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 . . . .
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Bwahaahaaaa!
This was in London?
You notice that they don't do that anymore.
I wonder if that is because of the CCW laws.
Screw with the cattle traders in front of a USDA report, or bean traders, bond traders too (although that mkt is going e- ) almost any time, and I'll wager that you'll find out just how clever your dentist IS, and in VERY short order!
I don't even want to think about what the NYMEX traders would do to these morons, should said morons invade THAT floor.
''Emeril Live!'' might just be featuring blood sausage dishes the next night.
And in the early days on the CBOE...get in the way of a trader and you'd get a pen in the eye,or at least a hard elbow in the ribs and these people weren't trying to stop trading/protesting.
I have never been more proud of my Scottish ancestry...
Heeheheee
''If you think I'm gonna run over you because you're in the way when I've gotta get something done, you might be right or you might be wrong. But, even if I do, between me and the Floor Committee, whaddaya wanna bet happens?''
He was, of course, EXACTLY correct.
I never tested that notion, either. Probably a good move on my part. Never tried to do ''2 point 7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu'', either. The result, I think, would have been about the same.
FReegards, and the best to you!
Yes, this happened here. :)
Regards, Ivan
:)
LOL....that's got to be the quote of the day!
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King Prout: Thanks for the ping.
Harmless Teddy Bear: Interesting point. It would seem that Robert Heinlein was right in noting that an armed society is more polite.
The bullies got bullied. Funniest story in a while!
They tried to start some Critical Ma[rxist] bike takeovers a few years ago, riding slowly down Main street and holding up traffic, but people began trying to run them down, and there were a few collisions.
The daily paper interviewed these goons, crying and moaning about how mean the people in the cars were to them, and there was an onslaught of letters saying that the motorists would continue to behave that way, that we won't allow Critical Mass to take over our city as they have so many.
Ed
Sounds like the only sane bit of Oregon!
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