Some people are just beyond help.
At Canadian embassy, global warming protester nears starvation
By IAN DUNCAN — Tribune Washington Bureau
On a patch of pavement outside the Canadian Embassy, Jay McGinley is trying to starve himself to death.
After drinking nothing but water for more than 30 days, he appears close to achieving his goal. When he stands up, his dark blue sweater hangs from a wasted frame.
On the 21st day of his hunger strike, May 15, McGinley was hospitalized briefly when his kidneys almost failed. He returned to his post the next day. Wednesday would be his 36th day without food.
He demands that the United States stop using fossil fuels, particularly those harvested from tar sands deposits in Canada. He is confident that if 1,000 people were to die for his cause, the government would act.
“I need to get us from 1,000 to 999 as fast as possible,” he said. “I need to blaze that trail.”
Full story at The Bellingham Herald h/t to Marc Morano
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Apparently he’s tried this before: May 6th, 2007 from NPR:
Hunger Striker Wants to Make Difference in Darfur
Which goes back to 2005.
He apparently has changed his name to “start loving”. Like “Vermin Supreme” he seems to be a professional protestor. Here’s a blog about him. Me thinks he’ll pull out of this latest hunger strike at the last minute, after all, the man is a professional.
I leave you with this (those with weak stomachs may wish to logoff now):
After announcing her candidacy for President of the United States and Prime Minister of Israel, Roseanne Barr decides to talk to people on the street. Here is the interview that follows with peace activist “Start Loving.”
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natural selection is a wonderful thing.
You would think evolution would have selected against such dispositions.
This is the new replacement for traditional religion. People are prepared to die for something or other. I wonder what fuel the hospital used when they were treating him? Wind energy? Solar? Heh, heh. 😉
Man, I can’t stick to my diet for more than 2 days. Maybe I should become an alarmist for a bit. “You’re all DENIERS. I’m going to starve myself until the sea level rise drops to a less alarming level, like 3.1mm/yr.”
Gore should join him and trim down a bit.
The full spectrum of advocacy….you can starve yourself for Dafar and darkness….or you can gorge yourself for the POTUS….and get PM of Israel as a bonus ! These characters make comedy TOO easy. Are ‘lypo’ transfusions covered under Canadian health care ?
ONE in three Scots families will have to go without heating within three years if fuel costs keep rising. A study showed average energy bills were on course to top £1500 by 2015.
When that happens, six out of 10 families will be forced to go without adequate heating and a third will switch off altogether. Ann Robinson, of who commissioned the survey, said: “Once the average bill hits £1500 a year, consumers will be forced to compromise on their comfort, health and well-being.”
Daily Record
According to Age Concern, 23,000 people die each winter from cold … that was when most could afford their heating!
This protester is a heartless selfish zealot who cares nothing for the poor and elderly who have to pay for his ego through not only their heating bills, but in many cases through their early deaths.
Even at current rates, excess winter deaths in the UK over the next 100 years will be around 2.3million. That is a real holocaust. One being denied by people like this. And it could get much worse. In the 1690s estimates put the death rate from cold (during the last Maunder Minimum) at ONE QUARTER OF THE SCOTTISH POPULATION. The effect of this famine was so great that it led to the collapse of Scotland as an independent nation. We are now being told we are entering a new Maunder Minimum, but no one in government is ready because idiots like this think they have a god given right to fill the heads of politicians with heartless lies about the “danger” of warming.
After drinking nothing but water for more than 30 days, he appears close to achieving his goal. When he stands up, his dark blue sweater hangs from a wasted frame.
That describes me. A Toronto Maple Leafs fan.
Once he has lost all of the weight he can he should stop with the water. This will reduce the amount of imported Canadian energy needed for the cremation.
Do you think that the scarf is 100% wool?
[He is confident that if 1,000 people were to die for his cause, the government would act.]
Typical green, others should suffer because he says so.
(Statement that could be construed as a death thread omitted)
Karl says:
May 30, 2012 at 4:41 pm
They could compare notes on each other’s chakra!
Dark Blue Sweater
http://www.robellis.ca/torontomapleleafs/wallpaper/images/trish.jpg
All AGW activists should be encouraged to follow McGinley. This would eliminate the problem the of AGW for all mankind.
Let’s get cheap energy…so we can have more jobs….so we can pay more taxes…..so the government can have more money to give to these poor people
redc1c4 says: [May 30, 2012 at 4:17 pm]
Natural selection is a wonderful thing.
= = = =
Agree, but problem is Natrl-Selxn takes too long. This moon-bat may have already bred!!
The most important thing about this story is that it’s hardly a story.
Hunger strikes and other forms of civil disobedience can be remarkably effective when their goal is popular with some part of the aristocratic elite.
The total lack of media traction tells us that his cause is dead. Even the media are too tired to care.
Finally, a warmista who lives up to their principles.
They say every village has one, but in the village of global warming, idiots like this abound and surround their “religion”.
Scottish Sceptic: how else are governments going to reduce their superannuation liabilities?
Good thing we don’t “harvest fossil fuels from tarsands in Canada”. We do, however, clean up the environmentally devastating oil from the Oilsands… and send it out to where it can actually do some good.
By the way, wouldn’t going into Darfur have been an “illegal war”?
[SNIP: Kinda funny, really old, and not really where we wanna go. Sorry Ted. -REP]
Bye Mate.
I could not watch the video and had to scroll past it in a hurry. Even just the one frame that I barely glimpsed, was like a peek at the writhing demons at the bottom of the bottomless pits of hell.
My knee-jerk reaction: “Trail-blaze away, fool. We had home-made meatball sandwiches today.”
Reminds me of the 15 year old kid in Australia that committed suicide because he did not want to be a burden on the planet.
Why starve yourself? Why not simply hold our breath and stamp your feet until other people do what you want?
Of course if your parents gave in why you tried this at a young age, they will have taught you that the way to get people to do what you want is to harm yourself unless they do, and then use their compassion against them.
Ahhh yes. We had a bunch of these in Australia. Under the banner of a mob called “Climate Justice Fast” which wanted to “raise public awareness of the desperately urgent need for strong action on the climate crisis”. They vowed to fast until a deal was struck at Copenhagen. Well we all know how that worked out. Funny thing is, the main poster child, a Paul Connor, ended the hunger strike after 43 days, describing Copenhagen as a “monumental failure”. He now is a “Quit Coal” activist who chains himself to drilling rigs.
Raised and fed well on the activisit teat.