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What to do when protesters glue themselves to things?
American Thinker ^ | 9 Sep, 2023 | Milli Sands

Posted on 09/09/2023 4:36:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber

What if we just...do nothing?

Depending on how long it lasts, our time may be known as the Adhesive-Based Protest Epoch(sy).

Glue-ins began in 1997, when anti-roadway protesters in the U.K. began using tactics like locking themselves together using arm tubes or gluing themselves to walls and fences.

Following that event:

In 1999, climate activist group Earth First! pioneered "lock-ons," where protesters use bicycle locks or other devices to chain themselves together into human blockades.

Throughout the 2000s, environmental groups like Earth First! and later Extinction Rebellion began using more adhesive tactics.

In 2009, Greenpeace activists climbed Mount Rushmore and unfurled a banner after gluing their hands to the mountain.

In 2011, Occupy Wall Street protesters glued bricks to the floor in strategic places to make it harder to remove encampments.

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Generally, there is no absolute legal requirement mandating that glued or attached protesters must be forcibly removed in all situations. However, authorities do have significant discretion to remove criminal trespassers or those violating reasonable time, place, and manner restrictions on speech.

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To: MtnClimber

This kind of protest relies strongly on the good intentions and restraint of the authorities.


21 posted on 09/09/2023 5:07:42 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: MtnClimber
They could be blocking a vital road. Use lighter fluid or gasoline to dissolve the glue. Once freed dragged them out of the way, light a joint for them to calm them down. Which could be good or bad for them, depending. If the lighter fluid or gas doesn't dissolve the glue try hydrochloric acid. That dissolves all kinds of stuff.
Sounds harsh but they've already decided on extreme measures. What goes around comes around.
22 posted on 09/09/2023 5:08:32 AM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; dfwgator

Wasn’t he the international terrorist who was really, really nice to Homer Simpson?


23 posted on 09/09/2023 5:09:47 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: LegendHasIt; dfwgator
When the Liberal parents accept a gift from an Islamic terrorist


24 posted on 09/09/2023 5:11:34 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

Simple... Leave them there!!


25 posted on 09/09/2023 5:12:38 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: MtnClimber

Suspend their driver’s licenses. The more they offend, the worse it gets.


26 posted on 09/09/2023 5:16:53 AM PDT by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: MtnClimber

Amputation.......


27 posted on 09/09/2023 5:18:31 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: GreenHornet

But feed them salty popcorn continually?


28 posted on 09/09/2023 5:20:49 AM PDT by silent majority rising
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To: MtnClimber

Back a dump truck full of horse manure and unload it on the protesters.


29 posted on 09/09/2023 5:23:48 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m in favor of doing nothing. But I know that won’t happen, so clear the roads and sidewalks, and get them out of danger, then prosecute, and make them pay the costs incurred, plus fines.


30 posted on 09/09/2023 5:25:04 AM PDT by I want the USA back (If genitals don't define gender, how does removing them affirm it? )
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To: MtnClimber

“Accidently spill” a bottle of essence of skunk on or near them, and leave. Or invite sir fartsalot swallwell to the event and make sure he is standing next to the glued peeps.


31 posted on 09/09/2023 5:34:35 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: MtnClimber

“I think most should be left there.”

I think that was Volkswagen that did that. A bunch glued themselves to the floor in some office area, but it was Friday afternoon, so the workers just home for the evening...


32 posted on 09/09/2023 5:35:22 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: SaveFerris

You beat me to it!

I travel by her alma mater everyday. I frankly have expected to see some kind of memorial erected. In fairness, they might have, it would be very appropriate to use a flatstone, that’s what most cemeteries are opting for in the Evergreen State.


33 posted on 09/09/2023 5:43:55 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: bigfootbob

What a thing to throw her life away on

She never understood that those people are pawns in the long war against Israel


34 posted on 09/09/2023 5:47:05 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: equaviator

Good idea.


35 posted on 09/09/2023 5:52:04 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

I think most should be left there.

and build a brick wall around them


36 posted on 09/09/2023 5:55:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Kill It With Fire!


37 posted on 09/09/2023 6:01:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaveFerris

Exactly.

I blame her mother. She’s patently EVIL. The look on her face in that photo, sickens me, but she’s very typical of the women who you run into in Olympia and the Pugetopolis areas in Washington.

I cannot imagine the stages of cognitive dissonance you have being a dimocRAT today. SMH!


38 posted on 09/09/2023 6:01:30 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: butlerweave
...and build a brick wall around them

...and fill it with water.

39 posted on 09/09/2023 6:02:43 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.)
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To: Mark17

“I was just going to suggest, give them stronger glue.”

And smear it just under their noses so we don’t have to listen to them.

wy69


40 posted on 09/09/2023 6:03:26 AM PDT by whitney69
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