Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Grant Griffiths; It looks like commuter patience with Extinction Rebellion’s disruptive tactics has finally snapped.
Furious commuters drag Extinction Rebellion protesters from top of Tube
Climate change activists carry out London-wide protests in defiance of a police ban as leaders try to get the ban lifted.
Alix Culbertson
News reporter @alixculbertsonAngry commuters have pulled Extinction Rebellion protesters from the top of a Tube as activists disrupted services across London.
A Catholic and Anglican priest also climbed onto a train at a different station as part of the protest.
At Canning Town station in east London dozens of commuters were seen pulling two campaigners, dressed in jacket and tie, from the top of a Jubilee Line Tube train after they unfurled a banner saying, “Business as usual = death”.
The pair used a ladder to climb onto the roof, prompting an immediate reaction from commuters, including one who threw his sandwich at them. A drink was also hurled at one of them.
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Read more (includes video): https://news.sky.com/story/furious-commuters-drag-extinction-rebellion-protester-from-top-of-tube-11837385
A video of the event:
I hope the Extinction Rebellion protestors were not harmed.
But frankly something like this was inevitable. Big city commuting is miserable enough, even without a bunch of idiot hippies adding to people’s stress and unhappiness with their meaningless daily obstruction and protests.
Update (EW): The commuters who attacked the protestors are being “sought by police“.
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It’s about time!
My British wife agrees, “It’s about bloody time!”
LOL. How dare you interfere with my meaningless daily existence with your meaningless daily obstruction and protests?
Somehow these extremists don’t seem to realise that you are not going win public support for your climate crusade by seriously pissing everyone off. They so confident of their moral superiority they just think they can bully everyone into agreeing with them.
Unfortunately there are real pollution problems we should be dealing with but these cretins will ensure the destruction of any genuine enviro issues.
Also some serious pushback from Dutch farmers, I think we have finally reached one of those “tipping points” they keep talking about.
You’d think that seeing people shaking their heads with frowns of disapproval would nudge their proper British demeanor enough to make them try some other tactic. They are obviously just anarchists- using the politically correct clamor of climate to skirt the law, while terrorizing the very social system which facilitated their existence.
Cocaine makes you oblivious. Especially first thing in the morning. Allegedly.
They don’t have the money for cocaine. They wouldn’t even make the competent level of criminality required to finance such a habit in the absence of a well paying job. If they had such job in London town then they too would be commuters.
michael hart,
They have lots of money.
Soros on List of Mega-Rich Extinction Rebellion Backers
http://bit.ly/2KfCzRR
The problem for the government is they have officially endorsed the CAGW hoax for so long that it will be difficult now to justify extreme measures to keep protestors from disrupting the economy. It cost them nothing to pay lip service to the hoax, now the bill is coming due.
Correct X10
Good point.
The BBC have been cheering XR on as well as broadcasting non stop climate doom propaganda. The XR nuts picketed Broadcasting House complaining that the BBC were ignoring the Climate Crisis. Yes they really are that crazy. XR are also claiming to have widespread public support, I think that some of them just got a reality check.
+1
They got one of the ‘citizen’s assemblies’ they’ve been calling for, but citizen democracy didn’t quite work out the way they expected.
You KNOW it’s real when someone starts throwing sandwiches!
Eric, please look at the video carefully. It very clearly shows at about 6 sec, the XR activist kicking in the face the man who is climbing up on to the roof.
“I hope the Extinction Rebellion protestors were not harmed. ”
Noble sentiment sadly not shared by these extremists. The other day they blocked the passage of an ambulance in London for 20 minutes. I wonder who was on the receiving end of that act of stupid, self-righteous arrogance ?
I hope they landed on the live rail and fried.
He might have been trying not to slip off the roof, they both came down pretty hard.
Nope, he is squarely on top when he kicks the guy in the face….that’s Assault here in the US, and grabbing his leg and pulling him down would be Self Defense…
He didn’t dress or look like a hippie, either. More like a professional of some sort.
I’d guess that these protest groups, especially Antifa, attract apolitical sadists and bullies. They see an opportunity to hurt people. So they don the political disguise and spout the rhetoric that opens the door for them.
Che Guevara is a classic example. He was a sadistic killer who took real pleasure in his murders of political prisoners. The revolution in Cuba was a god-send to him.
One suspects he eventually deluded himself into belief of the justifying rhetoric. Certainly, lots of today’s dilettante revolutionaries do so.
“I’d guess that these protest groups, especially Antifa, attract apolitical sadists and bullies. They see an opportunity to hurt people. So they don the political disguise and spout the rhetoric that opens the door for them.”
Absolutely, those of us here in the States saw that at the Battle of Berkeley a couple of years back.
He apparently gave up his job to do this 🙄 fruit loop!
Pretty certain most of them are on some sort of drugs, the air around them is difficult green smelling.
The good think is that they’re digging their own graves doing this sort of stunt, bring it on!
Numerous talented people have begun creating memes to counter the hypocrisy of the Left regarding supporting Antifa and Extinction Rebellion and all the other anti-social associations while demanding that the populace at large be disarmed.
One really clever one shows the “Beto” (aka “Beta-Boy”) actually named “Bob” O’Rourke Democratic Party candidate loon who is campaigning for the nomination for President telling a crowd of students at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, that ONLY the GOVERNMENT can be trusted with GUNS…a quick search of history reveals that it was the GOVERNMENT who fired on the protesters during an anti-war protest.
Not sure that he kicked him in the face. Maybe on the shoulder, in any case it was a deliberate, unprovoked and violent attack. He stepped forward and kicked out violently , clearly making contact. That is enough for a criminal charge.
In any case if that was me on the receiving end I would have used necessary force to ensure he was unable to continue the attack, if you see what I mean.
I don’t know. When faced with an angry mob, it could certainly be seen as self defense. Sorry, defence.
Send the ER’s to the ER for XRays.
No. The protester, after having a drink thrown at him, clearly tried to stamp his foot on the person trying to remove him from the roof and got pulled down after loosing his footing. I probably would have done the same if I were there. I am not sure what London tubes are like these days but that looked like a very crowded platform ordinary people being intimidated. That’s terrorism as defined in the dictionary.
“I hope the Extinction Rebellion protestors were not harmed.”
Unfortunately, I think only their pride was dented. Others may not let them off so peaceably!
I get the feeling that the commuters were being “sought by police” because they could use their assistance.
Oh I doubt it Pop. To quote Mark Stein “In Britain everything is policed except crime”.
The British police have a reputation of letting mobs destroy everything in plain sight, while arresting children who eat a sandwich in the shape of a gun. I’m sure the people don’t trust the police in the slightest either.
Exactly! Police would like to investigate them to get some tips to do their job properly. What a joke the UK has become.
You might not wish them harm Eric, but you’re speaking for yourself there mate.
I hope the Extinction Rebellion protestors were not harmed
On this occasion they got what they asked for. And a coffee thrown in, too.
I saw that in the video. That was so thoughtful of someone to provide coffee to the XR protester. It might start a trend.
Can’t have that litter all about, so the commuters should continue to provide the coffee, but without the cup. Hot coffee is best. Everyone likes their coffee hot. I can’t imagine it would go unappreciated by the XR crowd.
Make sure you get the coffee from McDonald’s.
Do remember that McDonalds and Burger King are not allowed to advertise that they sell milkshakes (and, by extension, tea and coffee) if there is some sort of political rally or protest within 200 metres!
(However, Chick-fil-A have got a beachhead in Reading.)
Canning Town (or London generally) was a very poor choice for support. Conversely the XR protests in Cambridge (and in Bristol?) blocked the streets but the local authorities, dominated by academics, are highly supportive of promoting the “Emergency” and provide logistic and administrative support and police assistance. Generally speaking, annoying people going about their daily business to earn money does not create respect.
McDonalds can’t advertise milkshakes because their “shakes” are not made of milk. That’s why they are advertised as “thick shakes”.
No, it has to be a milkshake tp get the message across!
If you listen to the CBC, almost everyone gives lip service to CAGW. That is a thin veneer. When people experience real misery they become a lot more skeptical.
I’ve always believed people will put up with a lot until they become inconvenienced or physically uncomfortable. Hungry, thirsty, hot, cold or stuck in a car or commuter train and you start to get a little testy.
Same with the protestors. 50 of them screaming and acting like fools is not a problem as long as it doesn’t directly affect you. When it does it becomes personal and you get involved, sometimes quite quickly. Throw in the mob effect and people can get hurt.
Soon It could become a religious war of believers against non-believers of the Church of Omnipotent Greenhouse In Carbon.
A better analogy is the secular Chamber and its acolytes that have the audacity to proclaim human life viable or unworthy of life. Wicked.
It’s about time Londoners “grew a pair” and dealt with these criminals.
… and I could care less if the phony green thugs are injured.
The global warming fraud never been about the climate – it’s a false front, a smokescreen for Marxist totalitarianism.
Bravo London!!!
Doesn’t quite seem to be an issue in the US as yet. I’m not terribly mobile anymore, so climbing up on trains is not in my future, but if I’m within arms reach of some XR loon delaying my train…well, the delay will be short-lived. Possibly the loon as well.
No need to climb up on the train when Smith & Wesson have your back.
It could be very amusing if any of thenm tried that here in the US.
For the most part, subways are in the downtown areas of large cities. In addition to business commuters, the subways are heavily used by inner-city, Democrat voters, and some of them can be very violent. Great care must be used to avoid the appearance of diss’ing them.
Any XR protestor getting in their way could easily find themselves a victim of a mugging, knock-out punch, or used for target practice.
I’m with you, Allan. Nothing but low-grade Marxist thugs. And the people of London are justifiably fed up.
Amen. It just hasn’t seemed to dawn on some people that liberty and freedom (what’s left of it) are literally at stake.
Agree, Allan. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the frackin’ kitchen.
I agree. These delusional sociopathic marxist thugs are simply trying to gain power by ruining ordinary people lives, based on false scare stories they try to exploit to create fear in the gullible with no real evidence, and without being elected. We waste £10B pa on pacifying this make believe nonsense by law. Already too much. The Police are no deterrent, no physical deterence at all. H&S hopeless and carry these people when they should be dragged, etc. If the Police won’t protect us we must ensure ER regret their actions in a very memorable way at each opportunity, so they don’t dare come back, and shut up. Perhaps the people of London need an organised force to interdict ER, who know how to ensure video records are blocked/suppressed, etc.? I am a people of London, BTW.
You reap what you sow and it looks like Londoners are finally starting to reap on XR’s asses.
I totally agree.
Left wing chaos (problem does not exist and solution does not work)
Block transit until what?
We give into their demands?
Spend a gazillion dollars on stuff that does not work? And we get what?
Law and order (Logical and sensible) …
$10,000 fine and six months in jail for interfering with public transport …
Where are Britain’s renowned soccer hooligans when you need them the most?
XR thugs are the modern version of Hitler’s brown-shirts. Wouldn’t you like to have a crack at them?
C’mon lads – Make XR thugs an endangered species!
You ‘could’ care less? So you do care a bit then?
To Inde-Pedant George:
To be more clear, George, I have no sympathy for those who deliberately obstruct the freedom of others. I detest the green-brownshirts who try to intimidate and obstruct people from their right to free movement – I regard their conduct as an assault, and am not surprised if it is met with defensive counter-assault – it is the right of every citizen to defend him/herself.
These obstructive acts by XR and others are criminal conduct. Some of these XR types are being paid to obstruct and that is criminal conspiracy. Note that the global warming/climate change scare is a false crisis, concocted by wolves to stampede the sheep for political and financial gain.
Regarding violence, I find it abhorrent. I managed two armed hostage crises in the FSU and nobody got hurt – I didn’t call in the authorities because they are worse than the armed thugs. I have travelled through numerous armed checkpoints in the “developing world” where I was the only person with lots of cash and no gun, and I find that uncomfortable. I was also raised in a violent bi-cultural community where we had to fight our way to-and-from school, and we were typically outnumbered at least 5:1 – that was also stressful.
Having said all the above, if someone confronts me, obstructs my passage, shouts in my face or otherwise assaults me, I will defend my rights, as should everyone.
Excellent reply to the snotty-nosed brat…
Great to see. I’m just surprised it didn’t happen sooner. They are indeed hurting their own “Cause”. I wouldn’t call them “hippies” though, as that is from the 60’s and 70’s and has no relevance to today. I’m not sure what to call them, but the word “prats” comes to mind.
[Old] Hippies like me use energy hungry Marshall amplifiers, love cars, bikes etc and a nice T Bone steak as well as a spliff.
XR are latter day Ehrlichians.
I rather like running my B-3 through a pair of model 147 Leslies. Perhaps we should “band” together and go mobile to serenade some of these nimnuls in their lonely vigils. A choice selection of Minnesotans For Global Warming’s greatest hits seems appropriate: “Michael Mann thinks he’s so smart, totally inventing the hockey stick chart, ignoring the snow and the cold and a downward line….” etc.
Of course if that takes too much rehearsal time, We could just put the PA on 11 and give them a simple, but heartfelt, chant of “F…off, F…heads.”
I would recommend McLean and Mclean’s F’ya to serenade them
Cool. I wish I hadn’t sold my Ampeg V4B rig and my Fender P-body Jazz bass. We now just run little stuff on stage and pipe most of the stage mix through QSC CP8 monitors in my band. No more Altec Voice of the Theatre cabs either, speakers don’t have to be big to sound big. If we could afford neodymium speakers our old backs would thank us after the gigs.
I got back in to playing bass after a long break, too long. Squier J-bass. A genuine American made Fender Jass bass, all original, made in the year of my birth costs AU$16,000!!!
Maybe next year!
Orange amps have a sharper sound than Marshall but the rough edge works great for some genres like rock
EcoPrats is more appropriate.
The problem with being a hippie was there was no summer uniform
If this needs explanation then u never saw hippies.
Power to the people!
Why should they not be harmed, exactly? They are asking for it, and are harming others they neither know nor care about by putting hem in harm’s way, deliberately. Who knows the consequences of the arrogant and selfish actions of these delusionals. No surprise that priests are involved, irrational beliefs r uS. Section them all?
In a sane world they would spend 30 days in jail for their disruptive actions. It would give them the opportunity to enlighten their cellmates about the coming extinction.
3 to 4 hundred XR protestors vs. 8.1 million London citizens. I’ll take London, and give the points, plus I’ll take the over, when the citizens momentum builds early in the first period, and leads to an absolute blowout.
Prediction: XR will be disbanded as the funders realize it’s damaging the propaganda effort.
Unlikely. They’ll work the sympathy angle now.
Except they wont get much of it ? I’ve seen it said elsewhere that the Police probably cleared them and their tents out of central London because the threat of group violence being inflicted on the XR idiots was becoming palpable. I’d be prepared to place a wager on that spot, as its the case that the one thing that really terrifies the leaders of any society is the possibility of being circumvented, and given the evidence of today’s photo reportage, there’s no shortage of not dreamy middle class folk who would be more than happy to oblige.
Little Greta and the XR crowd are tailor made to ensure that CC remains mostly a talking point, and a way for governments to extract taxes and nothing more. To put it bluntly, the Climate Duo have probably done more to damage the doomsday cult than two decades of scepticism, and a seemingly bottomless barrel of conflicting evidence and proven fraudulent figures all put together.
To paraphrase the movie line, I’m going to need a bigger spoon. 🙂
Little Grotty Dumb-bird may make them a talking point but it does mean people who previously refused to even listen to my tearing apart the standards of the data now allow me to show that the foundation of the science is so riddled with academic snobbery that the data acquisition fails engineering quality standards for a Christmas novelty sold in a low end cut price chain here but peer review has nothing much to say about this vital but non academic aspect of the work. She opened the door to going on the fly/ cruise without guilt and three travel companies ought to be grateful to her.
What really bothers me is they seem to ignore underwater volcanoes beneath the glaciers as being a factor in water warming and ice melting.
Brilliant!
Enough is enough as they say
Sanity shall rule in the end
The irony being that the anarchists all got there by train…
Those that did not come to London by car!
Incidentally, their leader is a 47 year old female doctor and at least three of the idiots demonstrating (peacefully ???) are retired senior police officers.
Rotflmao. What a way to start my day. Well done working class Brits!!!!
Same here TRM. Great laugh at the beginning of a great day! Respectfully yours, from the belly of the beast, California, Silicon Valley, USA.
Diesel or electric the train was sitting there burning fossil fuel power with the lights and airconditioning on and we can’t have that now can we folks? Commuters for Conservation is born!
Air conditioning?
The tube uses the airflow through the tunnels as ventilation. I believe they call it the piston effect.
The air flows induced by train movement in tunnels can be used for the purposes of underground railway
ventilation. The magnitude of such air flows depends strongly upon the blockage ratio (the ratio of the
train and tunnel cross-sectional areas) of the train…..
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/105886/17/1-s2.0-S0886779815303370-main.pdf
Yes, air conditioning. What you linked to is tunnel ventilation, which is an entirely different thing. That’s for keeping the air in the tunnels and underground stations fresh.
The tube has no air conditioning
You do know how old it is, right?
This station and the other two they targeted are in the above ground sections of the tube system so no need for air conditioning… In fact they could not have got on top of the train in the underground sections as there are doors on platforms alongside the trains in those sections.
How old do you think the *train* is? because looking at the video it’s clearly a modern train, which contains that new fangled technology known as air conditioning.
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/better-late-than-never-londons-tube-gets-air-con-2047868.html
Yes Air conditioning, for the *inside* of the train (to keep the passengers at a nice comfortable temperature). Have you never ridden in a train before, particularly during warmer weather?
CO2 ‘is’ a greenhouse gas used in greenhouses as plant food.
Good grief!
A greenhouse has four walls and a roof, unlike Earth’s atmosphere.
Yeah too bad once it’s out in the atmosphere the plants can’t get to it. That’s why it’s so dangerous!!!
/s
And you know the protesters use fossil fuels every single day. The level of HYPOCRISY is sky high, they are insane.
Business as usual = life, for us and our posterity.
I have zero respect for these XR dimwits, but I’d rather they were jailed than beaten by an angry mob. Of course, they’re angry because of XR stupidity and there were no police in sight.
Housing someone in jail takes money from the public coffers. A well deserved beating is free.
Actually I’d rather they were arrested and their addresses made public so people know where they live, and let the locals deal with them.
The blame for this lies squarely on the police. By not arresting these Climate Mongo’s immediately when they do things like block traffic (in this and previous incidents) they send a message that this is acceptable. The “mob” is now sending a message that it’s not. I’d suggest the police listen to that message. However, i doubt they will. They will expend whatever resources are necessary to track down and punish the people who did what they should have done.
The management level of the police forces are appointed by politicians after all.
Same thing happens in Seattle. Local politicians won’t let the cops do their jobs.
Almost everyone I have heard express an opinion about these climate clowns is fed up with these half-wits being treated with kid gloves. Why would anyone with even a passing knowledge of either the IPCC reports or Earth history want to put up with their looney narrative, especially coming from people whose brains got up early to go for a walk one morning and decided not to bother coming back?
This on the same day Volvo spent a fortune advertising in the newspaper about how eco-friendly they are by introducing their brand new first all-electric car. In the very small print it turns out the starting price is £50,000 . While undoubtedly the people supporting XR would view this as small change, it won’t help anyone on an average wage.
Too bad there’s no political party in the UK which has disavowed the CAGW hoax and could benefit from a shift in voter sentiment. They all sold their souls in an orgy of virtue signaling. Boris Johnson has an opportunity here to take a public stand against the hoax narrative. Will he seize it?
Actually, a few years ago UKIP did just that. They came round leaflet dropping and I told them they’d get my vote in a heartbeat with sensible talk like that, but sadly it seems to have been quietly dropped.
I think we can count on Nigel Farage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vOxgzIeSt4
The XR woman talks about “the truth” as usual. Does anybody know what this “truth” is?
It seems that electric cars are worst than diesel. But, if it makes them feel virtuous and they have money to burn…
ELECTRIC VEHICLES EMIT MORE CO2 THAN DIESEL ONES, GERMAN STUDY SHOWS
* Date: 23/04/19
http://bit.ly/2ZYdUXJ
A very nice woman phoned in to LBC radio on this subject. She is with the EXR mob and says that they have been having peaceful assemblies in Trafalgar Square and voting on important issues and that the question of targeting the Tube was discussed and 70% voted against it. She seemed genuinely upset that the democratic vote had been ignored, bless her, and that violence (who would have thought it!) had broken out.
Maybe she will start to wonder what sort of company she is getting into and what their real aims are.
She isn’t a member of the XR elite, she’s, er, useful up to a point. A prole if you prefer.
Guido also spots super posh climate nutter Robin Boardman-Pattinson lurking around, although he let his inferiors do the dirty work and stop the tube. For a ‘peaceful movement’, it’s interesting to see Extinction Rebellion resorting to kicking commuters in the head – let’s see if this new tactic wins the public over
https://order-order.com/2019/10/17/commuters-take-direct-action-extinction-rebellion/
Very much one of the outer party.
‘Useful idiot’ is the phrase that applies, I think.
I spotted him too and thought the same. These tools made a BIG mistake picking Canning Town. Probably thought it was now gentrified with soya bas and vegan diners but in actual fact is just as rough tough old East End as it always was.
I am starting to think the police’s softly softly was a deliberate tactic to allow ER to unravel. Roger Hallam the founder said they were really wanting bad police PR with them dragging off children and grannies.
The public are sick of them and are also dismissing the doomsday drivel.
Voting only matters when the vote goes their way. Otherwise it’s to hell with the majority.
“She seemed genuinely upset that the democratic vote had been ignored, bless her…”
Which is interesting bearing in mind one of Extinction Retardation’s key ‘demands’ is the setting up of a citizen’s assembly which can veto policy decisions made by elected members of parliament. Or put another way a mob of chosen ones who can usurp democratic process when ever it suits them.
Seems a demonstrable lack of cognitive function is a prerequisite to join Extinction Retardation.
Yet Extinction Rebellion defaced and urinated on memorials to Earl Haig (founder of the Haig fud which became the Poppy Appeal) and the Memorial to Women in WWII, Even though a couple of ER tried to clean some of the graffiti later (too late) they have managed to alienate Military veterans and the wider military community.
Yeah even the true friend of the green extreme is noting 70% of XR members voted against this
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/17/london-tube-protest-divides-extinction-rebellion
But it true XR style the leaders ignore the majority … probably gives most reason to stop and think about association 🙂
I am in london, and people in General have had enough, these stoned/wasted crackheads have shown their true colours… Its not about the climate, Sorry I mean weather.. They want control, nothing else.. Do these look like the people who you want in power?
https://youtu.be/fFkN5H4CCY0
That is so entertaining. Paul Joseph Watson does a wonderful rant. He really nailed both Global Warming and ER.
Bravo! I was chatting with someone at the weekend about the morons climbing on top of planes- how did they manage to do that without being challenged by the way?- and we were both of the opinion that if we’d worked all year for a holiday and then some nutter stood up and caused chaos to stop the plane there’d be ‘consequences’……
There is a handful of “climate scientists” responsible for this fraud. They should have been glued onto the train. LOL. I would not be surprised that they will start being subjected to similar outcomes in the near future. Watch security being propped up at the Unis. This XR novement is a blessing to us non-believers, XR will alieniate almost 99% people from AGW we hope!