Question: Would there be quite so much preaching on the behalf
of these zealots if they had been caught mutilating an original
of the work of William Shakespeare or another great pen-pusher?
It makes for an interesting thought on this site.

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Logical, MC?

Supporting the oil industry by buying a can of oil....yep, makes sense to me!

Now if they’d used sunflower oil...or would that be being woke!
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Perhaps these "protesters" might have used a can of oil instead
to make their point in some logical sort of context? 😏

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Correct Stephen, “Life has no meaning without art”. Though, to get things into some perspective; what on earth is the value of a few drops of paint on a canvas, (in this day and age), other than a measure of the vainglorious delusions of some billionaire, who would like to keep it in their bank vault, purely for the satisfaction of owning it?
I would much rather our children and grandchildren survive to create their own art and be able to tell their and our story to future generations, i.e: That we fought their corner.

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Yeah MC, down with virtue signalling; on reflection, we should have gone feet-first into the Vietnam war when the US said “jump” without a second thought.

Oh, for the good old days when the world map was mostly pink, and Britannia’s great unwashed plebs would obediently conform in the name of our glorious empire!

Given the vast amounts of pollution created in the process, to say nothing of the cost incurred by hard-pressed UK citizens, travelling all the way to China and India, to make such a protest, would be irresponsible in the extreme.

Much more effective, would be to involve the Sally Army, who have the facilities for such a venture, to make large quantities of a glutinous broth, (to be doled out on a given date) the kind at which my mum was expert and which, pardon the pun, “used to stick to our ribs”.

The mayor’s Roller parked ouside the town hall would make an ideal target, and in frosty weather, the broth would likely set hard; the removal of which might give his chauffeur some food for thought: “waste not, want not” and all that!
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The correct punishment if they could be trusted would be that of my mother's. You made the mess you clean it up!!

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It's worth adding that protest can be inconvenient or annoying, but that doesn't mean that it is wrong. I don't like what they did, but they had the best possible reason for doing it and should not be sent to prison. This punishment is a disgrace.

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Then go to China, India, and other vastly more relevant sources of modern pollution and make your protests there. Obsession
with climate change got into its stride with the appearance
of a book by failed Democratic US presidential candidate Al Gore back in the day. Check where Gore is found these days.
Meanwhile, the great natural sources of airborne pollution - the
massive ongoing volcanic activity above and below the oceans,
the oddly unreported methane gas eruptions from the oceans
into the atmosphere, and last but not least solar activity's
huge effect on this planet. But there's no chance of making
money or obtaining powerful influences there, of course!

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The Art vs Life argument is misplaced.
Life has no meaning without art and there is a sense in which protestors are going after soft targets.
However, it is absurd and disgraceful for a justice system to send these people to prison. In the end, they are trying, albeit clumsily, to draw attention to the most serious threat facing our planet today. In this respect, the 'utter clowns' are those who persist in denying the existence of man-made climate change and pretend that we need to do nothing about it.

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They are a product of misguided modern virtue-signalling that
seizes on a "cause" to the exclusion of moderate rational
thinking about the wider context of the very thing they are
so worked up about. These protesters - like the CND et al of
other days, never seem too keen to take their actions to where
they really matter, do they? Instead they go for soft targets in
a country that is already cutting its own nose off to spite its
industrial face, importing when it should be exporting in the
name of the climate change mantra, leaving other lands to
benefit. Climate change may be occurring (check your history) but the crucial aspect of human influence remains arguable and
already under restraint via current political policies. Logical
thinking about the ongoing need for basic fuels is hugely
desirable for a variety of reasons.

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What a pair of utter clowns.

Comment is about Poetry student jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh painting (article)

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