Lest anyone look at the previous post and think that it is only the Yank media that thrills to the sound of breaking glass, here is our very own Evening Standard giving over its pages to Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion: “Roof spikes and the noble art of window smashingâ protesting for Extinction Rebellion”.
She writes,
Just having left an impromptu roadblock on Millbank, I found myself yesterday suddenly among a swarm of cyclists pedalling friendly mischief around the city. Thereâs something about the spirit of this rebellion. When people join together in courage and love for life on earth, willing to take the punishment that will come, the system doesnât know how to handle it. The Government itself declared a climate and ecological emergency last year, but little more than lip service has followed. On Tuesday, together with environmental organisations, academics, lawyers, and now more than 30 MPs from seven parties, we handed to Parliament on a plate a Bill fit to address the crisis. All they need to do is pass it â and all we need to do is tell them we want it.
Away with all that pettifoggery about persuading the public. That XR want it done should be enough to make it law.
Edit: Further demonstrating that persuasion is not their thing, Extinction Rebellion protesters block newspaper printing presses.
Darren Grimes said it well:
Extinction Rebellion hasnât been âinfiltratedâ.
Black Lives matter hasnât been âinfiltratedâ.
These movements were never about the environment or racial justice.
These movements were always about control.
They cannot win at the ballot box, so they have to use other means.
Nothing new under the sun. The Bolchevik and Anarchist terrorism in Russia was created and supported by the bourgeois and even aristocracy looking for some religious experiment to give meaning to their lives.
Proving that nothing changes the Bolsheviks also had the New York Times running interference for them.
To this day I pray that Walter Duranty is roasting in hell.
Flubber-
I pray that Duranty be like Prometheus, burned slowly and then renewed to full health and awareness of his impending doom before the cycle repeats for all eternity. In my more cruel moments, he should also be given a sliver of hope that the cycle had ended, before repeating. đ
In logic, I agree, But Hitler, Stalin and Mao did have it both ways. Their revolutions destroyed legitimacy and consistency, then use their secret police to ‘justify’ their rule. Sir David’s argument assumes that Parliament continues, and it is what passes the pro-XR laws. It also assumes that elections continue, and Parliament retains the power to repeal the laws. I don’t think XR intend either.
This approach inevitably requires purges of comrades and sympathisers, as well as the general public. Those most comfortable with that rise to rule within the movement.
They are Marxist scum who need the shite beating out of them. The train incident of a while back is what would happen to them, en masse –save that in BlueMarxist Blojob Johnson’s Britain –Plod stands ready to protect them as they harass you.
Luckily they are winning themselves no friends. Just a lot more trouble once Plod can be broken. Millions are going to the Dole soon–there will be ever less sympathy for these middle class Marxist scumbags trying to make an already difficult life more different.
[…] This is absolutely correct, of course. However, the bit that Kenan Malk misses is that coercion is at the heart of these movements. As seen over at Samizdata: […]
It is well that they are ‘willing to take the punishment that is to come’. For myself I have no desire to engage. But if engaged on an involuntary basis it will end when and how I say it ends and unfortunately I am not equipped for prisoners.
The UK Gov. already passed a bill committing to “net zero carbon” energy by 2050. You can pass all the bills you want. It will not happen – you can’t pass a bill to cancel the laws of physics.
But, if you will, you can declare a carbon-power-station holiday – close down all coal and gas power stations for week and see how it works…
Janet Daley in the Sunday Telegraph today https://bit.ly/3lQc46d:
I scanned and read the Evening Standard (a paper so crap that people leave it on the bus rather than pay for it), and wondered what must go through the mind of editor and former finance minister George Osborne, in printing this gleeful disdain for the democratic process? Note the superciliousness and lack of self awareness of the author of this screed: the enjoyment of shafting the public, the sense of entitlement. (There is also no awareness that the lockdowns this year have been a test run for what ER wants.)
It is not, by the way, just an issue of young people imbibing the ideas of the far Left, and the whole green agenda. There seems a fairly solid core of what I might rudely call “militant grannies”. A certain type of woman, greying, a bit hippy-dippy, but with fanatical eyes. They aren’t so different from the sort of folk who gather around religious cults, which is essentially what ER is. I occasionally meet such people. In former times they’d be bending the vicar’s ear during parish council meetings. Now they go on demos.
Hopefully, now that parts of the media have been hit by these people, the message might finally get through to Boris Johnson and his colleagues that trying to pander to the Green vote is a waste of time. The “Red Wall” voters captured in Dec. 2019 like their cars, their budget flights to Spain, and their home DIY upgrades. They see the ER obsessives as the sort of upper class twits and entitled wankers that they have shown themselves to be.
Not really new though, is it? The entire raison d’etre of the UK Green Party is essentially to provide “Communism for Middle Class Houswives”. Who else who give a misandrist nutcase like Carolyn Lucas as an MP and occasional “Leader”?
Communism for Middle Class Housewivesâ – nah just this generations Greenham Common lesbians.
XR, BLM(white chapter)*, ANTIFA, probably the hippy movement in the ’60s are the accumulated result of the relaxation of the selection pressure European population was under until 1890s.
These are people, who may be carrying a high genetic mutant load, who in prior centuries wouldn’t have survived into adulthood.
80% – 85% of the genome is considered to be associated with brain development, and where narcissism, psychopathy, BPD and other genetic disorders are expressed.
*the Black chapter of BLM seems hardly to exist by comparison. Non existent in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola, etc.
A random selection of ANTIFA gives us an unusually high criminal representation.
Joseph Rosenbaum, convicted pedophile. Served 12.5 years for sexual contact with a minor.
Gaige Grosskreutz, a convicted burglar who was illegally carrying a gun.
Anthony Huber, convicted domestic abuser. Convicted of multiple domestic abuse counts, ADW, battery, false imprisonment, and âstrangulation and suffocationâ.
Mark Dakin: âonly an exhausting, burning rage and desolate sadness that still nothing has changed . . . you continue to exclude us, poor fellow, seems to be suffering from severe narcistic disorder.
And then there is this lying grifter.
Yea, looking like a good theory.
APL (September 7, 2020 at 8:14 am), I think what we are seeing is too short-term to have any (worth mentioning) selective, rather than cultural, component. (Also, while useful votes may come from immigrants or spoof ballots, the leaders and activists tend to be woke whites, whose lifestyles do not select that well.)
It has suited certain left-wing politics to suspend or delay consequences – which teaches all the wrong lessons to the targets. It is basic to typical right-wing political views that separating action from consequence – as any overweening state does – will have rapid bad effects on humans in general (no need to wait for future generations).
But you are right – and not the first to notice – that antifa shock troops have a huge proportion of criminals. Some say Kyle could have shot three BLM at random in Kenosha and been as likely to hit three such creeps as he did (which I’d prefer to think was overstating it a bit – they were a very nasty trio).
Who are very highly organised.
I doubt that ANTIFA UK are any less so.
Selection > cultural.
1870* – 2020, Roughly five generations ( assuming 30 years per generation ), is long enough to have an impact on society. It may have accelerated in the last fifty years as a result of in utero medical procedures, and the fashion for artificial insemination, where the criteria for mating success is nothing to do with evolutionary fitness of the individuals concerned ( infertility would imply evolutionary unfitness ).
1870* This date as a rough start point for all the major public sewer works, and clean drinking water projects.
The âEvening Standardâ is free.
APL (September 7, 2020 at 9:38 am), I agree entirely about BLM’s criminal thugs being organised. However, as regards,
British culture was, and, with all its faults, still is today, superior to that of places that took a lot longer to sanitise their drinking water. It was in the days of clean drinking water that Churchill led us to victory.
Especially in those parts where today’s world can look as if it has gone mad, I recommend looking at immediate causes. If, for example, certain Dem-run cities allow bail out of Antifa thugs immediately they are arrested, then spend resident-taxpayer money providing somewhere for the thugs to stay locally, there is no need to seek distant and esoteric explanations of why last year’s norm is – in those Dem-run locales – suspended.
While the triumph of antifa might cause the downfall of civilisation, including clean drinking water, I feel no confidence that the resulting (genuine) pandemics would disproportionately weed them and their descendants over others. And even if I did, I would prefer a more short-term solution. đ
Darren Grimes is correct.
From the US……
National Council to Control Handguns (NCCH)Handgun Control, Inc.Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun ViolenceBrady