Let me get this straight:
- Destroying the planet for profit: LEGAL
- Peacefully suggesting they shouldn't: ILLEGAL
The law has nothing to do with morality, no matter what anyone tells you.
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Let me get this straight:
The law has nothing to do with morality, no matter what anyone tells you.
Of all the things to be guilty of these days, that's a pretty decent one.
Disobeying the foot soldiers of capital is a core tenet of climate protesting. This is akin to charging a band for making noise.
She's getting into good trouble.
Harriet Tubman was also a criminal. Just about every single hero was technically a criminal.
I'm sure if Harriet Tubman was active today, she would be facing the same sort of bullshit as Greta. Probably worse thanks to her complexion.
her punishment was a 2500 SEK fine? They've just told the entire country that we can pay the equivalent of a new bicycle to block oil tankers, this is amazing.
Dagsböter, though, so it is based on income.
Sweden found guilty of failing to obey world's leading scientists and researchers' calls for immediate drastic action against climate change.
arrest Greta Thunberg
We did it, we arrested climate change!
Sounds like a South Park episode
Leave it to our moronic governments to blame the people for climate change then punish them for protesting against the horrors of climate change. The rich think they'll go into their cute little bunkers to wait it out, like we won't eat them or something.