Protestors handcuffed outside Exxon Mobil HQ in Texas

CNBC ^ | 5/27/2003 | CNBC

[lelio]

CNBC broke in with some video footage showing some protestors at Exxon-Mobil's headquarters in Texas handcuffed on the lawn.
Apparently they told someone that they infiltrated the security of the building, where an executive meeting is being held.

[lelio]

Probably nothing, but I'm sure its interrupting the meetings going on right now.

[abner]

There are probably FReepers there. Not the infiltrators, but the good guys.

[Lunatic Fringe]

I'm sure this small group of dopeheads will bring the largest oil company in the world to a grinding halt...

[P.O.E.]

Oh, the irony. Vandals at the gates of Exxon/Mobil, and no boiling oil going over the parapets?

[AppyPappy]

I wonder if they drove there.

[muskogee]

"Aerial video showed a handful of demonstrators [Greenpeace] atop the headquarters building and about ten others seated on a curb in front of the building, hands cuffed behind their backs." -AP

[Jeff Head]

Last year while I was down in Texas helping my brother, I went down to the Exxon HQ and helped Freep a environmental demonstration. We outnumbered them.

I had a pretty direct discussion with the leader of the demonstrators, chiding her over the fact that they all arrived in one of the biggest, gas-guzzling GM vans (the extended version) you will ever see. It was pretty funny because they tried to defend it, even though they were protesting the evils of petroleum production and use by western societies.

Their excuses of basically "well, we are in this terrible environment and have to use the forces of evil against itself" was such a joke...and you could tell even they saw how lame it was.

I told them I would never agree with, and always fight against their useful idiot/maxistic agenda ... but I might have had a shred of respect for their misguided commitment if they had shown up on bikes of hoofing it. As it was, I told them there was nothing bu contempt for their ideology and their fake commitment to it.

Jeff

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Just as aside, Exxon is one of the companies that makes up salary differences for their activated National Guardsmen and Reservist employees.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good, I'll continue to buy their Gas!

[Interesting Times]

There are probably FReepers there. Not the infiltrators, but the good guys.

There will be a lot more tomorrow.

Watch this space, y'all.

[Moonman62]

Their excuses of basically "well, we are in this terrible environment and have to use the forces of evil against itself"

And Al quaeda says the exact same thing.

[RobbyS]

I still like ESSO better. They still use the name in Europe.

[Vercingetorix_Gaul]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2003

EXXONMOBIL BUSTED BY GREENPEACE GLOBAL WARMING CRIMES UNIT
Global Headquarters Shut Down Day Before Annual Meeting

DALLAS, Tex. - Business at the international headquarters of the world's most powerful company ground to a halt this morning as the Greenpeace Global Warming Crimes Unit converged on ExxonMobil's compound in Irving, Texas.

Some members of the Unit are positioned across the entrance while others have entered the building to serve a list of charges against the company. The move comes as ExxonMobil's Board of Directors and international executives attempt to gather from across the world for tomorrow's Annual General Meeting.

As of 7:45 AM (CDT), 15 members of the Global Warming Crimes Unit are secured to the main gates, where two police-style vans are parked across the entrance used by staff and management. More than 30 members of the Unit have entered the compound, fabled for its high security. Some members of the Unit, including a Baptist minister, are actually inside the building, while others are on the roof, holding a banner that brands the building a "global warming crime scene." Employees arriving to work are turning away.

James Moore of the Global Warming Crimes Unit said, "This is where ExxonMobil plots to sabotage all meaningful efforts to solve global warming. Within these walls, ExxonMobil executives fight to conduct business as usual while the catastrophe of global warming - which impacts millions of ordinary people - is completely ignored."

ExxonMobil stands accused of running a 10-year campaign of sabotage against international efforts to solve global warming. The company has used its influence and money to block agreements that would reduce global warming
pollution. Recent figures show the company gives millions of dollars to ultra-conservative groups that aggressively lobby against action to protect our climate and direct President Bush's extreme energy policies.

The list of charges is accompanied by pages of evidence against the company. Copies of classified documents and letters demonstrate the unique role that ExxonMobil has played in sabotaging action on global warming, fraudulently
misrepresenting the science, and lying to the American people.

"While 109 nations have signed the Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming, ExxonMobil has done all it can to ensure the United States sits on the sidelines," added Moore. "We will leave only when the company agrees to stop sabotaging international action on global warming. Meanwhile, everyone can help by refusing to buy gas from ExxonMobil."

[m1-lightning]

I thought global warming turned out to be a myth. Aren't we actually headed for an ice age? Environmental nuts are always good for a laugh.

[JustPiper]

I think this is one Ex Mobile that won't be bombed since it has human shields.

[BagCamAddict]

This irks me to no end.

In the midst of an Orange terror alert...

When there are posted terrorist messages on the internet about an attack on a large (the largest?) oil refinery in Texas..

Greenpeace has the audacity to drive there in a gas-guzzling machine and draw otherwise-needed law enforcement to their stinking protest...

And what a nice diversion this demonstration makes while the terrorists sneak in to some other refinery to plant their bombs.

Thanks for your help Greenpeace, we sure appreciate your patriotic support. </sarcasm off>

[vikingcelt]

Don't they have the day wrong? The annual shareholders meeting is tomorrow...May 28th. Sure wish I could be there. I own stock in this company and this p__________ me off.

[tractorman]

These people make me sick.

Pardon me while I barf some Greenpeas.

[weegee]

As it was, I told them there was nothing bu contempt for their ideology and their fake commitment to it.

Psst. It's the economy, "stupid". They are socialists and are against "big" business. The environmental movement is just a cover. Stalin's useful idiots don't realize that they are red dupes.