It seems Just Stop Oil has run out of purple-haired, tattooed young losers and has raided the old people’s home. ~Mumbles McGuirk
Two elderly green protesters entered an exhibit at the British Library and used a lump hammer and cold chisel in an attempt to smash the glass case of the Magna Carta.
One of the four remaining copies of the 1215 Magna Carta was the subject of the latest attack against symbols of Western culture by Green extremists on Friday. The British Library, where two of those four copies are held, and where the Treasures Gallery where one of them is on display was closed after the incident today, confirmed the ancient vellum document laying out the roots of Western liberty was not damaged.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/10/green-activists-attack-magna-carta-document/
Luckily they didn’t get to the document.
H/T Rob R, Mumbles McGuirk
I hope the reverend glued her hands together in the praying position.
If this sort of action escalates, the perpetrators might start praying for their own safety ….
When an item is that rare and that precious, it’s going to be protected by something a little more bulletproof than ordinary safety glass. Not that these types would know anything about that sort of thing. But as they acquire a little more knowledge about what it takes to get actually damage these kinds of protected items, it’s just a matter of time when they use too much force and end up seriously injuring themselves in some permanent and very uncomfortable or hugely painful way (such a thing has happened in the long-ago protester movement).
For what, at the end of the day? A non-crisis that’s kept alive by anti-science propaganda. Imagine sacrificing your own self in support of something that stupid.
And I hope the authorities did not try to separate their glued hands. They glued ’em, let them stay.
Chances are better than fair that the glue is derived from oil.
There’s no fool like an old fool.
Old English saying.
Taking action against the individuals or NGOs funding Just Stop Oil would be in order. Surely the UK has something similar to RICO.
Just Rishi
It’s corruption central here
Just Stop Oil already has a whole long press announcement out about this, including the old biddies hammering a big chisel into the Magna Carta glass case. The PR said it was “proportional action to generate political pressure”—to stave off the impending climate catastrophe. They really are nuts.
And obviously they (JSO) use FF every day, every day! How can they justify that!?
They are such FLAMING HYPOCRITES! It drives me bonkers!
I would have (seriously) taken their glasses and said, “I am doing my part to educate the public on the use of oil, and highlight your protest of the use of oil. I am sure you both understand, and agree with my actions.”
“proportional action to generate political pressure”
I notice they didn’t “public pressure”.
The public is getting fed up with such antics.
I hope the politicians notice the public is not happy when such things are allowed to continue.
(As I recall, didn’t the crowd pull a few of such idiots off the top of a London subway train not that long ago?)
When’s the next election in the UK?
Gunga Din,
there is no date yet for our next general election, however, more to the point who is there to vote for? All mainstream parties are all bent on dragging the U.K. downwards and the fringe parties with different policies have no chance of gaining power.
Well, they do look old enough to have been there for the original drafting of the Magna Carta.
The OAP contingent has long made up a large proportion of the various wings of the climate extremist armies. Just watch the videos of the road blocking protests.
Nothing justifies this sort of attack, however sincerely deluded they are. The sooner they are correctly designated as terrorist organisations the better.
Predicted over 50 years ago by the Monty Python team… sort of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_OIs49m56E
When the older generation do the things normally reserved for the ignorant indoctrinated generation, then we must conclude the madness of crowds has taken over.
These people attacking the very foundation document of human rights and freedom are clearly mad.
Not mad at all.
These people are using the farce of CAGW to deliberately attack the human rights and freedoms of others!
Q: Why aren’t they protesting in China?
A: Because China is already an oppressive Communist country.
They should have both been shot dead by guards, on the spot. Protect the Magna Carta and improve society in one move. Win-win.
That would not be in keeping with the Magna Carta.
True. They have rights.
But they don’t have the right to do what they did.
They should be tried and convicted and serve the longest prison term UK laws allow.
No early release due to their age.
So much anger and hatred. Sad.
Desiring a proportional response to vindictive crime is sad?
He’s just trolling.
False. Individual rights were not part of the original Magna Carta. It codified some of the relationships between the crown and barons.
Yes it did include some individual rights. clause 39: “No man shall be taken, imprisoned, outlawed, banished or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against or prosecute him, except by the lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land.”
The clause was a reaction to the starving to death in prison of Maud de St Valery and her son William, because of verbal criticism of King John by Maud. Of course, the clause still said “man” not “man or woman”.
It’s possible that “man” had a more general meaning then. In older English, a wife was wif-man and a husband was hus-man.
The phrase “All Men are created equal” did not mean “ONLY men are created equal” when it was written.
(But it took awhile for that intent to approach reality.)
It’s only a fairly recent development that terms like “Mankind” used in the (relatively recent) past did not mean “humankind”.
that’s a pretty good clause.
No, It did not refer to commoners but to peers of the realm. Do your research.
Later documents would include common rights but the aforementioned Magna Carta did not. Spin it any way you like to suit your agenda.
“Man” often has an associated context making it clear it means “mankind” aka human.
The down votes for defending the meaning of Magna Carta is why this site is seen as having fallen to the far right politically, not just the right-wing politically.
Where have they been all their lives? Deluded by the BBC whom I blame for
this stupid crime. They need an assignment to a deprived community needing support but without electricity. Dried cow dung chuppatties fot fuel.
Old hags turned would be lags.
Spot the Liberal Democrat’s/Greens
There is no cure for stupid. Instead, stupid people get worse with age (senility – see Sleepy Jo)
Leave the a$$ H073s . you need organic oil based solvents to unstick superglue
I suppose some demented old shithead of a judge will give the sods a telling off
They really need to stop little old ladies from bringing hammers and chisels into the British Library. !
they probably didn’t even have a permit.
These Visigoths will continue destroying art treasures until the law does enough to deter them.
Start sending them to prison with no possibility of parole for 20 years, and the problem should go away. If it doesn’t, raise that to 30 or 40. Whatever it takes.
No one interposed themselves between the women and the display. Who took the video? Some on-looker? One other guy was also videoing and the guard was on the phone making a report.
It’s going to take physical intervention to finally stop these physical abuses.
I remember a video of a similar incident in the US.
There was a guard standing off to the side who didn’t raise a finger to stop them.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1757851464553091388
(That’s not the first video I saw but one of the few I could find. This one shows the guards seeming to be more concerned with keeping the crowd away than stopping them.)
I saw that, too, GD. I do not understand the passivity. Maybe the long peace.
The cowardice of the onlookers is infuriating.
It is not that simple. These days heroic intervention can lead to criminal and civil charges.
We know meanwhile activists are victims of mental illness as studies have shown.
Sure.
Considering their age, oil is likely required to keep them alive (not even considering transportation and power). Many medications are synthesized from oil and gas, as are medical equipment and supplies. I would wager that their teeth, eyeglasses, and Depends are, too.
Why stop here? Why don’t these seniors and other kooks like them go after the Tower of London, Windsor Castle and the Eiffel Tower into the bargain; and since China, India, and the US contribute about half of global emissions, the Great Wall, the Taj Mahal and the Statue of Liberty should be next on the list. If such actions don’t slow fossil fuel consumption, nothing will.
They have repudiated British citizenship. Their request should be honored, old as they are.
Go the greeny grannies!
If there is no oil, what fuel could be used for firetrucks? How about 200 proof alcohol made by the Scots!
Gasoline has more energy content, but I don’t think Scots should drink it. The fuel in the old alcohol-powered torpedoes was 200 proof ethanol. The term “torpedo juice” referred to the fuel. Sailors would siphon off the fuel for recreational use, and the torpedoes wouldn’t run as far when launched. They solved the problem by denaturing the alcohol–but then some sailors were poisoned when they drank it. Modern torpedoes are electric, and they don’t leave a vapor trail like the older steam-driven torpedoes. We used the Mark 46 torpedoes on P-3s.
Some modern torpedoes are electric but so are some very old torpedoes.
Reminding me of one of Dad’s friends. He was on a LST of Okinawa in WW2.
He spoke of one of his shipmates that would drink Aqua Velva!
(I don’t know if would give him good or bad breath.)
A fellow student gave me a great memory trick to remember when the Magna Carta was signed: “They signed the document then sat down to lunch 15 minutes later–1215.”
Yes we know the useful idiot type with the dodderers and the brainwashed-
Greta Thunberg accuses Israel of ‘artwashing’ reputation through Eurovision (msn.com)
They’d happily provide their own soap and towels off to the showers with the next Great leap Forward by the Fearless Leader.
It’s rather sad how predictably mentally impaired individuals eventually embrace antisemitism.
A new cult comes along that draws these children like flies. It starts to lose its appeal, and, just like that, they’re brownshirts calling for the end of Jewish people.
This stupid stunt has a more serious question than needs investigating, how on earth did they walk into the British Library with a lump hammer and chisel? What next the Arch Bishop of Canterbury wheeling in a Jackhammer and compressor?
Old women embarrassing all women by their crass stupidity and lack of any science-based knowledge. It’s the “vibe” that matters apparently. I suggest shipping them back to their homes, removing anything from those homes that has been invented since the Magna Carta – including modern clothing and any income from the government – and leaving them to their fate. They have already outlived women of that time by more than 40 years on average.
These are not stupid but “stupid people” as defined by Bonhoeffer in his letters from prison in 1945.
Mao instituted the cultural revolution and the great leap forward where all the professors, teachers, etc were punished or killed.
see photo below.