Riotous Green Peace group gets their collective ***** handed to them
Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders
By Laura Peek and Liz Chong
WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail.
What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.
“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”
Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”
Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. “The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims,” a spokesman said.
Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said.
“They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.” When a trader left the building shortly before 2pm, using a security swipe card, a protester dropped some coins on the floor and, as he bent down to pick them up, put his boot in the door to keep it open.
Two minutes later, three Greenpeace vans pulled up and another 30 protesters leapt out and were let in by the others.
They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts “open outcry” trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.
But they were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. “They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said. “It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back.”
Mr Beresford said: “They followed the guys into the lobby and kept kicking and punching them there. They literally kicked them on to the pavement.”
Last night Greenpeace said two protesters were in hospital, one with a suspected broken jaw, the other with concussion.
Excellent! I just wish our GOP Headquarters people had those kind of cojones back during the election!
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You mean like Sheetmetal Workers for Kerry? LOL. I also enjoyed seeing those big redneck sheetmetal workers headlock that guy and punch him in the face for yelling obscenities at Kerry while he was making his speech.
While it was funny to see happen to the opposition, I know if I was excercising my right to free speech (which they don't have in Britian, where I understand this protest took place) and someone put his hands on me, he would not get his hand back in the same shape it was in when he reached. I have noticed that the pain generated by a figure four wrist lock changes a reachy guy's attitude in much the same manner that the sound in the dark of a 870 being shucked will change a fellow's attitude. And if the pain of the lock doesn't calm him, push and twist just a little bit harder, and you will be assured that he at least won't be punching you with that hand for a month.
I applaud the Greenpeace protestors for remaining nonviolent. That is a grace that the oil traders wouldn't have gotten from me.
You mean like Sheetmetal Workers for Kerry? LOL. I also enjoyed seeing those big redneck sheetmetal workers headlock that guy and punch him in the face for yelling obscenities at Kerry while he was making his speech.
If I recall correctly these guys also beat up a 6 year old for holding a sign they didn't like.
Further research reveals it was a THREE YEAR OLD, way to go tough guys!
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If I recall correctly these guys also beat up a 6 year old for holding a sign they didn't like.
Further research reveals it was a THREE YEAR OLD, way to go tough guys!
If it was indeed the same Sheetmetal Workers for Kerry, I can only assume that it is because the "protestor" decided to take his three year old to a political rally where he was going to yell unfriendly things at the candidate the other people who were there came to support. What kind of chicken hides behind a three year old while engaging in political protest? What I'd really like is for you to cite a source where you got the info I quoted (hopefully a reliable one, and not drudgereport.com or some other propaganda mouthpiece). Maybe you can find something that tells how they "beat up" this three year old. Did one of them hold him while the other punched him in the belly? Or did they take the sign out of his hand that mocked Kerry that his daddy made and gave him to hold while he yelled unfriendly things while Kerry tried to make his speech? And why was the dad not charged with child endangerment for bringing a 3 year old to a protest in an election where people on both sides assaulted the other for protesting their rallies, one with the help of the Secret Service, at the taxpayer expense of the people being assaulted. And not just at the rallies, I personally was shoved by a guy in a gas station parking lot for having a Kerry sticker on the back windshield of my truck (between the "Glock Safe Action Pistols" and "Ruger Firearms" stickers, this guy was obviously no mental giant, and above the "Keep Abortion Legal" sticker my sister gave me) and then challenged to a fight, at which point I handed my CCW off to a licensed buddy who was in my passenger seat, and offered to accept. He reneged. Nobody got hurt. But I doubt he'd have been so froggy had he brought his 3 year old.
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Naw, I was thinking of all those GOP election headquarters offices that a bunch of crazed UberLib Zombies broke into and trashed, while the GOP employees just stood back and let it happen. Good reason to keep a Louisville Slugger handy - when the bastages come in looking for trouble - swing for a homer!
Always hated these greenpeice of crap bastiges. When I was fishing in Alaska, the ship they have came through Cross Sound and hailed out that any fishing boats in their way would get swamped and they didn't care. We were trollers, fishing with leaders, spoons and hooks. Not freak'n gill netters. Greenpeices of crap didn't care, didn't want to and when I was in Juneau a couple of days later had a great time harassing a greenpeice member and drinking him under the table and taking his girlfriend back to the boat for a little "trolling"!!!!!!
Screw Greenpeice! Gald to see they had their arsses handed to them!!
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I am all for freedom of speach, as long as the mouth is connected to the brain when the speeching takes place.
To clarify: Mr. Moore is entitled to his opinions. If, however he comes to the range on any given Saturday, and tries to sell his particular brand to me, I would more than likely attach the bayonet to my Mosin Nagant 91/30 and gently insert it into his mouth sideways.
Nothing stopped Greenpeace from voicing their opinions. The fact that they tried to disrupt others going about their business, where they had no lawful business makes them idiots. They should be thankful that they got off so lightly.
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