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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (15 children)

Passing sentence on each of the defendants at Southwark crown court, the judge Christopher Hehir said: “The offending of all five of you is very serious indeed and lengthy custodial sentences must follow.”

Hehir admitted there was a scientific and social consensus that human-made climate breakdown was happening and action should be taken to avert it. “I acknowledge that at least some of the concerns motivating you are, at least to some extent, shared by many,” he said.

“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.

“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”

Fuck everything about this judge.

How are they harming their fellow citizens? They planned a peaceful protest. Maybe someone else can find where they caused an issue bc I can't.

[+] [email protected] -30 points 4 months ago (12 children)

The planning part makes this suspect for sure.

But there are ways to peacefully protest without blocking a fuckin highway. People that do this should be slapped. I think they do more harm to their movement than a myriad of other options that don’t involve them pissing off everyone just trying to go about their lives.

There are people who would otherwise support their cause that are negatively affected by dumb decisions like this. While I don’t agree with the sentencing for planning a dipshit move like this, these people should consider better ways to make a statement.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I know you're annoyed, but you're also wrong. Nobody is like "ugh, I'm gonna go burn fossile fuels out of spite now". These kids are forcing everyone to thing about the climate crisis. We're way past little measurements. We need drastic protest for our politicians to start listening.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

I wish I had your faith in humanity. Yep there are people that would burn more out of spite. And even more that would elect people being for moderate or no climate action.

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