Tree Hugging Protestors: How to deal with them

[x4nd]

X4nd

Yes I am aware of the impact, my brother lives at Kilcreggan, but as I still say its part of life if you do not like it leave,
Nutty

Do you suggest to your brother that he moves to avoid the impact of the illegal activities of the protestors? It sounds like you’re happy to hound innocents out of their homes.

 

[Nutty]

X4nd

Yes I am aware of the impact, my brother lives at Kilcreggan, but as I still say its part of life if you do not like it leave,
Nutty

Do you suggest to your brother that he moves to avoid the impact of the illegal activities of the protestors? It sounds like you’re happy to hound innocents out of their homes.

No he lives with it, like we all do with what ever the particular problem is in our part of the world. You are not special.

Nutty

 

[x4nd]

X4nd

Yes I am aware of the impact, my brother lives at Kilcreggan, but as I still say its part of life if you do not like it leave,
Nutty

Do you suggest to your brother that he moves to avoid the impact of the illegal activities of the protestors? It sounds like you’re happy to hound innocents out of their homes.

No he lives with it, like we all do with what ever the particular problem is in our part of the world. You are not special.

Nutty

You seem to think you can read my mind: I don’t think, and have never once said I’m special. The particular problem around Faslane wouldn’t be a problem if the protestors didn’t break the law. In short, a handful of people breaking the law are causing misery for hundreds (if not thousands) of others. Breaking the law is wrong. If you defend the protestor’s actions, you defend their law breaking. How do you decide which law can and should be broken? What is a too far, who decides?

 

[Maxi_77]

Live with it or move out of the area and stop being employed at CNB its your choice as it is for Londoners to put up with all the shit they do.

Nutty

Now now Nutty, if it is OK for then to protest it is equally OK for others to protest about them. The Faslane Peaceniks have been tolerated by all including the residents of CSB for many years, I remeber after their traditional George Square to Faslane Easter march which ended in terrible weather, you know Faslane in spring, freezing and wet, when the barrackmaster actually invited then in for a cup of tea to ward of hypothermia. No the problem is not the protest per se but the current Faslane 365 which is impacting as much on people who have sod all to do with CSB

FFS all demonstrations impinge on people who have sod all to do with them. Like the wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/children of the Police Officer who reglarly has his weekly leaves cancelled to cover these events. Thats why people demonstrate to cause the maximum distruption and publicity.

NUtty

The only purpose of disruption is the publicity it gains, the trouble now with Faslane 365 is that it generate little or no publicity at a national level and is thus innefective.

The press are bored with them now and the last thing that got them mentioned was the blocade of their camp by the local residents, not perhaps the sort of publicity you really want, school kids with banners asking to be allowed to go to school.

 

[Grape_Shot]

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -Thomas Jefferson, 1782

What does this quote have to do with tree huggers? Well, if someone wants to protest without harming me or my community, then go for it! Unfourtunately, more & more tree huggers aren't satisfied with civil disobedience. They want to (and have) burned large homes under construction and large automobiles because they consider them "environmentally unfriendly". The hypocrisy of some of these greenie wackos is what truly galls me. The Hollywood types that fly to exclusive Colorado mountain resorts in their private jets, picked up by gas guzzling SUV's (usually a Hummer), surrounded by private armed security guards. Then the same people lecture the rest of us on how we need to ride a bicycle to work, travel less, and give up private ownership of firearms, all for the greater good. Yea, right.

 

[OSLO]

Grape_shot, I can give you examples of radicals of every colour. But I don't generalise the whole barrel just because of one rotten apple. So call them "criminals" or "radicals" or "terrorists", not "Tree Huggers". And not that I hug trees, BTW.