The recent desecration of Stonehenge by Just Stop Oil activists using orange powder paint continues the escalation of reckless and disrespectful tactics embraced by climate change proponents. Stonehenge, a monument of immense historical and cultural significance, was subjected to an act of vandalism that not only disrespected the heritage of a nation but also underscored the extremity of current climate activism. This incident reveals a disturbing trend where ideological zeal overshadows rational discourse and civil behavior.
This act of defacement continues their demonstrations of a troubling disregard for historical preservation, previously with classic works of art, and now major archeological artifacts in favor of sensationalist stunts. The activists’ decision to target a World Heritage site illustrates a profound ignorance of the delicate balance between advocating for environmental concerns and respecting our shared human heritage. Stonehenge, an ancient marvel of engineering and astronomy, has stood for millennia, weathering the passage of time and the elements. To tarnish such a site with garish paint for the sake of a fleeting message betrays a profound lack of appreciation for its enduring significance, and thankfully will only hasten their loss of support.
Moreover, this incident raises serious questions about the ethical boundaries of protest. The blatant vandalism of a cherished historical site is unlikely to garner public support; instead, it fosters resentment and further polarizes debate, reducing complex scientific and policy discussions to simplistic and destructive acts of rebellion.
Effective change is built on dialogue, evidence-based policy, and mutual respect. By contrast, acts of vandalism serve only to undermine the credibility of the movement and erode the public’s trust in its motives.
Lock them up.
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Misdemeanor, slaps on the wrist is the most likely result, but the whole organization should be made to suffer financially.
This stunt is actually a sign that the Just Stop Oil terrorists know that they cannot win by debate since they have nothing rational to say. This sort of behaviour simply alienates potential supporters so it is counter productive. They seem to be too stupid to realise this.
Sometimes Ridicule is the best tactic against envirowhacos
Just Point and Laugh…in their faces
laugh in their faces- which should be behind bars
Or better yet in public stocks so passersby can heap the ridicule on!
Yup. Stone Henge has seen bigger pillocks, and probably will do again.
Let them beat themselves stupider against some pieces of rock. There are other stone circles in the British Isles. Sure, the rocks are not as large, but the atmosphere is often better. I can’t even remember the name of the one I visited in the Cakes District (deliberate misspelling) where we got to look up at the majestic Blencathra.
They are too stupid to realise it. I long period behind bars might bring them to their senses (but they don’t have any).
long period behind bars
More likely it will just add “oppression by the system” to their imagined grievances.
They don’t need potential supporters, as they are being bankrolled by someone with lots of money, and the Government will do nothing meaningful to stop them.
since they have never actually engaged in debate you are mistaken in thinking they ever wanted too or tried to debate anyone … they want to win … by fraud, by intimidation, by labeling people deniers … they don’t care one wit for debate … they want to win …
It’s their financial backer, Dale Vince, who wants to win. Just Stop Oil are, to him, just useful idiots. All they want is the money and the fun of stuffing up as many other people as they can.
Dale Vince stopped funding them a year ago as the price for Labour accepting money (and influence) from him.
Wow…a stupid grey haired guy and a stupid young man. I guess they think they are activists but they are just stupid.
The young person was a woman!
that was last week….
Three Cheers to the lady that tried to stop them !!!
but why are they so gentle in their efforts.
Again (with the little one), I take the glasses and tell it that “these are the evil result of the fossil fuel world, and this is for your own good”.
With the old one, instead of a scratch on the arm (it is a bit pathetic/sad watching the interaction of the brave lady & the old guy at the end of clip), he is dragged by the foot away from the hazard area until he stops being passive … drag him until he gets scared and starts to kick.
Lock ’em up until the paint wears off.
Lock them up for ten times longer than it takes for the paint to wear off. Same punishment to anyone who has funded the organisation as an accessory to the crime.
Have them clean it off first though…perhaps with toothbrushes
tooth picks, wood ones.
Make them pay for someone to do it properly.
Gotta hit the funders with a very big fine !!
Whatever the UK equivalent of RICO is should be used against JustStopOil and their funders. Jailing the Trustafarian “protesters” is insufficient, bankrupt the malevolent donors to the cause.
I suppose the point of it is to demonstrate how passionate they feel.
I never had any doubt they are passionate. What I wonder is why their passion should matter. What do they imagine it means to anyone not already convinced they are right? They can’t think anyone will be moved by nothing but their fervor. Only their fellow-travellers will think that’s important.
So it’s just a sort of mating-call.
The morons probably think Stonehenge is a symbol of Big Oil.. some how.
That is how warped and twisted their minds are. !
I wonder if JSO realise they are funded by Big Oil money !
JSO are funded primarily by Dale Vince. After a period as a penniless New Age traveller, Dale Vince went into wind farms, collecting generous government subsidies, and is reportedly now worth over GBP100m (not, it seems, a billionaire yet). So JSO are actually funded by government renewables subsidies not by big oil.
By funding JSO, Dale Vince is simply protecting his source of income – wind farm subsidies. Maybe he does actually believe his nonsense, or maybe he just knows how to collect money. He owns or owned a football team, Forest Green, which he forced to become vegan. Not a smart move, it seems, because meat-eating teams drove Forest Green so far down that it is no longer in the football league (we’re not talking first division here)
They are entirely justified! The druids in their SUVs spewed lots of CO2 in building Stonehenge.
Thinking is not part of the process. Reactionary attention-seeking is purely emotional and devoid of reason.
Stonehenge should be closed completely to visitors for several months to make the important point that such monuments have to be protected from people like this. Those who caused the closure to be required to make up the financial loss.
Good idea.
That just punishes visitors to the site that have only one opportunity to visit.
They have equated themselves with the radical Islamic State (ISIS), who desecrated, looted and destroyed cultural sites and artifacts in Iraq and Syria. If these lunatics are willing to damage art and artifacts, then we must conclude that they could easily move on to public beheadings. These people should labeled and treated as the terrorists that they are.
Don\t forget the Afghan Buddas…
True. Their sponsor, Dale Vince OBE(!), raised the Palestinian flag at his soccer club.
Support of terrorists !!
Pretty sure the builders of Stonehenge would have appreciated a few pieces of modern, hydrocarbon-fueled heavy machinery to work with.
They want to “Just Stop Oil” so they deface something built without oil?
(Why didn’t they burn their shoes instead?)
I wonder if oil was used in the making of the powder they used?
More interestingly, was the propellant in the cannisters CO2 by any chance??
I think the blowing up kids in ads was worse. I do agree with you however.
Honest question.
Is that the same old guy involved with trying to damage the Magna Carte?
It’s likely that the powder was an oil product.
That’s the bad news, I can envision the headline now: “Orange powder paint – the new ground zero for Clima-Change™ emissions.” But the propaganda news media can spin it this way, “Unexpected side effect of orange powder paint particles used by protestors – sunlight blocking planet cooling properties.”
So, desecrating a site built over four thousand years ago purely by muscle power furthers their imbecilic cause? Were all these people dropped on their heads as infants?
Short answer: Yes.
MANY times. !
Lock’em up? Discourse? Logic? Boil them in oil. One can’t begin to discuss anything with zealots. Altho ridicule is a good idea…do greeniewacks have a sense of humor? Apparently no shame tho.
Vegetable oil or oil oil?
mebee, so as to not offend their sensibilities, render enuf of em to fill a tub and then boil the rest of them in their own collective oils.
I can’t see the BBC etc. calling for their prosecution. Can you?
Story tip
NIMBY battle in NY over Equinor battery storage site.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Equinor-Fights-NIMBY-Feelings-in-New-York-Battery-Storage-Project.html
A few years back, one of these climate “protest” groups damaged some of the Nazca lines.
Not just any barely noteworthy ‘group,’ though:
“Greenpeace faces ‘criminal’ prosecution for desecrating Peruvian sacred sites – Forced to apologize – Exclusive Video“
I tried to share this post on Fakebook and it refused to do so.
I tried to post the same story from a different source and was stymied by the Canadian Government who won’t allow the posting of news on Facebook. The reason I tried was because I suspect that blockage was a result of the post using the WUWT page.
Just curious as to how much of that “orange powder paint” was derived from oil (i.e., petroleum)?
Then too, those large paint canisters were almost certainly charged using CO2 gas that in turn was expelled, one the primary “dastardly” things that results from burning petroleum products in air which the protesting idiots are supposedly so worried about.
“Just Stop Oil” activists: to paraphrase, they have brains yet cannot think.
Little evidence of them having much in the brain department.
Educated but ignorant.
When we kill Putin this shit should stop.
This is why you have to spend a LOT of money on actual education so that some foreign minimum wage drunkard can’t create a destructive luddite movement with the population you idiotically thought you’d have an easy time controlling.
Huh???
WTH has Putin got to do with it. !
JSO gets their finding from the far-left activist “Climate Emergency Fund”
(probably the same people who funded Mickey Mann’s trial)
Aileen Getty is a Founding Donor of the Climate Emergency Fund.
Getty is the heiress to Getty Oil, and the granddaughter of its founder J. Paul Getty
So these morons are effectively funded by BIG OIL !!
Aileen Getty is not the heiress to Getty Oil. Her grandfather sold the company decades ago, so she just inherited money. People keep trying to tie JSO to Big Oil, but instead of having ties to oil, she also funds Greenpeace and politicians pushing the climate scam.
Ok, but her money came from Big Oil… I wonder if the cretins from JSO know that .
Off with their heads
Throw away the key
Hang ’em high….
By the feet, and spray them with orange powder paint.
Ironically Stonehenge was built during the Holocene Optimum when the planet was warmer than today and all life on earth thrived. No sign of “tipping points” or existential threats.
It would be instructive for them to read your comment and to let them have some quality time (under house arrest?) for it to sink in. Oh and also Lindzen, Happer and van Wijngaarden (2024).
How come these people are wearing clothes that are the products of oil ? They should be living in grass huts and wearing grass skirts on the beach.
No, a beach would be too warm.. They should be wearing grass skirts in Alaska.
I like it, make it so
My RV radio has emergency weather broadcasts. Today they were doing a test and the announcer said “This broadcast is brought to you by Climate Change Canada.”