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

“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

@ur momisuglyTheLastDemocrat 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@ur momisuglypping 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.
@ur momisugly 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!!