Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/11/2008 1:25:22 AM PDT by chessplayer
"Six Greenpeace activists have been cleared of causing criminal damage during a protest over coal-fired power. "
"Outside the court, activist Mr Stewart said the verdict was "a tipping point for the climate change movement".
He said: "When 12 normal people say it is legitimate for a direct action group to shut down a coal-fired power station because of the harm it does to our planet then where does that leave government energy policy?"
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
They went about it all wrong. The coal plant should have shut down and cut off power to the nearby towns. Told the townsfolk “due to the pending trial, we will wait until the verdict in case the activists are correct that we should not be burning coal”.
It leaves it in the hands of socialists hellbent on an anti-industrial revolution who’ll do everything they can to take us back to the stone age.
Greenpeace is obviously elated. One poster asked this question;
nozza
Posted by nozza on 10 September 2008.
“So, does this give me the right to grafitti all over the Greenpeace ship which also adds “climate damaging” gases to the atmosphere?”
“Protest, campaign, but don’t cause criminal damage.”
Reply to nozza;
“Nozza - don’t think it’d swing in court - have you been campaigning long and hard on this one? Can you line up a panel of world class witnesses to support you? Think you could be in danger of being on the wrong side of the law there.”
Another posters reply to nozza;
“No it don’t, Nozza. But it will give US the right from now on to put a brick through your window, slash your tyres or burn your garden shed down. Anytime we choose.”
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/kingsnorth-trial-breaking-news-verdict-20080910
And NASA`s James Hansen was a key defense witness for Greenpeace on this.
Ping.
so if 12 ‘normal’ people (Which would seem to exclude greenpeace types, but I digress) decide to shut off power to fifty thousand, including elderly and handicapped, they these 12 must be right, and if anybody else gets hurt, it’s too bad?
Ungland...
England grows more deader every day. I hear Lord Haw-Haw laughing.
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