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Just Stop Oil supporters found not guilty in petrol pump case
(juststopoil.org)
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They didn't lose the support of 12 out of 12 jury members. You're lying about something we can all see right in front of us. This verdict proves you're wrong and is a massive win for this movement. So weird that you chose this story to get on your high horse about.
Also terrorism? To who? Petrol pumps?
Terrorism is knowingly selling a product that you know is killing the planet. Fighting back is not terrorism, it's essential.
Complain all you want, but if you dare do something about the injustice being inflicted on you, that's where you lose me! - Troed
That's what you sound like. Are you ok with sounding like a moron?
Terrorism? Really?
Destroying items is destruction of property, usually that is a crime but its farm from terrorism. Unless you really believe that ceo’s are cowering under their beds in fear because first a gaspump, second must be storming their private islands with guns?
Just like with other laws there are exceptions where something does and does not count as a crime.
Accidentally killing a home invader in self defense isn't murder either.
Obviously i dont know what truly goes on in any judges head but considering that industrialist have been actively involved in covering up how much environmental damage they have actually done to populated areas. (Exploit underground water during times of drought causing cracks and collapses in hundreds of familie homes to give you a single example of something i know happens)
If one considers that i believe there is a good argument agains dismantling the tools of oil companies in the name of self defense.
Industries should not pretend to feel terrorizes by some ecologists and climate conscious youth. The people are getting terrorizing by systemic exploitation of commons for nothing but the greed of a few for ages.
Remember, they might be killing us all, but breaking their shit is terrorism /s
If you think that is terrorism, just wait a few years to see what relegating climate activism to polite asks will do. Letting corporations destroy our planet will directly lead to more violence and destruction, and it will only get worse the more we rely on their benevolence.
The damages a small group of people can do to a few gas pumps is far far less than the damages they are trying to prevent. It's terrorism in your head because the corporations are operating "business as usual", but business as usual for a lot of industries is eco or economic terrorism on a mass scale. If rules only exist for the poor, we need to find a way for society to course correct those who will continue to do the world harm.
How else can we make a difference? Calling a representative? Voting? Sure, but our voices are farts in the wind compared to ThE aLmIgHtY pRoFiT mArGiN, even for politicians