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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Good, give them a good beating and they won’t be back. When they pulled that crap here in Edmonton a couple of weeks ago and blocked a bridge, the people wanted to get at them, but the cops protected them.
This is the correct way to deal with these Cretins.
The climate crazies really want people to suffer. That is their goal. Since the government will not do it the people will have to. Until they will honestly debate and discuss their crazy distopian ideas. They should just be laughed at. This was what people used to do to the end of the world crazies. Just push them out of your way and walk by. Or pull them out from in front of traffic and drive by. And if they want to fight call the police and have them arrested for disturbing the peace.
“I hope the Extinction Rebellion protestors were not harmed” , , , I don’t
I don’t wish anyone harm, not even the idiots from XR. That said, I won’t be surprised or upset if and when one of them gets hurt as a consequence of their actions.
Sorry but I am a firm believer in do one to others as others do one to you as it make them understand.
I was small and mixed race in a racist UK of the fifties and had one hell of a time until I learnt to do a drop kick and learnt then that some sorts of people only learn from serious pain. I personally would be happy to see his wallet taken and his name put up on the internet for suitable protest in return at his home environment.
I personally would be happy to see his wallet taken and his name put up on the internet for suitable protest in return at his home environment.
I certainly wouldn’t shed any tears over that happening. (well, maybe a few but only from laughing so hard at the karmic retribution of it.)
Pretty sad when the police protect the people disrupting society and prosecute the people when they turn on the protestors who are causing the disruptions. Makes you wonder whose side the govt is on.
Interesting view from Tim Pool
Nobody can squeeze a 3 minute story into a 20 minute video like Tim Pool.
+100
The psychology of the fashionable protesters hasn’t changed since the 1960s.
” What I saw as a political act was not, for my friend, any such thing. It was not aimed at altering the minds of other people or persuading them to act differently. Its whole point was what it did for him.
And what it did for him was to provide him with a fantasy — a fantasy, namely, of taking part in the revolutionary struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors. By participating in a violent anti-war demonstration, he was in no sense aiming at coercing conformity with his view — for that would still have been a political objective. Instead, he took his part in order to confirm his ideological fantasy of marching on the right side of history, of feeling himself among the elect few who stood with the angels of historical inevitability. Thus, when he lay down in front of hapless commuters on the bridges over the Potomac, he had no interest in changing the minds of these commuters, no concern over whether they became angry at the protesters or not. They were there merely as props, as so many supernumeraries in his private psychodrama. The protest for him was not politics, but theater; and the significance of his role lay not in the political ends his actions might achieve, but rather in their symbolic value as ritual. In short, he was acting out a fantasy.
It was not your garden-variety fantasy of life as a sexual athlete or a racecar driver, but in it, he nonetheless made himself out as a hero — a hero of the revolutionary struggle. The components of his fantasy — and that of many young intellectuals at that time — were compounded purely of ideological ingredients, smatterings of Marx and Mao, a little Fanon and perhaps a dash of Herbert Marcuse.”
— Lee Harris, Al Qaeda’s Fantasy Ideology
Isn’t this the group who leader/founder just took a round trip jet plane vacation to Costa Rica ?
Is that true or mis-reported ?
Sendergreen..
She took it in 2016, and its all true. This is the other co founder. These are the people who want to control the country. They all use cars, plants, trains, mobile phones, wear plastic trainers etc etc etc
https://youtu.be/nSsJk2bFL1I
Funded by Soros whose lifestyle for one day exceeds my life consumption total.
Is a 7 day mouse harm?
Only when digging an existential bun with Poland.
Two big lessons for ER.
[1] Please ride INSIDE the trains just like everyone else
[2] Fire Engine hoses are very powerful and it’s best to leave to people who know what they are doing
It will be interesting to see what ER feels they can ‘have a go’ next.
They are definitely raising awareness and more people should now be aware of how much ER have no clue what so ever about the world around them.
It really sounds like XR needs an attitude adjustment.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFhubbRugak
Are you suggesting that the CO2 can just escape into space?
Are you serious?
NO, but the heat retained in the CO2 transfers to other gases in the atmosphere, particularly water vapor, which condenses and releases that heat. The primary greenhouse gas on this planet is water vapor, as it not only shields incoming visible light from the sun but removes heat from the surface through evaporation (endothermic process) and releases it in the upper atmosphere through condensation (exothermic process). Anyone who doesn’t understand that process needs to come out here to the southwestern US during the summer and watch cumulonimbus clouds as they build up into the stratopshere, topping out at times near 15 km in height. These rioting eejits and their dopey goo-goo followers love to blather about “science” when in fact they know little or nothing about it.
“I hope the Extinction Rebellion protestors were not harmed.”
[SNIP…we’re not going to approve posts advocating or wishing harm on anyone. -mod]
Social disruption depends upon the complacency of those being inconvenienced.
This is an example of complacency ending.
In 1989, ordinary folk, with the guidance of intellectuals, ended their complacency and took down the Berlin Wall and official Communism
This example of overwhelming protesters could be just the start.
Except that these “social disrupters” are working at complete opposite purposes as those who demanded to take down “die Schandmauer”. Berliners were fighting for the side of freedom, the XR clowns want the complete opposite.
Update (EW): The commuters who attacked the protestors are being “sought by police“.
I bet they want to thank the commuters for doing their job for them?
SARC
James Bull
Methinks this is PR stunt by the climate crooks IS working at one level. It distracts from the flaw in the logic upon which this whole endeavour is based.
Let’s assume for a second or two that little ‘how dare you’ Greta and that climate crazy in the US senate are right and we’re all gonna die in 5 years because CO2 is going to make the Earth catch fire or something.
Surely protesting against a country that is so enthusiastically already ‘doing the right thing’ (actually its the left thing but I digress) that it blew up East Tilbury power station (even Hitler never managed that!) is more than just a tad counter-productive.
We gave! We’ve done our bit!
To make a REAL difference campaigning must start IMMEDIATELY (it’s urgent remember, its a crisis) to ban all coal exports to Communist China.
Oh and do some protesting in the belly of the CO2 beast in Peking or whatever they call it nowadays!
I’m sure commuters there wouldn’t pull you off the train roofs the way those East Enders did. (Bless ’em.)
Might want to pack extra chicken salad and pimento cheese for the commute next time.
Better yet, the remnants of a T-bone steak, and a cow’s femur if the objective is making a point with food 🙂
Congratulations to the irate commuters. I understand one of them has been charged with assault.
His defebce should be that he was trying to prevent an obvious idiot from getting a Darwin award by falling off a train and hurting himself and perhaps others.
we may need to crowdfund a defence fund .
I staged my own counter demonstration a couple of days ago.
I was cycling along a road near Waterloo station when I stopped at a zebra crossing to let the pedestrians pass over.
The I saw that among the pedestrians was a gaggle of ghastly extinction rebellioners.
They were all dressed up in crimson tafetta dresses and white faces – the fellows too. Anyway this was too good a chance to miss so I pushed my bike into the middle of the crossing to obstruct their way and turned to glower at them. They all looked offended and then like a parting crimson wave they passed on either side. “Why did you do that” Their minder said “Coz I dont like you. You are a Millenium Death cult and your policies will lead to billions of deaths”
” what about current policies ” he said
“I am fine with them” I replied
I got a round of applause from the remainder of the pedestrians and toddled off on my bike
A very obvious English 4 letter word came through in the vid.
Appropriate.
Pity the climate cretins didn’t fall off the end of the train onto the 3rd rail.
There’s nothing quite as appropriate as 630V DC to give a good imitation of “frying tonight” just to get the message across what proper “human induced warming” is all about!
Next time everyone get back in the train and let’s see the driver, DRIVE OFF, see how they get on in a very small compact tunnel with lots of stray electric cables.
Couldn’t happen to nicer people!
Obviously, the point of the XR protests were to try and stop people using those evil, polluting, all-electric tube trains and get into their environmentally friendly cars, burning carbon-free petrol as they sit in traffic jams for hours at a time to get to work. They really do care about the environment! Makes sense, no?
Whoever said that eco-loonies had any handle on logic or reason?
Its going to get worse , their fanatics that consider because there saving the planet that justifies ANYTHING .
Its merely a question of time before someone gets hurt .
Maybe this is the moment when Extinction Rebellion became Rebellion Extinction
I am really surprised how long it took until regular people snapped. Those people are not evil. they try to make ends meet, put food on the table for their kids, pay rent and taxes. Those are fine folks living their lives and those lives are hard enough. They don’t need thugs to block their streets and trains. Extinction Rebellion has shitty arguments and thats why the majority is not swayed. Now they use terror in order to impose their contrived minority opinion on everyone. Like all dictatorships do.
Welcome to the world of France’s original Gilets Jaunes, who have been attacked, disfigured, mutilated by police grenades and infiltrated by black blocs (the same type wrecking havoc in Barcelona, in Hong Kong) who never seem to be caught by the same police, in order to discredit their movement, just as merging Gilets Jaune and climate fight does (the original protest was against the carbon tax!).
No XR goon has lost an eye or been mutilated by police action. Yet now police is going after, not the protester who kick a guy in the face, but those who took him off his roof.
Academics, celebrities, politicians and journalists alike have all been caught pushing the XR narrative with complacency, stigmatizing ordinary folks. Police will make an example, just like they did against Dettinger the former amateur boxer who took with his fists on multiple harnessed, shield and helmet clad riot police.
The real fight has begun.
Big Problem: The media still forgive XR because they are saving the planet. 🙁
Stop the shite: Sphincter Rebellion.
“Stop the shite: Sphincter Rebellion.”
Wonderful… should be our slogan
The trouble is, it’s easy for people to hate XR. Even people who are fully onboard the “climate change” choo-choo dislike them for their tactics, and for what their antics and invonveniencing people is doing to the Cause. What needs to happen is very forceful pushback against the Cause itself. There is way too much complacency, and this idea that “oh well, they mean well”. No, they do not.
If you want to cause an extinction, then you need to lie in FRONT of the train – not on top.