From @connect in my Twitter feed today:
I count 39 in this photo, including half bodies at far left. IMHO, 39 angry activists don’t speak for the country. Hansen, seen standing at far left in the grey fedora, keeps coming back for more, time and again. I wonder if there is some sort of “Three strikes” law for people like him? I’m reminded of a line in the movie, The Shawshank Redemption:
Andy Dufresne:
Maybe you should try a new career.
Tommy Williams:
What’s that?
Andy Dufresne:
I said, since you don’t have much success as a thief, you should try a new career.
Ryan Maue has some interesting takes on the photo op:
Heh.
UPDATE: (h/t to Latitude and NJ_Snow_Fan) James E Hansen was arrested again today according to Washington Post story.http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/activists-arrested-at-white-house-protesting-keystone-pipeline/2013/02/13/8f0f1066-75fa-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html
UPDATE2: Ryan Maue notes via FB messaging: mote first line of second page of WashPo article on Keystone XL:
“The protest was well orchestrated and had an exclusive air about it, bringing together the elite of the environmental movement.”
…this was a “by-invitation only” protest with 38-45 people. WaPo nails it.
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Do they imagine that they are the original Keystone Cops?
Being arrested is totally appropriate for these CAGW: Catastrophic Anthropogenic Genocidal Warmistas*.
*They should serve life-long sentences for promulgating a policy that has caused the death of millions, with millions more to come.
Hansen is such a chicken little, he craps all over Americans that pay his wages, but he would not dare protest in China, where the real damage is being done to his imaginary cause. China delights and is inspired by fools like Hansen.
He is nothing more than a Hollywood inspired delusional wannabe rebel. Someone needs to buy him some Erin Brokovich props, so he goes away and stops embarrassing US science.
The male sitting on the ground, second from the left, hatless and with a long-haired woman to his left …. he’s meditating! Look at his hands.
Oummmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Oummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Oummmmmmmmmmmmmmm
It really is a religious movement!
The picture reminds me of a recent study about the background of todays protesters:
They are mainly well suited, with a lot of free time, atheist and without children.
In particular researchers found many house husbands, part time employees, self employed, pastors, teachers and pupils, early retired, pensioners etc.
The low income hard working class is not protesting.
In German
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/menschen-wirtschaft/studie-ueber-demonstranten-gutsituiert-protestiert-12045037.html
It would be nice to have them chained up there for a couple of nights. Even in their warm winter clothing, they would be more focused on the problems of cold weather in pretty short order.
Keystone Cops strike again. What a sad….sad joke the far left envionuts are. Is there a DSM IV category or Diagnostic code for this type of reality disconnected behavior. Perhaps singing a Kumbayah Gaia song or chanting “The people united will never be defeated” might make us feel better, help us get along, coexsist, heal the planet, or stop the rise of the oceans.
I wouldn’t mind being chained to a fence next to Daryl Hannah… 🙂
Wouldn’t a pipeline be less vulnerable to climate extremes ™ than sending oil by tankers over land and sea ?
Love the way these fools make a large banner then sit in front of it so it can’t be read. Environmental activism is now middle aged and wears a suit and tie. “Totally awesome Dude” 🙂
Reports of their chaining are grossly exaggerated.
I wonder how they go to Washington to protest? Did they walk? Did they ride a horse? Did they ride a bicycle? Did they take a train and then use mass transit? Or did they drive and fly there?
Every time these AGW clown stories get posted this tune should be playing in the background:
Perhaps this is ‘Protest of the Gods’. I don’t see a chariot there and I’m looking very hard. But I do see an iron fence that our superiors are leaning against. If not ‘Protest of the Gods’ is it ‘Iron Fence of the Gods’? Ah, but some aren’t leaning, they’re sitting. Is this then, ‘Concrete Sidewalk of the Gods’? Or is it the ‘Sit-In of the Gods’? Or, ‘Stand-In’? I can see they’re standing, sitting, whatever outside one of the God’s homes. Are they then the spawns of that god? Or, was he, more likely, the spawn of them? I recall, at his inaugural him saying, in part, “That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God.” Now he, Obama, only used the singular that statement, and I see many gods. I’m confused. Unless, maybe, he’s the one true one, and they’re false gods. Or, maybe, he’s the false god, and they’re the true ones.
Rosco says:
February 13, 2013 at 1:23 pm
“I would have lost my public service job for being arrested.”
Yes…that is because standards and ethics are for the little people. NASA/GSFC (which oversees the controversial GISS) has already said that it doesn’t care what Hansen does “on his own time”. So does being in jail count as sick time or vacation time??
In the legal world, there is this concept of being conflicted through personal self-interest..
Will all those in those in this protest group who are not government or professional activist employees/consultants/high priests, involved in promoting the Global Warming Industry please step aside.
Let’s count who remains.
Hmm A nice round figure of zero.
Apparently this is James Hansen’s FOURTH ARREST! It’s all for our little ol grand kiddies.
What if the vice president got arrested 2 times while in office? What would Americans say? I suppose the astronomer James Hansen is immune because he is delivering the required heat results for the government. If Hansen showed cooling he would be in a high end, high security prison.
http://tinyurl.com/3ub8ltt
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/13/top-nasa-climate-scientist-arrested-again-in-white-house-protest/
Based on what some leftist bloggers have written, they believe that if Keystone XL is not built, the oil will stay in the ground. Just more evidence that they don’t have a clue how the economy works. They have also apparently been told that it is “dirty” oil, although most enviro-lefties say all oil is dirty. Obama, unfortunately, doesn’t have a clue how the economy works either, and is convince that if only he can get energy costs to skyrocket, everything will get better.
zz says:
February 13, 2013 at 2:07 pm
“It would be nice to have them chained up there for a couple of nights. Even in their warm winter clothing, they would be more focused on the problems of cold weather in pretty short order.”
Yes too bad they were not arrested after a number of hours or the next day. Would have been Interesting to have seen them cut themselves free to get warm and potty breaks. How long between when the protest started and they were arrested? If a short time, why?
TerryT says:
February 13, 2013 at 2:44 pm
Wouldn’t a pipeline be less vulnerable to climate extremes ™ than sending oil by tankers over land and sea ?
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probably better than trains……
no pipeline = transported by trains = Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC = Warren Buffett
….but Warren Buffett is against the pipeline for environmental reasons…….snark/
Well, of course they were arrested! These are important, busy people. They are too busy and important to have to stand (or sit) on the sidewall for hours. The WaPo story says “ Shortly after noon, D.C. police began arresting the protesters” They probably showed up “shortly before noon.” After of course, informing the media and police exactly when they would be there.
The WaPo story said “….48 activists engaged in civil disobedience at the gates of the White House.” Yet the picture above clearly shows them on the sidewalk in front of the White House, not at the “gates.” Clearly they were not blocking access to the White House.
What would have happened if they were ignored by the police? Why, they might have to stay there for hours! Want to bet that a Sierra club lawyer was not at the precinct, check book in hand, to bail them out so they could make their evening flight out of DC?
Do I need to say it?/sarc offe
Grass and pavement! Very striking for us here in Oz: a place in the Northern Hemisphere NOT under snow. That’s due to AGW, right? Or is it the snow that’s caused by AGW? So maybe sleet is the “old normal”?
Better ask Daryl.
Tim Ball asked
Because what he does on his own time, not on federal property, is his own business as long as he does not represent himself in the official capacity of his position. Look at the 1993 amendment to the Hatch Act – definitely watered down from the original.
FerdinandAkin said
No, they wouldn’t, for the same reason Hansen won’t be. Certainly any arrest is something that gets logged on his security forms (I am assuming he has at least some type of clearance), and will be reviewed at renewal time, but peaceful protest arrests aren’t the kinds of things that revoke a clearance, particularly if it is not compartmentalized. A DUI, on the other hand… bad juju.
Larry in Texas said
The Shawshank line is inappropriate. Hansen is succeeding magnificently. He never serves time, gets more publicity, and keeps his job. That’s the opposite of failure.
It’s like wondering why banksters “didn’t learn from 2008.” Well, they did learn magnificently. They learned that they could break every law in the book and get PAID TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS instead of going to jail. So they keep committing crimes, because the governments have TAUGHT them that crime pays beyond anyone’s wildest dreams.
Damn… boo-booed the blockquote. Sorry, supposed to be after the word observance.
Mark