Do protestors have the right to vandalize property?

[Bread.]

And do they deserve to be kicked in the head for doing so?

12 hours ago these losers just vandalized a 5000 year old monument. The time before that they vandalized a historic british manuscript from the 13th century. Then culturally historic paintings from Vincent Van Goh. They also like to regularly endanger the public by blocking public acess roads. The only they achieving by doing is disrupting the lives of the working class whom can’t afford to be disrupted.

At what point does not being heard, give you the right to break the rules of law and order?? If you have to be destructive to gather attention then that means nobody cares about whatever cause youre protesting. It is counterproductive to protesting with your voice. All its doing is alienating the group by focusing the attention on the negative aspects of their protest. You cannot try to gather the support of working people trying to feed their family by blocking their road and not allowing them to take care of their families. It is also ironic that these people protest to just stop oil while wearing clothing and holding giant signs made of the very same oil.

These people arent protestors theyre criminals that deserve to be kicked in the head

 

[Kim]

As the kicker you are more likely to get arrested for assault than the protesters.
But Stonehenge was just a no and glad those two have been arrested.
EDIT: At 5am BST they broke into my local Airport and defaced two private jets with orange paint. 😳

 

[babydolla]

if only there was a second amendment across the pond 😉

 

[Drock]

These people arent protestors theyre criminals that deserve to be kicked in the head

This... 10000x This. They are violent, unhinged criminals hiding behind the tag "protestor".

 

[rapinoes smirking revenge]

it's a shame one of the stones didn't topple over onto them

also there's probably now some druid curse on them. so there's that

 

[n0q2rc]

What these morons don't understand is that if they focused that hard on anything else the world it would be 10x better. They choose to waste their time and everybody else's time. When what has any protest ever fixed, the answer is nothing. Gone is the day of respect anyway, all these moronic fucking idiots want now is their 2 minutes of fame, the Uk, USA and most other countries are full of braindead kids and teens, kids with brain rot who would rather kill somebody or destroy something for their 2 seconds of fame. Rather than make something of themselves, actually make a difference for their communities or their families. Anyway, that's the new world now because people have exposed kids from a young age now to brain rot content since birth, it will only get worse. Eventually they will all be homeless and not even be able to string a sentence together or count 1 to 5 lol.

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[emileh]

This... 10000x This. They are violent, unhinged criminals hiding behind the tag "protestor".

They're not violent. The majority of the stop oil now supporters are pension age and about as non-violent as you can get. They used coloured cornflour by the way, to avoid damage.

They're a bunch of idiots though, they pick exactly the wrong ways to get their message across and alienate the majority of the public.

 

[emileh]

if only there was a second amendment across the pond 😉

No thanks. We're a civilised country with very few firearm issues.

 

[Deleted member 304663]

No. Course not. They're annoying and ill-driven. Somebody will get hurt from their actions

Seriously, they were protesting and sat in the main city roads where I live, 20-30 of them on their butt in the middle of the road - everything comes to a halt

And then sometimes they shout and walk around looking like zombies, all dressed up in funny ways.

Buffoonery.

I seen videos of them protesting in Germany, UK, America, drivers get real pissed at them - anyone seen one being dragged off the road..

They must be getting paid to do all that crap. No one else in their right mind would do such a thing.

 

[emileh]

No. Course not. They're annoying and ill-driven. Somebody will get hurt from their actions

Seriously, they were protesting and sat in the main city roads where I live, 20-30 of them on their butt in the middle of the road - everything comes to a halt

And then sometimes they shout and walk around looking like zombies, all dressed up in funny ways.

Buffoonery.

I seen videos of them protesting in Germany, UK, America, drivers get real pissed at them - anyone seen one being dragged off the road..

They must be getting paid to do all that crap. No one else in their right mind would do such a thing.

People with strongly held beliefs?

 

[Deleted member 304663]

People with strongly held beliefs?

Yeah I have a strongly held belief too, am I going to start pouring paint on expensive paintings like the Mona Lisa and start shouting like little ol' pauper me will change everything with my "strong beliefs".

We're not in a state of world war (yet), wtf are these people doing? Public nuisance 101

 

[Soapie]

What exactly are they even protesting in the first one? Throwing... paint? On Stone henge? "Were sick of people putting rocks in certain arrangements"... like!?!?

And for the roads, these people aren't exactly the bravest, keep driving... they dont wanna get run over, they hoping you'll stop, you don't, eventually they'll move.

 

[emileh]

Yeah I have a strongly held belief too, am I going to start pouring paint on expensive paintings like the Mona Lisa and start shouting like little ol' pauper me will change everything with my "strong beliefs".

We're not in a state of world war (yet), wtf are these people doing? Public nuisance 101

Trying to get attention to prevent or at least mitigate climate change?

 

[emileh]

What exactly are they even protesting in the first one? Throwing... paint? On Stone henge? "Were sick of people putting rocks in certain arrangements"... like!?!?

And for the roads, these people aren't exactly the bravest, keep driving... they dont wanna get run over, they hoping you'll stop, you don't, eventually they'll move.

It wasn't paint lol it was coloured cornflour and they got what they wanted out of it. Publicity.

If you intentionally drive over someone laying in the road it's you that goes to jail js.

 

[Soapie]

It wasn't paint lol it was coloured cornflour and they got what they wanted out of it. Publicity.

If you intentionally drive over someone laying in the road it's you that goes to jail js.

Cornflour then. Hell what it is dosent matter, it could have been human shìt they throw over it, dosent achieve anything, except having your name talked about for maybe a day.

And absolutely, you should... but your not gonna run over them, they'll move

 

[emileh]

Cornflour then. Hell what it is dosent matter, it could have been human shìt they throw over it, dosent achieve anything, except having your name talked about for maybe a day.

And absolutely, you should... but your not gonna run over them, they'll move

I'm not saying I agree with their tactics but they do tend to go for non-damaging protests for the most part and they do get a lot of publicity.

I wouldn't be so sure they'll move. They do glue themselves to the road surface on occasion lol

 

[Soapie]

I'm not saying I agree with their tactics but they do tend to go for non-damaging protests for the most part and they do get a lot of publicity.

I wouldn't be so sure they'll move. They do glue themselves to the road surface on occasion lol

Non-damaging is interesting. It is defilement, which could be taken as damaging, but eh.

And... its glue, a swift pull it'll come off. Trust they will move. The reason they usually don't is because they know you'll stop. So if I was driving in a way that shows I aint gonna stop, they will move. Obvisouly I have no intention of running them over, but they don't know that. It's the implications.

 

[emileh]

Non-damaging is interesting. It is defilement, which could be taken as damaging, but eh.

And... its glue, a swift pull it'll come off. Trust they will move. The reason they usually don't is because they know you'll stop. So if I was driving in a way that shows I aint gonna stop, they will move. Obvisouly I have no intention of running them over, but they don't know that. It's the implications.

They use stronger glue than that lol

 

[Soapie]

They use stronger glue than that lol

Unless it's some industrial grade adhesive, made in some dodgy factory somewhere (which... would kinda be against their hole stance funnily enough 😂) it'll come off.

Even if it didn't, I'd rather lose some skin on my hand than be under a ton of steel

 

[Bread.]

No. Course not. They're annoying and ill-driven. Somebody will get hurt from their actions

Seriously, they were protesting and sat in the main city roads where I live, 20-30 of them on their butt in the middle of the road - everything comes to a halt

And then sometimes they shout and walk around looking like zombies, all dressed up in funny ways.

Buffoonery.

I seen videos of them protesting in Germany, UK, America, drivers get real pissed at them - anyone seen one being dragged off the road..

They must be getting paid to do all that crap. No one else in their right mind would do such a thing.

The are funded by trustfund babies

People with strongly held beliefs?

People with strongly held beliefs shouldnt FORCE them on people

What exactly are they even protesting in the first one? Throwing... paint? On Stone henge? "Were sick of people putting rocks in certain arrangements"... like!?!?

And for the roads, these people aren't exactly the bravest, keep driving... they dont wanna get run over, they hoping you'll stop, you don't, eventually they'll move.

They want a society built with oil to stop using it LOL

Cornflour then. Hell what it is dosent matter, it could have been human shìt they throw over it, dosent achieve anything, except having your name talked about for maybe a day.

And absolutely, you should... but your not gonna run over them, they'll move

They dont move thats why they MUST be kicked in the head