[Safado]

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2...ines-stunt

Image says it all really.

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Greenpeace has apologised to the people of Peru after the government accused the environmentalists of damaging ancient earth markings in the country’s coastal desert by leaving footprints in the ground during a publicity stunt meant to send a message to the UN climate talks delegates in Lima.

A spokesman for Greenpeace said: “Without reservation Greenpeace apologises to the people of Peru for the offence caused by our recent activity laying a message of hope at the site of the historic Nazca lines. We are deeply sorry for this.

“Rather than relay an urgent message of hope and possibility to the leaders gathering at the Lima UN climate talks, we came across as careless and crass.”

Earlier Peru’s vice-minister for culture Luis Jaime Castillo had accused Greenpeace of “extreme environmentalism” and ignoring what the Peruvian people “consider to be sacred” after the protest at the world renowned Nazca lines, a Unesco world heritage site.

He said the government was seeking to prevent those responsible from leaving the country while it asked prosecutors to file charges of attacking archaeological monuments, a crime punishable by up to six years in prison.

The activists had entered a strictly prohibited area beside the figure of a hummingbird among the lines, the culture ministry said, and they had laid down big yellow cloth letters reading “Time for Change! The Future is Renewable” as the UN climate talks began in Peru’s capital.

“This has been done without any respect for our laws. It was done in the middle of the night. They went ahead and stepped on our hummingbird, and looking at the pictures we can see there’s very severe damage,” Castillo said. “Nobody can go on these lines without permission – not even the president of Peru!”

Peruvian authorities are also seeking the identity of the archaeologist who led the activists to the site and the plane from which the photos of the stunt were taken, he said. “It was thoughtless, insensitive, illegal, irresponsible and absolutely pre-meditated. Greenpeace has said it was planning this action for months.”

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Tina Loeffelbein, a Greenpeace spokeswoman at the summit, said she was not aware of any legal proceedings being brought against the group. She said Greenpeace was cooperating with the Peruvian authorities and seeking to clarify what took place.

In a statement Greenpeace said it was concerned that it could have caused “moral offence to the Peruvian people”.

The statement read: “Our history of more than 40 years of peaceful activism clearly shows that we have always been most respectful with people around the world and their diverse cultural legacies.”

Castillo responded: “Disrespecting humanity’s cultural heritage – I don’t think that’s the message this summit or Greenpeace is trying to spread to the world! Most of us in the cultural sector agree with the message. But the means don’t justify the ends.”

“We took every care we could to try and avoid any damage. We have 40 years of experience of doing peaceful protests,” Kyle Ash, Greenpeace spokesman, told the Guardian. “The surprise to us was that this resulted in some kind of moral offense. We definitely regret that and we want to figure out a way to resolve it. We are very remorseful for any offense that we’ve caused and we’re very remorseful for that.”

He said Greenpeace met on Wednesday with Peru’s minister of culture, Diana Alvarez. He said the organization hoped to maintain a dialogue with the Peruvian government. He added Greenpeace would take “total responsibility” if any permanent damage had been caused to the archaeological site.

“It’s not a matter of money. The destruction is irreparable,” Ana Maria Cogorno, President of the Maria Reiche Association named after the German archaeologist whose groundbreaking research on the Nazca Lines from 1940 onwards saw them gain recognition and protection, told the Guardian.

The hummingbird etching on which the Greenpeace stunt was laid was the “only one of the lines which was completely untouched and perfectly conserved”, she said. “It’s one of the symbols of Peru,” she added.

Last week Greenpeace projected a message promoting solar energy on to Huayna Picchu, the mountain that overlooks the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, another protected archaeological site in Peru.

After watching the Julien Blanc scandal and the disastrous way RSD responded to the crisis it will be interesting to see how Greenpeace responds to a similar level of hatred and legal action being directed at them.

[britchard]

Their hypocrisy almost matches that of SJWs, even most lefties don't like them now.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

They're total scum.

[Feisbook Control]

Give them all the maximum jail sentence, hit Greenpeace with a massive fine, and prohibit Greenpeace from ever entering the country again under threat of even more severe fines and jail sentences. Other countries should follow suit. These clowns are no better than those idiots in the Middle East destroying relics from antiquity.

[Saweeep]

Reprehensible as usual.

Two of my favourite memories are the Russians nabbing their boat and the French sinking the Rainbow Warrior.

Everyone knows you don't fuck about with the Russians (in general) or the French's nuclear tech stuff ($$).

[The Reactionary Tree]

If the Peruvian government gave them the death penalty, I would not care.

[El Chinito loco]

Greenpeace is your standard SWPL activist organization. It's made up of mostly white upper middle class crusaders who need an excuse to travel around the world. They find an insipid cause and message to spread so they can feel morally righteous when spending their parent's money. It's a combination of modern white burden and white liberal guilt mixed into one.

They are fuckwits of the highest order. I hope they got thrown into a dank peruvian jail and the org gets fined a shitload of money.

[HawkWrites]

I'm getting so sick of Greenpeace. I think at one point I threatened to break one of them in half and feed them to the other members of the organization. They're twig boys so it really wasn't that difficult to get the point across.

I have absolutely no care for these people. A boatload of them get rammed by a Chinese whaling vessel? Good riddance.

[Mage]

There are some situations when people should be sentenced for lack of aesthetics.

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

To make the irony greater, couldn't they just have photoshopped the message onto a free stock photo of Nazca lines? Not only would it have been more culturally sensible, but it would have also made a significant ecological impact by preventing expensive and CO2-spewing flights and drives to the location and back.

[Foolsgo1d]

They are part of the crowd who believe helping the environment includes making it harder for people to get rid of shit they don't need and imposing fines for putting a wrong item in the wrong area.

[Chaos]

Not many things pisses me off as much as environment and animal activists.

[Dr. Howard]

Try having greenpeace actually up in your shit, your business and your income. Slimy assholes, its nice to see them getting burned.

They are constantly at war with Resolute Forest Products in Canada...Resolute used to just ignore them now they are actively attacking them with lawsuits

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-inv...le9949927/

and blaming them for the closure of operations

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There is another issue that cannot be ignored in these decisions: the ill-founded attacks of environmental activist groups. Their inaccurate and deceptive campaigning, which misrepresents the company's forest management practices, was also a factor. These campaigns are based on malicious falsehoods regarding Resolute's overall compliance with the Crown Forest Sustainability Act in Ontario and the Loi sur l'aménagement durable du territoire forestier in Quebec, and overall sustainability leadership. The provinces of Ontario and Quebec have forest management regimes that are among the very best in the world, and both governments are ensuring compliance. These systems deserve to be respected and defended, and we call upon those provinces to stand up for their standards and to refute these unjustified and unwarranted attacks," said Garneau.

Its been like this for 20 years and is the same as the whole SJW movement. They try to fuck with people's business and then get destroyed when they draw the full ire of those they are attacking.

[Saweeep]

I was at the night portal at my local petrol station the other night and noticed a sign laminated and stuck to the wall.

It was a copy of a court order banning any Greenpeace members from all Shell petrol stations and associated property across the UK.

Tossers.

[scotian]

(12-12-2014 08:39 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote:  

Try having greenpeace actually up in your shit, your business and your income. Slimy assholes, its nice to see them getting burned.

They are constantly at war with Resolute Forest Products in Canada...Resolute used to just ignore them now they are actively attacking them with lawsuits

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-inv...le9949927/

and blaming them for the closure of operations

Quote:

There is another issue that cannot be ignored in these decisions: the ill-founded attacks of environmental activist groups. Their inaccurate and deceptive campaigning, which misrepresents the company's forest management practices, was also a factor. These campaigns are based on malicious falsehoods regarding Resolute's overall compliance with the Crown Forest Sustainability Act in Ontario and the Loi sur l'aménagement durable du territoire forestier in Quebec, and overall sustainability leadership. The provinces of Ontario and Quebec have forest management regimes that are among the very best in the world, and both governments are ensuring compliance. These systems deserve to be respected and defended, and we call upon those provinces to stand up for their standards and to refute these unjustified and unwarranted attacks," said Garneau.

Its been like this for 20 years and is the same as the whole SJW movement. They try to fuck with people's business and then get destroyed when they draw the full ire of those they are attacking.

Ya fuck those cocksuckers they cost me over a grand in lost wages by shutting down a Shell upgrader site north of Edmonton a few years back. I also blame Shell for hiring idiot security guards, the Greenpeace dickheads just drove on site in an unmarked van at 2am while barely anyone was there and climbed to some high points on site to fly their banners. I'd like to see Greenpeace stage a protest at my union hall or do some kind of protest parade in down town Fort McMurray, it wouldn't last too long that's for sure.

[BortimusPrime]

Peru should arrest and refuse to release the activists until Obama gives them a room full of gold, then kill them anyways.

This whole thing is a rather literal example of the destructive recklessness the left engages in when it's stepping on traditions in pursuit of its precious "progress".

[Dr. Howard]

(12-12-2014 10:41 AM)scotian Wrote:  

(12-12-2014 08:39 AM)Dr. Howard Wrote:  

Try having greenpeace actually up in your shit, your business and your income. Slimy assholes, its nice to see them getting burned.

They are constantly at war with Resolute Forest Products in Canada...Resolute used to just ignore them now they are actively attacking them with lawsuits

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-inv...le9949927/

and blaming them for the closure of operations

Quote:

There is another issue that cannot be ignored in these decisions: the ill-founded attacks of environmental activist groups. Their inaccurate and deceptive campaigning, which misrepresents the company's forest management practices, was also a factor. These campaigns are based on malicious falsehoods regarding Resolute's overall compliance with the Crown Forest Sustainability Act in Ontario and the Loi sur l'aménagement durable du territoire forestier in Quebec, and overall sustainability leadership. The provinces of Ontario and Quebec have forest management regimes that are among the very best in the world, and both governments are ensuring compliance. These systems deserve to be respected and defended, and we call upon those provinces to stand up for their standards and to refute these unjustified and unwarranted attacks," said Garneau.

Its been like this for 20 years and is the same as the whole SJW movement. They try to fuck with people's business and then get destroyed when they draw the full ire of those they are attacking.

Ya fuck those cocksuckers they cost me over a grand in lost wages by shutting down a Shell upgrader site north of Edmonton a few years back. I also blame Shell for hiring idiot security guards, the Greenpeace dickheads just drove on site in an unmarked van at 2am while barely anyone was there and climbed to some high points on site to fly their banners. I'd like to see Greenpeace stage a protest at my union hall or do some kind of protest parade in down town Fort McMurray, it wouldn't last too long that's for sure.

They should do it at least once, to learn the same reason why PETA hasn't come back to St. Johns to protest the sealhunt since 2010

[RoastBeefCurtains4Me]

I would not be surprised if I never see this mentioned anywhere in the MSM. It doesn't fit the narrative. The Peruvian government may fine the organization and jail the specific individuals that did this, but almost no western person who vaguely thinks well of Greenpeace will ever know that this happened.

[monster]

What is so bad about this?

It just looks like they laid cloth down to a monument to spell some words. It doesn't look like permanent damage - just lift the cloth and throw it away. Maybe trespassing but I'm not seeing where you guys are calling for their heads for defacement. Am I missing something?

[VolandoVengoVolandoVoy]

(12-12-2014 10:41 AM)scotian Wrote:  

Ya fuck those cocksuckers they cost me over a grand in lost wages by shutting down a Shell upgrader site north of Edmonton a few years back. I also blame Shell for hiring idiot security guards, the Greenpeace dickheads just drove on site in an unmarked van at 2am while barely anyone was there and climbed to some high points on site to fly their banners. I'd like to see Greenpeace stage a protest at my union hall or do some kind of protest parade in down town Fort McMurray, it wouldn't last too long that's for sure.

I'm guessing their van wasn't solar powered.

[TonySandos]

Glad to see RVF full of conservationists.

If you really want to do something meaningful, you can donate(front page) or spread the word on the UNESCO program.
http://whc.unesco.org/


The world heritage sites program is a great undertaking to preserve history basically. I've been able to visit several places listed and even one of their prospective locations; Dair Mar Elia in Mosul, Iraq http://www.aina.org/news/20091219031438.htm

Unfortunately, their cause is more pertinent than ever since conflicts are flaring up all the time at locations of some of the most unstudied sites on their list.

[Hades]

(12-12-2014 05:36 PM)monster Wrote:  

What is so bad about this?

It just looks like they laid cloth down to a monument to spell some words. It doesn't look like permanent damage - just lift the cloth and throw it away. Maybe trespassing but I'm not seeing where you guys are calling for their heads for defacement. Am I missing something?

The Nazca were able to make those images due to a unique geological feature, basically you can dig up a few inches of earth and there's a sharp color contrast. That's why it's illegal to tour the area.

This crowd of dipshits did their "activism" in regular sneakers and fucked up the earth.

Researchers and anthropologists who study the site have to wear special shoes to avoid leaving marks.

[Sonsowey]

I am an environmentalist.

Defiling an ancient work as beautiful as the Nazca lines is insane. Your status as an environmentalist means nothing here. This is like spraypainting the Sphynx.

[dicknixon72]

Even the SJWs turned against Greenpeace

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The Nazca lines survived the violent and brutal colonialism of the Spanish conquistadors, and you, in your neocolonial white-saviour mentality trample them for the sake of a headline. You are the problem. SHUT IT DOWN.