Sheesh. Meanwhile back in the real world, only capitalist countries have the technical and financial resources to reduce pollution. But somehow the ecological disasters created by the Soviets and Chinese never seem to get mentioned by the econazis...
Lay pipe -- Keep the caribou warm.
Poor People Need Oil!
People = Profits.
And a couple of two-sided signs:
Capitalism Doesn't Like You Either / Don't Socialize, Super-Size.
Real Social Justice... Exxon pays my single Mom 70K per year. / Oil Pays My College Tuition.
Wow, now there's an imaginative slogan. Very novel, too...
sauropod and I drove 1400 miles in 24 hours to get to this thing. Why? Because we felt like it, and because we could, that's why. Could we have made the same trip in one of those horrid little electric cars the environuts want everyone to use? Of course not. And they know that, and they don't care. They have decided we don't NEED to do things like that.
It IS about freedom, baby. Economic freedom and freedom of movement.
Protect our planet from Exxon. If Earth dies, Who Survives?
There was some other weird crap going on over there. One girl wore a T-shirt that said "Remember Aceh". I remember that a town in Chechnya by that name was in the news just before I left, but I've been without a computer since Friday and so any possible meaning that Aceh would have for an environut completely escapes me.
Oh well. I always see something utterly baffling when I go to these things.
And the opposition consisted mainly of the gay/lesbian/bi/transgender group whining about discrimination (the real greenies were observing the restraining order, I suppose). They were wearing shirts with a blue rectangle enclosing a yellow "=" sign. Equal. Get it?