Motorists are getting increasingly annoyed with Just Stop Oil protestors blocking the roads. With police action often delayed or absent, members of the public have been taking matters into their own hands and dragging the protestors from the road. This happened once again on Tuesday following protestors blocking the path of an ambulance. Michael Deacon in the Telegraph has written about the incident, and said this is only the tip of the iceberg.
It isn’t only an ambulance they’ve blocked, however. They’ve also blocked a fire engine, and the cars of several people who were attempting to drive sickly relatives – including babies – to hospital. When one member of the public told Just Stop Oil to clear the road because “somebody is sick”, an activist retorted: “If they’re sick, they shouldn’t be driving.” It must have taken superhuman reserves of patience to explain to this sanctimonious nitwit that the invalid was the passenger, not the driver.
By now, of course, we should be used to these activists’ pigheadedness. This time last year, Roger Hallam – the founder of Extinction Rebellion – declared that he would willingly block an ambulance, even if it contained a patient at risk of dying.
The activists’ argument is that the ‘climate emergency’ will end up causing millions more deaths than a delayed ambulance. For this reason, one activist from Just Stop Oil told GB News this week that doctors and nurses should actually join their roadblocks. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea. At least then they would be on hand to treat any patients who’ve been prevented from getting to hospital.
Either way, these activists clearly aren’t going to stop blocking our roads – unless they’re forced to. So the question we should be asking ourselves is this: Why aren’t the police doing their job and removing all these self-righteous ninnies immediately?
Like anyone, supporters of Just Stop Oil have a right to protest. But they should do it with a march or a rally. Not with a roadblock that could threaten public safety. The police, therefore, should haul them upright the moment their buttocks meet tarmac and send them on their way.
If the police don’t do it, after all, the public will. This week we’ve already seen furious drivers remonstrating with activists, grabbing them by the limbs and dragging them off the road and to the pavement. Clearly this isn’t safe and could easily lead to violence. An outcome that could be comfortably avoided, if the police would stop hovering timidly in the background like trainspotters at an orgy and clear the roads straight away.
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Those proclaiming to save the planet are the ones destroying nature the most. Always the way with socialists and their divine faith in authority.
I agree. I’ve commented for a while that often what is trumpeted as ‘environmentally friendly’ is often environmentally harmful. Say that to a climate zealot though and you can see them mentally sticking their fingers in their ears.
It’s worse their entire brain explodes and they just accuse the bird munching critic of being Hitler.
They destroy ecology on land. The Bird Choppers mangle some 500 birds p.a. per turbine it is estimated. Oceanic impact will the same. Ecology being destroyed, fauna disturbed and killed. All to save Gaia from the fictictious plant food-causes climate-theology. We as a society, are both stupid and corrupt.
Not to mention what the very large blocks of concrete that anchors them are doing to the land in terms of water drainage. As I’ve mentioned here before, part of a Lancashire village flooded a few years ago (it never had before). It was initially blamed on “global warming” until they discovered that the wind farm on the hill above had changed the water course, diverting it from channeling into the river on one side of the hill to channeling down a straight road and into the village on the other side.
I actually think most people are confused, distracted and highly trusting rather than stupid and corrupt.
No, they are simply stupid. Look how many took Death Jabs, it takes a heck of a level of stupidity to do that.
Perhaps someone should ask His Hypocritical Majesty of Windsor about the destruction of marine mammals by the windmills he is making a fortune out of, courtesy of British taxpayers.
Yet another outstanding article. Thank you.
‘Fifty years ago, environmentalists would have raised hell about a thousand dead whales and dolphins. Now they are part of the cover-up.’
Why?
Follow the money.
China pours money into lobbying via organisations like The Peoples Forum, a source of funding for many left of centre, including environmental, organisations.
That is why China’s fishing fleet plunders the world’s oceans without any of the protests once seen against, for example, Japanese whaling ships.
“[China] says its distant-water fishing fleet numbers roughly 2,600,” Ian Urbina, an investigative reporter and member of the High Seas Initiative Leadership Council at The Aspen Institute, pointed out in a Yale School of the Environment report.
“But other research, such as this study by the Overseas Development Institute, puts this number closer to 17,000,” he said in 2020.
Why this matters: In 2022, the East Asia Forum reported that “Chinese fishing fleets have trespassed into the waters of over 90 countries and depleted fish stocks.”
Two tier policing of the world’s oceans…..
In 100 years time, if there are still humans around? will they look back and say what a good idea it was to cover the surface of the planet with windmills and solar panels, or will they look back and rue the madness that lead to this ludicrous folly that very nearly wrecked the planet and killed many of it’s plants and animals?
As they negotiate their way round the huge junkyards of scrapped EVs, Windmills and Solar Panels that we failed to re-cycle will they say oh well never mind it had to be done to save the planet or will they wonder if there was something funny in the water that sent us all mad enough to engage in this planet wrecking folly?
The planet wrecking folly option.
Wall-E?
Ruling the planet, eh sorry I mean saving it, means Dolphins Whales Fish Birds Bats and any other creature that gets in the way may become casualties of war——The war on YOU?
You go back a few decades and it was all about the whales. They would give Norway and Japan a hard time. And you could understand it given their intelligence and the remarkable nature and complexity of their communication. Satan doesn’t care for whales and dolphins at all. He dislikes their frankness and carefree nature and he wants the seas depopulated except for monsters just like the land.
I wonder if the first peak has something to do with the exploration and seismic testing prior to the first windmills being put up?
Thanks Chris for keeping on the case and us informed.