a straw man on which to deflect blame.  The only thing the firemen did is shut down the engine according to procedures that they had been trained on by the MM&A.  They did not tamper by any stretch of the imagination.  They did their job.  This was not the first MM&A locomotive fire they have responded to.  In another exchange, a reporter says, “But you don’t accept full responsibility for this?”  Then Burkhardt blows his stack at her and says he never said that.  Then he goes on to say that he accepts plenty of responsibility, but not all of it.  So he affirms something that he just angrily said he never said. This is from the video with this news article.  Both the article and the video paint an incredibly vivid picture: <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbaldoni/2013/07/15/how-edward-burkhardt-is-making-the-lac-megantic-accident-even-worse/">http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbaldoni/2013/07/15/how-edward-burkhardt-is-making-the-lac-megantic-accident-even-worse/</a>
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