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Consequences Finally Arrive for 'Just Stop Oil' Lunatics, and the Response Is Priceless
Red State ^ | September 27, 2024 | Staff

Posted on 09/27/2024 6:34:53 PM PDT by Red Badger

After years of disruption and vandalism, consequences have finally arrived for "Just Stop Oil" protesters. I'm not just talking about some motorists throwing them out of the street either, as satisfying as that usually is. This time, actual prison sentences were handed down.

In October 2022, two women entered the National Gallery in London and threw soup onto a famous Van Gogh painting. They then glued themselves to the wall while ranting about climate change. Video of the incident went viral at the time.

Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were arrested for their deeds, though it wasn't immediately clear any real punishment would be handed down. Now, nearly two years later, the two soup aficionados will be eating a lot of it behind bars. Plummer received two years while Holland got 20 months.

The response from "Just Stop Oil" was priceless. Instead of defiantly proclaiming the sacrifice was worth it to save the world, they cried foul, suggesting the punishment was far too harsh for the crime.

"Just Stop Oil" is a cult. It takes impressionable people and convinces them that if they don't break the law and make the lives of other people miserable, life on Earth will cease to exist in relatively short order. Being brainwashed doesn't give a person the right to block streets and damage priceless pieces of art. That's a lesson these lunatics have been loath to learn over the years. I don't know if this will change the calculus for them, but it's necessary nonetheless.

The judge who oversaw the case wasn't kind in his sentencing remarks.

In his sentencing remarks, Judge Hehir said: “Your culpability is at level A. You did reconnaissance and planning and talked to a journalist. Your harm is at category 1, which means extreme harm to society.”

He indicated that conscience was not a mitigating factor and that “The action you took was extreme, disproportionate and criminally idiotic given the risks involved”. He continued “There is nothing peaceful or nonviolent about throwing soup. Throwing soup in someone’s face is violent.”

Addressing Phoebe he said “You think your beliefs entitle you to do anything. I was treated to a lengthy exposition to your political views. The suggestion that you and others like you in a democracy are political prisoners is ludicrous, offensive and idiotic. You have no remorse and you are proud.”

The key phrase there is, "You think your beliefs entitle you to do anything." That is the paradigm these "activists" operate under. The fact that others have a right to go to work, get to hospitals, and enjoy their lives doesn't register with them. Doomsday cults do not care about other people. They only care about their delusions of grandeur.

For context, "Just Stop Oil" is demanding all fossil fuel extraction be ceased by 2030. What would happen if they accomplished that goal? Millions upon millions of people would die, with the highest death tolls being in underdeveloped nations in places like Africa. Fossil fuels power the world. To think that can be stopped in the next five years is absurd and dangerous. If anything, these two women got off easy.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 00001linseedoil; 2022; 202210; 2030; agenda21; agw; annaholland; antisemitic; bullies; climatecult; crime; doomsdaycult; fossilfuel; juststopoil; karma; london; nationalgallery; netzero; nutzero; phoebeplummer; plummer; thugs; un; unitednations; vandalism; vandals; vangogh; waronart; waroncats
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1 posted on 09/27/2024 6:34:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
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2 posted on 09/27/2024 6:38:53 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: kiryandil

Ceausescu?..........


3 posted on 09/27/2024 6:40:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Indeed.

Hope the same judge gets the three new ones. Those should have gotten a beat-down.


4 posted on 09/27/2024 6:44:01 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Red Badger
Yep. Mr and Mrs.

5 posted on 09/27/2024 6:44:30 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. -- Psalm 106)
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To: Red Badger

Oil. From it we get our fertilizer, pharmaceutical products, clothing, colorants, dyes, paint, plastics, etc. These people are morons.


6 posted on 09/27/2024 6:47:37 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Red Badger

Let’s see if their convictions change after they carry out their sentences living among the prison population - who did MUCH worse than throw soup on a painting.


7 posted on 09/27/2024 6:49:29 PM PDT by simpson96
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Make them beg for heat to their cells.


8 posted on 09/27/2024 6:51:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Red Badger

As the saying goes, the issue is never the issue...

Climate movement splinters as activists target Israel
thehill ^ | 01/12/2024
Posted on 1/12/2024, 6:29:23 PM by devane617

Ever since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attack and Israel’s counteroffensive, prominent climate activist groups such as Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, and Fridays for Future have led anti-Israel protests, attempting to align the Palestinian cause with the global climate cause....


9 posted on 09/27/2024 7:03:04 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Red Badger; george76

It isn’t just a cult, it is part of a thought out political agenda. Note their artificial 2030 deadline.

Then note:

UN Agenda 21 , 2030 , Great Reset, ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)

2 posted on 9/26/2024, 5:13:38 AM by george76


10 posted on 09/27/2024 7:06:03 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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If the world ‘just stopped oil’ from the beginning of the discovery that is was necessary for a better future...

we’d still be living in the 1800s. Some say that would have been good; but most of the world would use oil eternally because, life is better lived with oil.


11 posted on 09/27/2024 7:09:33 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: kiryandil; Red Badger

A lot of people felt the End of Communism was when the Wall fell.

I think it was when the Ceaușescu‘s fell. Literally.

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer couple.


12 posted on 09/27/2024 7:18:17 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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"What''s for lunch?"

"Solitary soup."

13 posted on 09/27/2024 7:22:53 PM PDT by Songcraft
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14 posted on 09/27/2024 7:25:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Put all of the no-oil loonies on an island somewhere and leave them strictly alone, no aid of any kind. I’m sure it’ll be just like Gilligan’s Island, where the castaways didn’t have any nasty old fossil fuels. They did all right.


15 posted on 09/27/2024 7:35:05 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Taxman

ping


16 posted on 09/27/2024 7:35:54 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: kiryandil

give them an oil heater.


17 posted on 09/27/2024 8:16:45 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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give them an oil heater.

I like the way you think.

18 posted on 09/27/2024 8:17:44 PM PDT by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: Red Badger

Here’s what they should do with these f’n idiots that glue themselves to stuff. LEAVE THEM THERE! No food, no water. Let them shit and piss in their pants til they die of dehydration or starvation, whichever comes first. Let their corpses rot in place. Might stink for a bit but it would send the right message.


19 posted on 09/27/2024 8:30:22 PM PDT by technically right
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To: adorno
They should lead by example and stop using everything that comes from oil. Just like the millionaires who preach to us about climate change while flying on their private jets to one of their mansions. The hypocrisy of these people is unbelievable. They all claim the oceans will rise but they still buy multi million dollar properties on the water.
20 posted on 09/27/2024 10:37:51 PM PDT by Rdct29 (The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
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