Tuesday 3 September 2019

EXTINCTION REBELLION (ER) - A VERY DANGEROUS ORGANISATION

While they seem to have disappeared from the news in the summer, ER have not gone away. This lengthy and rather repetitive report  lifts the lid on this very unpleasant organisation masquerading as the only way to salvation for us all. 

h/t to reader Rowlyho

Lurking behind the façade the linked report finds the real ambition or ER is to overthrow our entire way of life and organisation, something they have no hope of succeeding in, but if allowed enough freedom they will cause us all massive disruption and chaos.

They have only been able to get this far with the aid of a lot of what some might call "useful idiots", including Cabinet Ministers who appear to have cravenly kow-towed to them, even asking for their advice. The police stood by while they accomplished the closure of main highways, even joining in with their attempt at a carnival atmosphere.

This extract from the report gives a little insight:  Hallam (one of the ER leaders) argues that councils and civic institutions should call a climate emergency, but warns against only symbolic gestures by saying that, “the hypocrisy of accepting the truth but not taking appropriate action only makes them more complicit in the criminality of the political class.” As such, Hallam argues that councils should be called upon to issue central government with an ultimatum, when they fail to act however, then they should be “asked to break off all administrative cooperation with the genocidal regime and leaders should go on hunger strike to show their horror at the inaction of central government.”

While the above scenario may seem absurd to you and me, it is something that the ER leadership believe is achievable. What has happened is that a number of apparently rational councils have naively called a climate emergency, believing that this is what the public expects, but they have no intention of giving the government an ultimatum or going on hunger strike. However there is a kind of logic in the demands of ER, if there were a genuine dire emergency. 

In another clip ER leaders said “politicians behind the scenes, including this current government, are telling us that they need a social movement like ours to give them the social permission to do the necessary.”  Implying that our government would really like to carry out a much more extreme policy on decarbonisation, but are afraid they would not have the support of the people. This kind of statement must be strongly refuted, or else it will be believed. 

The poor old government. Either they have to admit that they have exaggerated the dangers of climate change or they have to go along with ER and make out it is an emergency and yet they aren't able to carry out the policies that would follow if it was an emergency.

I do agree with the end of the report which deals with measures to combat ER. "The Government should take two courses of action to counter and undermine the rise of Extinction Rebellion in the UK. It should focus on preventing the campaigners from causing massive disruption and economic damage—including incitement and conspiracy offences—as well as by opposing and challenging the campaigners’ message. Most immediately, the police must act to prevent demonstrators from taking control of locations in city centres or from blocking roads and bridges. Where Extinction Rebellion succeed in doing so, the police should act quickly to remove and arrest those involved before demonstrators have secured control of these areas."






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