Green protestors never fail to irritate me
Dear moronic protestors,
With the credit crunch and 42-day detention stealing most of the headlines this morning, your purile antics have thankfully been pushed off the front pages. However, I would caution against thinking that this means your behaviour is either appropriate or acceptable. Despite the important causes that you (occasionally) stand up for, you seem determined to undermine your credibility every step of the way.
Let’s jump back a few weeks to the protest outside the Kingsnorth coal power station. Even though I’m not an environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination, it still concerns me that we need to rely on coal to solve our energy crisis and there are valid arguments surrounding this issue on both sides. Unfortunately, you idiotic protestors decided to destroy any chance of a sensible debate on the issue by wasting the police’s time for several days on end and scaling one of the power plant chimneys to deface private property – a few of you ended up in court and rightly so. I also seem to remember a group of idiotic protestors dropping banners from the top of the Houses of Parliament, having breached security procedures to get in there and again wasting everyone’s time, especially as you stole the headlines from a mass peaceful protest just down the road on exactly the same issue of Heathrow expansion.
Yesterday you were at it again by forcing the police to close the main public entrace to Parliament because 600 environmental protestors who disagree with airport expansion gathered and tried to force their way in. Thanks to you, the police had to arrest six of you and shut the public out of Parliament. Apparently, the Climate Rush group (whoever they are) were attempting to emulate the Suffragette movement to storm Parliament 100 years ago. I see. And may I ask what you idiots were hoping to achieve by emulating the Suffragettes? Do you think anyone was going to listen to a rabble of stupid protestors who thought it was a cracking idea to break into one of the most important institutions in London?
What really bugs me is that you were perfectly entitled to hold a peaceful protest, but you chose not to. You might have gained some respectable media coverage and raised awareness of the level of opposition to Heathrow and Stansted expansion. Instead you actively decided to cause public disorder and rob the opposition to airport expansion of any legitimacy whatsoever. Some of your more unintelligent comrades were striking the doors to the Houses of Parliament so loudly that it echoed around inside. One protester, Rosie Haworth-Booth, 62, from south-west London, said: “The government is prepared to give £50bn to help the banks and more people will be affected by this issue.” This kind of ignorance is typical of people like yourselves. You simply do not understand how the real world works to the point where you cannot appreciate that last-ditch efforts to save the entire global banking system and economy is ever so slightly different from adding an extra runway to an airport. I’m not saying that these airports should necessarily be allowed to expand, but how anyone can be dumb enough to equate the two situations is beyond me.
Carole Barbone, of Stop Stansted Expansion, said: “I can understand the police might have felt there was a risk due to the numbers of people involved but there was no intention from anyone involved to cause any damage or harm to people or property. We simply wanted to exercise our legal right to make our representations to Parliament.” This is a lie, and a big lie at that. You can play naive all you want. The reality is that moronic green protestors do more harm than good. You have no interest in using democratic principles to make your case and would much rather start a fight with the police than try to raise awareness of key environmental issues through the proper channels. The day when you realise that you ultimately end up wasting everyone’s time and achieving nothing cannot come soon enough.
Yours sincerely,
A.Tory
Where do you think all the RCP idiots went after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Nice theory, but that doesn’t explain the wave of young idiots that we see climbing government buildings, disrupting power stations and trying to break into Parliament – literally.
I think it kind of does. Direct action wannabe revoloutionaries (generally Champagne Socialists and their offspring to a man) hijacked the environmental movement when Communism collapsed. At around that time, the gree movement becaome very anti-business, profoundly left-wing on economics and started getting into the business of advocating the kind of totalitarian grip on our lives that was familiar to any students of the Soviet Era.
Now, a couple of decades later, the movement they spawned is adapting the same well-meaning young idiots who ALWAYS join the protest movement. Its no different to Swampy and the road protests back in the day, its just that now these guys are tools of Communist totalitarians who want to control our lives, destroy our standard of living and leave us shivering in the dark while the human population plunges to whatever paltry number these jokers feel is ideal for the Earth.
Having failed to deliver a workers utopia, I’d contend that there project now is just to cull the population down to a manageable size at which time they’ll execute their wacky schemes…
Don’t forget the top-secret Marxist cabal plot to utilise solar-power in the resurrection of zombie-Stalin.
Cyborg Hitler will thwart him, you know…
http://evilwombat.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/sb_robot-hitler_color_thumbnail.jpg
(from Wolfenstein 3D, a classic game, not some weird nazi-cyborg porn thing!)
Yet again, my comment thread descends into a surreal underworld of conspiracy and confusion….
(the confusion is mostly from me, I might add)
Funny you should have singled out the RCP, Shaun Pilkington.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2003/dec/09/highereducation.uk2
“Know your enemy”…
*roll eyes*
When protestors believe the Government has overridden the democratic planning process what options are left open to them?
How revealing that ‘Tory’ should understand my comment on Brown’s £50Billion to refer solely to the development of an airport. I admit that my remarks, quoted in the Evening Standard and one or two of the news channels, were not the clearest, but I would have thought it pretty evident that the remarks were directed to climate change and environmental ravaging in general rather than the building of a runway at Heathrow and another at Stansted, in particular. You seem to be blissfully unaware that the Polar Ice Caps are melting at an exponential rate and they may have completely disappeared as early as 2020, the carbon sinks of the Amazon and other rain forests are almost as rapidly being depleted, desert areas are growing (with a few miraculous exceptions where planting has taken place as in some parts of North Africa. All this means that the world will be heating up to such a degree as to cause possibly, first of all much colder winters in the North west as the sea water cools, then rapidly warmer as the Polar regions absorb the suns rays rather than reflecting them. Sea levels will rise, many parts of the world will suffer (indeed some already are suffering) extremes. We in Britain may remain climatically slightly better off than many parts of the world, but those in the areas hardest hit will struggle to get out of an untenable environment. There will be more wars and famines and huge pressure on North Western Europe, including Britain, to open its doors to migrants.
If Brown could think beyond the status quo and think about seriously developing renewable energy – wind, solar and tidal for example- create new jobs in these areas, rather than propping up a system which produces barbie dolls, yachts and jet-propelled holidays, we might begin to get ourselves at least partially out of this environmental and financial mess.