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Cockney barrow boy spivs: 1 greenpeace: 0

$tinkle

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Feb 12, 2003
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i love when protesters get their a$$e$ kicked. I love it even more when it's greenpeace:

WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail. What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.

“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”

Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”

Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. “The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims,” a spokesman said.

Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said. “They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.”

When a trader left the building shortly before 2pm, using a security swipe card, a protester dropped some coins on the floor and, as he bent down to pick them up, put his boot in the door to keep it open. Two minutes later, three Greenpeace vans pulled up and another 30 protesters leapt out and were let in by the others.

They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts “open outcry” trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.

But they were set upon by traders, most of whom were under the age of 25. “They were kicking and punching men and women indiscriminately,” a photographer said. “It was really ugly, but Greenpeace did not fight back.”

Mr Beresford said: “They followed the guys into the lobby and kept kicking and punching them there. They literally kicked them on to the pavement.”

Last night Greenpeace said two protesters were in hospital, one with a suspected broken jaw, the other with concussion.

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hooray for hooligan capitalists! oi! oi! oi!
 

binary visions

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Jun 13, 2002
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valve bouncer said:
I love it when non-violent protest is met with violence. Re-affirms my faith in all that we stand for.
Yeah, breaking into a building (tresspassing), blowing whistles, sounding fog horns and setting off rape alarms out of reach of people to turn them off is really peaceful.

Doesn't necessarily justify them getting beaten to the point of hospitalization, but what the hell did they expect was going to happen, that these people were just going to sit quietly while the Greenpeace morons brought their entire operation to a standstill?
 

valve bouncer

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Feb 11, 2002
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binary visions said:
Yeah, breaking into a building (tresspassing), blowing whistles, sounding fog horns and setting off rape alarms out of reach of people to turn them off is really peaceful.

Doesn't necessarily justify them getting beaten to the point of hospitalization, but what the hell did they expect was going to happen, that these people were just going to sit quietly while the Greenpeace morons brought their entire operation to a standstill?
Yeah they should have got fire hoses and the dogs set on them.
 

$tinkle

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valve bouncer said:
Yeah they should have got fire hoses and the dogs set on them.
ok, supergenius, what do propose these gentlemen should have done?
 

valve bouncer

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$tinkle said:
ok, supergenius, what do propose these gentlemen should have done?
Um...err...ummm....call the police....just off the top of my head. Look, these traders are idiots, they're most likely to be charged with assault and their careers are gonna be down the toilet. But they were all under 25 apparently so they were probably not thinking like that. Not like us clever old bastards, eh? :D
 

$tinkle

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Feb 12, 2003
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most of these guys are probably scrum-halves, fly-halves or hookers.

i wouldn't expect them to sit idly by when a 'training opportunity' presents itself so gloriously.

have a go already!
 

valve bouncer

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Feb 11, 2002
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$tinkle said:
most of these guys are probably scrum-halves, fly-halves or hookers.

i wouldn't expect them to sit idly by when a 'training opportunity' presents itself so gloriously.

have a go already!
Alright.... I chuckled....wanker. :D :thumb:
 

RhinofromWA

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Well I can't say I feel to sorry for them (GPr's)....if I did you guys know I would be lying. :)

But they did get what was coming to them.....if they didn't stick around they wouldn't have gotten their a$$es kicked. I doubt they did nothing in any way to protect themselves or their friends. Trying to paralyze trading .....sounds like they are on the hook for a load of $$$. I say the traders shouldn't get in trouble....they lost $$$ that day anyway. GP did what they wanted to do....bruises and all.

I think it is funny how they (GP) feal just in their tactics.... They really couldn't beleive they had opposition? Now I know the intellect of the GP grunts :rolleyes: I think the GPr's need to do it legit or get their a$$es kicked.

Oh and Micheal Jackson has hospitalized by the "flue" so the jury is still out on the GPr's that are in the hospital. I think "susspected broken jaw" would be a yes or no....not that I have had a broken jaw....but I figure the docs would know. The cuncussion....I could see being less than positive depending on how soon the conditions were released to the reporters.
 

valve bouncer

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Feb 11, 2002
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golgiaparatus said:
LOL! The baloon/rape alarm thing is pretty damn funny.

- JB
Yeah, I thought that was pretty clever, must remember that one.

Christ what is wrong with you frothers....I sure as hell don't agree with putting soldiers in Iraq but I sure as hell don't want to see them getting killed for it. They don't deserve to die as much as those Greenpeace people don't deserve to get a kicking. And yes it is a valid comparison.
 

BillT

Monkey
While those traders might have gone a bit overboard, but what do you expect when these GP'ers break into someone's place of business, disrupt their work, and probably cost them money as I'm sure they derive a good portion of their livelihood from commisions.
 

MikeD

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Oct 26, 2001
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Hey, you want publicity for your cause, you got it. You want to plan a virtual invasion of private property instead of voicing your opinion legally in a public forum? Pay the price, jackasses.

They wanna play paramilitary with their tactics and little plans, and can't handle the consequences. Fvck them; they got both what they deserved and what they truly wanted. They should thank the guys who kicked their asses, because otherwise, it would have been just another protest gone unnoticed.

It's not like the damned traders are going to listen to them or care what they say anyhow...it's consumers and government, the two groups who CAN change things, that they should direct their message to.

Idiots.

MD
 

RhinofromWA

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valve bouncer said:
Yeah, I thought that was pretty clever, must remember that one.

Christ what is wrong with you frothers....I sure as hell don't agree with putting soldiers in Iraq but I sure as hell don't want to see them getting killed for it. They don't deserve to die as much as those Greenpeace people don't deserve to get a kicking. And yes it is a valid comparison.
Except one group is getting killed and the other group is getting bruises....

GPr's get no sympathy from me.....especially when they are getting bruises.
 

RhinofromWA

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Aug 16, 2001
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MikeD said:
Hey, you want publicity for your cause, you got it. You want to plan a virtual invasion of private property instead of voicing your opinion legally in a public forum? Pay the price, jackasses.

They wanna play paramilitary with their tactics and little plans, and can't handle the consequences. Fvck them; they got both what they deserved and what they truly wanted. They should thank the guys who kicked their asses, because otherwise, it would have been just another protest gone unnoticed.

It's not like the damned traders are going to listen to them or care what they say anyhow...it's consumers and government, the two groups who CAN change things, that they should direct their message to.

Idiots.

MD
patting Mike D on the back....*ducking as he turns and swings at me* :D
 

Silver

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MikeD said:
Hey, you want publicity for your cause, you got it. You want to plan a virtual invasion of private property instead of voicing your opinion legally in a public forum? Pay the price, jackasses.


MD
Virtual?
 

MikeD

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Oct 26, 2001
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RhinofromWA said:
patting Mike D on the back....*ducking as he turns and swings at me* :D
I'm ornery, but not stupid. I don't swing at dudes named Rhino...unless it's with a baseball bat from behind. :D

Silver, I was giving them the benefit of the doubt. Won't happen again, smartass... :p