Just Stop Oil target the Cenotaph: At least 40 arrests as eco-protesters stage ‘die-in’ near memorial
by tylerthe-theatre
Just Stop Oil target the Cenotaph: At least 40 arrests as eco-protesters stage ‘die-in’ near memorial
by tylerthe-theatre
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It’s really not the right time of year for anyone to be fucking with the cenotaph, no matter the butthurt they feel.
Curious to know what about “Marching slowly past” and “lying down near” the cenotaph warranted 40 arrests.
Wow everyone wants to go to the cenotaph this week.
The Cenotaph, like all the war memorials in the UK, is a tribute to the brave men and women who fought and died for our right to live in freedom.
Freedoms like the right to demonstrate, take the knee during the national anthem, and stage a “die-in”.
The problem is that these days silly little snowflakes just get offended at everything they disagree with and want to cancel it, because they are melts.
These guys ability to make themselves unpopular is genuinely impressive. If that was a useful skill instead of being completely counterproductive to their cause, they’d really be on to something
Cant they just fuck off and go on a gap year or something like rich kids used to do
Were vandalism in the offing, I would agree with arrest, especially during November, but a *demonstration?* Isn’t freedom to do that that kind of thing precisely what the soldiers died to protect?
I guarantee that my great-grandfather Stan and great-uncle Albert, who were both in the trenches would have been horrified to see peaceful demonstrators arrested.
Um. Then again, Uncle Albert chucked a brick at a policeman on ‘orse during the Luton riot of 1919, so maybe not the best person to ask.
As I always say – go at ExxonMobil or their refineries or don’t bother – this is almost like some sort of amateur hour/student level protest or something or it is reaching the point where you think they are doing it almost in the Oil companies favour (e.g. how much can we get people against us here).
I become more and more certain everyday that these guys are backed by major oil corporations to turn the general public against key environmental issues. Tinfoil hat it may be, but their actions often seem completely moronic.
*Angrily chokes on mouthful of spam and mashed potatoes after reading article. Retreats to basement and listens to Gilbert & Sullivan while stroking picture of the Queen to soothe intemperance*
Worth noting that JSO has disputed this and said that they were slow-marching in the road on Whitehall, and that the police dragged them off to the sides. They claim the photos showing a few people on the ground next to the cenotaph with police standing over them were because some of the protestors had been pulled over to that spot to be arrested/detained but had not actually been protesting there (and had certainly not glued themselves there).
Arrested for protesting near the Cenotaph on a random day in November, we’re well down the authoritarian rabbit hole at this point.
Christ, I read that as “at least 40 Eco-protesters die”