A Bit Ott Don’t You Think?

[Bobbisox1]

Christ what’s she going to be like with a real trauma in her life?

[ToraToraTora]

Tes she is afraid, fear has been installed in her like the ancient religions. This latest *** is like a religion and really thick people have always been easy to terrify with religion.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes!

[Bobbisox1]

Oh the irony,she’s being paid to disrupt the UK by Paul Gettys granddaughter ,he of the Petroleum Tycoon status ,over in the USA ,3 T is right, it’s like a cult , they are being brainwashed

[andy-hughes]

I have posted before - but it bears repeating -

Legitimate protest is a cornerstone of the personal freedoms we enjoy, but that does not mean that all protest is automatically legitimate.

If protest is to be effective, it needs to draw attention to a situation that needs to be altered, and the attention needs to be positive, from the people who can actually make the change required.

In this case, the people who can make the change is the government, and recent history shows that they are addressing the very issues being raised by these protestors, albeit not in the immediate way that the protestors seem to believe is either desirable or achievable.

Unfortunately, direct action such as this means that the reason for the protest becomes buried under the avalanche of reasonable anger and disgust caused by affected individuals who might have been in agreement with the original reasons for the protest, but are comprehensively alienated from it by the horrific fall-out and the livelong damage to innocent people caught up in the impact of the protestors' actions.

I fully understand the concerns of the protestors, but this method of drawing attention to their view is completely counter-productive and far from being seen as concerned individuals with a genuine cause to be raised, are forever doomed to be seen as attention-seeking hysterical, time-wasting, chaos-causing idiots.

We live in a media-driven culture, and protestors should learn their lessons from this - a weeping wailing woman paraded entirely for derision and hate, is always going to be a bigger and more attractive story than the notion that oil production is a bad thing.

[nicebloke1]

Looks like only TTT read the last of my post,( Encouraged by older adults and the media) Climbing the gantry? that just goes to show how others can influence younger minds, just like a drug dealer with his gang of young runners.

[royfromaus]

The Climate crisis will mean...

“girlfriends & mothers will be raped on your kitchen table & your eyes will be poked out with sticks”

[Peter Pedant]

Are these people so deluded and arrogant that they honestly think their pathetic protests will make one jot of difference,.....
Meghan Markle please note

[-SharonA-]

Are these people living a green and meaningful life??? What is their green footprint?? How are they heating their homes??? How did they travel to point of protest???

[douglas9401]

Great teeth.

[Patsy33]

^^^^
I know Doug, I kept looking at her great teeth!..

[royfromaus]

This is all wrong. She shouldn't be up there. She should be back at uni. Yet we all come to these young people for hope. How dare we!

[Bobbisox1]

She’s 25 Roy, I don’t suppose she’s at Uni, unless she’s wanting to be Doctor or a Dentist ?

[weecalf]

This young lady is to be admired .How many would have the gumption to stand up for their beliefs as she does .What are we doing to hand on a better place to those that follow us .

[Spicerack]

You go first.

[Old_Geezer]

I'd yet to go to Uni at 25, so yeah, she may be a bit young to be there yet.

[royfromaus]

She's now locked up.

[Meaghan27]

Victorian society showered the Suffragette movement with similar malevolence and mockery. Wind the clock forward a few hundred years and these people will be seen as heroes, and those that mock them now as backward thinking with a bunker mentality.