The Stonehenge maneuver probably pissed off authorities enough to put them under surveillance.
Police have carried out a nationwide wave of arrests against Just Stop Oil supporters suspected of plotting to disrupt airports this summer.
The arrests took place in London, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Devon, Essex, Manchester, Surrey, Sussex, Norfolk and West Yorkshire, the Metropolitan said in a statement on Friday.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/just-stop-oil-arrests-airport-disruption-summer-metropolitan-police-b1167458.html
It appears that law enforcement has been doing a bit of surveillance on JSO.
Chief Supt Ian Howells, who led the operation, said: “We know Just Stop Oil are planning to disrupt airports across the country this summer, which is why we have taken swift and robust action now.
“Our stance is very clear that anyone who compromises the safety and security of airports in London can expect a strong response from officers or security staff.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/just-stop-oil-arrests-airport-disruption-summer-metropolitan-police-b1167458.html
JSO posted footage from some of the raids.
It also appears that a Just Stop Oil spokesperson has officially confessed to the conspiracy charges. Not the smartest legal maneuver.
Asked about the justification for planning to target airports during the key summer holiday period, the spokesman said: “In normal times, that kind of disruption would be entirely unacceptable.
“But you can’t really disassociate what we’re potentially planning on doing from the reasons why.”
He added that disruption is necessary because people are “dropping dead around the world” from extreme heat, and “tipping points” are being passed.
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“Help us replace tech seized by the police — https://t.co/R20S8YQD1j pic.twitter.com/QTEotXShx6
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) June 28, 2024”
Got to love this comment...replace all that tech equipment made with fossil fuel. You are not going to get 5nm chips in your iPhone manufactured with intermittent wind and solar power.
Modern life needs oil for these nit-wits to survive. You think all those cell phones, laptops, printers are made from wood? No they are plastic and metal smelted and refined with massive amounts of oil and hydrocarbon based energy.
An this makes life for most people on earth better than it would be without fossil fuels.
Life for most people on earth would certainly be better without climate activists.
But they think that their intermittent “carbon free” energy sources can replace today’s 24 hour per day reliable energy sources. It turns out that the only reliable industrial strength sources of no-carbon energy are hydro and … nuclear.
Hey, Just Stop Oil … do the numbers.
If they could do the math, they wouldn’t be activists in the first place. They’re consumed by their feelz, and have tossed reason and logical thought out the window.
They are so disconnected from reality. It really just defies an explanation
It only defies explanation because you’ve taken the trouble to really inform yourself on climate matters. They are disconnected from reality because they believe every piece of climate hype that appears in the mass media and internet – every day on multiple platforms(1).
They are not disconnected from what they perceive to be reality, based on “information” they receive from the climate-media-industrial-government complex.
These tragic figures are among the early victims of a well-orchestrated campaign to dismantle our liberal democracies and replace them with some sort of authoritarian states where the only source of energy will be electricity, which will always be in short supply, and guess who will decide how many kWh you get and when you get them.
Not to forget the second front in this war: the campaign against agriculture. The new utopia will also have permanent food shortages, and I invite you to guess who won’t be among the hungry. It will be North Korea on a global scale, cold, dark, hungry and living in fear.
(1) Here’s one of today’s climate hysteria offerings national-parks-are-getting-too-hot-for-rescue-helicopters. I have no doubt you could fact-check it in a few minutes, but why bother, the damage is already done.
Academic-climate-media-industrial-government complex
Thx Rock for the link to a story about how it is too hot in the national park –wait for it– Death Valley. That is not disconnected, that is propaganda meant only to brainnwash.
Didn’t seem to effect helicopters in Desert Storm
A lot depends on altitude.
From the Atlantic. What a surprise!
and if ‘tipping points’ are being passed then why protest? It’s already too late.
Charging the Disney and other heirs financing these vandalisms is the most effective way to stop them.
If you painted all their crap orange, let those “benefactors” replace their crap. When they don’t, the poor dears will learn just how much their puppet masters love them.
“Just Stop Just Stop Oil” could be a non-violent, non-disruptive movement whose sole mission is to paint orange the puppetmaster’s property lol
“He added that disruption is necessary because people are “dropping dead around the world” from extreme heat, and “tipping points” are being passed.”
If this is his legal defense against the arrests I hope the prosecutors demand some evidence to support his statement.
The solutions for extreme heat are Air Conditioning and moving/immigrating.
Of course, I live in a country where people move to a warmer climate when they retire … Florida, Texas, Arizona, Nevada …
” … people are “dropping dead around the world” from extreme heat … “
I don’t know about that. Many people in one economically successful country I am familiar with — the USA — are moving to warmer climates where they retire and live for a long time.
Repeating the line JunkScience’s Steve Milloy has said for years: “Show us the bodies.”
But all the models say, “Sure! We’ll show you our bodies! (For a price.).” 😎
Wish I still had the sort of body guys would pay to see 🙁
“He added that disruption is necessary because people are “dropping dead around the world” from extreme heat, and “tipping points” are being passed.”
I’d like to see him explain how throwing soup on paintings, blocking intersections, throwing orange stuff on Stonehenge does a damn thing to support “The Cause”?
It seems that any support they were looking for with their antics has reached a real “tipping point”.
Idiots.
Most people who die from the climate freeze to death.
Well, at least one ‘tipping point’ has been reached.
I hope you’re right. Will there be a tipping point when Climate Disaster Science is dumped in the waste bin? Or must it be (Madness of Crowds) recovery slowly one by one.
Climate Change is NOT man-made. Climate cannot be changed by man. Just Stop Oil activists are criminals and ante society.
I hope we start doing this in this country! …The USA!
They seem to have a lot of petroleum based products in their houses.
Just about everything, even their eyewear.
Yup. They’re plastic people.
My how time flies. Strange to think that Dustin Hoffman is now 87.
Seems like he only just graduated.
OMG what FLAMING hypocrites!! Every single thing in their homes comes from oil, coal, nat gas! How can they live with themselves? Probably just get a small fine and then back on the streets.
They wear clothing – they are literally covered in oil.
Next time, just go into their place, and spray orange paint EVERHWHERE!!! Put that in your bowl and smoke it, honey.
Story tip – Mark Cuban Epitomizes The Hypocrisy Of Liberal Billionaires › American Greatness (amgreatness.com)
Cuban invested heavily in environmental enterprises over the last few years. He’s doled out millions to climate start-ups. These are the types of companies primed to benefit from Democrat-backed green subsidies and government pressure for the corporate world to adopt ESG (environmental, social, and governance) policies. All of this is part of Biden’s agenda—and Cuban stands to benefit. It makes sense why he argues that “woke” is good for business and melts down over conservative resistance towards these endeavors. Getting rid of woke business practices hurts his bottom line.
Cuban is making moves in media and by investing in the green dream to begin his campaign to become president.
‘You cannot come to my home and arrest me!’
The woman is a liar.
More a fool I think.
Sorry darling, yes they can.
If she broke the law, why not?
“This is not democracy. This is a police state.”
Their “democracy” looks more like a police state than my democracy does. I choose my energy sources — they want to choose them for me and make me pay.
It’s only a democracy when they win.
It’s a police state whenever they are prevented from doing what they want.
Of course them having total control over everyone and everything is utopia.
The word “democracy” is never mentioned in the US Constitution, but it appears prominently in the Communist Manifesto as a transitional state to its final form, tyranny.
Is this how tipping points work? Domino Effect – The largest domino simulation on Real Footage V4 (youtube.com)
From orange spray paint to orange jumpsuits, seems about right. Not sure if the police are after them for their activities, planned or otherwise, or if one of their members accidentally “misgendered” someone. That seems to be about the only thing the rozzers turn up for these days.
Also, story tip – https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/numbers-dont-lie
This week the Shadow Chancellor was approached in public, unplanned this week by an activist who called out, “I’m a Climate Activist”. Rachel Reeves (Shadow Chancellor, coolest title in politics) turned and walked quickly away.
The Guardian thought it wrong that she would not agree to stand and face the Climate goon.
I did not.
My Comment was Deleted:
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It was cited as “needlessly offensive language” in the email reply to my asking why I’m banned from commenting on the Guardian website again.
Of course, we have an election coming up and the temptation to report people who are winning arguments against you must be great. So this is quite the compliment to me.
But I doubt the Guardian would have agreed to take offence at my comparing a Climate Activist to a Muslim in a suicide vest if their research wasn’t showing that the Climate Activists are seen as dangerous.
“needlessly offensive language”
absurd- it’s your opinion and such opinions should be publishable
it’s far more offensive to me when I read that every problem on the planet is caused by climate change
Just stop the Just Stop Oil activists.
JSO is a cult. All the radical climate change groups are. It’s simple to see what’s going on from that perspective – cults routinely exploit people’s need to belong and have purpose.
CC cultists are, I believe, more needy and psychologically unbalanced that most, hence their religious-like fervor and willingness to break laws, cause inconvenience/destruction. Specific psychological dimensions of these culties are extreme self-importance, self-involvement, narcissism…I could go on and on but you get the idea.
These are pathological people being exploited by sociopathic, power-hungry overlords who likely don’t give a crap about the actual “mission”….its all about power.
Meh. They were probably out and free before dinner.
The Brits aren’t going to do anything to them; it’s a weak country full of feckless people.
But– their computers and phones were seized for analysis! It’ll be months before these are returned. For today’s young people, that is punishment indeed.
None of them looked like they were short on money. Any confiscated devices were likely replaced in short order. A lot of the JSO crowd are trust fund babies who lack for nothing.
The JSO strategy is getting increasingly destructive, and a lot that is due to little/no punishment for their attacks on priceless works of art.
Until these people are given long jail terms and their assets seized, they will continue escalating their attacks.
Gah!–I should have used the Sarcasm tag.
Yes, you are absolutely right; without adequate punishments, the attacks will escalate. Fines are not a deterrent b/c JSO sponsors pay the fines for the lawbreakers.
The courts are part of the problem here. Judges “could” be pushing jail times with a criminal record but when presented with a kid from the same background as the judge’s own, the judge lightly slaps a wrist rather than punishing harshly. “That could be my kid!” is the thinking. JSO should be charged with domestic terrorism as a criminal offence.
HOW DARE YOU!
I’m a Brit and ….. er.. no, sorry, you got it spot on
Redge, I sincerely hope that you guys can take your country back. All of Europe is going down the toilet and the US is on the same path.
In our (USA) case, I hope that we can toss out quite a few of the leftie politicians this election cycle and get back to law and order in our country. We have some people waking up in our country, but at the same time, we have morons who are protesting in favor of Hamas in spite of their genocidal attacks in Israel last October. It is quite surreal.
I feel like Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’ were prescient writings into today/tomorrow’s world.
STORY TIP
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/eastern-wa-hop-growers-challenged-by-oversupply-less-demand-for-beer/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=mobile-app&utm_campaign=ios
This is serious folks. I live 60 miles north of the hop fields. Drink more beer, or soon there will be a story that “climate change” is destroying the industry. Not true, but headlines trump truth.
Hops/beer doomed by climate change is already a regular story, up there with coffee and chocolate.
Google ‘hops climate change’. Fill you boots.
The climate change destroying hops story came out long ago.
Hi John,
Can’t say I’ve ever visited the hop fields to your south. The Times link seems to be blocked for me, so I don’t know what the story slant may be. The headline suggests it’s about relatively small growers. I was privileged to take pictures of the USHCN station at Northport, Idaho, and the very large adjacent hops farm. (They have their own weather station; I took pictures of that, too, and visited their laborer dormitory.) I think the whole operation belongs to Anheiser-Busch. I doubt there will be any shortage of their product in the near future, though they may have to make some adjustments in their workforce arrangements if the rules for immigrant labor change….
Oops, make that Porthill, Idaho…
Using the text in the 2nd pic…. just adding the correct word in front.
STOPPING Oil and gas means collapse. It means the loss of everything that we know.
Note in every clip, there are large numbers of items made of plastic… these clowns are raving hypocrites.
This is how TERRORISTS should be treated.
Allowing the police to be videotaped during the arrests and searches just blows my mind. I cannot believe the people shooting those videos weren’t also arrested. Weak country with weak laws.
Every country gets the government it deserves.
-Joseph de Maistre
I sort of half wish one of those clowns had “resisted”.
It was all too calm and gentle. !
If there is no oil, what fuel do they propose for fire trucks?
More good news. These guys need some really harsh punishment, I have zero sympathy for them.
Stone Henge really stirred something up. UK bobbies had long retired from arresting criminals, child rapists and terrorists and on the verge of tossing white free speech activists, anti-Covid protesters and maybe climate curmudgeons in jail. Wow, things are really turning around!
Very good news indeed, now arrest the main funder of this eco terrorist bunch of brainwashed loons.
Fancy JSO having the nerve to talk about democracy. Like all left-wing groups, they want to forcibly impose their world view and restrictions on the public.