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Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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I'm pretty sure protests, disruptive as they can be, are very different than personally attacking or otherwise bothering an individual and their family.
That's some crazy "logic" you're working with there.
She was laying in the road impeding traffic, what about the individual child alone at the school gates because their parent is unable to reach them. It is you that is using selective logic, if you allow any unlawful act you allow them all.
What about all the people that die from climate change? The food stolen from communities cause the water is polluted from fracking? The children who can't go outside and jump in puddles cause of toxic rain. What about the loss of animal lives cause the air is too toxic? What about all the terrible things and death that follow the big polluters as they go?
All that's allowed though, right? Cause the police say it's ok. And since the law doesn't stop them, all those deaths and destroyed land are fine according to you. Just as long as you can make it to school, right?
The woman in the article is from England and I am too and I can not argue this anymore because the thread is overly replied to by American liberals who are just so universally indoctrinated by corporations to work against themselves. Moving towards renewable energy is probably the noblest cause of the modern world but these protest groups are corporate guided to nullify themselves and make the public see their views as crackpot. Do you think the corporations became as powerful as they are by sitting in the fucking road. No they marshalled their powers and lobbied governments. That is how change is effected by law, to implement unlawful means is to invite chaos which makes all your effort impotent. It would be remarkably easy and inexpensive to switch over almost entirely to renewables and the oil industry knows it so it makes you look like clowns, so no one listens to you. And you swallow it completely and put on your red noses and dance around for them.
Everything you want to happen continually gets stopped by said polluters. The nice way has been tried over and over. But those don't get talked about. But because some people decided to just sit in the road, more people are talking about it.
Sitting in the road isn't done to get results. It's done to get people to talk about what is happening as they won't and haven't otherwise.
I don't know if it's different in the UK, but in the US, no child is ever left alone. There's always at least one staff member there, and they don't leave until the last kid is picked up, no matter how long it takes.
Things must have changed since I was a kid in the US. I remember being told to start walking when my ride home fell through. They wouldn't let me use a phone to call for another ride (pre cell phone). The teacher did ask if I knew how to get home and I did, but the only route I knew was along the high way.
That happened a few times.