Posted on 08/29/2023 1:09:01 AM PDT by Libloather
These aren’t your ordinary anti-capitalist climate crusaders.
Extinction Rebellion, the radical environmentalists who tried to blockade traffic to counterculture festival Burning Man on Sunday - only to be rammed aside by tribal police - are funded by some of the biggest names in Hollywood, along with an heir to the Getty fortune and outdoor retailer Patagonia.
The group calls itself part of a “decentralized, international and politically non-partisan movement” demanding climate action - and until now has largely stuck to causing disruption in Europe.
Under its banner, protesters have superglued themselves to the Speaker’s chair in the British parliament, blockaded busy roads - often by affixing to each other and the asphalt - and even attached themselves to the top of a plane. Allied groups in Europe have vandalized a Walmart heir’s superyacht.
On Sunday the eco-warriors from Extinction Rebellion, known as XR, were one of a group of activists called Seven Circles who went after Burning Man festival-goers, setting up a blockade of a road into Black Rock City, Nev., to protest against capitalism.
They wanted Burning Man leadership want a ban on private jets, as well as single-use plastics and “unnecessary propane burning,” according to a statement released Sunday by Seven Circles. The festival ends by literally burning a tower.
“The time has come,” said XR organizer Mun Chong. “Burning Man should aim to have the same type of political impact that Woodstock had on counterculture. If we are honest about system change, it needs to start at ‘home’.
“Ban the lowest hanging fruit immediately: private jets. No single individual should have the luxury of emitting 10 to 20 times more carbon pollution than a commercial airline passenger. Burners, rebel with us.”
The protest, however, ended when Rangers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department smashed...
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Thanks to our Red Brothers for handling these idiots
If they keep it up someone is going to get killed
Ha ha.
I love it.
I love burner idiot leftists got blocked by lunatic psycho leftists who got manhandled overly harshly by the cops.
Win win win involving despicable actors all the way around.
what will the general population do about theses insane radicals when they become more and more violent? john kerry opened the door for these freaks to justify their violent nature but the real and “burning”question is what is anyone Really going to do to stop them? are they asking for violence? does anyone really believe they’ll back down without a United show of force against them? the consequences of ignoring these insane radicals is becoming increasingly difficult to get around. can the general population treat them the same way they want to treat everyone who just wants peace? it’s becoming more and more apparent that the climate cartel has a nazi style, brownshirt army. they aren’t typically using direct violence yet...but soon they will. you can count on that. enjoy
All of the funded group should be identified as terrorist organizations. I would love to see a list of all of them. Obviously, we should all be boycotting, Patagonia, etc.
Well, American Indians have been known to scalp people.
Where do they keep finding these Green fanatics, willing to block roads with their bodies? Willing to be screamed at, even smacked around like Zombie-Ragdolls as they prevent people from going to work, even to the hospital?
I’m torn... what is the Burning Man festival about? What has it turned into? Who attends? What are their political leanings? Wouldn’t be a bad thing to shut it down but I don’t like the fact that the Holly weird human trafficing elitists bankroll anything.
How do these groups not get hit with RICO laws?
Seems they are encouraging breaking the laws.
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