Margo_Channing
VIP Member
Im away during the summer and if these cunts get in my way at the airport, they'll get a face full of carry in luggage!!!
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emmer_moans
VIP Member
Excactly. I bet most of these activists go home to tweet about their activism using the latest smart phone and the latest macbook and listen back to the video footage waearing the latest overpriced headphones, and they upgrade every year upon the latest Apple release.Maybe not climate change but Amnesty International did a massive project a few years ago on child labour involved in mining the materials used in smart phones and other electronics including electric cars
Exposed: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries
Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products, said Amnesty International and Afrewatch in a report published today.www.amnesty.org
Is my phone powered by child labour?
Has the cobalt in your smartphone been mined by children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
And that's without going in to the worker rights/conditions at the factories where the phones are assembled, or the pollution caused by shipping them around the world to us, or the poor track record on recycling them, OR getting stuck into all the same issues about the comms equipment, steel masts, miles of cable etc necessary for the infrastructure that supports the mobile phones ... we all like our phones too much so we turn a blind eye to it all.
Smartphones are harder to avoid using these days but you just know these activists are likely chronically online, using the latest gear, etc, using their electric cars which still need plugging into the grid to charge the batteries that contain so much stuff that needs to be mined.
Piff paff puff
VIP Member
Luvvies darling, luvvies! They sympathise with the loons. Middle class theatre goers.A friend of mine has been to see that show and said that Sigourney Weaver is dreadful in it
How did those people get up on stage? That's bad security. I'm also surprised that the audience weren't more hostile.
emmer_moans
VIP Member
Just Stop Oil counter group crashes banquet with rape alarms https://www.archive.is/oldest/https...tml?ito=native_share_article-nativemenubutton
Apparently the counter group crashed a gathering with rape alarms tied to balloons.
Apparently the counter group crashed a gathering with rape alarms tied to balloons.
PrincessCharming
VIP Member
I’m on holidays right now. If some stupid protesters had tried to block me at the gate, they’d have seen the hairy side of my palm. Fuck that.
Go noise up a Kardashian and their carbon footprint!
Go noise up a Kardashian and their carbon footprint!
rainbowlemon
VIP Member
Old but rules for thee not me:
www.mirror.co.uk
"He spent some time enjoying the luxuries of the the 315ft, £110 million Vava II superyacht - which produces as much carbon from sailing seven miles as the average car produces in a year - during his latest jaunt abroad".
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Leonardo DiCaprio accused of being 'eco hypocrite' as he holidays on superyacht
Vocal climate change ambassador Leonardo DiCaprio has been accused of hypocrisy after being pictured relaxing on a super yacht while holidaying in St Barts
"He spent some time enjoying the luxuries of the the 315ft, £110 million Vava II superyacht - which produces as much carbon from sailing seven miles as the average car produces in a year - during his latest jaunt abroad".
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Don't be silly.
Some of the far left XR mob would then accuse you of being sinophobic with that comment.
I'm pretty sure my mum taught me at a young age that I should never, never sit on the road, because - surprise! - nobody expect people sitting on the road and you might not even be noticed in time.
Dimwits.
A retired Police officer on Talkradio this morning was saying under Common Law you have the right to move people who obstruct your way.
Therefore if you are held up by such people, you can lawfully remove them from obstructing your path, despite what the Wokice (Police) may say to you. If they did arrest you for doing so, you could probably successfully argue the toss that under common law you were entitled to do so.
If people want to protest it should he done in a manner that does not distrupt, hinder, or affect other people's daily business. As soon as a protest does infringe on other people lives, they should be IMMEDIATELY moved on.
No ifs, no buts, no excuses.
To note: I only support the public taking the law into their own hands (using reasonable force) when the Police are informed of a problem but:
A) Don't bother to respond, or turn up.
B) Idlely stand by doing nothing, whilst tens of thousands are inconvenienced, as with the protests.
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JoeBloggs
VIP Member
The Police in the UK are corrupt to some extent, but that does not take away from the fact that they are frankly useless against such people as climate protesters who cause havoc to everyday folk.Lmao what? Our police murder ppl. Both in uniform getting paid for it & out of uniform for free for their sadistic kicks.
This thread is wild Tory vibes dw about quote tweeting me to “correct” I don’t read I love my eco chamber
They should be dragged off whatever road/bridge etc they are on and dumped in a field. Those spraying paint need to be charged and made to clean if off by hand.
rainbowlemon
VIP Member
Judge's comments from the Just stop oil protest that blocked Dover in '21.
"On Friday 24 September of 2021, the Registrant and 38 other people brought arterial roots into and within the town of Dover and its Port to a standstill for about an hour and threequarters.
The sentencing judge observed that: “…you and all of the others, set yourselves up as judges, jurors and executioners of the ability of, I am satisfied, the 1000’s of people to go about their business that day.” He went on to state that: “In well-planned and concerted action, consciously not in the communities where you yourselves lived, you all, having travelled from different parts of the country, with high visibility clothing, leaflets and determination to get yourselves arrested to promote your cause, you set about bringing Dover to a standstill. Your group, together, sat in busy roads, leading to and from the port, blocking any and all traffic, until one by one you could be arrested and removed from the scene. You claim to have intended to target only the port and HGV drivers, as if the people working in the port and HGV drivers were not worthy of consideration and were merely fair game for your protest. In fact, your actions were totally indiscriminate. You didn’t care who was caught up in the traffic chaos, although I accept that the stories of individual victims, now that you’ve heard them, are ones that you do care about. The small selection of stories of victims, and victims they were, which were read to the Court, just demonstrate that.
The self-employed therapist, travelling to meet a vulnerable young person; the scaffolder awaiting delivery of parts vital to the repair of a road bridge; a young woman travelling to the home of her elderly grandmother, to spend the day caring for her; the lifeboat crew, forced to take two or three times as long to get to the lifeboat station; the builder, late for work, and so late home and missing an important family event. There are the records and the information about the ferries containing hundreds of people, stuck at berths in the United Kingdom and France and possibly worst of all, stuck at sea, unable to enter the port because there were no empty berths. There were many such stories of inconvenience, many hurting innocent people in their pocket, through lost wages. Of even more significance was the great risk of physical and psychological harm that you exposed people to. One such was the victim of the chemical spill at a petrol station. As a result of tailbacks of traffic being so long the specialist ambulance team couldn’t reach them other than by leaving their ambulance and running on foot with what equipment they could carry.
Your so-called blue light policy, of letting emergency vehicles through was arrogant, ill thought out and useless if queues of traffic were so long that emergency vehicles couldn’t even get close to where the roadblocks were. As the morning wore on, there was growing risk, and a real risk of public disorder and violence, as you and the other protesters were impervious to the pleas of ordinary people to let through medical staff, care staff and others, making people more and more angry. Anyone and everyone was merely collateral damage in this crusade, the large company, the subcontractor ,the employee, the self-employed, the emergency worker, the nurse, the carer, the parents and the children. I think of the little boy being taken to nursery school by his father, distressed and upset by witnessing the growing anger of the motorists, in which his father’ scar was stuck, and, in particular, the two toddlers with a neurological condition, trapped with their mother in a hot car for an hour, growing increasingly distressed until other motorists were able to shuffle their vehicles aside and let them escape.
It was suggested during the trial that HGV drivers are used to such delays and that seemingly they’re fair game for your actions, but the nation depends on them to deliver the goods that everybody needs. They perform a vital role for us all. The contents of each HGV load was important to someone, and each driver was a person with their own life to get on with, their own homes, and families to return to and bills to pay. Your suggestions during the trial that somehow the Police were at fault and contributed to the traffic congestion by failing to remand people in custody from earlier actions, and by failing to arrest you all sooner, is hypocritical and ridiculous. They were stationed at the other end of the County of Kent because of earlier protests around the M25. In the end, over 100 Police Officers were needlessly taken away from their duties of investigating crime and keeping communities safe, by having to attend Dover, to painstakingly arrest you all and remove you from the road because you steadfastly refused their repeated requests, that having exercised your rights to protest you now needed to respect the rights of everyone else to go about their business. You wouldn’t have it. Instead, to further your aims, you exploited the Police and the communities in Dover and Kent, in order to get the sensational images you wanted. There are no sentencing Council guidelines for offences like these, but I must still assess culpability and harm. Culpability is high, in my judgment, due to the extensive planning, the travel from far afield, the large size of the group, the strategic targeting of a vital and busy port and the determination to resist all pleas to lift your blockades for as long as it took to be arrested”
"On Friday 24 September of 2021, the Registrant and 38 other people brought arterial roots into and within the town of Dover and its Port to a standstill for about an hour and threequarters.
The sentencing judge observed that: “…you and all of the others, set yourselves up as judges, jurors and executioners of the ability of, I am satisfied, the 1000’s of people to go about their business that day.” He went on to state that: “In well-planned and concerted action, consciously not in the communities where you yourselves lived, you all, having travelled from different parts of the country, with high visibility clothing, leaflets and determination to get yourselves arrested to promote your cause, you set about bringing Dover to a standstill. Your group, together, sat in busy roads, leading to and from the port, blocking any and all traffic, until one by one you could be arrested and removed from the scene. You claim to have intended to target only the port and HGV drivers, as if the people working in the port and HGV drivers were not worthy of consideration and were merely fair game for your protest. In fact, your actions were totally indiscriminate. You didn’t care who was caught up in the traffic chaos, although I accept that the stories of individual victims, now that you’ve heard them, are ones that you do care about. The small selection of stories of victims, and victims they were, which were read to the Court, just demonstrate that.
The self-employed therapist, travelling to meet a vulnerable young person; the scaffolder awaiting delivery of parts vital to the repair of a road bridge; a young woman travelling to the home of her elderly grandmother, to spend the day caring for her; the lifeboat crew, forced to take two or three times as long to get to the lifeboat station; the builder, late for work, and so late home and missing an important family event. There are the records and the information about the ferries containing hundreds of people, stuck at berths in the United Kingdom and France and possibly worst of all, stuck at sea, unable to enter the port because there were no empty berths. There were many such stories of inconvenience, many hurting innocent people in their pocket, through lost wages. Of even more significance was the great risk of physical and psychological harm that you exposed people to. One such was the victim of the chemical spill at a petrol station. As a result of tailbacks of traffic being so long the specialist ambulance team couldn’t reach them other than by leaving their ambulance and running on foot with what equipment they could carry.
Your so-called blue light policy, of letting emergency vehicles through was arrogant, ill thought out and useless if queues of traffic were so long that emergency vehicles couldn’t even get close to where the roadblocks were. As the morning wore on, there was growing risk, and a real risk of public disorder and violence, as you and the other protesters were impervious to the pleas of ordinary people to let through medical staff, care staff and others, making people more and more angry. Anyone and everyone was merely collateral damage in this crusade, the large company, the subcontractor ,the employee, the self-employed, the emergency worker, the nurse, the carer, the parents and the children. I think of the little boy being taken to nursery school by his father, distressed and upset by witnessing the growing anger of the motorists, in which his father’ scar was stuck, and, in particular, the two toddlers with a neurological condition, trapped with their mother in a hot car for an hour, growing increasingly distressed until other motorists were able to shuffle their vehicles aside and let them escape.
It was suggested during the trial that HGV drivers are used to such delays and that seemingly they’re fair game for your actions, but the nation depends on them to deliver the goods that everybody needs. They perform a vital role for us all. The contents of each HGV load was important to someone, and each driver was a person with their own life to get on with, their own homes, and families to return to and bills to pay. Your suggestions during the trial that somehow the Police were at fault and contributed to the traffic congestion by failing to remand people in custody from earlier actions, and by failing to arrest you all sooner, is hypocritical and ridiculous. They were stationed at the other end of the County of Kent because of earlier protests around the M25. In the end, over 100 Police Officers were needlessly taken away from their duties of investigating crime and keeping communities safe, by having to attend Dover, to painstakingly arrest you all and remove you from the road because you steadfastly refused their repeated requests, that having exercised your rights to protest you now needed to respect the rights of everyone else to go about their business. You wouldn’t have it. Instead, to further your aims, you exploited the Police and the communities in Dover and Kent, in order to get the sensational images you wanted. There are no sentencing Council guidelines for offences like these, but I must still assess culpability and harm. Culpability is high, in my judgment, due to the extensive planning, the travel from far afield, the large size of the group, the strategic targeting of a vital and busy port and the determination to resist all pleas to lift your blockades for as long as it took to be arrested”
thatstupidcat
Well-known member
“I was JUST leaving! Why are you arresting me??”
At least stand by your principles luv - I am so tired of whiny, hypocritical middle class types. They don’t appreciate they get treated with kid gloves in comparison to the overstuffed cells, lack of remand and 24hrs Magistrates Courts temporarily laid on to deal with the not so well-heeled demonstrators (and looters) of August 2011.
Oohthedrama
Iconic Member
I think when you start having such a hugely negative impact on the general public and putting such pressure on emergency services.
You’re doing the cause you’re serving a disservice.
You’re doing the cause you’re serving a disservice.
Margo_Channing
VIP Member
They're all trust fund twats with too much time on their hands. I long for the day someone gives them the old one, two 
kev1974
VIP Member
i think it s because of the upcoming COP26 climate summit happening in Glasgow at the end of October, where 30,000 will fly round the world to discuss climate change (couldn’t make it up
)I think that is what is getting the numpties excited at the moment,
The irony is, how many of those XR protestors have, or do use Anazon?
An utter bunch of hypocrites - as usual.
I walked past a local XR protest recently. A leaflet (very environmentally friendly) was thrust in my face. I told the person to F.off as I wasn't interested in their antics.
RaveChampion
Chatty Member
They were getting quite petulant and foot stampy in a couple of interviews yesterday. Notably so above their norm.
They need a big brave gesture/someone with the courage of their convictions to step up now before it degenerates into pure unwitting comedy IMO.
I don't think covering a Dinosaur skeleton with paint etc is cutting it anymore or ever for that matter.
They need a big brave gesture/someone with the courage of their convictions to step up now before it degenerates into pure unwitting comedy IMO.
I don't think covering a Dinosaur skeleton with paint etc is cutting it anymore or ever for that matter.
Satisfying Click
VIP Member
It will, I saw some of the footage of the protestors being dragged off like kittens being carried by the scruff of their necks, they're not really a match for the angry energy of men trying to get to work.
I'm glad it's not just me who thinks thisGreta is possibly the most annoying child in the world.
