[HarryDunne]

Incentive to attend tomorrow's Rally for America in downtown Dallas.

[HarryDunne]

ping

[johniegrad]

Some were reportedly inside the building, while others were on the roof, holding a banner that brands the building a "global warming crime scene."

Damn, they done arrested the wrong people then!!

[Interesting Times]

Pro-capitalism ping.

[Dr Warmoose]

I wonder if those Greenpiss whackos pushed those two "police style vans" to the gates. Otherwise how did they get there?

[theDentist]

Jake:"What's the holdup?"
Elwood:"Greenpeace Activists. They're blocking the Exxon entrance in the name of global warming and protesting the use of oil for gasoline, oil for heating fuel that heats the homes of citizens, that heats schools, buildings, and orphanages, and for it's usage with plastics!"
Jake:"I hate Greenpeace."

"Hit It."

[Jack Wilson]

When does this global warming start? In Chicago, we've been freezing our a**es off all spring.

[finnman69]

Time to break out the welcome wagon for the morons

[Stultis]

Greenpeace: "No development, no cheap energy! And you little brown people, get back into those mud huts!"

Greenpeace activists thereupon pay their fines and bail with their (parent's) platinum visa cards, pile into their SUV's, and return to their airconditioned homes.

[cake_crumb]

"A statement from the environmental group Greenpeace said 45 demonstrators tried to block access to the complex, saying ExxonMobil isn't doing enough to help solve global warming."

Yeah, that evil global warming is either to blame for the excepeionally long, cold winter we had...and the long, cold spring...or I should be grateful to global wariming for saving all of us in the Northern US from becoming FREEZE POPS! I want my global warming NOW please!

...How did those 45 environazis get to their little Gaia shindig in the first place? Did they all walk...or did they take adventage of the evil, internal combustion engine, thus contributing to global warming (which I want NOW, please!)

[Clemenza]

"Excuse me, do you have a minute for Greenpeace?"

[ChadGore]

Gee, it's a good thing greepeace is only interested in the earth. and not activly trying to disrupt the economy. < / sarcasm>

[Democratic_Machiavelli]

Thanks for the ping. More comments later.

[metalboy]

yes let`s protest global warming by protesting oil companies, let`s protest logging by sitting in trees, let`s protest urban sprawl by spray painting new houses, let`s protest fishermen by boating in front of their spears, let`s protest everything but the cause of all these problems... Human overpopulation. What`s that?

[Roscoe]

I wonder if they ever get in fights with "global cooling" groups?

[Let's Roll]

"...ExxonMobil isn't doing enough to help solve global warming."

Like what - pulling the plug on the sun?

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

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Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 11:28 AM
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Subject: Greenpeace: ExxonMobil Global Headquarters Shut Down

Greenpeace: ExxonMobil Global Headquarters Shut Down

Business at the international headquarters of the world's most powerful company ground to a halt today as the Greenpeace Global Warming Crimes Unit converged on ExxonMobil's compound in Irving, Texas.

Please read on to find out how you can support this important action.
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Our news release is below. For more information, including regular updates as the action unfolds, please visit:

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You can help by uploading your picture to the speech bubble gallery here (which automatically forwards it to the ExxonMobil board):

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and by sending a personal letter to the board of ExxonMobil here:

http://act.greenpeace.org/ams/e?a=esso_board&s=blue2

You can post comments and read updates at the weblog:

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/esso

Here's the release:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 27, 2003

EXXONMOBIL BUSTED BY GREENPEACE GLOBAL WARMING CRIMES UNIT
Global Headquarters Shut Down Day Before Annual Meeting

DALLAS, Tex. - Business at the international headquarters of the world's most powerful company ground to a halt this morning as the Greenpeace Global Warming Crimes Unit converged on ExxonMobil's compound in Irving, Texas. Some members of the Unit are positioned across the entrance while others have entered the building to serve a list of charges against the company. The move comes as ExxonMobil's Board of Directors and international executives attempt to gather from across the world for tomorrow's Annual General Meeting.

As of 7:45 AM (CDT), 15 members of the Global Warming Crimes Unit are secured to the main gates, where two police-style vans are parked across the entrance used by staff and management. More than 30 members of the Unit have entered the compound, fabled for its high security. Some members of the Unit, including a Baptist minister, are actually inside the building, while others are on the roof, holding a banner that brands the building a "global warming crime scene." Employees arriving to work are turning away.

James Moore of the Global Warming Crimes Unit said, "This is where ExxonMobil plots to sabotage all meaningful efforts to solve global warming. Within these walls, ExxonMobil executives fight to conduct business as usual while the catastrophe of global warming - which impacts millions of ordinary people - is completely ignored."

ExxonMobil stands accused of running a 10-year campaign of sabotage against international efforts to solve global warming. The company has used its influence and money to block agreements that would reduce global warming pollution. Recent figures show the company gives millions of dollars to ultra-conservative groups that aggressively lobby against action to protect our climate and direct President Bush's extreme energy policies.

The list of charges is accompanied by pages of evidence against the company. Copies of classified documents and letters demonstrate the unique role that ExxonMobil has played in sabotaging action on global warming, fraudulently misrepresenting the science, and lying to the American people.

"While 109 nations have signed the Kyoto Protocol to fight global warming, ExxonMobil has done all it can to ensure the United States sits on the sidelines," added Moore. "We will leave only when the company agrees to stop sabotaging international action on global warming. Meanwhile, everyone can help by refusing to buy gas from ExxonMobil."

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[Graewoulf]

The Oil Companies provide the Petroleum fuel that runs most of our economy.

The consumer consumes the fuel that pollutes our air.

Who then is the greater "threat" to our environment?

Obviously, ALL the members of Greenpeace are aware that the consumption of Petroleum fuel is what is really harmful to our environment.

Hence, it would be interesting to find out how many of the members of Greenpeace who arrived in Irving, Texas chose not to pollute our friendly skys with burned jet fuel. Or pollute our highways with burned gasoline, or burned diesel.

Since plastic is made from Crude Oil, did they walk to Irving in shoes with non-plastic soles?

Did they not use other plastic items such as credit cards, sandwich bags and cell phones?

At your upcoming FREEP, be sure and carry a sign asking the Greenpeacers how they plan to get home WITHOUT the use of plastic credit cards, jet fuel, automobile gasoline or diesel for the trucks they might use to hitch a ride with.

BTW, most bicycles use tires that are made from plastic.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

Global warming does not exist and anybody stupid enough to believe it has been brainwashed.

[Flyer]

From indymedia. . .

[Stultis]

This thread should include a link to last years anti-anti-capitalist Exxon freep. The account is by the irredoubtable (I'm not looking that up, but sure that it must apply somehow) Ms. AntiFeminazi:

ECO RADICALS SHAMED IN DALLAS (After Freep Report)