Posted on 08/19/2022 6:57:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
ROME (AP) — Italian environmental activists staged a second museum protest in as many months, gluing their hands Thursday to the base of one of the Vatican Museums’ most important ancient sculptures, the Laocoon.
The statue wasn’t damaged, said the environmental group Last Generation. Vatican gendarmes removed the three protesters and they were processed at an Italian police station. It wasn’t clear if Vatican criminal prosecutors would eventually take up the case since they have jurisdiction in Vatican City.
The protesters are demanding the Italian government increase its solar and wind power and stop exploring for natural gas and reopening old coal mines in Italy. They affixed a banner to the statue’s base reading “No gas, no coal.”
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What these watermelon psychos really want is what Pol Pot wanted in Cambodia. I.e year zero.
From wikipedia “all culture and traditions within a society must be completely destroyed or discarded and that a new revolutionary culture must replace it starting from scratch.”
Every Friday, at a public building near my work in this rare GOP-plurality county in CA, about 20 climate activists gather to protest climate change. Libs all over the world, they love them their performative shows. Makes them feel so righteous
Again, the Swiss Guard just needs to relieve them of any solvents they may have brought, and just let them stay stuck there until they need to poop or pee.
I was thinking the same thing when I read a post here about how the student newspaper at the University of Virginia proposed re-naming anything named for Thomas Jefferson.
To “increase its solar and wind power and stop exploring for natural gas and reopening old coal mines.”
Illogical, unreasonable and ignorant. Solar takes 75 years to pay off. Wind power is weak. Natural gas is very abundant. Coal mines are useless when IFR nuclear power stations are located in every city around the world.
They like glue. Add more. Keep adding until all motion is gone.
No doubt organized by using their phones which are using fossil fuel power and wearing clothes made in factories using fossil fuels and will return to their fossil fueled heated/cooled homes.
Climate protesters must lead a very lonely life always looking for a meme moment.
These works of art are irreplaceable and should be protected at any cost. Deliberately damaging one should be a capital crime.
If someone glues themselves to one, they should clear the room of tourists, take measures to protect the art from the squirting blood, then remove the offenders’ hands from their wrists with a Sawzall.
You’ll only need to do it once before these events become extremely rare.
The first time I saw the Rosetta Stone, it wasn’t in some bullet-proof glass case like it is now, it was “protected” by a single strand of red velour rope suspended from chromed stanchions. All very regal and dignified-looking.
You even could lean over the ropes and put your face within a whisker of the stone, look at it as closely as you liked. Breathe on it even. But if you touched it, a police matron would sidle up to you and whisper, quietly, “Please don’t touch the stone,” then walk back to her post.
But you didn’t get arrested or even just instructed to leave. It was like you got one free touch, and I never saw anyone touch it the second time. And being able to get that close to it made it a more meaningful and more involving experience.
These idiots are willing to get extreme to get their wackadoodle points across. You can’t stop them unless you’re willing to be more extreme in your retaliation. And if you don’t, they win.
And when they win, rest of us get screwed over. We’ll end up only being able to view any of the world’s greatest works of art through plexiglass.
And if you don’t have a Sawzall, you can borrow mine. I’ll even show you how it works.
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