U.K. police estimate
the weather will be
warm enough for new
Extinction Rebellion (XR)
outdoor protests
in two to three months.
XR people have glued
themselves to streets
and buildings, and tried
to spray red-dyed water
on a building, but could
not control the fire hose !
In plain English, they
are complete lunatics.
The XRs are real
environmental
wackos, for their
belief of a theory
based entirely on
a computer game.
That computer game
predicts a huge increase
in the number of species
on Earth, in the future,
and then predicts
about one million
species will allegedly
become extinct
from climate change.
The latin names
of the alleged
species
projected to
become extinct,
are unknown,
of course.
Because this
nothing more
than an
anti-science
computer game
fantasy.
XR protests last year
brought chaos and
disruption to the U.K.
In London,
Dame Cressida Dick,
the Metropolitan Police
Commissioner,
estimated the cost
of incremental policing
to be at least £40 million.
That money that
should have been spent
trying to combat knife
and gun crime --
the London homicide
( murder ) rate last year
reached a 10-year high !
During last year's
XR protests,
U.K. police had
two major hurdles:
(1)
Current law allows
demonstrators
to be arrested
and taken to
a police station
to be charged.
After release,
they can return
to the protest,
to resume their
activities, perhaps
to be arrested again.
This could stop
with a law change
punishing anyone
arrested and charged
in connection with
an unlawful protest,
who returns to the protest.
(2)
A lack of clarity
around the use
of Section 14
of the Public
Order Act
In October 2019,
the Metropolitan Police
designated the
pedestrian area
of Trafalgar Square
to be the only
acceptable space
for protests.
The goal was to move
demonstrations there
and allow traffic and
business to flow smoothly.
This worked at the time.
But it has since been
ruled a misuse of power,
because it breached
parts of the Human
Rights Act.
What about the rights
of people trying to
get to work, get home,
visit friends, or keep
doctor and hospital
appointments in London ?
A recent poll
by Deltapoll,
reflects the
public support
for fighting back
against the
XR protests:
60% per support
greater police powers,
53% back restrictions
on the ability of protesters
to return after their arrests.
There has been
video evidence
showing that
Simon Bramwell,
co-founder of XR,
wants to use protests
for “direct sabotage”
( that sounds like anarchy ).