Some folks are
Posted on 02/24/2005 8:36:56 AM PST by MikeEdwards
Greenpeace has discovered that invading the workplace can be as hazardous as finding toxins there.
Growing ever more corporate as the world’s largest environmental lobby group, Greenpeace was spoon-fed workplace invasion 101 from the oil industry, and for safety’s sake may be forced to rethink its strategy.
With the practice of popping up wherever called, Greenpeacers are at the ready to move out with their props of banners and placards in tow.
Thirty-five Greenpeace protesters decided to storm the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) in London, last 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 in what has become typical, "in-yer’-face" Greenpeace style.
More infamous for melees at sea where they prevent ships from coming into port, Greenpeace’s mission at the IPE was to paralyze oil trading. Their mission failed and Greenpeace was paralyzed from protesting.
The initially taken-by-surprise traders--most of them under 25 years old--rushed the protesters. They pushed filing cabinets over on top of the Greenpeacers, kicking and punching them with "we-should-be-allowed-to-work gusto before forcing them to retreat.
Two Greenpeacers were actually hospitalized, one with a broken jaw, the other with concussion.
One protester concluded: "I have never seen anyone less amenable to our point of view."
Whoever said that halting someone at work was a sensible way to get one’s point of view across?
The vision of young co-eds taking down aging Greenpeace activists with graying ponytails is something the environmental lobby’s spin doctors will have to work at.
After years of being bullied in the workplace and the schoolyard, the victims of leftwing activists are starting to take a stand.
Long before young traders decided to take on Greenpeace, animal rights activists were sent . . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Be more meticulous about the use of the term 'public.' Misuse of the term is responsible for much of the confusion of the rights of the citizen and the power of the state today.
The demonstration on the exchange floor was an attack on the 'private' sector. The attack on the school was possibly an attack on the 'private' sector or an attack on public property depending on who owned the school, gov't or private school.
Calling the citizens 'the public' is confusing. They are private citizens and are definitely not 'the public.'
:^)
Gifford thought the anger displayed had something to do with where the children were raised.
"I have traveled all over the UK with this protest and I have not seen anything like this before. It must be something to do with children in Aberdeen. I think they got a bit over-excited. I’m sure they will go home and think about our message," Gifford told The Scotsman.
BWAHAHAHahahahahaaa......
The children in fact went home to drink milk, watch television and do homework.
Milk would be coming out my nose right now if I had some.
That puts a smile on my face.
hehhehheh couldn't have happened to a nicer pack of flatheads!
great fun PING!
Bwahahaha! Thanks for the ping.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
This is wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!
Wonder why that is?
They may, in fact, have been quite amenable to this moron's "point of view" but not to having their workplace trashed and their persons assaulted. One of the underlying assumptions in activism is that anyone believing in The Cause is exempted from all normal social mores, and that anyone who dislikes anything the activist does is an enemy of The Cause. They've been at this for so long that even the press buys into it uncritically.
People used to run from well-equipped, well-financed, mainline media- loved modern-day activists. Now the activists are running from people.
We need to see more of this.
MUCH more
I like Gifford's self assuredness on the effect of his protest outside the grammar school where the kids kicked his butt, "I'm sure they'll go home and think about our message."
The best quote though was, "I've never seen anyone less amenable to our point of view.."
BWAH-Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah-haaaa.
Like blowing whistles, foghorns, and generally making a nuisance of one's self is going to make someone else amenable to your view.
Rolling on the trading floor laughin my a.. off at green peacers under filing cabinets.
Yet another reason to suppport "guns in the workplace". Why should those being assaulted have to risk serious physical injury wrestling with these fools? Just shoot one and the rest will hightail it outa there.
I *know* you will enjoy this
Hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOMANK!
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