Posted on 11/21/2023 8:03:33 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
The UK government was warned Tuesday by the U.N. that handing out long jail sentences to climate protesters could stifle public displays of dissent.
The Just Stop Oil protesters in question caused traffic gridlock after scaling the Dartford Crossing Bridge for almost 40 hours in October last year, as Breitbart News reported.
They were later accused of having “blood on their hands” after two women died in car crashes after being diverted from the bridge after the anti-fossil fuel activists had shut it down.
Eco-extremists in Britain have a history of blocking motorways, junctions, and city centre intersections.
The BBC reports Morgan Trowland, 40, was jailed for three years and Marcus Decker, 34, for two years for causing a public nuisance.
In response to the U.N., the BBC report set out the government maintained the right to protest is a fundamental part of the UK’s democracy but the “law-abiding majority” must be able to go about their daily business.
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Then UN should ask entire Chinese politicians to be in jail. China built 60 NEW coal based power plants during last 12 months.
(with apologies to bruce willis)
The UK should hire some Panamanian lawyers to handle their climate protestors.
Blocking commerce is STEALING from at least some of the affected people, the ones who have a PRODUCTIVE JOB, like trash collection. For that, their companies are forced to pay overtime for due to having to divert their routing.
So this crap needs to be treated as such.
By the way, any UN or Neocon complaints about the Jan 6th tourists still being in jail?
I see you you Troll you. LOL
Dissent is good, as long as it is dissent the powers that be agree with. Irony can be so... ironic.
How about this alternate sentence: Require them to be the first in line to forgo benefits made possible by electricity, gasoline, and the other things they want to ban, as their supply shrinks? I’m sure they’ll enjoy 19th century living standards.
U-seless. N-innies! They can pound sand! Hey u.n.....🖕
I know Garth Brooks is persona non grata here, but there is a line from one of his old songs that pops into my head whenever I see these a-holes blocking traffic. "He never hit the brakes and he was shifting gears".
Causing gridlock isn’t protesting - it’s being a public nuisance. And that deserves 90 days of hard time and a hefty fine.
Please climate zealots, please block the streets around UN HQ to stop the chauffeured limos…please
OK, instead of jail sentences, just let the motorists stomp them into the hospital for at least a few weeks.
“The UK government was warned Tuesday by the U.N. that handing out long jail sentences to climate protesters could stifle public displays of dissent.”
Got anything to say about the J6 prisoners?
I don’t drive, but I do have a tendency to overrespond to say getting trapped.
I suffer from panic disorder. I’m not the only one. The protestors should be grateful to the UK government for potentially saving the lives of protestors.
If my neighbor’s lizard felt trapped, it would bite. Humans still retain a reptilian brain function.
Good morning, Rip. Hope the last three years of obliviousness were instructive to you. But I suspect that they weren’t.
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