Posted on 09/23/2009 10:26:31 AM PDT by takbodan
Greenpeace is taking credit for taking climbers to the West End and Fort Pitt bridges this morning to unfurl banners stating "Danger — Climate Destruction Ahead. Reduce Co2 Emissions Now."
Pittsburgh police and River Rescue crews swarmed the bridges where an estimated 20 protesters assembled. A banner was unfurled from the West End Bridge, but police intervened at the Fort Pitt Bridge to stop a simultaneous attempt there, said Mike Crocker, a Greenpeace activist who said he was the team leader coordinating the event from the North Shore near Jerome Bettis' Grille 36.
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I would have tied heavy weights to their ropes, and then cut them.
How much carbon did it take to produce that banner? Is it bio degradable?
They are gonna have their hands full dealing with these jagoffs.
I wish they would have hit the 16th or 31st street bridges. I can see both from my building in the Strip. I just saw 2 what looked like gunships flying close together roughly north to south right over the 31st street bridge and on over Polish Hill. I’ve heard that there are a lot of them here but those are the first that I’ve seen. Not as much going on as I thought there would be but I expect we’ll see more tomorrow. I got my camera ready.
A thread on the ‘barking’ moonbats. And a nice plug for Jerome Bettis’ Cafe 36 :)
One of many good reasons for me to stay home the next several days. You couldn’t pay me to go anywhere near downtown Pittsburgh for the next several days.
I wonder how much CO2 the activists caused when they flew/drove to Pittsburgh?
Ravenstahl to his credit denied their permit to demonstrate and I heard the anarchy types will be restricted to West Park area. Would love for the white college kids all full of piss and vinegar to get mixed up with some of the undesirables in that neighborhood. The Pitt Chief of Police stated policy is if so much as a wad of gum winds up on the sidewalk you will be arrested. This anarchy movenemt is comprised of 23 year old NE educated grad students , the product of hippie parents with too much money and too loose a grasp on reality who thinks protesting the man is some sort of life philosophy.
Wow. Three Apaches just buzzed by my house (close to Pa Turnpike) in Westmoreland County. Again.
So low and loud. We think they fly visually over the Turnpike.
i am a Pitt alum. GOOD for them, cracking down on those losers!
REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS NOW! PUSH GREENPEACE OFF A BRIDGE!
This thing is an unmitigated disaster...entire central core of the city shut down, losing tens of millions in economic activity, lost wages, etc. All efforts focused on steppin’ and fetchin’ for the Global Elitists who are about to invade.
That’s before the breaking of glass even commences. We’ll be paying to fight ACLU cases a decade from now. I don’t believe this will create a single job. The only beneficiaries will be Young Mayor Luke and Dan “Booze Tax” Onorato, who will be getting all of their back-slapping Attaboys from within the Democrat party heirarchy.
Hay PaMom! Just taking a break from my work here to find out what’s up with the G-20 loony protesters! Looks like things are hoppin’ dahn der in da burgh!!
Hey there...be glad sneakers you are out in Indiana Co.
My oldest, the one who works in Greentree, said 8 -10 blackhawks are flying in tight, repeat formations, from there into downtown.
I am off today, and my dog freaks everytime the roar comes overhead.
My plan is to arm about 100 with pellet guns, we could drive the herd of hippies to the Point and into the river to be fished out downstream and put on buses for chocolate city.
OTOH, if you would give me a hunting license and pay me bounty for every Hippie Marxist tagged and bagged, you couldn't keep me away.
Itza ‘Burgh Ping!
The invasion of smelly hippies, destruction and a lot of cost to the city(taxpayers). For what? So that the council can call for a tax increase or rate hike in a couple of months to pay for this mess they wanted so badly.
Thanks for the ping, PA Mom.
Smooth...thanks for the link.
I don’t know about anybody else, but I am a little verklempt (talk amongst yourselves) at the poetic dance (sniffling here) of ‘coal power’ (dressed in black and a minority of one) versus ‘wind power’ (dressed in white and a clear majority of more ‘windee’ actors than the lone coal guy). If I hadn’t been reduced to an emotional jello at the sheer brilliance of their ‘art’ I would be commenting that that is portrayal is racist...but, instead I think I will turn off the lights here and ‘reflect’ on the significance of it all.
Thanks for the slideshow... I noticed Lisa Fithian in two pictures, she was the organizer behind the Seattle riots. She is Leslie Cagan’s cohort at communist UFPJ and blatantly promotes property destruction to create civil unrest and therefore obtain what she calls “alternative governance”.
In the pics she is simply described as a member of “Pagan Cluster, an earth-based spirituality group”...
“The invasion of smelly hippies, destruction and a lot of cost to the city(taxpayers). For what? So that the council can call for a tax increase or rate hike in a couple of months to pay for this mess they wanted so badly.”
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Obama sent a note of thanks to our local officials, and all I could think of is “never mind the thank you...where is the money to reimburse the city for security and other expenditures? “ How much you wanna bet the feds renege on the promised reimbursement? The city is always teeetering on bankruptcy, and this will be the perfect excuse for tax increases and new fees and taxes. In fact, the local politicans are already talking about raising the commuter tax, among other things.
Stupid. Pittsburgh should have figured out that when other cities declined to host this dog and pony show, this might not have been a good idea.
I thought they already told the city that they won’t help with the costs? I remember hearing something like that and thinking ‘wtf do they want this thing for in the first place?’.
Hmmm. I didn’t hear that the feds reneged. I think the politicians are under the impression that having the summit here will benefit the local economy, and this will translate into more tax revenue. Seems to me though that all the expenditures for security and the like, as well as the fact that for the most part, neither the deligates nor the protestors will be doing a whole lot of spending in shops and restaurants, will far ougweigh any economic benefit. The ordinary citizens, the ones who work, shop and go to theater downtown, are the ones who drive the business economy, and there is no way the city will derive any economic benefit from the summit that would make up for te bneefits from ordinary citizens on any typical day.
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