I watched the following Greenpeace video clip of Camila Speziale, the youngest of the 30 Greenpeace activists. I really wonder if Greenpeace is getting the message at all.
I found it peculiar that at the end of the video Greenpeace added the text (my emphasis): “Camila is one of the 30 activists taken captive when Russian authorities stormed the Arctic Sunrise on September 19.”
When Greenpeace illegally trespasses onto a facility and rams the boats of authorities, they insist it’s “peaceful protest”. But when Russian authorities arrest activists for breaking the law, Greenpeace describes the Russian authorities as “taking captives”…like hostage takers holding people illegally. A rather hostile and confrontational choice of words by Greenpeace lawyers, I’d say.
Greenpeace seems to be confused about who the accused criminals are and who the law-enforcement authorities are.
Well, she’s 21; so she’s old enough to be held responsible for what she does. The parents have failed in her education.
She says she doesn’t understand why oil comnpanies do what they do. So she probably also doesn’t understand that one barrel of Oil, 168 liter, contain as much energy as 7 years of slave labors (assuming 1kWh/day delivered), enabling her to lead a lifestyle that would be unthinkable without oil and coal.
It is cynical of Greenpeace to exploit complete numpties like her.
Another Argentinian egotist violently invading someone else’s territory illegally and then crying about the consequences.
Pffft
She is from Argentina! It’d been much easier for her to go to Antarctica to see ever growing sea ice and wonder what that means to global warming?
Greenpeace took her captive a long time ago.
The purpose of preparing such videos is in the expectation of there being trouble with the authorities for breaking the law. Other terrorist organization prepare similar martyr biographies with ideological statements.
When Greenpeace acts all surprised that some of their useful idiots have been sacrificed, it underscores how low an attitude Greenpeace has of people an humans in general.
They go there determined to obstruct and/or damage and expect to be let off with minimal punishment.
Is she mentally competent to plead? Who cares. A long spell in jail will help her to understand and to “discourage the others”.
This used to be called Piracy on the High Seas and I think it is still Maritime Law that you cannot board a vessel of another flag without it being deemed piracy. Compare anti whaling protestors who hinder Japanese whalers in the South Pacific.
This will be well known to the planners of the expedition and the members of the crew especially the captain will necessarily know the law as part of their qualifications to take a ship to sea. If they were unqualified Greenpeace will be in even more “hot water” even in the Arctic
Wikipedia has an overview of United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) (1982) a definition of piracy iure gentium.[143] They read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
Article 101
Definition of piracy:
Piracy consists of any of the following acts:
(a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed—
(i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against persons or property on board such ship or aircraft;
(ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State;
(b) any act of voluntary participation in the operation of a ship or of an aircraft with knowledge of facts making it a pirate ship or aircraft;
(c) any act of inciting or of intentionally facilitating an act described in subparagraph (a) or (b).
“Greenpeace seems to be confused about who the accused criminals are and who the law-enforcement authorities are.”
They are not at all confused. They are saving the planet which puts anything they do above and beyond any man-made law, they are doing God’s work, and anyone who opposes them in any way is by definition criminal. Simple really!
We can only hope that an extended stay in a cold and icy Russian prison might bring the realisation that a little bit of warming is not such a bad thing afterall?
Or the activists could be given a choice: 1) a cold cell with cold showers, or 2) a nice warm cell with hot showers all heated by oil.
This may be apocryphal but it has been said that before Glasnost and the collapse of the Iron Curtain, that staff at weather stations would fudge the minium temperatures downwards, knowing that the bureaucrats would be allocating more heating oil to the colder places.
Highly likely; the collapse of weather stations used for GISS et al from 6000 to 1500 coincides with the economic collapse period of the ex USSR. That was when all the village weather stations closed.
http://topher.com.au/australian-climate-change-conflict-of-interest/
“This brilliant video from the Galileo Movement explains in the clearest possible terms why so many of our politicians are so enthusiastic about ‘doing something’ to stop climate change… money.”
Hi Pierre, it seems we’re the only ones tracking this story. You just gotta admire how GP are mishandling the whole situation.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/russia-3-greenpeace-2/
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Thanks, I have to run right now, but will surely ready your piece later today. Looks good.