Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t JoNova; Extinction Rebellion have blockaded major news printers in England. Their demand to lift the blockade is newspapers obey Extinction Rebellion’s instructions on printing more climate propaganda.
Extinction Rebellion: Printworks protest ‘completely unacceptable’ says Boris Johnson
Environmental protesters targeted two News Corporation printing presses and delayed the delivery of Saturday newspapers
By Telegraph Reporters
5 September 2020 • 1:57pmThe Prime Minister has branded Extinction Rebellion’s blockading of major printing presses to stop papers reaching shops on Saturday “completely unacceptable”.
Boris Johnson said a free press is “vital” and criticised the activists for trying to “limit the public’s access to news”.
More than 100 protesters used vehicles and bamboo lock-ons to block roads outside the printing works at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, and Knowsley, near Liverpool. By Saturday morning, police said some 63 people had been arrested.
The presses print the Rupert Murdoch-owned News UK’s titles including The Sun, The Times, The Sun on Sunday and The Sunday Times, as well as The Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday, and the London Evening Standard.
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Meanwhile, Priti Patel, the Home Secretary, criticised the XR demonstration an “attack on democracy”.
“This morning people across the country will be prevented from reading their newspaper because of the actions of Extinction Rebellion,” she said.
“This attack on our free press, society and democracy is completely unacceptable.”
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Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/05/extinction-rebellion-blockade-rupert-murdochs-printing-presses/
The following is a picture of one of the Extinction Rebellion blockades. The flimsy bamboo structure has people hanging off it at a significant height; driving through it would likely cause severe injury or death.
Extinction Rebellion have already secured a role in British Government, Boris Johnson conceded their demand to create an official climate assembly composed of activist volunteers, to advise the government on how to achieve net zero CO2 emissions.
Can you imagine what things would be like if Extinction Rebellion secured even more influence or control over people’s lives?
The only plus side of this awful attack on freedom is the British take newspaper press freedom very seriously; it is difficult to think of an action Extinction Rebellion could have taken, which would be more damaging to their climate activist cause and reputation.
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The newspapers may now see how bowing down to alarmism does not make the morons go away.On climate change the British Press surrendered a long time ago. “As ye sow, so shall be reap.”
It’s time to bring back early 20th century tactics. Murdoch should hire a gang of Pinkerton-style thugs to clear the streets if the police won’t do it.
Barring that, he should file a lawsuit against the city for not doing their job and refuse to pay local taxes due to them breaching the social contract. Taxes are for governments to deliver infrastructure, services, and law & order. If this printer is being denied use of infrastructure by a mob and the city does nothing about it, why should they pay taxes?
The solution of course is to make it no longer worthwhile for an individual to get involved in these sorts of activity. Easier said than done; but maximum inconvenience for the perpetrator should be the priority principle where sentences are concerned. If the Law needs to be changed; then so be it.
At some point, the oligarchs these idiots are messing with are going to figure out that laissez faire law enforcement cuts both ways. That’s when the corporate bullyboys are going to start showing up. Hiring a hooligan firm to come in and wreck shop and paying their slap-on-the-wrist legal fees is cheaper than losing a day of distribution for your media empire.
This is only about installing Marxism. They don’t give a hoot about the environment. That is an excuse just like systemic racism is an excuse in the USA for the same bunch doing the same thing.
Isn’t it funny that the only places where “institutional racism” seems to exist, is in cities that have been run by Democrats for generations.
The only thing surprising here is that news printing presses still exist.
The Guardian and the BBC would of course support extinction rebellion; and the reason no-one reads the Guardian and more and more people do not want to pay the TV licence fee. The apalling thing is being fed a load of marxist propaganda and then being compelled to a tax to support it.
“XR” stands for eXtra Retarded.
“”..Extinction Rebellion have already secured a role in British Government, Boris Johnson conceded their demand to create an official climate assembly composed of activist volunteers, to advise the government on how to achieve net zero CO2 emissions.”
Looks like I will have to quote Winston Churchill one more time…
“The appeaser is the one who feeds the crocodile hoping he will be the last one to get eaten.”
The solution is actually pretty simple. Drive through it. Anytime a group blocks or delays traffic, they are counting on people behaving in a way that preserves their life. They are relying on people to avoid hurting them. It’s time that we formalized our rejection of that premise and make it legal NOT to avoid the protestors. You can’t drive out of your way to hit them, but you don’t have to stop or slow down either. A few drivers running over protestors would be enough to convince the others that a new mode of protest is necessary. Funny how “serious injury” or death will convince someone who thinks chaining themselves in harm’s way is a bad idea.
“The solution is actually pretty simple. Drive through it.”
Or Summon a Tesla (in Ludicrous mode).
Socialism is extinction. You would think if someone is going to be idealistic they would pick a better cause than enslavement under socialism. Unless of course they expect reward over others.
If they have an atom of sense the paper would issue a demand to “stop or we will organise no further printing of any pro climate change action information in any shape or form and web broadcast of every article we can find criticising climate science. I do not think the upper middle classes can grasp how those more in touch with the real world climate and weather despise the pronouncements of climate science as ivory tower fantasy by those not living in the real world. I also think the Times does not realise just how many readers have stopped buying hard copy Times because of its far too pro climate change is man made scam support.
Free press? If the press was free man made climate change would have been laughed out of the park 20 years ago.
News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch’s empire) are big boys and well able to look after themselves when needed. Not many tears were shed.
Regardless, any apparent tolerance by the UK populace is probably mainly because such ‘journalistic’ enterprises and people are usually placed somewhere below pond scum but somewhere above estate agents in the general scheme of things.
ATTP, the climate kook site, is run by academic Ken Rice and proudly supports XR. Rice is one of many academics who signed up in support of XR.