Global Warming: Vandals For Mother Nature
YOU can protest agsoint Kingsnorth Coal Plant if you can prove a link between it and global warming.
This from the Greenpeace website:
“The defence was that they had ‘lawful excuse’ - because they were acting to protect property around the world “in immediate need of protection” from the impacts of climate change, caused in part by burning coal.”
As Alex Lockwood says:
For example, protecting both the lowlying islands of Tuvalu, as well as the Kent coastline. NASA’s James Hansen testified that Kingsnorth could directly result in the extinction of 400 species due to climate change. The jurors were convinced, and acquitted all six campaigners. Some more background and analysis on lawful excuse.
Old Mr Anorak once obtained a policeman’s helmet in Belgravia, offering the plea before the Beak that he needed it to see if it suited him and would thus allow him satisfy his ambition to become a copper…
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September 14th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Time was Arthur Scargill and the late John Smith lived in the same tower block here in the Barbican.
They pursued a policy of staring through each other should they chance to meet in the lobby, but there were the occasional unseemly scuffles in trying to grab the first lift.
Not by them, of course; both men had security, so the security guys did the unseemly scuffling, whilst Smith and Scargill ignored both each other and the scuffle.
And the building’s security people resolutely ignored Smith and Scargill ignoring each other, and equally resolutely ignored their security people scuffling.
It was a source of some amusement to their fellow residents…
September 14th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The bit I loved was when Arthur Skargill turned out to tell protesters and pickets that they were WRONG. They took no notice, which is poetic justice for that sad old communist sympathiser and destroyer of the British deep mining industry
September 13th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
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