Great moments in climate protests: 350.org KXL wackadoodles get themselves arrested to get out of freezing cold rain

Bring back the draft. We might have good use for these folks in Crimea. Just a thought.

>>morons<<

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.

All those young faces , so eager, give them another ten years and they will have forgotten what it was all about.

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…

Why do their thought processes remind me of Skype log-out?
https://soundcloud.com/beyondthebeep/skype-logout

Check the demographics of this crowd. Wanna bet an inordinate number of trust fund kids?

Is this J. Crew’s new ad campaign? I wish I could afford their stuff.

useful idiots

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.

Ah, to be above freezing. We’ve had a few days at 20 below (-30C) and heavy wind, which makes windchill equivalents into the -50 and even -60 range. People don’t protest in that.

How great would it be to hear from a bullhorn “The scoops are coming”

Amazing how quickly the cops cleaned up that litter.
If they were operating at response to crime, time, those protesters would still be hanging off the fence.
Interesting photo, no shortage of money with these kiddies.
Wealthy, gullible and expendable. Whats not to like?
My target market for “Hug a Polar Bear TV”.
Pay up large, hug a wild bear as we film it for posterity, become one with nature.

I hate to say it to these people (actually the foregoing statement is just a formality), but at some point in time after the freedom of going off to college (expense paid, of course), that it’s going to be tiresome after a few years of living in the parents basement following college graduation and no job prospects. Fun to be passionate and unknowing when one can afford to be but the basement living’s gonna get old.

Those pictures were just hilarious! Fools always are so funny!

If it were me… I’d either train a fire hose to gently rain down on their heads and soak them slowly to chill them to the bone or simply get the police to confiscate all their cuff keys!!!

Reminds me of the same young, earnest, convinced-they-were-right, we-have-to-DO-something! crowd of useful idiots who protested No Nukes! in the late ’70s. Anyone remember the very stupid movie, “The China Syndrome”? All the bad jokes about Three Mile Island? Heck, where Homer Simpson works was inspired by all that, wasn’t it?
And now? They’re all grown up, and crying for “green” energy after being one of the primary reasons no one has built a new reactor in the US in three decades, and their children are now trying to do the same thing with yet another energy resource, without a clue as to the destructive, killing impacts it will have on the poor if they’re successful.
The Acorns certainly didn’t fall far from the tree…

@richard All those young faces , so eager, give them another ten years and they will have forgotten what it was all about.
How about 10 hrs after the the MJ wears out?

Bill ’em to unlock ’em or cut the chains ($120/hr, 4 hour minimum per person).
Bill ’em for the ride to the pokey (ambulance rates: $600 to pick you up, & $40/mi).
Bill ’em for the cost of housing them ($400/night + meals & heat & water & lights).
Bill ’em to see a judge (lawyer rates: $600/hr + various expenses, 4 hour minimum per person).
Don’t let ’em out until they’ve paid up in full.

“Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.” The best punishment is natural consequences of their actions. The collective wisdom of leaving them zipped to the fence is golden! At least lets have a good dose of bureaucratic bungling and inefficiency that could prolong the attachment to an uncomfortable 4-6 hours at least! I hope if one of my kids is stupid enough to participate in something like this they will have the good sense not to wear tights and a skirt! They probably didn’t come equipped with nippers or trash bags either.

Methinks these rich kids should be made to pay the extra $1 a gallon by which the price of gasoline will rise immediately if the KXL is disapproved, for all the poor people already struggling to get by in large part because of energy costs inflated by renewables and other CAGW-driven atrocities. Oh, and in the meantime, take away their driver’s licenses till they pay up. And confiscate everything in their possession made from petroleum.

michael hart says:
March 2, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Does the photo show that they tied themselves to the fence with plastic? That doesn’t seem very renewable or recyclable if they have to be released with a pair of blunt scissors.
Why doesn’t the White House fit the railings with permanent metal courtesy-handcuffs, with a master key held by the local police?
It would make it much easier for all concerned.
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I have a better idea. Don’t bother arresting the next batch. Just leave them there to rot, after all they did it to themselves. Do that a couple of times and people won’t be so willing to zip tie or chain themselves to the WH fence in the future.
“What, you didn’t bring a key or a knife to cut yourself loose? Sucks to be you.”

Surely the White House lawns have a sprinkler system.

“Stop the pipeline or the people will.”
This is a serious looming threat.
I have no doubt that someone or some small group in this cult will attempt to bust this pipeline wide open.
How will this play in the media?
Precariously vulnerable pipeline easily laid fallible by a group of liberal arts majors with no mechanical skills
or
Much-maligned dangerous pipeline finally wreaks eco-havoc, as predicted – time to go solar.

Why are park police dressing like seal team six to arrest college kids? Can we go back to the old days where police dress like police?

_Jim says:
March 2, 2014 at 3:17 pm
Are those … unmarked FEMA-camp buses?
/mild sarc

No,
but they are the same buses that brought them to the protest.

Give ’em an Invoice for the costs incured .. would make them think twice in wasting public money in future

@TheLastDemocrat commented:
‘ “Stop the pipeline or the people will.”
This is a serious looming threat.
I have no doubt that someone or some small group in this cult will attempt to bust this pipeline wide open.
How will this play in the media?
Precariously vulnerable pipeline easily laid fallible by a group of liberal arts majors with no mechanical skills
or
Much-maligned dangerous pipeline finally wreaks eco-havoc, as predicted – time to go solar.’
Well, ya know… According to the DoJ, returning Iraq and Afghanistan vets = domestic terrorists. People who just communicated a threat to a planned project will probably get simpering support from the likes of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Michelle Obama on Twitter. So…ladies and gentlemen who risked their lives or worse, lifetime maiming to protect our nation (including oil pipelines and idiots who protest them) are smeared as dangerous, untrustworthy, while Occupy This and That (while cr@pping on cop cars or cable-tying yourself to fences and threatening mayhem) makes you a hero.
Hmm.
I’m a big believer in civil protest. But this? Nuisance. I agree with a comment upstream—I’d leave ’em there and let ’em test their bladder control. In fact, make it a condition of taking them down…don’t bother until they HAVE wet themselves, and get it on camera. A little shaming goes a looooooong way, I think. Or perhaps not. This IS the Facebook generation, who put all kinds of things on line… Still, waiting until they’ve soiled themselves to let them go gives a bigger reason to hose ’em down with the firehose…
And while I agree that leaving them where they put themselves to rot is a tempting thought, we’re supposed to be civilized in the U.S. Can’t leave corpses and skeletons tied to the fences of the White House like some dark ages barbarian prince’s keep. The current occupant of that building ALREADY has pretentions of being royalty—we don’t need to add to his delusions.
@ Krudd Gillard of the Commondebt of Australia says:
March 3, 2014 at 2:26 am
” I am worried this could inspire similar protests here.
I have still to forgive you for the Occupy disease that caught on here too.”
I used to live in Canberra, so you can’t lay that one on the US: the Aboriginals have been occupying a spot across from the Old Parliament house for years and years…and I’m having a hard time picturing a bunch of nitwits pulling an OWS at the Gabba and getting away with it beyond the first Test of the season…
Go Brumbies!!

I would like to give them all a hug for making me feel smart again.

“I have no doubt that someone or some small group in this cult will attempt to bust this pipeline wide open.”
Nothing will happen. The pipeline will be a good 5 ft. underground. And do you really think these loons are going to travel out to the Dakota/Nebraska back 40? Even if they do they’ll find a bunch of pipeliners, out in the middle of no where, who don’t have a lot of patience to be messed with. They would learn some lessons real quick if that ever happened.

Leave them there until Monday morning. It was in the teens over night in Washington DC. (Heck it was in the teens here in Mid NC)