Guest essay by Eric Worrall
As the Chinese Coronavirus crisis sucks oxygen from XR’s climate campaign, a leaked internal document suggests Extinction Rebellion is considering increasingly desperate measures, including having protestors kill themselves in public, to try to regain public attention.
Delingpole: Kamikaze Greenies – Extinction Rebellion Plots Suicide Stunt
JAMES DELINGPOLE 15 Mar 2020
Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists, increasingly overshadowed by the coronavirus, have been discussing new and ever more desperate ways to grab attention for their next big publicity stunt.
Mooted tactics include: committing suicide in public (perhaps at the UN’s next climate summit in Glasgow later this year); hunger strike to the death; painting parliament green; spraying traffic lights black; blocking every station, airport, and motorway in Britain; and “scare the fuck out of people”.
These are among the actions proposed on a leaked XR discussion document titled ‘Vital Additions to Action Strategy.’ They appear in a list under the heading ‘Top Ideas from the Sessions.’
The radical ideas seem to be a response to concerns within XR that the public have grown slightly bored with or even irritated by their antics.
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There is no evidence of any XR member having actually volunteered to commit suicide or go on hunger strike in order to save the planet. And the document concedes that “highly sacrificial actions” have been vetoed up until now because of “strong pushback from the movement”.
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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/03/15/kamikaze-greenies-extinction-rebellion-plots-suicide-stunt/
A copy of the leaked XR document which mentions suicide is available here. The document discusses concerns about a fall in new members, and ideas for getting more media attention through acts of extreme sacrifice.
Let us hope Extinction Rebellion dump this idea in the circular filing cabinet where it belongs, and don’t attempt to identify and groom someone mentally unwell enough in their ranks to actually go through with something so horrible.
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Crazy loons.
Wow. Just wow.
Just don’t use gasoline in the planned immolation.
Electrocution with the high voltage parts of an EV would be more politically correct.
Only the people who dreamed up this idea should commit suicide. No recruitment of ‘martyrs’.
They do it themselves.
Who says that this isn’t a cult?
I much prefer it when the complete idiots self-select.
Wouldn’t this establish them as a threat to public safety?
No. This would REMOVE them as a threat.
The coldest part of me says that they would run out of willing members, eventually, and that we’re seeing Darwinism in live action.
The other part of me realizes we’re dealing with human lives and that we should feel sorry for people with such strong and misguided passions. You have to wonder how to reach people who refuse to debate or have any open dialogue running contrary to their perceived worldview. It’s not easy.
I recently ran across this article called, “10 Woke Ways to Shut Down Debate.” They are all tactics we see with alarmists to shut down the climate debate. It’s definitely worth reading.
https://unherd.com/2020/03/ten-devious-ways-to-shut-down-debate/
This may be a record year for Darwin Awards.
Where do we express our support for this plan? I’d like to send flowers too.
Climate change activists have already been killing themselves including:
David Buckel, Brooklyn, NY – Self immolation, 04/16/2018
Martin Weitzman, Massachusetts, Hanged himself, 8/27/2019
Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their daughter and her toddler brother before killing themselves (daughter survived), Argentina, 2/2010
If you search ‘climate change + suicide’ you’ll get lots of hits on articles and papers predicting future climate related suicides. These activists are dangerous – especially to the weak minded.
I really hate to say this but Greta, being so brainwashed might be the first one to do this – I hate to say – put her in a padded room in case she threatens or shows any signs etc.
JPP
Darwin would be impressed by “Public Suicide Events” if he was still alive. It is always nice to be proven correct.
No further proof than this Public Suicide idea is required that the members of Extinction Rebellion are completely loony. The fact that Public Suicide Events to Raise Climate Awareness would attract as large an audience as public stonings in Saudi Arabia does not excuse the lunacy of this idea.
How deranged, how absolutely mentally sick must someone who considers suicide for a cause be? We know those things from some people that would board airlines in order to steer them into skyscrapers ending not only their lives but also those of thousands of bystanders. The September 11 terrorists were not uneducated. They came from good family backgrounds – and yet they did what no healthy person can contemplate or understand. So, I am not surprised. But I sure am disgusted.
It’s like The Queen’s Own McKamikaze Highlanders, only without the logic.
Well, as long as they don’t set themselves alight – because that would be a carbon footprint crime against nature.
From the text:
“By championing arrestable actions as the default option for civil disobedience, we have made it impossible for people who cannot risk arrest to see themselves as rebels. Anecdotally we know that many people – particularly people of colour – came to the October action and ‘stood around’, not knowing how to get involved. They were unable to harness and express their rage, despair, and love for the planet and as a result felt shut out from the movement.
We must work towards building a culture of thrilling and innovative action design for this group which does not involve arrest or fear of legal consequences. This group must be invited to disobey in a truly useful way that also allows them to be safe, with the hope that it in turn swells the ranks of the more disruptive participants.”
No white or class privilege here! Just “people of colour” too stupid to do the great things we do. But we patricians know best, so how can we appeal to and abuse their good nature as cover for our own bad deeds?
Now this is the type of demonstration I could definitely support and donate to.