Terrorists' vandalising Stone Henge and trying to force govt policy

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We need the security services to shut the group down when they are carrying out what can be described as terrorist methods to influence govt policy.

Its just paint FGS.

Look, you gave them the attention they wanted.

I do understand why they act as they do knowing what they believe, I dont think they for once second think it encourages the public to their cause.

And there was I calling them idiots🤣

It's not "just paint" though is it. In fact it wasn't paint at all but that's irrelevant.

They've been arrested.

That lichen had it coming!

I've never known such fervor about lichen

Mmm I think it might have something to do with a supposedly environmentalist group endangering a rare type of it in a completely fuckwitted stunt. Fortunately, that doesn't usually happen.

Also if you think this is fervour, you should go on one of the remote working threads.

It didn't. Universal suffrage wasn't granted until 15 years after the Suffragettes finished their campaign. Many historians believe that their actions set back their cause, by enabling the men to portray women as too unstable to be trusted with the vote.

I'm beginning to come to the same conclusion as JKR. These activists must be funded by Big Oil in order to discredit the environmentalist cause.

Did your friend have a jar of lentils in the house? It would have been a great service to the environment if she'd followed their example of placing lentils under the dust caps of these Chelsea Tractors.

Wheres 'all lichen matters' when you need them

Fewer people using cars would help a great deal, yes

The birds know exactly what they're doing 🐦

That's not entirely true is it.

Did they get the day wrong? Surely it would have been more effective to carry out this stunt today when thousands gather to celebrate the solstice..

Hmmmm. sure is a puzzler 🤔

Hang on - I'm not LOL ing at the witches!!! I am LOL ing at everyone being all 'Won't somebody think of the witches' in a world in which they are usually LOLed at! But I appreciate that might not have come across.

I assumed these protesters were idiots like everybody else seems to, and I thought this video did a lot to help me understand where they are coming from

The best thing that could happen to these utter morons is for there to never be any mention of them anywhere. Don't publish it, don't film them, don't converse with them, don't report on it, don't even challenge them. Then they'll realise that they will get nowhere. They're simply attention seeking cockends using the pretence of being an activist as an excuse.

@GreigeO

Fair enough lol. You're right, usually us "fringe believers" do get alot of ridicule as we're all lumped as irrational and unscientific, not helped by our enjoyment of aesthetically pleasing props like crystals, which is it's own environmental can of worms. So it's nice to see a bit of tolerance even if it's provoked by other agendas.

The world seems to be getting battier by the minute these days on every subject, and sometimes I just have to write alot off to the "cosmic joke".

Anyway blessed be as we wind up to Solstice - I shall raise a horn of mead to hope for saner times when defenceless monuments and lichen are left in peace....

Many of these types of group have been involved in direct action for years but it hasn't made a bit of difference and doesn't get press attention or register with the public.

While their current antics annoy more people than anything it does grab people's attention and opens them up to discussion on the topic. I mean would you realistically have thought about oil companies polluting the Caribbean today if it wasn't for this thread?

As they say, there's no such thing as bad publicity. The funny thing is, JSO's demands aren't even an issue, they want a stop to new oil and gas licences being issued (not a stop to using oil and gas overnight) and this is something the UK government have already indirectly committed to by setting a net zero by 2050 target. All they'd have to do to satisfy JSO is clarify timelines.

But JSO and net zero are useful tools to stoke the culture wars so they'll just keep using them to create division.

Good points all I grant you.

I hadn't heard about that oil spill so yes, it has educated at least one person and made me cross. So much technology and research and progress yet why is this still happening.....

The target and timeline thing is also interesting. And you're right about the culture wars - we've got them in every area of human life now and it boils the issues down to monetisation and politicisation over everything else.

Division in every area. I'm wary of "any club that would have me as a member" these days because true agendas are often hidden behind clever soundbites and slick marketing.... bless the Internet eh? Pigeons. I want pigeons. And maybe drumming.

Right message - wrong methods (even though the paint will just wash off).

TERRORISTS tho?!!

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I take it @Allfur is a member of JSO. Well done! You must be very proud of your compatriots.

No I am not as it happens

I never said all, I said many. The post I quoted made it sound as if militancy was indisputably the cause of female enfranchisement.

I do think some people need to get a grip.

They threw corn flour.

Some terrorism....

Which "government" are they trying to influence? Parliament is dissolved, we don't currently have a government.