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
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.
I have found that between plus 3 degrees C and minus 2 degrees C with a humidity of around 90%, it feels like minus 40 C. They should have left them there until could really appreciate what fossil fuels can really do.
How great would it be to hear from a bullhorn “The scoops are coming”
” Jarryd Beck says:
March 2, 2014 at 4:10 pm
I don’t quite understand all this. Maybe the laws are different to where I live. What part of these protests is illegal?”
The chaining to the fence part – the charge would be “littering”…
/sarc…
Leave them there with their polyester clothes on. And when they have had enough, tell them to walk home.
Jarryd Beck says:
March 2, 2014 at 4:10 pm
I don’t quite understand all this. Maybe the laws are different to where I live. What part of these protests is illegal?
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Google protest permits in Washington DC. They probably didnt have a permit for the White House. The way they looked I wouldn’t permit them near the White House either. LOL
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.
As of 2014 the only known substitute for intelligence remains stupidity.
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.
Odd, they all look a bit dolled up for their fence embracing. You’d think that serious 350.oof zealots would wear clothes their own hands made.
Looking carefully, there sure aren’t many ‘students’ who are planning to make their careers in engineering or science. Safe bet they’re liberal arts majors?
In a couple of days, when the temps are bottomed again, maybe we can get them to lick the metal fences… Through the bullhorn; “all those who favor renewable energy over fossil fuels, lick the fence…”
Those pictures were just hilarious! Fools always are so funny!
“Hold on while I tweet this from my iPhone.”
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!!!
Tree huggers protesting against us wanting to clean up one of the biggest oil slicks in the world.
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…
Looking at these few photos, I see very few people of color gullible enough to fall for this nonsense.
Unfortunately, these young folks, instead of being liberal arts students, may be college students heading for a career in research.
If you want to see the best photographic collection of leftard lunacy on the net, I recommend.
http://zombietime.com/
@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?
Daughter: Hello, Dad?
Dad: That’s me.
Daughter: Can I talk to mom?
Dad: What’s up?
Daughter: Just lemme talk to mom.
Mom: Here I am, honey. How are you?
Daughter: Not so good. Can you send some money?
Mom: Why?
Daughter: I can’t explain now.
Mom: Where are you?
Daughter: I’m in Washington.
Mom: Where in Washington?
Daughter: I can’t tell you. Could I please have some money. I’m stuck here till I pay them.
Mom: Stuck where?
Daughter: In this place. I can’t tell you now. Please mom, I need some money.
Mom: How much do you need? You know we’ve been tight since your Dad’s been waiting for that contract he can’t get ’cause they won’t build the Keystone pipeline. Honey, I hope you need the money for a good reason.
Daughter: Mother, I hate it when you play the quilt trip on me.
Mom: Huh?
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.
They should be released on OR in the morning.
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.
I would have counseled:
Let them continue their protest undisturbed, but be gracious enough to keep them warm by electrifying the fence.
Maybe they think Voldemort is real. After all, they believe in CAGW.