Posted on 08/29/2023 4:49:54 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
August 27 2023 Black Rock Desert, NEVADA -
"30 seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let's talk, get off the fucken road" - Tribal Ranger announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED through blockade, made arrest at gun point.
Climate activists from XR and “7 Seven Circles” shut down highway leading to the Burning Man Festival, withing the tribal lands.
Attendees quickly became irate, confronting the group blockading the road and physically attempting to remove the blockade. Some attendees sped thru close by the chained activists.
Rangers rushed in to the group, ramming through the blockade and rushing out with gun pointed to arrest protesters. Several arrests were made during the incident, including the legal observer as activists blocked traffic into Burning Man festival on the event’s first day open to the general public.
The group blocked a main thoroughfare using a trailer, lock-ons, and banners with the words “BURNERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!”, “ABOLISH CAPITALISM”, and “GENERAL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE”.
Group says the blockade’s purpose is to draw attention to capitalism’s inability to address climate and ecological breakdown along with protesting against the popularization of Burning Man among affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event.
Go Rangers!
Not to me, it wasn’t. Having these pampered, spoiled brats drawn down on might help fix them.
I would have just driven around them as some did.
Well, I he watched them ram it a least three times. 😁👍
Try that in a small town...
Libs vs libs. Awesome. They support protests until it interferes with THEIR good time...... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They tried that near a small town--Nixon, Nev., which has a population of about 400. It's not like San Francisco, where cops stand around and watch motorists being carjacked.
I believe that drawing down on those people is meant to drive
home how serious the officers are, and that the perps should
not try to grab something and try to strike the officers.
Only when law enforcement telegraphs they aren’t going to
mince words with these people any longer will this type of
thing end.
These people are preventing others from going about their
business. They don’t know if there is any semi-serious
situation they don’t know about. They are just
arbitrarily deciding that only they have any rights.
The right to express your views, does no allow you to
interrupt everyone else’s life.
These people are not exercising their legitimate rights.
They are destroying everyone else’s rights.
Yes.
They created a massive line of stuck vehicles, there is no end or it in the video. And those folks just tried to argue with them and then called the rangers,
Why not just throw them into the ditch with all their “equipment”?
The motorists to “protesters” ratio was like 100:1
Feel good video of the year.
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