Green Extremist Activists Attack Magna Carta Document in London

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/

🚨 BREAKING: JUST STOP OIL BREAK MAGNA CARTA GLASS

🔥 Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt, 82, and Judy Bruce, 85, then glued their hands together, demanding an emergency plan to just stop oil by 2030.

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— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) May 10, 2024

Luckily they didn’t get to the document.

An incident occurred at the British Library on Friday 10 May where 2 individuals attacked the toughened glass case containing the Magna Carta in the Library’s Treasures Gallery. The Library’s Security team intervened to prevent further damage to the case, which was minimal.(1/2)
— BL Press Office (@BLpressoffice) May 10, 2024

H/T Rob R, Mumbles McGuirk

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michael hart

May 10, 2024 11:04 am

I hope the reverend glued her hands together in the praying position.

Russell Cook

Reply to michael hart

May 10, 2024 1:11 pm

If this sort of action escalates, the perpetrators might start praying for their own safety ….

. . . . . One of the four remaining copies of the 1215 Magna Carta ….

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.

oeman50

Reply to michael hart

May 11, 2024 8:38 am

And I hope the authorities did not try to separate their glued hands. They glued ’em, let them stay.

Sparta Nova 4

Reply to michael hart

May 13, 2024 7:35 am

Chances are better than fair that the glue is derived from oil.

Graemethecat

May 10, 2024 11:08 am

There’s no fool like an old fool.

Old English saying.

Tom Halla

May 10, 2024 11:16 am

Taking action against the individuals or NGOs funding Just Stop Oil would be in order. Surely the UK has something similar to RICO.

strativarius

Reply to Tom Halla

May 10, 2024 12:44 pm

Just Rishi

It’s corruption central here

Rud Istvan

May 10, 2024 11:24 am

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.

J Boles

Reply to Rud Istvan

May 10, 2024 11:44 am

And obviously they (JSO) use FF every day, every day! How can they justify that!?
They are such FLAMING HYPOCRITES! It drives me bonkers!

DonM

Reply to J Boles

May 10, 2024 6:24 pm

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.”

Gunga Din

Reply to Rud Istvan

May 10, 2024 12:52 pm

“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?

Iain Reid

Reply to Gunga Din

May 10, 2024 11:27 pm

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.

Paul Hurley

Reply to Rud Istvan

May 10, 2024 5:06 pm

Well, they do look old enough to have been there for the original drafting of the Magna Carta.

MrGrimNasty

May 10, 2024 11:38 am

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.

PariahDog

Reply to MrGrimNasty

May 10, 2024 3:16 pm

Predicted over 50 years ago by the Monty Python team… sort of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_OIs49m56E

Rod Evans

May 10, 2024 11:55 am

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.

pillageidiot

Reply to Rod Evans

May 10, 2024 1:16 pm

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.

Shoki

May 10, 2024 12:28 pm

They should have both been shot dead by guards, on the spot. Protect the Magna Carta and improve society in one move. Win-win.

MCourtney

Reply to Shoki

May 10, 2024 12:56 pm

That would not be in keeping with the Magna Carta.

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Gunga Din

Reply to MCourtney

May 10, 2024 1:03 pm

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.

MyUsername

Reply to Gunga Din

May 11, 2024 10:46 am

So much anger and hatred. Sad.

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Sparta Nova 4

Reply to MyUsername

May 13, 2024 7:39 am

Desiring a proportional response to vindictive crime is sad?

Gunga Din

Reply to Sparta Nova 4

May 13, 2024 12:26 pm

He’s just trolling.

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Shoki

Reply to MCourtney

May 10, 2024 2:27 pm

False. Individual rights were not part of the original Magna Carta. It codified some of the relationships between the crown and barons.

Mike Jonas

Editor

Reply to Shoki

May 10, 2024 2:47 pm

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”.

Pat Frank

Reply to Mike Jonas

May 10, 2024 2:56 pm

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.

Gunga Din

Reply to Pat Frank

May 10, 2024 3:39 pm

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.)

Gunga Din

Reply to Mike Jonas

May 10, 2024 3:23 pm

It’s only a fairly recent development that terms like “Mankind” used in the (relatively recent) past did not mean “humankind”.

DonM

Reply to Mike Jonas

May 10, 2024 6:45 pm

that’s a pretty good clause.

Shoki

Reply to Mike Jonas

May 11, 2024 7:02 am

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.

Sparta Nova 4

Reply to Mike Jonas

May 13, 2024 7:40 am

“Man” often has an associated context making it clear it means “mankind” aka human.

MCourtney

Reply to MCourtney

May 11, 2024 9:34 am

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.

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Coeur de Lion

May 10, 2024 12:40 pm

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.

strativarius

May 10, 2024 12:41 pm

Old hags turned would be lags.

Spot the Liberal Democrat’s/Greens

Phillip Bratby

May 10, 2024 1:04 pm

There is no cure for stupid. Instead, stupid people get worse with age (senility – see Sleepy Jo)

alastairgray29yahoocom

May 10, 2024 1:06 pm

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

bnice2000

May 10, 2024 1:29 pm

They really need to stop little old ladies from bringing hammers and chisels into the British Library. !

DonM

Reply to bnice2000

May 10, 2024 6:28 pm

they probably didn’t even have a permit.

RatMan29

May 10, 2024 1:41 pm

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.

Pat Frank

Reply to RatMan29

May 10, 2024 3:02 pm

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.

Gunga Din

Reply to Pat Frank

May 10, 2024 3:48 pm

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.)

Pat Frank

Reply to Gunga Din

May 10, 2024 11:15 pm

I saw that, too, GD. I do not understand the passivity. Maybe the long peace.

Graemethecat

Reply to Pat Frank

May 10, 2024 11:00 pm

The cowardice of the onlookers is infuriating.

Mark Whitney

Reply to Graemethecat

May 11, 2024 7:56 am

It is not that simple. These days heroic intervention can lead to criminal and civil charges.

Krishna Gans

May 10, 2024 1:57 pm

We know meanwhile activists are victims of mental illness as studies have shown.

MyUsername

Reply to Krishna Gans

May 11, 2024 10:48 am

Sure.

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jtom

May 10, 2024 1:59 pm

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.

Edward Katz

May 10, 2024 2:17 pm

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.

Pat Frank

May 10, 2024 2:47 pm

They have repudiated British citizenship. Their request should be honored, old as they are.

SteveG

May 10, 2024 5:35 pm

Go the greeny grannies!

Harold Pierce

May 10, 2024 5:45 pm

If there is no oil, what fuel could be used for firetrucks? How about 200 proof alcohol made by the Scots!

Jim Masterson

Reply to Harold Pierce

May 10, 2024 11:38 pm

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.

Andrew

Reply to Jim Masterson

May 11, 2024 1:08 am

Some modern torpedoes are electric but so are some very old torpedoes.

Gunga Din

Reply to Jim Masterson

May 11, 2024 8:59 am

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.)

Jim Masterson

May 10, 2024 10:13 pm

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.”

observa

May 10, 2024 11:50 pm

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.

Joe Gordon

Reply to observa

May 11, 2024 9:47 am

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.

galileo62

May 11, 2024 10:04 am

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?

Quilter52

May 11, 2024 11:46 pm

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.

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George B

May 12, 2024 7:43 am

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.