Saving the World, One Beating at a Time: Thuggery From Extinction Rebellion

There's a great, laughable irony about a group that claims to want to save the planet, and is willing to resort to thuggery when anyone questions their methods. But the climate-panic group Extinction Rebellion (ER) is one such group. At a recent meeting in Hampton, United Kingdom, an event called "Climate Reality - What's causing climate change and what can we do about it," one attendee stood up and questioned not the ER message, but their methods.

What happened then? They silenced him, threw him out, and beat him up.

After the usual cycle of ‘doom, death’ and despair’ followed by the standard ‘if we just spend a lot of money on renewable energy, we’ll save the planet’ narrative the floor was opened for questions.
A few questions in, a gentleman stood up and said that while he agreed with the urgency of the message, the tactics of Extinction Rebellion alienate people rather than persuading them. The panel began interrupting him, urging him to “ask his question or stop” in a rather patronising tone. He calmly continued, explaining how such tactics damage public support. This clearly irritated one of the speakers, a schoolteacher-turned-activist who had moments earlier described how “exciting and fun” activism could be.
Before long, the man was told his microphone would be taken away. In response, he pulled out a small horn and blew into it, saying, “See? This is annoying. This is my point.” The audience began shouting at him to stop. Moments later, a couple of large men approached, grabbed him and started dragging him across the room. He resisted, but not violently, he simply tried not to be hauled out by his neck whilst continuing to shout his message.

It sounds like the dissenter reacted just like a lot of the climate protestors do when the authorities finally decide to drag them away - go limp, don't actively resist, make them haul you away by main force. But that doesn't account for what happened next:

Three men eventually forced him towards the exit. I heard a loud bang as he was pushed out, apparently hitting his head on the door frame. Some in the audience even cheered.
The panel’s next line, without a hint of irony, was: “We climate change protestors are peaceful.”
A man had just been manhandled out of the room for holding up a mirror to their behaviour, and not one of them intervened or even suggested a calmer approach. It was hypocritical and frankly disgraceful.
A few moments later, the same man crawled back into the room, asking for help. He requested that the police be called, which they were. When things calmed down, I learned that he had indeed struck his head during the scuffle, and a lump was forming. He was unsteady on his feet and shaken by the physical altercation, but also by the realisation that he could not safely stand among people who claim to be fighting for a better world and suggest, politely, that their tactics might need to change.

Because beating people up is always such a good way to get your message out. And that next line - "climate change protestors are peaceful" - that's some industrial-grade irony.

We should note that this wasn't just a schoolyard scuffle, with participants coming away with a split lip or a mouse under one eye. This dissenter had a lump on his head and was reportedly unsteady. That could very well be a sign of a concussion, which in some cases can be life-threatening.

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These are the people, mind you, who in Britain and the rest of Europe are blocking roads to push their message. That's right; they are pushing a climate-panic message by not only enraging commuters who are just trying to get to work, but also forcing them to sit in their cars, engines idling, when they otherwise could have already reached their destinations and switched those carbon-emitting engines off.

And they are here, in the United States, too. Don't buy their crap about being "non-violent." We can clearly see they are not.

These people are stupid in spades, and they're violent, too. That's a bad combination.

Editor’s Note: Activist groups like Extinction Rebellion are out to ruin our modern, comfortable way of life, and they're willing to use force to do it.

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