By 2015 Britons will be able to read (by candlelight) about how the remaining power plants are unable to match the demand.

Also, the planned coal station is at Kingsnorth, not Kingsthorpe as reported.

What’s to be (almost) ashamed of? Every nation has unlawful crazies. How a nation deals with said crazies is what reflects. Nothing whatever to be ashamed of, here.

As to arresting Hansen or others who advocate damaging power plants, the key again is balancing free speech rights against the likelihood of imminent lawless action. If the speaker is merely speaking, and there is no likelihood of anyone grabbing implements of destruction and running to vandalize a power plant, then the speaker is exercising his right to free speech.

From the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v Ohio, “the constitutional guarantees of free speech and free press do not permit a State to forbid or proscribe advocacy of the use of force or of law violation except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.”

The Brandenburg case is pretty interesting, given the similarities to today’s AGW activities. It may be found here:

http://supreme.justia.com/us/395/444/case.html

Pass on the word, read my Primer (under my name) – the other side of the UK! Every day I wake up thinking about this – raising respect for Truth through real research… Ah, I’m going to try once again to get Scientists for Global Responsibility onto the case.

At street level by confused ill informed greenies and at a political level where our industry is offered a choice between two bad options.

Both are based on nothing more but plain extortion.

This is mafia politics.

http://heliogenic.blogspot.com/2009/04/markey-threatens-industry-do-you-feel.html

Let’s do a deal, we don’t want JH over here, you don’t want him over there, so why not set him adrift mid-Atlantic! Fair deal? I have an old bath tub in the shed I could bung up the overflow & fit a plug so at least it would float.

I say it again, I fear that we in the UK are one step away from some body being killed, most likely an innocent bystander sadly. As long as it isn’t one of their number so they end up a Climate Change martyr. Perhaps this may just be the defining moment & a real debate could be started up as a counter to all the AGW hype & nonsense. Some hope!

Um… whatever, dude.

If you took all the illicit drugs away from these eco terrorist types, away from all university students worldwide, their rational thinking capacity wouldn’t be so easily damaged.

Yup, lock em all up in cold dark cells and feed them raw chickpeas and kale with dirty river water. After they sober up from lack of drugs, maybe they can be reeducated. Have them serve meals on wheels to some of the oxygen dependent old folks, babies at home on breathing monitors and nebulizers, afflicted bedridden people of all kinds.

I almost wish they had succeeded to force the media and the public to experience the actual consequences. Let’s hope this threat will be enough.

My guess is that Hansen is still just a Boulder druggie, eternal teenager.

I understand that such home installed life sustaining equipment is not quite so common in the UK, but to my certain knowledge it is still fairly widespread. Should the power to some homes fail for too long as a result of Hansen advocated ‘activism’, there would inevitably be fatalities because not enough of those receiving such home care could be admitted to a hospital with functioning electricity in time. I truly hope the ‘activists’ appreciate this, but perhaps they don’t really care about anything but their own narrow minded agenda.

But I hear ya….I get a little irascible….but my irasciblitiy does not suppress the truth.

It is unfortunate that a public official [whose paycheck is gleaned from the taxpayer] can participate in such events without consequence.

It really is a bizarre twist in science [and where science melts down into political slag] to see these phenomena occuring today.

May the truth win out! Thanks for your efforts here on WUWT.

Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA