Posted on 05/28/2023 4:38:34 AM PDT by RandFan
Eco-fanatics caused outrage yesterday by kidnapping three lambs from a royal farm and attacking the Chelsea Flower Show.
They were warned their stunts, which raised animal welfare fears and caused costly damage, would destroy any public sympathy they had.
The incidents are the latest in a series that includes a paint attack on the World Snooker Championships and a bid to sabotage the Grand National (horse race).
Parliament might now have to bring in stronger punishments, according to Tory veteran Peter Bone.
The MP said: 'When a very, very tiny minority is ruining the lives of other people, action needs to be taken. If this were to continue and the current laws are not strong enough, the Government will have to introduce new laws.
'We are not talking about peaceful protest. This completely ruins the lives of the vast majority of people. We just can't carry on like this.'
Yesterday's chaos began with three Animal Rising activists presenting themselves to Slough Police after announcing they had taken three lambs from Appleton Farm on the royal Sandringham estate in Norfolk.
They included Rose Patterson, 33, who was previously arrested on suspicion of leading the group's plot to sabotage the Grand National, as uncovered by The Mail on Sunday.
The three activists said they rescued the lambs – dubbed Sammy, Sunny and Sooty – late on Wednesday night to save them from slaughter.
After concerns were raised that the animals – whose location is unknown – would be distressed after being separated from their mothers, the group claimed taking the ewes as well was not possible. They said they 'hid' the lambs before handing themselves in.
An hour later three Just Stop Oil activists vandalised a show garden at Chelsea Flower Show.
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Beat on sight
They’re doing irrelevant (and contradictory) things in their protests and are doing these stunts for attention. Sad.
Eco-tools, useful idiots.
Find out what matters to them - then do everything legally possible to destroy it...
Don’t forget the UK has no written constitution. They can restrict protests and freedoms if they want but it’s not a popular thing to do.
Unless you make the laws very specific and narrow to them.
“ Beat on sight”
Too good for them.
The William Wallace treatment. On live TV.
It is to be hoped this gives rise to a return to the rule of law.
The left has preached against property rights for decades. Now the insanity is biting them as well as everyone else.
I’m not a fan of physical violence, however the penal system in Singapore becomes more attractive each day. Rather than be a human rights abuse, it may be the best deterrent for some of these people.
Just Stop Oil, if it were applied as the postmodernist Marxists wish it to be, would bring whole economies to standstills. And advance their will to rule.
We can look back to a time when ecoterrorism was all that we had to worry about in the USA. Now we are bombarded with domestic terrorism on many fronts as the left wage their filthy un-American war on America
“the Government will have to introduce new laws.”
What, there are no laws against assault? Trespassing? Destruction of property? Harassment?
This crap doesn’t happen in Moscow, that’s for sure.
The Left created these idiots. The Left can claim them. In other words...I think the “Royals” have been pushing “climate change” and has helped produce these young people that think they are being noble and saving the planet.
Eco-Clowns , the ones that get governments to ORDER their citizens to wash Garbage and call recycling
Yup.
If this were to continue and the current laws are not strong enough, the Government will have to introduce new laws.
Nope. Creating new laws that criminals will continue to ignore is never the answer. If government did its basic job of keeping the peace and arresting scum who violate existing laws, the world wouldn't be going to hell in a handbasket.
It was fun to watch.
There are protesters who have glued themselves to certain things (with superglue,I assume). My policy there would be to just pull them away...and if some of their flesh was torn off as a result...tough bleep!
Couldn’t they just hire some soccer hooligans as security and then turn off the cameras? A few hours should be enough time.
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