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May 28, 2008
George Moonbat Jumps the Shark
A little follow-up on moonbat scribbler George Monbiot's absurd boast that he would subject former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to a citizen's arrest for being a war criminal. Here's how it turned out:
Security guards blocked the path of columnist and activist George Monbiot, who tried to make the arrest as Mr Bolton left the stage.
The former ambassador — a key advisor to President George W Bush who argued strongly in favour of invading Iraq — had been giving a talk on international relations to more than 600 people at the literary festival.
Mr Monbiot was blocked by two heavily-built security guards at the end of the one-and-a-half hour appearance, before he could serve a "charge sheet" on him.
After being released by the guards the columnist — a fierce critic of the 2003 American-led invasion — made a dash through the rain-soaked tented village in a failed attempt to catch up with Mr Bolton.
A crowd of about 20 protestors, one dressed in a latex George Bush mask, chanted "war criminal" as Mr Bolton was ushered away. […]
During Mr Bolton's talk, to a packed-out audience, Mr Monbiot had asked Mr Bolton what difference there was between him and a Nazi war criminal.
No word on whether Mr. Moonbat will be joining Code Pink the next time they show up in Halloween costumes and try to disrupt government hearings. The Guardian, having rather low personnel standards, continues to employ him.

On tips from Refuter Of Liberal Vermin and V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at May 28, 2008 2:30 PM
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(from Wikipedia)
Monbiot believes that drastic action coupled with strong political will is needed to combat global warming, Monbiot asserts that climate change is the "moral question of the 21st century" and that there is little time for debate or objections to a raft of emergency action he believes will stop climate change, including: setting targets on greenhouse emissions using the latest science; issuing every citizen with a 'personal carbon ration'; new building regulations with houses built to German passivhaus standard; banning incandescent lightbulbs, patio heaters, garden floodlights and other inefficient technologies; constructing large offshore wind farms, replacing the national gas grid with a hydrogen pipe network; a new national coach network to make journeys using public transport faster than using a car; all petrol stations to supply leasable electric car batteries with stations equipped with a crane service to replace depleted batteries; scrap road-building and road-widening programmes, redirecting their budgets to tackle climate change; reduce UK airport capacity by 90%; closing down all out-of-town superstores and replace them with warehouses and a delivery system.[23]
Monbiot purchased a Renault Clio (diesel) after moving to a small town in mid-Wales in 2007, leading to charges of hypocrisy.[24] Similarly he has also travelled through Canada and the United States, campaigning on climate change and promoting his book. He contends that this travel was justifiable as it sought to boost the case for much greater carbon cuts there
Posted by: mega at May 28, 2008 3:11 PM
I always assumed Monbiot's name was the inspiration for Moonbat.
Posted by: avalon at May 28, 2008 3:40 PM
OT - or is it?
Radical environmentalists with nothing better to do, august representatives of academia and your cozy little fuzz ball politicians, have ginned up a new global warming hoax crisis.
Posted by: Oiao at May 28, 2008 4:04 PM
OT - Obama the smooooooooooth talker with all the facts.
Posted by: Oiao at May 28, 2008 4:15 PM
Oops, didn't see the previous post; but I concur.
Posted by: avalon at May 28, 2008 4:33 PM
OT-
MoonBat education - More forced Bussing (a failed policy) In San FranFreakShow!
Lowering the standards and expectations so that no good performing child can succeed, faster that the slowest nonconforming child allows.
Kiss the few good college prep public schools goodbye!
Call this new SF School Policy No Child Allowed to Succeed on Merit
Posted by: Oiao at May 28, 2008 4:33 PM
OT -
MoonBat Garrison Keillor is afraid of Patriotic Veteran Bikers……………he wet his pants, then struck out viciously.
You have to read his rant – embedded link in the article this post links to.
Posted by: Oiao at May 28, 2008 4:50 PM
Monbiot believes that drastic action coupled with strong political will is needed to combat
Islamic terrorism?
communism?
socialism?
No. Of course not. To combat global warming.
PS: Someone needs to tell this numbnuts that batteries still need to be charged, which necessitates an energy source, which brings us back to fossil fuels (unless the moonbats reverse their position on nuclear power). The "batteries" thing drives me up the wall; it's like saying we'll deal with a water shortage by issuing buckets.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 28, 2008 5:44 PM
Moonbats love stunts like this. This lunatic tried to arrest Bolton when he was surrounded by guards precisely because he knew he had ZERO chance of being successful. If he had any real commitment, he'd try a "no-knock warrant" at Bolton's house at 3 a.m. - the results of which would be entirely predictable (and messy).
Posted by: PabloD at May 28, 2008 6:20 PM
possible etymology of the word "moonbat"
Posted by: mega at May 28, 2008 6:50 PM
still struggling with this HTML thing. Here's the link to moonbat etymology
Posted by: mega at May 28, 2008 7:07 PM
Posted by: Kristy at May 28, 2008 7:13 PM
Posted by: Kristy at May 28, 2008 7:15 PM
What rock do all these moonbats crawl out from under?
"MoonBat Garrison Keillor is afraid of Patriotic Veteran Bikers"
Personally... I'd take one Rolling Thunder Vet, hands down, over 100 moonbats like Keillor, any day of the week. I'd love to knock the crap out of that cowardly POS for insulting those honorable men and women. Grrrrrr...
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at May 28, 2008 7:29 PM
Mega - good job on the html - I just learned two days ago.
Thanks Ian for the primer.
Posted by: Oiao at May 28, 2008 8:23 PM
The guards should have let him through. Seeing Moonbat get his @ss wupped by Bolton would have been hilarious.
Posted by: mandible claw at May 29, 2008 12:06 AM
I agree with mandible claw-let moonbat through. Bolton would grab the guy's forlock and break his nose on Bolton's upraised knee.
Posted by: Mockinbird at May 29, 2008 12:02 PM

