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September 14, 2008

Global Warming Insanity Leading to Anarchy in the UK

Even as temperatures cool, liberal brain fever over the global warming hoax continues to burn hot. From Britain:

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.
Jurors accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater damage caused by climate change. The defence of "lawful excuse" under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to prevent even greater damage — such as breaking down the door of a burning house to tackle a fire.

By the same deranged reasoning, environmentalist savages could set your car on fire because they think it's ruining the weather. The moonbattery-addled legal system is granting carte blanche to patchouli-stinking Brownshirts to tear down civilization in the name of The Planet.

Arnold J. Toynbee's insight is once again confirmed: Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

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Global warming profiteer James Hansen testified at the trial.

On a tip from xantl.

Posted by Van Helsing at September 14, 2008 9:26 AM

Comments

Shut off the power to the jurer's homes, as well as the homes of all Greenbrains, and those who cheered the decision. Make it illegal for them to use fuel in any way - including riding buses or trains. Forbid them use of anything that takes power to grow or manufacture. In short, cut the bastards completely off.

Let them live naked in the trees with their monkey-brothers.

Posted by: Jimbo at September 14, 2008 9:55 AM

Hopefully this will not set a precedent in British courts.

I like Jimbo's suggestion, unfortunately they would need to be convicted first.

The interpretation of the "lawful excuse" to any reasonable person would (should) mean a clear and present danger, not one that is your perception of danger, or else anarchy and choas will be the result.

So what will be the next step for Greenpeace? Maybe they could blow up some British Airways jumbo jets.

Posted by: XBOLTS at September 14, 2008 10:42 AM

My guess is that the GreeNuts will start destroying freight rail service into the coal burning power plants. Stop the coal deliveries, stop the global warming.

Hanson should be fired from NASA. He is outside of his bounds as a US Govt employee.

Posted by: Oiao at September 14, 2008 10:47 AM

You know fully well in the not so distant future when Jolly Old Bedrock is a full fledged third world country, they will be screaming for "aid" from the very people, nations whom they have systematically prosecuted and alienated for being too "Conservative." As usual we, who embrace discipline, personal responsibility and preparedness-will have to fold them in our benevolent embrace. But we're used to that by now :)

Posted by: Chris45rpm at September 14, 2008 10:49 AM

First, I agree with Oiao...Hanson should be fired at once.

Second, I agree with Chris...zero aid or loans or anything else if this is the course they choose (with the inevitable results).

Third, this is just further proof that the left is hell-bend on ending private property rights. As soon as anyone starts spewing their "progressive" agenda, I corner them with "Yes or no...do you believe in the right to own private property". I ALWAYS get the same type of equivocation as when C.A.I.R. is asked "do you condemn the actions of Hamas?"

This is the lefts big move...it's now or never for them, and by God they are going to attack on every front. If they can be marginalized now, they'll be set back 30 years. Western Civilization hangs in the balance, and I'm not exaggerating.

Posted by: matt at September 14, 2008 11:44 AM

You would think people would be wiser than to allow others to destroy property and ignore the law in the name of ideology. It's not like civilization hasn't been down that road already.

Posted by: mega at September 14, 2008 12:29 PM

What the F***?!?!?!?

Here's a little thought for my friends in Once but No Longer Great Britain: I would postulate that this same law/legal decision could be used as a justification to blow up or burn down a Mosque.

I mean honestly, Jesus Howard God's Bas**rd Christ, I simply can't wrap my brain around this. Who were these so-called 'jurors'?

Oiao & Matt... big thumbs up, total agreement. When they start begging, we need to tell them to go f*** themselves. Their governments, anyway. Didn't I hear something in the GOP convention about not sending any more money to countries who hate us? Yet, I'm thinking we need to prepare for refugees. There are still plenty of Brits left who will refuse to drink the kool-aid. America is still the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronaldus Maximus spoke of... If I could, I'd mine the border with Mexico and build a bridge to Britain. We need to start getting our priorities straight about who we want in this country and who we don't.......

Sorry about the digressive rant....


Back to the thread: Again I say....

WHAT THE F***?!?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: hiram at September 14, 2008 12:49 PM

Posted by: mega at September 14, 2008 12:50 PM

They jury of peabrains just opened the door to crinimal acts they all should lose their power and freeze in their homes i mean their persons are shamless bunch those greenpeace crinimals should have gotten 30 years in prison and hard labor I mean RICHARD THE LIONHEART AND winston churchill MUST BE SPINNING IN THEIR GRAVES

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 14, 2008 1:33 PM

Ha ha, nice try ahole.

Posted by: Corona at September 14, 2008 1:36 PM

Posted by: V the K at September 14, 2008 1:49 PM

If James Hansen were on fire, I wouldn't piss on him to put it out. I wonder if that douchebag was on government time (ie - our dime) when he testified.

Posted by: Brooklyn Red Leg at September 14, 2008 2:58 PM

Seriously, Spurwing....

I agree with many of the points and ideas you post, but for G*d's sake, learn about the concept of punctuation, will ya?

Posted by: hiram at September 14, 2008 2:59 PM

Alarmists are quick to declare that others don’t understand the intricacies of climate science and therefore have nothing to contribute. But apparently climatologists do not have much grounding in how feedback works. Unaware of their ignorance, they invoke net positive feedback in their GCMs. Net positive feedback, with increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, causes the GCMs to falsely predict continued global warming. If they understood feedback they would realize, based on the Vostok ice core temperature record for the last glaciation, that significant net positive feedback does not occur and thus added atmospheric carbon dioxide has no significant influence on climate. Graphs showing this are at http://www.middlebury.net/op-ed/pangburn.html . Other assessments from entirely different perspectives also determine that there is no significant net positive feedback. They can be seen at http://www.climate-skeptic.com/2008/01/index.html and http://www.weatherquestions.com/Roy-Spencer-on-global-warming.htm .

Posted by: Dan Pangburn at September 14, 2008 3:43 PM

Even if you want to claim "lawful excuse," wouldn't you need to prove that spraypainting the side of anything could prevent "climate change?" If anything, these clowns aided global warming, oops, climate change, by releasing all those awful chemicals.

I thought insanity like this was way, way off in the future. I guess they see their lie being brought into the light and are getting desperate. Watch out, pretty soon we'll hear that the oncoming cooling is really just global climate change brought on by man.

Posted by: Anonymous at September 14, 2008 8:39 PM

Power plants, vehicles, airplanes, buildings, rice paddies & cows (only those who fart) watch out for Greenpeace activists.

What I would want to know: Would it have been okay to smash the Greenpeace car and their local infrastructure, so that they would not get to the coal-fired power station, as long as the damage would have been under £35,000 (which means to prevent greater damage)

Posted by: The Alien Patriot at September 14, 2008 10:51 PM

Funny how no evidence is ever given to support AGW in moonbat articles, just lunacy. This entire hoax is nothing but a kooky religion based on anti-capitalism, junk science, and failed 'computer models'.

Posted by: Smoke TNT at September 14, 2008 11:54 PM

Just to defend my fading island province, this wasn't the fault of the legal system. It was the fault of the jury. Juries come up with bad decisions sometimes- look at OJ.

Even without this abuse of the lawful excuse defense, they could have acquitted, since the Common Law, which is also the basis of the US system, includes the concept of "jury nullification"- the right of a jury to acquit even if they think the defendant is guilty. This principle was originally established by a brave jury in the trial of a certain William Penn, who was on trial for unlawful preaching, i.e. preaching without a license. After his acquittal, despite his guilt, he went on to become quite famous.

He founded Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at September 15, 2008 7:06 AM

Place the jurors in a "habitat" specially created for them, circa 875 A.D. (the time of Alfred the Great and the Viking invasions). No contact with the outside world, no food other than what they can hunt down and kill, dress and clean, then cook over an open fire (if they can get one started, of course). No water save what they can get from the same stream or river where they urinate and defecate, wash their clothes, etc.

Advise them: "This is how you, your children and grand-children will live if you decide that we no longer need power plants, crude oil, coal, indoor plumbing, et al. We can go back to whale oil lamps, burning dried peat in our houses for heat -- or freeze to death in the winter -- or we can have electricity, petrol for our cars and jet fuel for our travel. You can die of a common cold, or a tiny cut on your finger, not to mention dysentery, thyphoid, the Plague, etc. Your choice!"

Wonder how they'll come down after a few days of life in the 9th Century?

Posted by: jc14 at September 15, 2008 8:25 AM

Give them their own little place to settle on with the rest of their eco-freak buddies let them live in their so called idelic paradise and watch as they get eaten by the wild critters that live there watch as the natives fed up with their idiotic presents and start using those poisoned darts on them

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 15, 2008 11:24 AM

With the amount of time that Mr. Hansen spends on his pet project, I'm surprised that he puts in any time at all at NASA.

Posted by: James McEnanly at September 15, 2008 2:21 PM