Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Greta Thunberg has stated that rules must be broken if they stand in the way of climate action.
Greta Thunberg condemns ‘unlawful’ police ban on Extinction Rebellion climate change protest
‘If standing up for humanity is against the rules then the rules must be broken,’ says teenager
Chris Baynes, Jane Dalton (2 days ago)Greta Thunberg has called on Extinction Rebellion demonstrators to defy a police order banning them from protesting across London.
The climate change activist spoke out before the group won the go-ahead to take legal action over the order, which has been condemned by human rights groups as unlawful.“If standing up against the climate and ecological breakdown and for humanity is against the rules then the rules must be broken,” Ms Thunberg wrote on her Instagram account.
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A judicial review of the ban, which the group’s lawyers say is “disproportionate and unlawful” will be held on Thursday afternoon.
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Human rights groups including Amnesty International and Liberty have also criticised the Metropolitan Police over the “heavy-handed” and “chilling” tactic.
Deputy assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor said the ban had been imposed following “continued breaches” of a previous order, which restricted protesters to Trafalgar Square.
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The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, distanced himself from the police order and said he had asked senior officers to “find a way for those who want to protest the climate emergency we face to be able to do so legally”.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/greta-thunberg-extinction-rebellion-protests-police-ban-climate-change-london-a9158191.html
The Thursday judicial review was deferred until next week, so Extinction Rebellion are still under a ban forbidding them to protest in London.
Extinction Rebellion London: Met Police ‘ban’ on protests will continue over weekend as judge delays judicial review
TRISTAN KIRK Courts correspondent (2 days ago)
Scotland Yard’s controversial “ban” on the Extinction Rebellion protests will stand this weekend after a judge refused to hear a judicial review bid until next week.…
Phillippa Kaufmann QC, representing a collection of activists including Green Party peer Baroness Jenny Jones and Guardian journalist George Monbiot, asked for a fast-tracked hearing tomorrow to determine the case.
But Mr Justice Dingemans rejected the idea this afternoon, saying he was worried a judge could make a mistake if rushed into a decision.
“I’m wholly unconvinced this is a case where it is right to speed up the process as quickly as that”, he told the High Court this afternoon.“These are important points, both for the complainants and the defendant, on the construction of a criminal statute.”
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The effect of today’s ruling is that the section 14 order brought in by the Met this week to tackle the Extinction Rebellion ‘autumn uprising’ will continue to stand until 6pm on Saturday.
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Read more: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/police-ban-on-extinction-rebellion-protests-will-continue-over-weekend-as-judge-delays-judicial-a4264301.html
Extinction Rebellion naturally had no respect for the law, and defied the ban, resulting in at least 1760 arrests including the arrest George Monbiot (the video shows Monbiot laughing as he is dragged away by police – all a big joke to him).
This is not about banning freedom of assembly. The British police appear to have done everything in their power to accommodate Extinction Rebellion’s ongoing right to protest. The rule does not prevent Extinction Rebellion from holding protests elsewhere. All the police asked is that Extinction Rebellion structure their London protests in such a way as to allow ordinary people to continue going about their normal business, a request Extinction Rebellion repeatedly ignored.
Trafalgar Square, where police asked Extinction Rebellion to protest, is one of the most prominent landmarks in London, an important nexus in London’s road system. If you want to cross London Bridge there is a good chance you will drive past Trafalgar Square. Thousands of people see Trafalgar Square every day. But Extinction Rebellion have so far refused to compromise, even a little.
As for Greta Thunberg, she is now on record publicly inciting people to break the law.
Perhaps it is time for President Trump to review whether he really wants a rabble rousing foreigner who has no qualms about inciting mass law breaking and civil disorder running around the USA.
Update (EW): Amended “Hundreds of thousands” of people see Trafalgar Square every day to “Thousands”. “Hundreds of thousands” is probably an over-estimate.
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Then Greta won’t mind when the rational people who don’t go along with the insane communist cult of Global Warming start putting people like herself on a desert island, repurposing her home and country back into a 21st century country, and taking back the world. After all, she’s all for ignoring “rules” when it’s called for and if the insanity doesn’t end soon, it’s either look forward to a nightmare future that Greta craves and begs for, or “break the rules”. Someone may have to remind Greta right before dropping her and her followers on that desert island. It was what SHE wanted.
US citizens need to educate themselves on executing a Citizens Arrest. The laws change somewhat from state to state but, in essence, a US citizen can execute a citizens arrest when they have witnessed a felony or a breach of the peace. Illegally stopping planes and trains fits the criteria. Using a bullhorn to shout directly into a persons face fits the ‘breach of the peace’ criteria. Obstructing traffic would seem to fit the ‘breach of the peace’ criteria as well. Look up the specific requirements for your state.
Can you use reasonable force when making a citizens arrest? Asking for a friend.
If it keeps someone out of imminent danger or harm’s way, yes! A witness is highly ecommended, however, so it isn’t just a he said/she said confrontation!
Greta is the modern incarnation of Elizabeth Hubbard (Salem Witch Trials). The real motivation had nothing to do with witchcraft, and everything to do with taking other peoples stuff, which then spun out of control. Another example of history repeating itself (or at least rhyming).
As a grandson of a Norwegian I say, what do you expect she is a Swede!!
Chaps,
The problem here is the coddling of society and softly-softly protection of the protestors.
If XR are going to resort to stupidity by gluing themselves to the top of airplanes and standing on top of trains, I say let them.
The pilots/train drivers etc (after giving the protestor fair warning), should be able to commence push back and engine start, or allow boarding of the train to commence and station departure.
Give them a good old fashion scare. The sounds of turbines spooling up to max power at the start of the runway would surely give the protestor pause.
Progressives are Greta.
They are all impressionable, misbehaving children.
Screamingly stupid and demanding while threatening worsening tantrums if they don’t get their way.
Stopping a commuter train is NOT peaceful ! — it aggressively attacks commuters by restraining them forcibly from carrying out the necessities of their lives. Just because the aggression is passive does not negate its force of effect.
Did the XRs stop somebody from getting to a drug store to fill critical prescriptions? Did they stop a sick person from getting to the doctor? Did they stop somebody from getting to work and force them to get fired because of a no-show-no-call absence? Did they stop somebody from getting to the grocery store to buy baby formula for their infant? Such questions never enter these assholes’ minds, because they are so arrogantly fixated on their own narcissistic infatuation with themselves that they cannot begin to muster up any TRUE regard for other human beings.
A counter-revolution needs to begin, whereby anti-XRs deploy balloons of red paint onto the XR’s. Bomb them with paint. Mark them for what they really are. Make THEIR lives more inconvenient. Any collateral clean-up labor might be worth it. If paint doesn’t work, then maybe move to something more noxious — I could think of a few things [excrement, rotting-fermenting vegetable refuse].
The call is out: “The science is settled; let the revolution begin.”
Greta is an ASP-Burgher (Anxious, Social-Justice, Partisan).
Read Cliff Mass’s analysis:
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-real-climate-debate.html
“The Real Climate Debate
The real climate debate is not between “believers” and “deniers”.
And not between Republicans and Democrats.”
“A group, mainly on the political left, that is highly partisan, anxious and often despairing, self-righteous, big on blame and social justice, and willing to attack those that disagree with them. They often distort the truth when it serves their interests. They also see social change as necessary for dealing with global warming, requiring the very reorganization of society. I call these folks the ASP group (Anxious, Social-Justice, Partisan).”
“In many ways, the ASP group appears to be a religious movement, not unlike the many millennialist movements of the past. As other groups in the past, they predict an apocalyptic future (including fire and brimstone!) and that one must “believe” in their viewpoint or be rejected as a “denier.” The ASP folks have a holy viewpoint that comes from authority (they claim based on the views of 97% of scientists). There is no debate allowed, the science is “settled.” Sounds like religious dogma.”
So put her parents in jail.
How many of those words, I wonder, did Greta really compose?
Who is Greta’s script writer? Who is her director?
It’s the Greta Thunberg Show, produced by?
“As for Greta Thunberg, she is now on record publicly inciting people to break the law.
Perhaps it is time for President Trump to review whether he really wants a rabble rousing foreigner who has no qualms about inciting mass law breaking and civil disorder running around the USA”
https://youtu.be/_j9ogc1XMRo?t=54
Since when has ‘standing up for humanity’ been against the rules in democracies? Don’t these useful idiots see that only the democracies they so despise allow their protests against ‘the system’? Silly girl.
I have seen a video where a representative of ER has told the crowd that some people may die as a result of those protests but this is a price that must be paid. They willingly accept the death of innocents. This makes them murderers by association to me. And anyone who incites such action must be prosecuted under hate and criminal statutes.
Well, now that dear Greta has laid down the ground rules of engagement, I hope she understands we can take her at her word and ignore the rule of law to our own advantage! Or at least convict her of all the crimes she encourages others to commit!
This should be fun; she might find that she’s up againt a foe that won’t roll over or back down!
Greta says what she is told to say by the activists who use her as a front .
The UN created the UN IPCC to front their fraud . At some point a hand off has to be made
because the UN IPCC has outlived its usefulness and will likely be shut down to bury the audit trail .
As we all know ” the science is settled ” . Fold up the circus and leave town before
the “magic tricks ” are revealed . Count on it .
I hope Mann ‘s dog hasn’t eaten his “intellectual property ” .
Can we dispatch with the Greta name and call it what it really is Greta’s Handlers . Even Greta’s Climate
Circus . Pre order your Christmas book now . Think of all the brush with greatness photo ops .
Her’s Greta with Mr . Dress Up , here’s Greta on the sail boat , here’s Greta as Trump walks by ,
her’s Greta at Congress , here’s Greta with a staving polar bear , here’s Greta at that dirty dirty Fort Mc Murray
oil sands project . Whew …. It’s just a darn good thing Greta wasn’t alone with Clinton .
By all means listen to the scientists …. 500 hundred of them advised the UN there is no climate emergency .
Well we know that won’t be in the book .
Don’t joke- there is already a Greta book prominently displayed on the counter in Waterstones!
Greta should be in the Amazon Rain Forest strapping herself to a tree; or if she is so concerned about CO2 she could volunteer to stop breathing for couple of hours a day (say 10 mins in every hour) along with the rest of her XR fellow travelling comrades it’s the only decent thing to do.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50182815
In this week’s Spectator, Joan Collins notes that London cabbies are down 30-40% on their takings due to the protests and suggests that XR should consider the damage to people’s lives as well as the planet. I’m sure that the livelihood of a few working class cabbies is a sacrifice they are willing to make for their cause, but maybe Greta would be less inclined to encourage people to break the law if her parents were cabbies…..