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Mission: Impossible?
Fox News ^
| February 18, 2005
| Brit Hume
Posted on 02/20/2005 12:05:25 AM PST by Dan Evans
Thirty-five Greenpeace (search) protesters got more than they may have bargained for when they stormed the International Petroleum Exchange in London on Wednesday. According to "The Times" of London, they slipped into a closing door and then roared onto the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding foghorns.
They were hoping to paralyze oil trading at the exchange. But the traders, most of them under 25 years old, rushed the protesters, pushing filing cabinets on top of them and kicking and punching them until they retreated. Twenty-seven protesters were arrested. Two were hospitalized, one with a broken jaw and the other with a concussion. One protester says, "I have never seen anyone less amenable to listening our point of view."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: beatem; brokenjaw; environmentalwhackos; greenpeace; oil; soupdiet; suckers; wiredjaw
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:05:25 AM PST
by
Dan Evans
To: Dan Evans
YEAH - That's what I'm talking about
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:06:40 AM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Secularization of America is happening)
To: Dan Evans
I LOVE these guys for doing this!
God Save England and God Save the USA!
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:07:17 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Vote George Washington for the #1 spot)
To: Dan Evans
Gimme the address of that exchange. I want to send them a few cases of Guiness.
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:08:26 AM PST
by
dandi
(Looking forward to more P.E.S.T.s in 2006.)
To: Dan Evans
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:09:29 AM PST
by
dandi
(Looking forward to more P.E.S.T.s in 2006.)
To: Dan Evans
One protester says, "I have never seen anyone less amenable to listening our point of view." Listening? Son, be glad you're alive.
And next time someone offers you a glass of stupid, say 'no thanks, I'm full'.
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:11:57 AM PST
by
IncPen
To: Dan Evans
Right F'ing on. greenpeace riiiiiiiiight. Broken jaw I love it. I bet they don't try that again soon ;-)
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:11:59 AM PST
by
Deetes
To: Dan Evans
It all started with the Republican accountants in Florida in '00! What's next, fighting programmers?
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:12:13 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(The people previously responsible for this tagline have been sacked.)
To: IncPen
Yeah, that line is pretty funny. They commit criminal trespass, start trying to disrupt business, and then go, "gosh, we just wanted to tell them our point of view."
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:13:35 AM PST
by
Richard Kimball
(It was a joke. You know, humor. Like the funny kind. Only different.)
To: Dan Evans
Who would have guessed that oil traders were also soccer fans?
To: Dan Evans
"I have never seen anyone less amenable to listening our point of view." Rather disingenuous from someone using foghorns and whistles to proclaim his point of view. Yahoo for these Brits and their quick and decisive response.
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:14:16 AM PST
by
Ruth A.
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:14:30 AM PST
by
wildcatf4f3
(out of the sun)
To: Dan Evans
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:17:13 AM PST
by
FairOpinion
(It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:18:53 AM PST
by
FairOpinion
(It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.)
To: Deetes
we should start inviting them to protest, I wonder how many times they would need to get the message?
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:20:24 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Bush on the PRESS "They just float sewer out there.")
To: Dan Evans
Seems like the proper response to uncivil protest.
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:27:42 AM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(DEM MOTTO: If we can't run this country, we will run it into the ground.)
To: Dan Evans
LOL!!! Where's video when you need it?
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:30:16 AM PST
by
skr
(May God bless those in harm's way and confound those who would do the harming)
To: farmfriend
PING
I thought you'd enjoy this about the Greenpeace protesters.
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:30:42 AM PST
by
FairOpinion
(It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.)
To: GeronL
You would think a good broken jaw would put them off a bit. But we are talking Demorats , so I would be willing to repeat the performance , especially some loons come onto my private property .Might get worse then a jaw though ;-)
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:41:47 AM PST
by
Deetes
To: Deetes
Demorats?? in London?? =o)
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posted on
02/20/2005 12:44:15 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Bush on the PRESS "They just float sewer out there.")
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