This is the face on environmentalism today – publicly issued threats from Greenpeace
We need to hit them where it hurts most, by any means necessary: through the power of our votes, our taxes, our wallets, and more.
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The proper channels have failed. It’s time for mass civil disobedience to cut off the financial oxygen from denial and skepticism.
If you’re one of those who believe that this is not just necessary but also possible, speak to us. Let’s talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.
If you’re one of those who have spent their lives undermining progressive climate legislation, bankrolling junk science, fueling spurious debates around false solutions, and cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission, then hear this:
We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
And we be many, but you be few.
“…but you be few”
Yeah sure, whatever you say. Newsflash to Green Gene from Greenpeace India who wrote this.
Seen the latest US Gallup poll?
Gallup: Americans’ Global Warming Concerns Continue to Drop
Or maybe this one in the UK?
Or How about this one in Germany?
SPIEGEL Survey: How Germans Feel about Climate Change
Or the fact that the French gave up on carbon taxing?
French give up on carbon tax plan – for now
I’d say you and your friends are mightily outnumbered. h/t to WUWT reader “kwik”
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Let’s talk about what that mass civil disobedience is going to look like.
Here’s what it looks like Greenpeace:
The public turning against you because they finally see your true global warming colors and it leaves a bad taste in their mouths.
These threats are certainly illegal in the USA.
And we be many, but you be few.
Ummm, I think you better check that math on that boys.
Tempted to post my name & address on there.
Let them come after ME, they’d be decimated. People here know me & my views. I get on well with all my neighbours & it’s a society where we look after our own. I’m officially an outsider but I’ve been accepted & passed all the tests. Bring it on!
DaveE.
“We need to hit them where it hurts most, by any means necessary: through the power of our votes, our taxes, our wallets, and more.”
Very funny. We pay Eco taxes and electricity cross subsidies in Germany for a decade now. Thank you, Greenpeace, but this threat is nothing new and it doesn’t work – it just stunts economic development a little and puts poor people at a disadvantage as a larger proportion of their income is needed for energy. Ironically that’s exactly the populace that often tends to vote for socialists.
cattle-prodding democratically-elected governments into submission
You folk at Greenpeace know well what that is. You are projecting in blaming this on others.
More violence to come from the intolerant, environmentalist wacko, terrorist Left!
“We need to hit them where it hurts most, by any means necessary: through the power of our votes, our taxes, our wallets, and more.”
I had to read it again to understand what the guy is really saying:
“We need to hit them where it hurts most, […] through the power of […] our wallets”
You want to hurt me with the power of *YOUR* wallets? Oh. I take everything back. Hmmm… hurt me with the big bank notes first, please…
I doubt they can hurt we, the skeptical, but it could divert attention from our message.
This is indeed business as usual for these folks. Look forward to rainbow warrior type crap happening very soon. A person I know inside Greenpeace (I was an active member for many years) has been mentioning a coming new campaign of agitation in an effort to wear skeptics down and frighten those on the fence into towing the party line. I guess this is the beginning… Truth is, a lot of the “part timers” in Greenpeace are beginning to snap out of it and smell the coffee with all the revelations since November last. This is undoubtedly an effort to secure their own base and stem the bleeding.
Bring it on! They scare me not.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
“We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.” (!!!) I hope Homeland Security is keeping an eye on these guys. Better yet, maybe I’ll meet Gene from India someday at a conference …
Thomas
The ‘good’ people from Greenpeace are long gone. I’ve never agreed with Greenpeace’s methods, but at one point, they at least had noble goals. Now the goals is simply terrorism. Even the scientists have said that the suggested carbon credit system would be a token gesture, and wouldn’t do anything to curb the supposed problem.
Instead of Greenpeace harassing people who have differing opinions, perhaps they should spend their time and money coming up with real solutions to the supposed problem. If someone came up with a solution that wouldn’t destroy our economy, and that would actually make a dent in the atmospheric CO2 while also not negatively impacting other areas of the ecosystem, people would be all over it.
Quoting:
“We know who you are. We know where you live. We know where you work.
And we be many, but you be few.”
Commenting:
Be carefull what you wish for. You are making some powerfull enemies, you snot-nosed little creeps.
…that’s not “snipable”, is it?
“The politicians have failed. Now it’s up to us. We must break the law to make the laws we need: laws that are supposed to protect society, and protect our future. Until our laws do that, screw being climate lobbyists. Screw being climate activists. It’s not working. We need an army of climate outlaws.”
I’d say that they need some time playing rock hockey. Last time I looked, we were citizens with civil rights, too.
And we be many, but you be few.
Only after FILNET.
He’s a bit of an outlier, even in the wackiness that is Greenpeace.
Such behaviour in the West would spell the end of Greenpeace. They would be seen as being effectively a political party. Currently their fellow-travellers tend to think of them as “above” the fray, which gives them a bit of a free pass.
Once Greenpeace start harassing non-political individuals they are doomed.
The real enemy of Greenpeace are the global warming scientist, such as the CRU/ClimateGate scandal. ClimateGate changed the entire face of the global warming world. I am sure ClimateGate, and all the other -gates, are eating away at environmental activists. They are being pulled down by their own weapon—“the consensus”—that was supposed to silence all the arguments.
As it turns out “the consensus” is the iceberg to their Titanic.
These threats toward ‘skeptics’ is displacement of anger that actually belongs on themselves for their own fatally flawed agenda.
Blame yourself Greenpeace. You are your problem.
PETA, ELF and Greenpeace are all subversive groups that alr willing to break the law and commit eco terrorist acts.
As science is crumbling, they will increase the physical threats.
They want punitive laws and taxation for those they don’t buy their false dogma. One of the group like Joe Romm want to also punish the poor with punitive fines, taxation and energy rationing.
So now they’re trying to intimidate me with vague threats? I can rest easier now. I thought for a minute they were going to do something really serious like accuse me of racism.
Wow, that’s a blatant threat, i.e. “any menace of such a nature and extent as to unsettle the mind of one on whom it operates and to take away from his acts that free, voluntary action which alone constitutes consent.”
http://chestofbooks.com/society/law/Popular-Law-10/Section-147-Criminal-Threat-Defined.html
If any crime results from Greenpeace’s incitement, i.e. “the act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement
then Greenpeace and “Gene” should be held criminally culpable.
If this type of threat was made by a skeptic group, there would surely be an investigation. United States Senator James Inhofe, can you please add Greenpeace and “Gene” to your list?
It remains immensely important to these people to see themselves as the little guy heroically fighting huge corporate interests; hence all the projection and victimhood.
If “we be many, but you be few”, how come it’s us who are deemed to be forcing “democratically-elected governments into submission”?
Idiotic, but that’s Greenpeace for you….
The sad thing about this is that if they do “act” and actually do hurt people, they will not be convicted for it.
Has this threat been peer reviewed?
I hope the bloggers over at realclimate will denounce this kind of lunacy.
That sounds like a declaration of war… odd thing is they’ve been at war with sanity for years…