Greta Thunberg charged with public order offense in UK after arrest outside oil industry conference
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been charged with a public order offense after being arrested at a demonstration against an oil industry conference in London.
They singled her out of the crowd to do this too. Interesting tactic on their part. Just makes for more awareness.
It's almost as if the ones that singled her out have no knowledge of history and the concept of martyrdom.
So they're either stupid or actually agree with her ideas but still have to do their jobs, but in the worst way.
i know she's trying to get charged because that's how these work, but how do you in good conscience do this to her?
i mean i guess anyone working those jobs had their soul removed already anyway
Cops work for the billionaire class, not us. They do the bidding of their masters and don't see us as anything but plebs. They don't have a conscience.
ACAB
Police protect property, not people.
cops
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a conscience
Pick one.
Some great answers above/below:
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The police are there to enforce the law. Are all police officers perfect, no. Is anyone perfect, no.
My point being, you should want the police to follow the law and enforce it. From the article, they were enforcing a law around the Public Order Act.
So doesn't the problem really exist with those who make the law, not those who enforce it?
(Ok, I'll get off my high horse now)
You know lemmy is better than Reddit when a post about Greta isn’t filled with people that feel personally attacked by a girl that is just trying to make the world a better place.
That always pissed me off so much.
Yeah, there was a time when non-violent protesters against societal ills were considered brave heroes. What happened?
The polar opposite isn't necessarily better
He's not talking in general terms, he's talking about the Gretta hate train on Reddit, and I for one agree with him.
Even at work grown ass men getting all fucking butt hurt over her fighting to make the world a better place. Disagree with her all you want, even disagree with her methods, but this fucking persecution complex because someone young (and let's be honest, female) dares to try to make a change is just so pathetic.
It usually is.
If you strike her down, she will become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
If you cut the head off the hydra, two more will grow in its place.
@Sweetpeaches69 Thus, the recursive idea of "ideas" themselves, be it good, bad, or somewhere in-between.
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
I won't agree with her every decision nor statement, but I completely agree with her sentiment. After working for one of these oil majors, I believe it's going to take a lot of public pressure to get them to do the right thing. They'll do it, eventually, but the crusty execs need to be made to bend. My coworkers were all into sustainability and excited at new initiatives we'd hear about. It was the executive leadership that inhibited everything.
damn i knew the briish were pretty shit but I didn't know it was this bad 💀
Section 14 of the Public Order Act being used as intended - arresting peaceful protesters and protecting corporate and governmental interests.
Catching a charge for pissing off the oil companies and the governments they've bought, is something to be proud of
Greta for EU president.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Metropolitan Police force said Wednesday that the 20-year-old Swedish campaigner was one of 26 people charged after protesters gathered outside the luxury InterContinental Hotel during the Energy Intelligence Forum.
Thunberg was among dozens of protesters who chanted “oily money out” and sought to block access to the hotel on Tuesday.
The three-day conference, which runs until Thursday, features speakers including the chief executives of Shell, Saudi Arabia’s Aramco and Norway’s Equinor, as well as the U.K.’s energy security minister.
The protesters accuse fossil fuel companies of deliberately slowing the global energy transition to renewables in order to make more profit.
They also oppose the British government’s recent approval of drilling for oil in the North Sea, off the Scottish coast.
Thunberg inspired a global youth movement demanding stronger efforts to fight climate change after staging weekly protests outside the Swedish Parliament starting in 2018.
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Mad lad just living her dream
Big W
Little P
Not what ur mom said last night
First world nations will continue to use fossil fuels as long as it remains economical.
They will not give up a cheap source of energy for 'the planet' while their adversaries continue to use it.
To think otherwise is ignorant and foolish. What world do you live in where the US, Russia, and China forego even the slightest bit of economic progression (which leads to military progression)?
It's both the cheap part and the "while their adversaries continue to do so" parts that are key. The price of solar and storage continue to fall and we need to make the true cost of carbon be reflected in the sale price on a global level. When that happens, we'll be fine, for the most part.
I wonder how many shots they had to take before they got the picture they wanted for the press. Like this wasnt setup
Wait! You actually think that they use common PR methods to get as much attention to their cause as possible? Who would have thought!
Wait until you find out that Rosa Parks didn't just randomly decided to sit in front of the bus but was working with the civil rights movement the whole time!
That is a pretty good shot. I can't believe she's 20 already! Where did the time go?
Oh wow - you're a genius.
I like Greta as much as the next liberal, but ngl, this just isn't news. Reporting Greta getting arrested is like reporting a pizzeria making another pepperoni pizza.
It's perhaps the first time she's actually been charged, and one of the first times using the UK's new anti-protesting laws and certainly a high profile example. So yes, it is news.
Source? The article does not say any of that.
edit: After not getting an answer for awhile, I looked it up. Greta has been arrested twice now, and detained three times.
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/why-greta-thunberg-arrested-climate-115413261.html
Apparently the charge was related to blocking access to the hotel, which, climate issues aside, I don't think I can say is entirely unreasonable.
Should a mob of neo-Nazis have the right to block entrance to a synagogue? Probably not, and you cannot add "unless it's for a good cause" qualifiers to laws like these. I imagine she'll pay a fine and that'll be that.
Climate change is the defining story of our lives. It affects every living thing on the planet. This take encapsulates why liberals are derided.
Every person is free to define the story of their own life, not bow to a requirement to share your values.
Climate change may be our greatest challenge, but no challenge, even extinction, is worth needing to all share the same story.
Your take is why liberal policies still dominate the world. Because freedom does matter very greatly.
You're welcome to stay ignorant without encouraging others to do so. This is a mainstream activist that a lot of people want to hear about and follow. So yeah its gonna get reported on.
A major aspect of non-violent activism is disruption, which frequently comes with arrest. Greta is far from the first environmental activist to be arrested, she won't be the last.
Ghandi pioneered this. He was arrested too. MLK Jr was actually arrested 29 times in his life. It just means you're doing a good job of challenging the system, it's not really out of the ordinary.
edit to clarify