Music to my ears.
Whenever a crypto-communist scumbag is beaten into the hospital...an angel gets his wings.
God bless the oil traders! I wish I could have been there with them.
The "after lunch" point: Britons drink at lunch, sometimes heavily.
I have a feeling we're going to see more and more of this. People are fed up with these protesters and their antics.
Bawhwaahhehaahehae
“They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.”
ROTFLAICGU..... stop it ......please..... Bawaahahhahhaha
But they were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. “They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said. “It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back.”
What a bunch of wimps. LOL.
A spokeswoman from IPE said the trading floor reopened at 3.10pm. “The floor was invaded by a small group of protesters,” she said. “Open outcry trading was suspended but electronic trading carried on.”
Who needs hockey when you can have this...
This temple of capitalism better get some real security or it may not be a band of Greenies storming the ramparts next time.
Leni
Grinnin' from ear to ear!!!
Ha! I love it. Nothing like a good stress reliever at the end of the day.
Funny!
Time to sink their boat again! One of the very few good deads France has accomplished!
Does mean what I think it does? Britain was dumb enough to sign that?
Let's make this the Standard Operating Procedure for these freaks worldwide.
I would pay for a video of this. Jolly good show ol' chaps!
If only they could do this on the NYSE.
More details.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1416295,00.html
Kyoto protests disrupt oil trading
Violent clashes at London energy exchange after Greenpeace activists use direct action to mark global warming treaty
John Vidal and Terry Macalister
Thursday February 17, 2005
The Guardian
Oil trading was interrupted for more than an hour yesterday in the world's second largest energy market when 35 Greenpeace activists invaded the International Petroleum Exchange in London on the day the Kyoto global warming treaty came into effect.
The exchange, which trades oil worth up to $1,000bn a year and sets the price for as much as 60% of the world's crude supply, was thrown into chaos just before 2pm as traders and security guards clashed with the activists coming through the only door on to the trading floor in the basement of the building.
Carrying foghorns, alarms and whistles, the protesters tried to prevent the trading.
As three Greenpeace climbers hung a banner from the roof declaring "Climate change kills. Stop pushing oil", more than a dozen people were hurt when angry traders pulled a large metal bookcase on top of protesters and guards waded in to punch and kick people trapped in corridors.
Activists expressed shock at the reaction. "They were in a frenzy. They just went wild. They were trying so hard to hit us they were falling over each other," said Peter Mulhall, a commercial manager from Liverpool protesting at the amount of oil being traded.
Stephen Tindale, head of Greenpeace UK, who led the activists into the building, said: "We believe we are stopping trading in oil on the global market. They just laid into us. We were non-violent and we made it clear that's what we were there for. But there were quite a few blows raining down on our heads. There was not much discussion. We decided to retreat for everyone's safety."
Many of the protesters were attacked again as they were forced out of the building. One man was pulled by his hair down a corridor and kicked, another was kicked and punched in the head by a guard at the entrance. "One person was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to hospital," a London ambulance service spokesman said.
A spokeswoman for the IPE said the trading floor reopened at 3.10pm. "The floor was invaded by a small group of protesters," she said. "Open-cry trading was suspended but electronic trading carried on as normal throughout."
One oil trader said his colleagues were angry about floor trading being delayed for more than an hour. "We were disappointed with security for allowing this commotion just at a time when the [crude] market was pushing higher on the back of reports that a missile had been fired at Iran. I kept on trading electronically but I could see the [Greenpeace] guys coming on to the viewing gallery and then they were pushed back."
Many of the floor traders are self-employed and stand to lose earnings from the disruption but the IPE was unwilling to comment on what volume of trade had been affected.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said 10 people were arrested for public order offences. A further 20 were still inside the building at 5.30pm and were being dealt with by the police. All those arrested are believed to have been demonstrators.
Nice work by your countrymen ping.
"They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs."
Translation?
How noble. </sarcasm>
Bwa ha ha.
This is the reason GP protesters don't bother oil refineries.
And why they throw paint on old ladies' fur coats but don't say anything about bikers.
Let this be a lesson to gun restriction advocates who intend on disrupting NRA meetings.