For years the climate cultists were able to pretty much do as they pleased, but, they really shot themselves in the foot with their ever-increasing wackadoodle stunts. The gluing, the throwing soup on paintings, the blocking roads, etc and so on, and the squawndered any good will by people who would have taken their side
‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert
Human rights defenders organizing to prevent climate catastrophe are facing a surge in reprisals, as governments around the world denigrate, delegitimize and criminalize activists in spite of worsening global heating, a top United Nations official has told the Guardian.
Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders since 2020, has documented hundreds of cases where states have sought to smear and silence climate defenders engaged in peaceful protest, non-violent civil disobedience and litigation.
“Attacks against climate defenders have surged over the course of the mandate, and we now see outright repression against people who are organizing for climate action. It’s some of the states that have claimed to be the strongest supporters of human rights defenders including the UK, Germany, France and the US, that are most often repressing climate activists and where the right to protest is being denigrated and delegitimized.
Maybe people do not like these wankers blocking the roads and making them late to work. Making them late to an event. Blocking ambulances and fire trucks. Trying to force people into joining a doomsday cult by government law/regulation.
Lawlor will present the penultimate report of her six-year mandate, “Tipping points: Human rights defenders, climate change and a just transition”, to the UN general assembly on 16 October.
It documents state repression including police violence and surveillance, civil litigation deployed to deliberately wear down and silence climate defenders known as Slapp (strategic lawsuits against public participation), as well as bogus criminal charges ranging from sedition, criminal defamation, terrorism and conspiracy to trespass, to public disorder and to disobedience.
Is this the same body which will be watchign 40,000+ take fossil fueled flights to Brazil, and then drive down a road to the COP30 buildings which saw a swatch of the Amazon cut down? Oh, and by police violence they mean dragging the wackos out of the streets.
In December 2023, the Just Stop Oil member Stephen Gingell became the first person to be jailed under the UK’s new public order legislation after taking part for 30 minutes in a peaceful slow-march protest on a London road.
They were given multiple orders and opportunities to clear the road. The law’s the law.
Lawlor is adamant that climate activists are human rights defenders. They use non-violent protest, disruptive civil disobedience and litigation to stop fossil fuel projects and pressure elected officials to take meaningful action precisely because they are trying to protect the right to food, clean water, health, life and a healthy environment.
First, no one asked you to do this for Other People. Second, we’ve seen the videos. Y’all keep breaking the law. If I go to Mary’s house or the UN building and spray paint on them, throw soup on them, that’s not violent, right? But, I bet Mary and UN security calls the cops on me and has me arrested.
On Thursday Lawlor will repeat calls on governments to stop treating climate defenders like enemies, and instead work with them on a just transition to prevent climate catastrophe.
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