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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That is of course a lie. Trash was thrown to the guy and when a commuter wanted to grab him to get him off the roof, the “peaceful” protester gives him a kick in the the face… Thus this protester got what he deserved.
“I hope the Extinction Rebellion protestors were not harmed.”
I hope they were.
Not seriously injured, mind you; a bloody nose and a few bruises would be sufficient, but western society has been far too lenient for decades with provocateurs who expect they can get away with almost anything for a ‘just cause’. They’ve taken advantage of our inflexible rejection of any kind of violence. An occasional bloody nose would help keep the wild-eyed extremists in society in check and remind them that their kind of abuses won’t be tolerated. So all the woke banshees screaming for attention, all the partisan college students denying their opposition the right to a fair hearing, all the occupiers trying to shut down businesses and services because they just don’t give a crap about anyone else should each give pause and reflect on their actions and ask themselves, “Do I really want to do this? Is it worth a few hours in an ear-ringing daze? Maybe I can find more civilized ways to get my point across without getting beaten up by a bloke I won’t let speak!”
Health and Safety Information – some railway lines have overhead wires.
None of the tube lines are overhead. All are third rail 630v/dc. But, I wonder if any XR members are silly enough to get on top of a car with a 25kv/ac line running above the car, say out of Euston?
Glue them naked and spread-eagle to the front of the engine and drive them through a snow storm. Teach them to appreciate the benefits of “GlowBULL Warming.”
Good for them – the commuters !!!
– JPP
Although I have been out of the rat race (of living and working in London) for 55 years, in one very small way, I wish I were back there – with one object in mind: to have the chance of getting my hands, or boot, on these compulsive morons. Fortunately, maybe for both them and myself, I am now about 600 miles away.
Left-wing politics defecated and from the stinking morass of turdy slime the thicker parts congealed to form the Excretion Rebellion, later called the Stinking Rebellion (or something like that).
As the world cools they (Crap Rebellion) like the UN’s power play will hit the fan.
“Mind the gap!” you may slip a piece of sh*t!
I don’t care if the Extinction Rebellion guys got hurt or not. They have ZERO right to assault people, block roads, etc. This is NOT peaceful protests—it’s flatout rampant vandalism and violence. Whatever happens, happens. If you don’t want to get assaulted, etc, don’t start the fight. It’s called “personal responsibility”. If you are going to whine and moan and complain when called on the carpet for illegal and wrong behavior, go home and stay there.
Ian Miles Cheong
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@stillgray
Everyone’s tired of Extinction Rebellion. When these activists tried to block the intersection a hero came up to them, grabbed their banner and the cell phone of their leaderette and threw it away. And yes, everyone clapped.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1184838441214734338
TEWS_pilot
The comments are brilliant, they absolutely Hate the climate bums! The more I click on social media posts and read the comments, the more I understand that normal people don’t believe the u.n’s climate lies! Everybody wants clean streets and clean rivers/lakes/beaches etc etc But stopping hard working people from living and going to work is crazy.
1. We live in a ‘democracy’ (apparently);
2. More than 97% of people in that station wanted the train to move;
3. In a ‘democracy’ greater than 50% wins
Perhaps ER should now re-access how popular their popular movement really is.
The thug who tried kicking someone in the face [6sec & at[34sec he is swinging a clenched fist], ( demonstrat-ing peaceful protest !! ) deserved any retribution he got; apparently he’s a doctor, should be struck off.
Greta in a pub
You might want to not post this comment but, I am GLAD they got pulled off the train. Its’ about effing time we stand up to these people who want to impose their way of life on us.
I hope next time when they pull off some of these protestors, they superglue them to the inside of the train station.
Problem is that Extinction Rebellion is NOT actually about climate change. It is about societal changes. Set out here by the FOUNDER
https://medium.com/@plaosmos/extinction-rebellion-isnt-about-the-climate-42a0a73d9d49t
Well, carbon taxes, UN Agenda 21, the Green New Deal etc etc have never been about climate change. It has always been about societal change, one world Govn’t and socialism.
“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.”
Sandwich? Must have been really miffed then,
“Update (EW): The commuters who attacked the protestors are being “sought by police“.”
Protestors? PROTESTORS?
terrorist
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Learn to pronounce
noun
a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
“four commercial aircraft were hijacked by terrorists”
These “protestors” were on top of the rail cars. THAT my friends is ILLEGAL. It is ILLEGAL to be anywhere on the transport corridor outside of a car or platform/station.
And I bet the commuters will be prosecuted too, a little GBH maybe? This really gets my anger up.
No end to the hypocrisy or foolishness. Paul Joseph Watson provides a nice summary of the situation, and the fraud that is anthropogenic climate change.
https://youtu.be/fFkN5H4CCY0
Vietnam war protesters apparently reviled the hippies when they joined their protest movement, and it’s little wonder why. What absolute fools these types are. Nothing but virtue signals and not enough grey matter to recognize the depth of their hypocrisy.
Extinction Rebellion, like AOC, carbon taxes and Greta Thunberg singing Swedish death metal, draw much needed attention to the inanities of AGW.
Just aired here in Australia on ABC news. One sided commentary in favour of XR.
Here’s another encounter on the US side for your entertainment:
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1184838441214734338
Frankly I do not hope they were unharmed. I would get a fair level of support for the use of tasers after a one minute warning. These filth have created a situation where many of the delivery drivers for internet goods who work on minimal condition very near to the survival mark were not paid for three days and as a result suffered extreme self harm level hardship. I would like to see their physical pain match the suffering they have inflicted as I believe in justice and our authorities no longer do.
Fine if every one could swear hand on heart they had examined the claims for themselves and verified personally that the scientist are right in their wild claims of the effects of emissions.
The police do not grasp how low they are in public estimation and seeking the protesters after failing to act firmly with tasers for any protesters not moving on has reduced opinion of them to rock bottom.
if they so much as call in any of those who attacked the protesters after failing to act the are likely to see serious violence soon. The next lot of protesters will be pushed not pulled off the top and will not need to worry about earths problems any longer.
What’s the problem I see video of hundreds of Indian’s riding on the top of trains all the time.
Yes, but they are not trying to stop the train or anyone trying to get on it, in the car, side, front, back or roof.
Riding train roofs is a form of population control in the developing world, and one of several self selective approaches to Jackass elimination in the developed. Usually effective.
If the police are actually seeking the commuters who have had enough then they are real wankers.