A pane of glass just got more protection than human lives. This is madness.
Judge Hehir just sent Anna and Phoebe to prison for a combined total of just under 4 years, for throwing tomato soup at at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, protected by glass, back in 2022. Since then, the UK Government has approved over 80 new oil and gas projects – a crime against humanity. Those pushing for oil and gas remain at large, raking in cash and bankrolling politicians. Where’s the justice?
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Prison for ‘conspiracy’. For standing up to the state. For fucking soup. Barely escaping the cell for marching down the road. The courts continue to throw the book at nonviolent direct action, with over 30 of our supporters jailed this year. So we will make them a site of civil resistance. But we need your help.
https://chuffed.org/project/support-resistance-in-the-courts
Of course more of them want to got to jail.
Someone miscalculated.
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Despite the claims that no harm was done and it was just “throwing soup”, the action caused £10,000 in damages to the frame. The museum said the frame was a work of art in itself …
In the US, that size of damage would make it a felony.
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I’m surprised the frame wasn’t also protected- especially since it was so valuable.
What I was most surprised to learn was that Phoebe’s boyfriend’s name was Anna.
Joseph, do you surround your own possessions that you consider valuable with armed guards and barbed wire in case some idiot with an agenda wishes to protest by damaging it?
Destruction of other people’s property for a ‘just cause’ is unacceptable, whatever its value.
If they bothered to put glass over the painting- it wouldn’t have been a big deal to cover the frame also, if it’s worth £10,000. Not relevant to me as I don’t have anything valuable. I certainly don’t disagree with what you say about destruction of other’s property. I didn’t imply that I think it’s OK. I’m an art lover so I’m particularly concerned- more than if they dumped paint on some rich guy’s fancy sport’s car.
It’s odd that they were able to enter the museum wearing propaganda tee shirts and carrying cans of soup, isn’t it? And then couldn’t actually damage the art.
The jaded might think that it was an inside job, ‘performance art’ orchestrated by the wokester curators.
They covered up the T-shirts until just before the felonious stunt.
I have a similar looking frame from Walmart. I suppose if it was damaged, someone could fritter away fixing it until the bill to the insurance company was $10K…..
£10,000 doesn’t go far these days. You could be right.
As I posted on X, in is response to a fair/harsh question:
“Fair, too harsh, or not harsh enough?”
Just what did those two learn from such a judgement?
Nada!
Sentence them to live without their oil/nat gas boosted lives for five years. After all, that is the life they want and crave.
So, give it to them.
No computers,
No TV,
No smartphones or phones of any sort,
No machine made clothes,
No machine made fabrics,
No heat, no A/C,
No food cooked on nat gas or electric stovetops,
No machine made, commercially glued shoes,
No fueled/electric vehicular rides of any sort,
No occupation dependent upon oil or natural gas usage,
Lots of foot powered outdoor employment.
Every time they fall off the no oil/nat gas order, fine them a $1,000 for each and every failure.”
They also comment :
“Those pushing for oil and gas remain at large, raking in cash and bankrolling politicians. Where’s the justice?”
The Justice is that people involved in those activities work hard for their salaries. Primarily, they are not pampered children believing themselves more important than an extremely unique valuable painting by a long dead paint master genius.
You, Anna and Phoebe, appear to be near useless consumers that offer nothing of value to humanity versus an irreplaceable painting treasured by millions.
You, Anna and Phoebe, really need to learn the value of life and the industrial supports to that life. That is justice.
As I keep informing certain anti-CO2 shills and whingers….
EVERYTHING in their lives is there BECAUSE OF the reliability and availability of fossil fuels.
They COULD NOT exists without fossil fuels.
It is the solar and wind scammer that are raking in the GOVERNMENT subsidies..
… NOT oil, gas and coal, which all pay substantial amounts to the government in taxes, fees, etc.
Sentence them to two years on Spitsbergen with nothing to start but animal skins, sinew thread, a bone needle and fishhook and a flint knife.
Better send them to Svalbard. Also send them down the coal mine there for four hrs every day to serve out their sentence. For the other part of the day they can work in the global seed vault (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Global_Seed_Vault) and do some good for the world.
We’re onto some eco-justice here. Parachute Drop them and an empty shipping container….and their animal skinning kit…plus a box of matches since fire starting would be well beyond their skilset…..drop them near an unused open pit coal mine….see how long before they are very glad to have coal-fired heat and an abandoned shipping container to live in….tell them a ‘copter will be back for them in 6 months, and if they reoffend they and their shipping container will be dropped where there will be lots more food for them….seals on polar bear beach…
Why only 4 hours?
Spitzbergen or Svalbard without modern aid would be a death sentence. Hopefully in the case on Svalbard it would be an “ice is nice and will suffice” death
Lots of reindeer for food, clothing and shelter, plus driftwood and coal to burn. But I could add steel to the flint to make fire. Driftwood might not be hard enough to make enough heat with a bow.
Sounds like a two year sentence to Naked and Afraid
And cold. And in the dark half the year.
At least Tue “Dark” half year is only the Nighttime Darkness…
It just happens to last 4380 hours straight.
really the death sentence because their life expectancy without oil and gas is about where they are now.
Sounds like Shovel Ready Work to me
To the new soup throwers, no doubt you knew about the jail term and it wasn’t deterrent enough.
Hopefully the next judge will make it 5 years each.
Jail time with hard labour
Poor in the UK: Throw flavoured water at glas and go to prison
Rich in the US: Found guilty on 34 felony counts, try to overturn an election, commit treason, endanger people with hate speech, sell tacky golden shoes – get your own personal cult that excuses everything instead of prison.
So much for the left has taken over the governments, and who is the ruling class.
The over privileged Plummer brat’s family is filthy rich, fool.
Seems like not rich enough.
Seems the law in the UK hasn’t bent over for the far-left.. yet !
In the US, DOJ, FBI etc are hand in glove with the democrats, as are the judges in states like New York….
Laptops, evidence, emails… just disappear into the ether… so long as they hold evidence against democrats.
Just Stop Oil are funded by several very very rich people and their ‘leading lights’ are are in the money trough.
Ignore the trollbot! Mock it and move on!
Trumped up charges.. Everyone knows that.. except VERY DUMB people.
The Kamal and the democrats + leftist MSM are full on hate speech, endangering not only Trump, but the whole world.
“get your own personal cult that excuses everything instead of prison.”
Hillary, Biden’s sons.. and the cult of the far left media.. That is what you are talking about, isn’t it.
What they are doing is just criminal damage to someone else’s property. It has no connexion to climate or energy policy. It has no logical connexion to them, it can have no effect on them. Its no different from randomly smashing windows on a street, damaging cars, breaking into and trashing houses or offices in the effort to persuade everyone to stop drinking wine. Obviously they should receive the normal penalties for criminal damage.
The movement itself is a classic millenarial cult phenomenon. No different from Jim Jones or the Branch Dravidians or Heavens Gate. Listen to some of the hysterical pronouncements by members of JSO and ER. These cults are much more common in modern times in the West than people realize. For instance, the Jehovah’s Witnesses predicted the end of the world in 1914, 1925 and 1975. Other vaguely Christian inspired cults also predict a near term end of the world, without specifying dates.
Everyone interested in the future of the climate movement should read ‘When Prophecy Fails’, by Festinger and associates. It explains why the beliefs of members of such cults are almost immune to contrary evidence. In fact, contrary evidence often strengthens belief. Seems paradoxical, but it is so.
We can be fairly confident that when the attempt to move the UK to wind and solar generation results in nationwide blackouts Ed Miliband will be out there explaining to the faithful that this is only because of our lack of faith or wrong implementation. And the faithful will believe him, and the level of fanaticism will rise.
Plummer attended the £45K per annum St Mary’s in Ascot where she hails from. You know the school, right? The same one whose alumni include the Duke of Kent’s grandchildren and the Princess of Monaco.
Hardly poor is she?
She’s just another spoilt, clueless brat.
Fine, then she and trump are spoilt, clueless brats. But she’s not spoilt enough for the justice system.
This has nothing whatever to do with Trump. Its a simple case of wilful criminal property damage by a UK cult member. Why do you keep trying to connect it to Trump?
Because he’s the current prime example that those who are in power are safe from the justice system.
Do you mean like Tony Blair, the man who led the UK lied to us about Saddams’ weapons of mass destruction, took us into an illegal war, was likely responsible for the “suicide” of Dr David Kelly, and should be in prison for mass murder?
No, I think he/she/it mean the whole Biden family… having the DOJ hide all the corruption and depravity on Hunter’s laptop.
Trump has been massively punished by the FAKE justice system.
It has been used against him in every possible baseless concoction by the low-lifes of the far-left.
It is the FAKE justice system, controlled by the Democrats that is the most danger to every person in the USA.
“those who are in power”
You mean he IS the President of the United States?
If someone commits treason in a country they are usually put on trial. Trump has never been put on trial for treason. I wonder why that might be.
Trump is not in the UK. All over the world there are people, many of them in power, many of them simple criminals, who are escaping justice. That fact is completely irrelevant to the present case.
The criminal in this case is in the UK and is being dealt with under UK law, like anyone else. She is in no way being singled out or treated differently from anyone else who breaks the law in the UK.
I am guessing that you feel some sympathy for her because you perhaps share part of the negative feelings XR and JSO have for oil, gas, coal etc.
But the question you have to consider is this. Do you think people should be able to commit criminal damage with impunity if their avowed aim is to stop some behavior they do not approve of? Even when, as in this case, their damage has no conceivable bearing on what they disapprove of?
Like, is it OK for me to start spraying airport luggage at Heathrow with black paint, because I do not like Sunday opening hours in the UK? I want them shorter. Others who want them longer, can they do the same thing to make them longer? Is it OK for me to slash a few tires because I want to see only Halal or Kosher meats being sold in supermarkets? If I wish women’s athletics to be conducted in very modest clothing, does that mean its OK for me to block the entrance to the National Opera performing the Magic Flute?
What if I want to see the coal fired generating stations re-opened in the UK? Does that make it all right for me to block the M25? Or, is it all right for me to block the M25 if I want to see the gas generating stations closed?
Of course not.
Get real!
No, the prime example of people in power being safe from justice is Hilary Clinton and her email server. Lesser people got years of prison time for lesser breaches of classified material than she did.
Steele Dossier – election interference by promoting a falsified story.
Russian Collusion – election interference by promoting a falsified story.
Yes, the server, but what about Benghazi?
TDS ALERT!!! TDS ALERT!!!
No, you are trolling and not on topic.
The trollbot is programmed to spew propaganda. Trying to reason with it is going to be as effective as trying to persuade a deadly virus not to infect people.
Don’t give it any oxygen.
Mock it and move on!
Yes. maybe another to add to my block list. Posted how to do this on another thread, just install UBlock Origin, then add a line like this to your custom filters:
wattsupwiththat.com##.comment-author-AUTHOR
Replace AUTHOR with the exact name of the commenter, in this case ‘MyUsername’.
How very left and wokist of you. !
Huh?
I think he’s referring to the Leftist/Wokist tendency to refuse to listen to those with opposing views.
In this case, even if they are idiots.
But then we would lose the comic relief
Why is he still allowed to post here when so much of it is mindless trolling and off topic garbage.
Trump has nothing to do with the UK justice system.
And you sound like a spoilt, petulant brat when you say “Fine, then….”
The good old “NO U” reply. Expected it frombnice to be honest.
What a totally incoherent and incomprehensible comment..
ADHD meds out of balance again ?
You don’t understand the meaning of the word “honest”
Coming from the man who begins a response with “Fine, then”
You’re funny but I suspect not intentionally
You would know all about being a spoilt brat.
Granny looking after you in a padded safe-space basement, paying all your bills for you.
Feeding you, washing your clothes etc…
And still totally dependent on fossil fuels for everything in your tedious, desperate, lonely existence.
Your TDS slip is showing
I think he could use an Economy Sized tub of Preparation TDS
Warning Warning TDS ALERT Warning Warning TDS ALERT
What a jerk you are trying to attack Trump who has NOTHING to do with the expensive vandalism the female committed while she uses all kinds of oil-based products in her shallow life.
The miscreants that toppled Edward Colston’s statue were let off scot free. The jail time now being meted out to the plankton is a direct result of the challenge to the state presented by the Southport riot and what followed. Accusations of two tier justice have hit home. They are forced to jail the plankton to keep up the pretence that everyone is equal under the law. We of course can see it’s otherwise.
The statue should have been removed and put in a museum a long time before that.
What do you know? Ever read The Guardian???
John Edward Taylor founded the Manchester Guardian in 1821 with the money he made from transatlantic slavery, along with his backers. Lots of dosh…
Perhaps you will boycott it now that you know? But I doubt it.
The statue honoured Colston for his charitable works, he made some of his wealth from holdings in the slave trade, which was perfectly legal at the time. Some individuals felt that they were sufficiently offended by this to destroy someone else’s property. This level of self importance is not uncommon; ISIS blew up the ancient Temple of Baal in Syria because they equated Baal with Beelzebub. The Taliban blew up the ancient great statues of Buddha in Afghanistan because they represented a heretical religion. I’m sure they were all just as offended. Perhaps I should make more effort to be offended by something? How about the tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery, a monument to a man, the pusuit of whose ideas have led to the deaths of literally millions of people? I find him pretty offensive, but I do not feel justified in taking any action.
One the one hand we have what username would describe as “kindness, tolerance and respect”
And on the other we have the reality of “malice, bigotry and contempt”.
Whenever I have the chance I ask people wearing Che Guevara T-shirts why they are using a mass murderer as a fashion statement.
That does not excuse the crime.
That’s an idiotic statement, independent of the misspelling.
How about the fact that throwing soup (not flavored water) onto a painting and its frame in a public museum—the painting in question being a Van Gogh titled “Sunflowers” at the National Gallery of London—is a crime (aka, an illegal act) under British law provisions governing destroying public property (the Criminal Damage Act of 1971) and disturbing the peace (“breach of the peace”, descended from the Justices of the Peace Act 1361).
You see, facts matter. And actions have consequences . . . the famous phrase here across the pond being “Ignorance of the law is no excuse!”
We are talking about Campbell’s tomato soup. There are some that view it as flavored water. /sarc
Actually, if you closely examine the lead-in photo to the above article, you’ll see that Phoebe is holding a can of Heinz tomato soup, not Campbell’s.
Nevertheless your point may still be valid . . . I haven’t tasted any Heinz soup (to my knowledge) in twenty years or more.
You know I don’t normally reply to the profoundly stupid but in your case I’ll make an exception. 1. What does Tump have to do with this article? Only a twisted warped mind would go there. 2. Where’s the evidence of treason? Hey Einstein, you do know that Trump has not been charged with treason. I didn’t know that you were a constitutional scholar. More like a constipated scholar.
Your initial instinct was correct. Responding to Lusername doesn’t lead to anything but further verbal diarrhea. Lusername is either an entirely mind-numbed ideologue acting like a bot, or more likely an actual bot, incapable of anything other than what it has been programmed to spout.
Difference being, they were convicted of doing something they actually did. And not for political reasons.
Children throwing destructive tantrums in the museum…eventually won’t be tolerated. Has the blockage of UK roads and trains finally stopped?
Has the blockage of UK roads and trains finally stopped?
For now – we’ve had a lot of rain. The poor luvvies don’t want to get any wetter than they already are
It’s an equitable and just outcome!
They should also have been made to pay restitution.
The products of a modern educashun
Just Keep Jailing – JKJ – Should eventually stop the dickheads…..
There are people who really, really believe that burning oil and gas is deadly to humanity. The UN says so. All the scientists agree, they say.
How do they imagine vandalism of unrelated famous art advances their cause?
Just Go Nuclear. Then it doesn’t matter if the climate goes hot or cold. If hot power = cooling. If cold power = heating. In either case power = civilization.
If the painting didn’t have glass on it– would they still have thrown the soup on it? Yes, I believe they would have. So the fact that it was protected by glass does not diminish their behavior. I bet they didn’t know it was protected.
I don’t know how to break this to everyone here (and especially to art lovers), but it appears as though the Van Gogh Sunflowers painting was attacked again just hours after the prison sentence was handed down for the two who did this previously.
Just Stop Oil throw soup over Van Gogh paintings hours after activists jailed (youtube.com)
I’m at a loss for words.
They could follow Van Gogh’s example and cut off an ear…. but that’s a bit like real pain and suffering.
Here is another video of the incident…
“Future Generations will regard these Prisoners of Conscience to be on the Right Side of History” (youtube.com)
I guess this is the price we pay for a scientifically illiterate population and an excessively liberal society which is seeing a breakdown in respect for law and order.
And you are NOT on the right side of history JSO when their climate science is wrong.
Wow.
I’m sure JSO will spin this into a new fundraising campaign.
The should be dealt with the way Singapore would deal with them…caning.
In the Middle East and parts of North Africa, the punishment might include cutting off the hand that threw the soup.
Might seem cruel but think of the deterrent effect!
Bet they wouldn’t do it more than twice either! Who needs that mamby-pamby “three strikes” stuff when they no longer are capable of “re-offending” after the first two convictions! 🤪
Send them off to the Falklands to herd sheep for a few years? The persons who deserve serious time are the Trustafarian nepo babies funding Just Stop Oil. If Abigail Disney and her ilk.
You mean the Maldives 😛
ref: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131359/amp/Barack-Obama-makes-Falklands-gaffe-calling-Malvinas-Maldives.html
Pals in high places-
Labour’s new climate envoy previously backed Extinction Rebellion (msn.com)
A Government spokesman said: ‘Rachel Kyte is an outstanding choice to be climate special representative.
‘She is a globally recognised expert on climate finance, with top level experience at the UN and World Bank.
‘Few people have done more to promote making our financial system respond to the climate crisis.’
The UN IPCC Assessment Report Number Six (AR6) Scientific Basis Chapter by Working Group #1 (WGI) makes it very clear that there has been no worsening of global extreme weather over the past 100+ years and there is none likely in the future except minor warming and insignificant climate change predicted by CliSciFi’s unreliable climate models flogged with the outrageously exaggerated scenario RCP 8.5 and its equally unlikely successors that have no chance of actually eventuating. The Leftist ideological and crony capitalist profiteering climate disaster gig is up.
Make it 20 years and go after the organization with civil suits.
Spoilt, entitled, upper middle class, narcissistic brats with absolutely no grasp of climate science, societal impacts of energy choices or economics. Richly deserving of a few years in jail and a close up of the harsh reality of life in the lower (working) classes.
Wealthy far beyond upper middle class.
It is heartening to see these mongrels get jail time, it’s a move forward.
2 years this time, 20 years the second offence with a warning of 200 years for a third. If she has any intelligence there won’t be a third. If there is a third there certainly won’t be a fourth.
Where was Napoleon exiled again after causing the deaths of so many people?
The duck face syndrome strikes again.
Fucking morons – equivalent to Isis blowing up antique statues in Iraq
Please put this idiot in a mainstream women’s prison, with the normal trans prisoners. Reality is a harsh teacher when it hits! Life for many of those women was really hard before committing the offences that got them there. I doubt there would be much sympathy for the Phoebe’s of this world.