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Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Extinction Rebellion’s ongoing efforts to ruin ordinary folk’s daily commute, and mock hard working people with their largely government benefit funded hippy fecklessness, might not be having quite the effect they hoped.
Climate protesters warn this is just the beginning
By 9News Staff Kamin Gock
9:51pm Oct 11, 201Extinction Rebellion have warned their work has just begun as they wrap up a week of demonstrations with a mass gathering in Perth’s CBD.
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Workers who were stuck in the commotion had mixed views of the march.
“What they should be doing is getting off their a*** and doing something about it instead of blaming everybody else,” a frustrated driver said.
“I understand why they’re doing it, it’s for a good reason and needs to be done, I support them,” a supportive commuter told 9News.
Protestors stop and sit in the middle of the Saint George’s Terrace and a William street intersection @9NewsPerth pic.twitter.com/DScvlM27SD
— Kamin Gock (@kamingock) October 11, 2019…
In Brisbane, more than 100 activists sat on the roadway on the William Jolly Bridge, blocking traffic in both directions, police said.
Activists chanted and held posters and waved flags as police watched on.
Police were diverting traffic and warned motorists to expect delays.Protesters also halted peak-hour traffic in Melbourne, where the Lord Mayor Sally Capp slammed them as “disrespectful” to other residents.
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How long will ordinary people tolerate having their day messed up, before their patience snaps?
Historians will look back on the Extinction Rebellion as the Climate movement’s greatest strategic blunder.
In the midst of an unprecedented green media blitz, rising concern amongst young people about climate change, along comes Extinction Rebellion to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, by stirring hostility against climate activism amongst their strongest inner city supporters.
The term extinction rebellion must relate to the fact that if one could lower CO2 levels low enough, All life becomes extinct. With their apparent hatred of the human race maybe this is an intended rather than an unintended consequence of their demands.
Wow, that is certainly a mandate from the people. While complicit “forces of law and order” allow law breaking and aid the disruption instead of removing it.
when the state is complicit in your “opposition” you know you are being taken for a ride.
Everyone knows they themselves use fossil fuels every day….the HYPOCRITES
Looks to me like they are being mollycoddled. Where are the mass arrests? Where’s the outrage? All I see is some grumbling, but they still agree with “the message”. Sickening.
Sure wish these folks would take their wisdom and intelligence to the Third World to show the poor down-
trodden masses how to cope with the horrors of CAGW! I’m sure many in Asia, Africa and the Americas would be happy to switch places for a few months to help with this vital movement. Poor people from around the globe could travel to England and Europe and be enlightened about the low-carbon lifestyle and their true value to alarmists everywhere! /snarc
The modern environmental movement; a Progressive religious cult with a nice big dollop of eugenics added!
…as police watched on. Police were diverting traffic and warned motorists to expect delays
This does this does nothing to garner respect for the police officers. The police should do everything to prevent traffic blocking instead of accommodating these XR nitwits.
PaulH
The police gauge public opinion. If they go in heavy handed now they will be vilified. If they wait until everyone is thoroughly p*ssed off they can do what they want.
X.R. founder, a drug fuelled antiestablishment extremist who has been looking for a way to bring down a government. Tried other ideas that failed then hit upon the “climate crisis ” bandwagon
Why would any follow her?
J Fisk
Correct. And the movement has been identified as a subversive terrorist organisation by a former head of the Metropolitan Police anti terrorist unit.
So …. what ER does to achieve “0 carbon emissions” is block traffic forcing commuters to run their fossil fueled cars and trucks for an extra hour or so to get where they were going?
And that makes sense to them?!?!
XR should adopt an Amish lifestyle and live without technology.
XR: The Ball of the Entitled…
Yesterday Jane Fonda (billionaire Ted Turner’s ex-wife) was arrested in Washington and today it is Princess Esmeralda of Belgium’s turn in London…
https://news.sky.com/story/belgiums-princess-esmeralda-arrested-in-londons-extinction-rebellion-protests-11833488
Who’s next: Richard Branson?
TomRude
The most interesting bit of that letter is that the DNA/fingerprint/photographic databse will be searched for prior involvement in crime.
Now whilst this probably doesn’t affect her, there will be a lot of those arrested poo their pants at the prospect of skeletons crawling out the cupboard.
we can only hope
Jane Fonda, just another useless eater from Hollywood. Produces nothing of real value.
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming can only be stopped by liberals. The only place it exists is in their heads.
Getting really sick and tired of the authorities and media giving ER a free ride whilst they ruin ordinary people’s lives. How is it legal to stop law abiding citizens going about their business and forcing them to listen to their ridiculous demands which they know cannot possibly be met without millions of deaths and economic ruin for most folk. Even Private Eye, a once great satire magazine here in the UK, gives them an easy ride and even mocks anyone who criticises them. The lunatics really do appear to have taken over the asylum.
They would serve the earth, and their fellow people greatly, if they would just spend their time, energy, and effort, just by simply, PLANTING TREES.
“The elders, lowering themselves to the young, sate themselves with pleasantries and wit, mimicking the young in order not to look unpleasant and despotic”. Plato describing the origins of anarchy.
… including
* government that supports freedom to protest
* money that provides financing
… all dependent on fossil fuel.
Oh, and, of course, I forgot to put in the arrows indicating the hypocrites — ALSO enabled by fossil-fuel civilized comforts.
Intellectual blindness is a terrible thing.
I conducted a simple experiment in The School of Environmental Sciences at The University of East Anglia, the result of which demonstrated that Rupert Read and Andrew Watson (a former doctoral student of James Lovelock, now at Exeter University) are unable to acknowledge that the sun rises in the sky above them each day in the morning. https://thewinnower.com/papers/5270-lord-kelvin-the-body-snatchers … … … Use books.google.co.uk for the recommended searches.
A anyhow REAL mass extinction includes mass extinction of marine life as with the last, the 5th mass extinction –
Thanks the siberian traps:
https://www.google.com/search?q=siberian+traps+extinction&oq=siberian+traps&aqs=chrome.