We're starting to see a trend. Last year, elementary school students threw milk cartons at PETA protestors.
i would prefer that greeenpeace start picking on people buying toilet paper.
"sneeze on them, indeed!"
LOL...
Except the "tonnes of free press" were 99% about what a pack of blooming idiots the greenies were, and how satisfying it was that they finally got their a$$es kicked. This type of press is not what they had in mind.
Sneeze on them with a REALLY juicy sneeze, the kind that usually leaves your hand completely full of snot. I can just picture one of those earnest, sincere greenpeacers with a facefull after pestering a shopper with a cold!
Here's an interesting website by one of the original founders of Greenpeace who came to the realization that the politics of blame and shame must be replaced with the politics of working together and win-win.
PROFILE: Patrick Moore, Ph.D.
Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years. He is a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as President of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a Director of Greenpeace International. As the leader of many campaigns Dr. Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world's largest environmental activist organization.
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It was during my university years that I suddenly realized there was more to life than logic and materialism. I discovered ecology and realized this branch of science was unique. Through ecology it was possible to link rational thought with spiritual wonder, to consider the infinite webs and cycles of life with new eyes. Ecology is holistic as in holy yet it is rooted in objective science and observation. I decided it was a good idea to "save" the earth from nuclear war and pollution. I was reborn as a radical environmental activist. Greenpeace began and I began with it.
We sailed the seas saving whales, protesting nuclear testing and nuclear dumping, halting supertankers, saving baby seals, preventing toxic waste discharge and interfering with drift-nets. They were heady times with countless moments of excitement, danger, frustration and victory. Looking back it is hard to believe we accomplished so much, as we raised public awareness about all things environmental. They were the best years of my life (except for all the others).
Fifteen years of Greenpeace campaigns later I had some new insights. It was time to switch from confrontation to consensus, time to stop fighting and start talking with the people in charge. I became a convert to the idea of sustainable development and the need to consider social and economic issues along with my environmental values. I adopted the round table, consensus approach as the logical next step in the evolution of the movement for sustainability.
Little did I realize at the time how this would bring me into open and direct conflict with the movement I had helped bring into the world. I now find that many environmental groups have drifted into self-serving cliques with narrow vision and rigid ideology. At the same time that business and government are embracing public participation and inclusiveness, many environmentalists are showing signs of elitism, left-wingism, and downright eco-fascism. The once politically centrist, science-based vision of environmentalism has been largely replaced with extremist rhetoric. Science and logic have been abandoned and the movement is often used to promote other causes such as class struggle and anti-corporatism. The public is left trying to figure out what is reasonable and what is not.
For more detail see: Hard Choices for the Environmental Movement http://www.greenspirit.com/key_issues/the_log.cfm?booknum=12