By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
May 29, 2002
Dallas (CNSNews.com) - Anti-corporate protesters and environmentalists were charged with hypocrisy for leaving a Dallas rally against ExxonMobil Corporation in a full size passenger van. Free market counter demonstrators began chanting "SUV Alert" as the anti-corporatist protesters retreated to their Ford Econoline van.
Despite a call by an anti-ExxonMobil protester to "burn" all SUV's in America, the demonstrators left the rally site at the Morton Meyerson Center in the van. One protester conceded it was "unfortunate" that they drove the van to the rally decrying ExxonMobil's environmental policies.
Carol Jones, a free market counter protester of the Texas branch of the group Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE), was on hand at the downtown rally and charged the anti-ExxonMobil protesters with hypocrisy for driving a "gas guzzler."
"They always bring all their blow up [props] in SUV's, which they are totally against," she commented.
Jordana Banana, a protester against ExxonMobil responded "no comment" when asked by CNSNews.com about the use of the full size van.
When pressed on the issue, she said, "It's unfortunate that we have to drive a van. It would definitely be our preference to be able to take alternative forms of transportation, but unfortunately today, we had a lot of gear with us."
Banana added, "All of our gear though is recycled."
Before retreating to the van, another of the anti-ExxonMobil protesters, who would only give his first name, launched an attack on SUV's in America. "We should burn them all. They are horrible, they are useless," Luigi said. "Most people should be able to get by with a two-door car for the same thing they use SUV's for," he added.
Jones quipped, "[The protesters] don't want us to have SUV's, but they just got to have their SUV's."
Ford Econoline van's fuel economy varies from a low of 13 mph in the city to 21 mph on the highway, depending upon how they are equipped, according to EPA figures for the 2001 model year.
And when THEY are disarmed, their mouthpieces are disarmed: the media, the Democrats, the pasteboard Hollywood "heros." At that point, the whole liberal lie vanishes, held together as it is by pretense and illusion. Just as darkness disappears when someone lights a candle ...
Such a burden to bear for the felicitously-named Ms. Banana...
These people are idiots.
EXXON MOBIL is a public company owned by thousands of investors.
These morons should get a job and a 401k and maybe they would realize how capitalism works.
LOL. I love the signs. Far more creative than anything anti-capitalist flakes could come up with.
It's so nice to see the liberals getting out-demonstrated for a change. This is good.
"Corporate profits can't continue to kill people."
My response to this nimrod can be found here.
ExxonMobil counter protesters, in background, chant toward a protester, foreground, before the start of the ExxonMobil shareholders meeting in Dallas, Wednesday, May 29, 2002. ExxonMobil earned $15.3 billion last year amid falling oil and gas prices, a decline from 2000. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam)
Sign suggestion for future counter-freeps:
"Capitalism is what people do when they're free."
This is garbage.
The truth is that in the richest countries water and air pollution is down, species are being restored to the wild, and forests are increasing in size.
Capitalism actually is better for the environment.
The regions of the world most devasted by pollution and destruction of the environment have been those dominated by non-capitalist, dictatorships, communists etc. such as we've seen in eastern Europe and the Arab states.
As usual these anti-capitalists have their facts backwards, and depend on ignorance in order to promote their misguided causes.
Hats Off to all of you
Sweet!