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JustStopOil protesters attack more Van Gogh oil paintings
The Spectator World ^ | 09/27/2024 | Cockburn

Posted on 09/27/2024 8:07:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

It didn’t take long for the eco-zealots to strike again. Just minutes after JustStopOil activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for throwing Heinz tomato soup over Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” a trio of JSO protesters have again targeted the artist’s work at the National Gallery in London. How very tiresome…

The climate protest group tweeted out a video of the group’s latest stunt, urging Brits to “support people in resistance.” The clip of the art attack, which was recorded this afternoon, shows passers-by remonstrating with the JSO activists. Shouting at a room of livid art enthusiasts, the protesters raged:

There are people in prison for demanding an end to new oil and gas, something which is now government policy after sustained, disruptive actions, countless headlines and the resulting political pressure. Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history.

Earlier today, Plummer and Holland were locked up for causing £10,000 ($13,000) worth of damage to Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting during the 2022 attack. Plummer received a two-year jail term at Southwark Crown Court, while Holland was caged for twenty months. Judge Christopher Hehir told the pair: “You had no right to do what you did to ‘Sunflowers.’”

A rather shocked frame conservator Isabella Kocum told the jury that: “The frame was specifically chosen for Van Gogh’s painting because of the matching coloration. I remain amazed at how corrosive the soup was to the frame. Even once the majority of the soup had been removed, I was alarmed to see that the remainder was acting like a paint stripper in front of my eyes.” Twenty-two-year-old Plummer told the court that the soup was chosen “because it would stand out.” It “symbolized the link between the climate crisis and the cost of living crisis,” she said. Er, right. The guilty activist went on:

I don’t think that action like this fits the black and white letter of the law. Sometimes morality is different from the law, different from justice, different from legal directions. We caused some damage to the frame. The painting was returned to the gallery the same day. The frame has not been further restored since then. The frame was not damaged enough to warrant further restoration. It is still deemed worthy to encase a precious, priceless work of art. I intended to shine a light on the climate crisis and on the cost of living crisis.

She’s certainly shone a light on, um, how extreme the environmentalists are willing to get about their whole cause. Will the eco-zealots ever learn? Don’t hold your breath…


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1 posted on 09/27/2024 8:07:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Lock these idiots up, and throw away the key.


2 posted on 09/27/2024 8:11:00 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: SeekAndFind

They better not own cars or heat in their homes.


3 posted on 09/27/2024 8:14:46 PM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Some people require to have the stupid,”Knocked Out” of them in the most direct manner possible. They can’t learn through education.but only through something like Aversion Therapy.


4 posted on 09/27/2024 8:21:21 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

Soupy soupy night!


5 posted on 09/27/2024 8:31:38 PM PDT by HerrBlucher
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To: bray

Or use ANY peteolium product. AT ALL.


6 posted on 09/27/2024 8:34:27 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

ROOM TEMP & 8 FEET UNDER IS BETTER


7 posted on 09/27/2024 9:12:39 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind

They deserve the Van Gogh ear treatment!


8 posted on 09/28/2024 12:09:28 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To: SeekAndFind; Fedora

Hillary Clinton-run group helps fund Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion
UK Telegraph ^ | 8/1/2024 | Tony Diver
Posted on 8/1/2024, 10:22:49 PM by simpson96

Just Stop Oil’s stunts are partly funded by a campaign organisation run by Hillary Clinton, US financial disclosures reveal.

A group founded by Mrs Clinton from the ashes of her failed presidential bid has donated $500,000 (£391,500) in the last three years to the protest group’s California-based financiers.

American voters who have bought tote bags decorated with pictures of Mrs Clinton or sweatshirts promoting abortion rights have inadvertently funded disruption in the UK.

Just Stop Oil’s largest financial backer is a controversial Californian non-profit, the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), which pays for stunts by environmental groups across the world, including Extinction Rebellion.

A paper trail of transparency disclosures, seen by The Telegraph, shows that one of the CEF’s major supporters is Onward Together, a campaign organisation founded by Mrs Clinton in the aftermath of her 2016 presidential campaign against Donald Trump....


9 posted on 09/28/2024 12:44:25 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: SeekAndFind

This Van Gogh must’ve been a helluva polluter to draw this kind of hate.


10 posted on 09/28/2024 2:33:31 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: SeekAndFind

super glue them to the floor and spread honey and let the African ants gave them


11 posted on 09/28/2024 4:39:01 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: SeekAndFind

Madness that mad people would deface the work of a genius afflicted by madness (the term used in Vincent’s day).


12 posted on 09/28/2024 4:55:29 AM PDT by Srednik (Polyglot. Overeducated. Redeemed by Christ. Anticommunist from the womb.)
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Does anyone know the significance of targeting Van Gogh paintings?


13 posted on 09/28/2024 5:04:55 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Summary executions would end this.


14 posted on 09/28/2024 6:10:38 AM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tattoo their faces and call it even.


15 posted on 09/28/2024 7:04:55 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind

Break or cut off their hands.


16 posted on 09/28/2024 7:39:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Cut off their ears.


17 posted on 09/28/2024 7:40:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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