Current weather in Washington, DC:
Rally organizers peg the number arrested at around 400. Buses were brought in to cart away those who’d been arrested.
Here’s a look at some hilarious photos from the protest. I like the one about Voldemort the best.
#XLDissent There are still 60 students attached to the #WhiteHouse fence waiting arrest 5:30 PM EST Cold rain falls pic.twitter.com/zFP81ovIcM
— john zangas (@johnzangas) March 2, 2014
Even. Voldemort. pic.twitter.com/tFzt4aZD7E
— 350 dot org (@350) March 2, 2014
This cool @AP pic of #XLDissent from other side of the fence is a WSJ photo of the day pic.twitter.com/5e70epph8p
— Jamie Henn (@jamieclimate) March 2, 2014
Last few people on the sidewalk being arrested. Next will be the people zip tied to White House fence #XLDissent pic.twitter.com/z3C0G4L9PM
— Miki Takes Photos (@MikiTakesPhotos) March 2, 2014
http://twitter.com/bri_xy/status/440237388133322752
Hundreds of people zip tied to the White House fence and doing a die-in to protest Keystone XL. #xldissent pic.twitter.com/2P94x6wbT7
— Miki Takes Photos (@MikiTakesPhotos) March 2, 2014
@UnToldCarlisle Another bus load. Looks to be enough for remaining protestors. #XLDissent pic.twitter.com/auoNRMGWo2
— Cam Thompson (@CamThompsonCBS6) March 2, 2014
Stupid is as stupid does.
Bring back the draft. We might have good use for these folks in Crimea. Just a thought.
The buses all ran bio-diesel, right?
>>morons<<
I’m sure this is just the thing for your résumé when planning for a job on the Huffington Post or with Greenpeace etc. Never did Jim Hansen’s career any harm.
Disingenuous protest, does anyone really believe these paid protests anymore? Obamas cronies such as Warren Buffet profited from the pipeline hair shirt protests. Must be another Obama crony needs to block the tar sands.
Note to self: Don’t go to a climate protest in Washington on March 2nd:
1) It didn’t work well in 2009 for James Hansen, see http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/01/hansens-coal-and-global-warming-protest-may-get-snowed-out/
2) It’s my daughter’s birthday.
Hansen and I were in Atlanta the day before at a Mensa climate change conference of all things. Hansen left a day early – I got stuck in Atlanta after an inch of snow. (The airport has one, count ’em, one deicing station.)
Then I got snowed on in northern Georgia early last March too.
All those young faces , so eager, give them another ten years and they will have forgotten what it was all about.
Are those … unmarked FEMA-camp buses?
/mild sarc
I sometimes wonder if it would be better to just leave them tied to a fence, or whatever, and ignore them. Hunger . cold and being ignored would be hard to bear I guess…and they could show if they really cared about their cause…
Should have left them all night long!
Why do their thought processes remind me of Skype log-out?
https://soundcloud.com/beyondthebeep/skype-logout
I would have found it impossible to expedite the arrest process. A few hours hanging on a fence in cold and rainy conditions would certainly drive their point home, to themselves.
Just sayin 😎
Why arrest them leave them where they are till morning. Block off the streets to traffic and see how long they last ; after all its Sunday
Who judged it necessary to arrest them? Why didn’t the Community Organizer just organize them? We were led to believe that such was his particular bailiwick ….
Check the demographics of this crowd. Wanna bet an inordinate number of trust fund kids?
FYI Dipchip, the street is already blocked off — “for the duration.” Since 9/11 all the streets immediately adjacent to the White House are closed to regular traffic.
Is this J. Crew’s new ad campaign? I wish I could afford their stuff.
Advice to the police:leave them tied to fence.
useful idiots
I’m unimpressed by a simulated die-in. I demand true convictions ( and that means real corpses,
by the way).
A skilled journalist could elicit some very funny idiocies from these folks, whom I shall call The Young and Clueless Generation.
Tom Clancy’s hero had the proper solution. Actions bear consequences. Exile them to the Amazon jungle, stark naked, so they can commune with Gaia, and experience the “benefits” of pre-civilization that they so heartedly endorse. They can even contribute to their desire for the “Great Die Off”. They want this for others, but NOT FOR THEMSELVES. Why not?
It’s only too bad that the demogogues in charge, will not be present. They will be observing from the safety of their windows of their Jackass Party White House/Congressional Offices.
They caught pneumonia from Global Warming?
I don’t quite understand all this. Maybe the laws are different to where I live. What part of these protests is illegal?
They can count themselves lucky that the use of front loaders for crowd control & dispersion is not yet a reality.
But then, “Soylent Green” was just fiction …