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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
I would like to give them all a hug for making me feel smart again.
What struck me was how much FUN they appear to be having. Look at that “Voldemort” picture. Are those the faces of people who actually believe what they are protesting? If the world is in fact doomed, and nobody is doing anything, would you really be having that much fun?
I see a fun group outing with overtones of a delusional sense of accomplishment.
Should have really taught them a lesson and left them there all night. NWS says it rained and the temperature went down.
Call me cynical, but I bet most of those guys are more interested in getting laid…
Would it be too much to ask, if you send your children to college or university, to at least do the rest of us the courtesy of explaining to them the fact that everything they own was affordable because it was mass produced. I am not jesting. Please point to each object they own, and discuss how electrical energy, capital, and raw materials from the earth were used in a process called “mass manufacturing.” These citizens who make necessities and conveniences also make a “profit.” If there was no mass manufacturing, these items would be beyond the purchasing power of most people on the planet. And shipping it anywhere inexpensively gets it to people who need and want it without a huge mark up. Oil comes in at every single step.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/plastic5.htm
Also, please explain to them that beef and dairy come from cows on farms, which is nice because otherwise every person who would like to eat dairy products would have to own a cow and they can generate 120 lbs of manure a day. That’d be good. And tell them to say hello to all of the radical marxist professors for you, because you are paying their tenured positions in academia and handing over your children’s immature, underdeveloped brains to them to damage, in between drinking parties.
Well said, Zeke.
I would also like to point out that, if cars had not been invented, the “solid pollution” that horses leave behind would make large cities intolerable…
Thanks Kpar. That reminds me of one more “thing.”
Since these wish to protest pipelines, may I recommend Russia?
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/ukraine-decides-to-put-e-u-association-on-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-63323
Image East European Gas Analysis
Obviously, protesting pipelines in Russia does not pay as much. And there are no nice white school buses to give you a ride out of the cold after a few hours and all the protesters are needing to use the Lou.
A Frenchman, a Japanese and a Russian were trapped by a Klingon. He locked them in a cell and asked each to surprise him using three steel balls – the winner would be released, the others would be executed. In a week the Frenchman demonstrated a juggle with the balls. The Japanese had created a rock garden. However the Russian was declared winner: he broke one ball and lost another one.
Appropos of something, the little wee socialists… (:
“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.
Stupid is very much like being dead, it effects every one around you but you don’t know it.
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)