Posted on 02/24/2005 8:36:56 AM PST by MikeEdwards
Greenpeace has discovered that invading the workplace can be as hazardous as finding toxins there.
Growing ever more corporate as the world’s largest environmental lobby group, Greenpeace was spoon-fed workplace invasion 101 from the oil industry, and for safety’s sake may be forced to rethink its strategy.
With the practice of popping up wherever called, Greenpeacers are at the ready to move out with their props of banners and placards in tow.
Thirty-five Greenpeace protesters decided to storm the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London, last Wednesday. According to the Times of London, they slipped into a closing door and then roared onto the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding foghorns in what has become typical, "in-yer’-face" Greenpeace style.
More infamous for melees at sea where they prevent ships from coming into port, Greenpeace’s mission at the IPE was to paralyze oil trading. Their mission failed and Greenpeace was paralyzed from protesting.
The initially taken-by-surprise traders--most of them under 25 years old--rushed the protesters. They pushed filing cabinets over on top of the Greenpeacers, kicking and punching them with "we-should-be-allowed-to-work gusto before forcing them to retreat.
Two Greenpeacers were actually hospitalized, one with a broken jaw, the other with concussion.
One protester concluded: "I have never seen anyone less amenable to our point of view."
Whoever said that halting someone at work was a sensible way to get one’s point of view across?
The vision of young co-eds taking down aging Greenpeace activists with graying ponytails is something the environmental lobby’s spin doctors will have to work at.
After years of being bullied in the workplace and the schoolyard, the victims of leftwing activists are starting to take a stand.
Long before young traders decided to take on Greenpeace, animal rights activists were sent . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Rough justice.
Well, I would have attacked them thinking they were bombers.
They are lucky to be alive.
No matter how many times it's rehashed, I can't enjoy this story enough!
Get used to it, punk!
Bwahahahaha...!
I remember a Greenpeace incident a few years ago where they came speeding into the piers at Norfolk Naval Base and threw paint on one of the nuclear attack submarines. They whined to the press about being "attacked" with water from the ship's firehoses. I'd like to see them try that stunt today. Do that a few times and there would be no more Greenpeace.
Best line in the event "Sod off, swampy"
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About 100 children, shouting "Milk for the masses!" and carrying banners surrounded Gifford and his partner "the cow". They drenched the hapless pair in milk for 10 minutes until the police eventually intervened to escort the activists back to their car.
Greenpeace in nothing more than a business.
And these events are nothing except a means of getting free publicity so they can con more socialists and envirofreaks into sending them more money for their overinflated salaries.
Its time government start charging them for tresspassing, damages, assaults, etc and giving these lunkheads some real jail time and huge fines.
Don't smirk...hold it in. Don't laugh. Hold it. Hold it......
BWAHA HaHaHaHAHAHA
I hope Greenpeace shows up where Manchester United fans are gathered one day.
Uh Pot ... Kettle on line two.
this wins my vote for best eco-terrorist story of the year !!!
( closely followed by that sign "who needs oil? I ride the bus" )
Y'all gotta check this one out. Has me cheering!
Not only do I find reading this to be enjoyable, it would be even more so, if we had a video of the whole thing. I wonder if any of the trespassers were charged.
"Sean Gifford of PETA and an unidentified man dressed as a cow had planned a peaceful protest at the gates of a grammar school to let pupils know of the claimed hazards in drinking milk.
But the two men had to be rescued by two female officers when the teenaged pupils launched a violent protest of their own.
About 100 children, shouting "Milk for the masses!" and carrying banners surrounded Gifford and his partner "the cow". They drenched the hapless pair in milk for 10 minutes until the police eventually intervened to escort the activists back to their car."
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That's good stuff! You can't buy that kinda comedy.
Bones
See why I'm not a trader anymore? Those guys are too tough even for ME.
I'd have paid good money to be there to witness THAT! FOFL!
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