What a bunch of pissant spineless scum they really are.

Posted by Pointman on February 13, 2014 · 21 Comments 

One glance at that picture above and you understand the mentality at work. All that’s missing is the soundtrack but I think we can all add that in for ourselves. It’s always the same song with just they lyrics varying. ‘Come out nigger, we’re here to string you up’ or perhaps it’s just old-fashioned burn the Jews stuff. The bad old days being freshly reinvented for the shiny new prejudices of the twenty-first century.

You’re at home and it’s an evening like any other; time to relax after work with your family, and out of the darkness you’re suddenly confronted by an invasion onto your home turf of fully masked up individuals chanting and wielding burning torches and banners with threatening slogans. Maybe they’ve got guns and intend harm to you and yours; why else would they hide their faces? Let’s face it; this is liberal gun law Texas after all. Does the “attack” on their banner mean they’re armed? Perhaps you should call the police, cringe in your house and pretend to be out.

Instead, the man whose property they invaded under cover of darkness walked out of the safety of his home and talked reasonably with them.

I have the utmost admiration for anyone who has that lonely courage to do something like that and confront such a frightening situation head on.

I have the utmost contempt for any gang of cowards who decide to turn up unexpectedly in darkness, faces safely concealed and in such a threatening fashion outside a person’s home, with burning torches and exuding nothing better than burning hate.

I truly despise them.

Like all cowards, it’s never a one-on-one fight they potentially offer, but many on one. And like all cowards, they’re there to intimidate before getting physical with violence. There’s lots of us, only one of you, so what’re you going to do little man? There’s an unspoken threat as well. They know where you live. It’s not just about you getting hurt, but potentially your family as well. They’re telling you that they’re not just coming after you, but the people you love who you know you just simply can’t protect. You keep fighting big boy, they’ll pay the price. Knuckle under or else. How’s it feel to be paralysed by your love for your valued ones?

The man got targeted because he works for one of the many companies which will be involved in the construction of the Keystone pipeline between Canada and the USA. It’ll be a subterranean pipeline buried twenty feet underground and deliver fuel being extracted from the tar sands in Canada. Given that the project has twice been cleared of any significant environmental impact, and now looks like it’ll almost certainly get the green light, it’s a curious issue which appears to be causing a schism in the movement, but like a dog with its teeth clamped around a bone, the protesters can’t let go of it and to hell with anyone else.

Their excesses are by now alienating their own natural supporters.

Of course, once their daring exploit got some airing in the blogosphere, wiser heads prevailed and they took down the web page on their site of them triumphantly acting like the Climate Change Clan. The original page led with the picture above and some righteous text about how they’d scored some big victory against globalisation or something. They have those twin blind spots of all fanatics; they simply can’t see what’s repulsive about what they did nor can they help themselves going to excess. It’s the nature of the beast; they simply can’t stop.

The fact that they were acting like klansmen or Hitler youth thugs, was studiously never commented upon by the Guardian or the other self-appointed defenders of the higher moral high ground in periodicals like the WaPo or NY Times. Anything to say Mr Monbiot, Mr Revkin? Gore? Suzuki? Anybody? I thought not. How predictable.

The most charitable interpretation to be taken from such an abject failure to condemn almost criminal intimidation, is they’re being complicit by their silence. The worst is they are quite content to be safely hidden behind a shield of plausible deniability and are actually quite happy with what’s happening. Either way, when the inevitable happens, and I think it will, they’ll have a measure blood on their hands which they’ll find difficult to wash off.

The people in that picture are extremists going through the anger phase in the death of their belief system, and that very anger will eventually propel them to commit acts of violence and perhaps even kill some people in the name of saving the planet.

If what passes for their leadership will not condemn such excesses, then it’s more than ever incumbent on the skeptic blogosphere to highlight such incidents and give vocal support to those individuals brave enough to stand up to brute intimidation.

True to form, like all fanatics, they just couldn’t admit their mistake, lick their wounds and move on. The page was quietly reborn a few days ago when all the fuss had died down but this time around they led with a group shot with no burning torches and one of the ecowarriors actually showing their face. What a courageous little fellow.

The klansman picture has been relegated to further down the article (yes, they just simply couldn’t drop it) but this time they inserted an oily phrase that the photo had been taken elsewhere, rather than on someone’s front lawn.

What a bunch of pissant spineless scum they really are.

©Pointman

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Know your enemy : the climate activist.

The death of the AGW belief system.

Some thoughts on fanatics and how to fight them.

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