h/t Breitbart; How many Londoners are being assaulted, raped, robbed and injured every day, because police have to keep diverting manpower to neutralising Extinction Rebellion protests?
This is the moment we disrupted an attempt by Extinction Rebellion to block a road.
We predicted where activists might strike, taking immediate action.
Throughout the past seven days, we’ve responded to several disruptive protests in London.#THREADpic.twitter.com/ydzkzXv6t8
London has significant crime levels, around 50 violent crimes per 100,000 population per annum. Imagine if all the police who are currently busy racing to stop Extinction Rebellion messing up everyone’s lives with roadblocks could spend more time protecting Londoners from violent criminals.
I am not suggesting Extinction Rebellion wants people to be hurt. But protecting Londoners against Extinction Rebellion’s rolling roadblock campaign, and protecting Extinction Rebellion members from angry commuters, Extinction Rebellion must be tying up a lot of police manpower.
I support people having a right to protest. But Extinction Rebellion seem to go out of their way to create misery for ordinary people.
There has to be a balance, between people’s right to protest, and ordinary people’s right to get home from work in time to spend a few hours with their kids.
Not really off topic because it’s about the wild assertions by organisations and individuals about a climate crisis or a mass extinction.
On June 21, 2007, the Financial Times ran a question and answer article on “Global warming: truth or propaganda?”
“Vaclav Klaus, president [the then] of the Czech Republic, argues in the Financial Times that ambitious environmentalism is the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity. Mr Klaus writes that “global warming hysteria has become a prime example of the truth versus propaganda problem” and the issue “is more about social than natural sciences and more about man and his freedom than about tenths of a degree Celsius changes in average global temperature.”
Klaus states, “What is at risk is not the climate, but freedom.”
There follows a question and answer forum.
The first is from someone you may be familiar with.
Does President Klaus really believe that it is a good risk management strategy to ignore the summary report on climate change science by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, approved by the Czech Republic and other countries in February, concluding that continued greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates would cause further warming and induce many changes in the global climate system during the 21st century that would very likely be larger than those observed during the 20th century?
Bob Ward, London, UK
Vaclav Klaus: I think it is a very bad risk management strategy to follow the summary report on climate change of the IPCC. To do it would be a giving up of risk management rules and of standard cost-benefit analysis techniques in favour of environmentalists’ “precautionary principle” which totally discredits risk management and comparison of costs and benefits. I suppose that you don’t insure your house (or car) when the danger is small and the insurance is too expensive. That’s all.
The questions continue in this vein but is well worth reading if you have a spare 10-15 minutes.
Remember this was 14 years ago. Nothing has changed.
https://www.ft.com/content/e9df7200-19c7-11dc-99c5-000b5df10621
Leftists in general and anarchists in particular are quite willing to destroy society.
They believe that during the chaos, they have a chance of taking over.
70% of them don’t think that far ahead.
I would love to see a group of people physically remove them from the streets. Personally, if I ever encountered this and I saw a group of people going to remove them, I’d join in in a heartbeat.
And on the flip side, I’d love to see a bunch of regular people blocking means of mass transit.
I want a video of Griff gluing his nipples to the pavement!!
Since when is the Mayor of London and his Administration actually concerned about crime committed against Londoners?
Did Emma jet in for moral support again?
Eco-warrior Emma Watson touches down in Chelsea on private helicopter (msn.com)
With leftys it’s nowt to do with outcomes but all about the struggle.
“I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe…”
Standard ploy.
For those who are beyond these shores, in the UK the police gave up regular foot patrols at the end of the 60s and village bobbies on bicycles went by the end of the 80s so if not at XR demonstrations they would be sitting in a car somewhere or slobbing around one of the few remaining police stations. They are now a reactive force that turns up after the event and often in large numbers given they have nothing else to do.
If I protested in this way the Police would arrest me and I would be locked up. Why are they not treated in this way, it must be that the Police have been paid off! Sack the lot, they are useless, particularly the Politically Correct Chief!