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Coal train ambushed near power station in climate change protest (UK)
The Guardian ^ | 06-14-08 | Martin Wainwright

Posted on 06/14/2008 12:51:07 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy

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To: melsec

I do not know about the UK, or Australia for that matter, but come here to Florida and try that stunt. The cops here will have you suited up and on your way in short order.


21 posted on 06/14/2008 3:31:14 AM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: atomic conspiracy
Curiously this isn't playing very big in the media in the UK as far as I can tell today.

The police should have gone in with force and bust this up. Our police have been emaciated by political correctness.

If they had bust this up with force - THEN our MSM would have this splashed all over the front pages!

22 posted on 06/14/2008 3:33:32 AM PDT by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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To: Nathan Zachary
Boy, are they ever going to feel stupid when they find out global warming is a big lie...

Nope. We were on the brink of an Ice Age back in the 70s, and the solution was to reduce population and cut back on technology in preparation for the crisis. Within a decade, they'll realize that anthropogenic global warming has been stopped through the heroic efforts of Al Gore, and they'll start preparing to fight the next global climate crisis ... for which the solution will again be to limit population and technology.

23 posted on 06/14/2008 3:33:43 AM PDT by RogerD (Educaiton Profesionul)
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To: vimto

So here’s the question: If the police had gone in and bloodied these Marxists, would the majority of British citizens approve?


24 posted on 06/14/2008 3:46:36 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Governments hate armed citizens more than armed criminals)
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To: atomic conspiracy

In related news: labor organizers are planning a protest over recent coal shortages and price increases.


25 posted on 06/14/2008 3:50:16 AM PDT by underground
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To: Nathan Zachary
Boy, are they ever going to feel stupid when they find out global warming is a big lie...

Only shows you don't understand their indestructable sense of superiority and infallibility.

I don't know (Repeat, "I don't know") whether or not anthrogenic global warming is a serious problem, but I strongly doubt it is anything like as serious as alarmist claim. Nevertheless, I wouldn't characterize it as a big lie, so much as a delusion and a fad.

When this fad passes another will take its place and the same deluded fools will embrace it just a fervently.

A lot of the environmental movement is advanced by deliberate falsehoods, which their promulagators rationalize as necessary to a good cause. Personally, I perfer the cause of truth over any "movement".

26 posted on 06/14/2008 3:52:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Hillary to Obama: Arkancide happens.)
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To: Nathan Zachary

Boy, are they ever going to feel stupid when they find out global warming is a big lie...

No, they will want to take credit for preventing global weather change


27 posted on 06/14/2008 3:54:12 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist Muslims in the WH)
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To: sergeantdave
I think it would polarize opinion. Margaret Thatcher was the last PM with the guts to give the Police the scope they needed to get the job done. The civil unrest was historic.

Many Brits would say ‘god on you’..... but if I am honest the press would turn on the police and the Liberal/lefties would come out of it looking like innocent Bamby's.

Last point, I think the average Brit is beginning to get a pair back ...only beginning mind you. There is a genuine change in the air.

28 posted on 06/14/2008 3:56:01 AM PDT by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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To: FreedomPoster

a new nuclear plant, which doesn’t have the “carbon footprint” of a coal plant.

But these a-holes will argue that it has a nuclear footprint that last for thousands of years.


29 posted on 06/14/2008 4:00:48 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist Muslims in the WH)
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To: atomic conspiracy
" ... They are a menace, a totalitarian political movement potentially as deadly as communism or the Third Reich. ... "


That is exactly correct.

Like any movement, there are those that are easily led through ignorance, and stupidity, but the leaders of this Gaia movement are the same despotic personalities that brought us communism and totalitarian socialism.


Time to thin the herds.

30 posted on 06/14/2008 4:07:22 AM PDT by G.Mason (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: vimto

Hey Vimto,my brother in law is a former Rhoadisian living in London for the past 20 or so years.He tells us there are plenty of you Brits who are getting really pissed over this sort of thing. [really pissed as in angry not drunk]


31 posted on 06/14/2008 4:10:32 AM PDT by TLEIBY308 (I AM PRO CHOICE,I BELEIVE EVERYONE SHOULD CARRY WHAT EVER GUN THEY CHOOSE)
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To: TigersEye
If they don't then they fail to stop any coal burning and the extra cost of cleaning up the mess will be passed on to consumers and the diesel loaders used will result in a bigger carbon footprint.

If the electric plant bought enough carbon offsets from algore they wouldn't have any problems, they could produce as much soot as they wanted without altering the atmosphere.</sarcasm>

32 posted on 06/14/2008 4:11:50 AM PDT by chainsaw ( No racist Muslims in the WH)
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To: atomic conspiracy

When I hear about these types of things happening-attacking infrastruce, energy suppliers, builders- I think of Atlas Shrugged and wonder what these nitwits would do if they couldn’t go back to their little air conditioned, flush toilet, BBC spewing flats.

You say that environmentalists are as dangerous as Communism. I would argue that environmentalism is the new face of Communism.


33 posted on 06/14/2008 4:24:02 AM PDT by brewer1516
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To: TLEIBY308
There are plenty of us - more than comes over through our press - which is one reason I ask FReepers not to judge the UK by the MSM. Your friend in London is right. If the government will not change tack and listen to the true Brits there will be a backlash.

A good example of this is the almost universal condemnation of David Davies in the MSM for resigning his parliamentary seat over the attack on our civil liberties.

Everyone I speak to however understand what he has done and are thankful that he would potentially sacrifice his career for a point of principle.

I think our stiff upper lip, phlegmatic approach to life has been taken adbvantage of by the liberal/lefties, we are fed up with decent people falling foul of the law, Islam rising and taking over large segments of our cities, being lied to politicians who are out of touch with the working man, and a police force that is more interested in diversity training than catching criminals. Yes - all that rant was a bit rhetorical I know, but there is much truth in there.

Good to hear from you. Regards to your Rhodesian friend.

34 posted on 06/14/2008 4:38:45 AM PDT by vimto (To do the right thing you don't have to be intelligent - you have to be brave (Sasz))
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To: atomic conspiracy
The offspring of Hitler are in full swing and looks as though the UK police are in their favor.
35 posted on 06/14/2008 4:45:42 AM PDT by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: atomic conspiracy
Note that the police initially stood by and did nothing to prevent this terrorism.

You know, I couldn't help noticing that myself. Though I admit I would've paid to see that female protester in the canary suit with the porta-potty.

36 posted on 06/14/2008 5:00:32 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: tenthirteen
...but come here to Florida and try that stunt. The cops here will have you suited up and on your way in short order.

LOL! Yeah, to protect them from the mob of pi$$ed off folk swarming over the bridge and up that train trying to get their hands on them.

37 posted on 06/14/2008 5:07:46 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: atomic conspiracy

Come next winter, shut off their power and let them freeze!


38 posted on 06/14/2008 5:28:19 AM PDT by RU88 (The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
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To: RU88

Come next winter, shut off their power and let them freeze!

They wont freeze as they are a bunch of big fat hairy lesbians.


39 posted on 06/14/2008 6:13:51 AM PDT by MadMitch
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“They wont freeze as they are a bunch of big fat hairy lesbians.”

Not the “men.” They aren’t big and hairy at all.


40 posted on 06/14/2008 8:17:29 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy (Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
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