Environmental activists target Montreal airport for third consecutive day
Environmental activists target Montreal airport for third consecutive day
Environmental activists have caused disruptions outside Montreal Trudeau International Airport for three consecutive days protesting Canadian fossil fuel policy.
I was actually going to the airport yesterday, and was wondering why the otherwise 30 minute drive took over an hour, with the lineups already reaching the hwy exit. I was explaining to my relative, that see, Montreal has such little foresight, they couldn't build a train to reach the airport in fifty years, unlike Toronto and their Union-Pearson express, which makes YYZ a superior departure point.
Little did I know that this was a sit-in by activists. And the First Nation & Eco activists do this stuff in Toronto all the time. As in block the UP / CN lines, so it's not like that would be exempt from delays either.
All the power to them mind you. I'm just trying to highlight my smugness and bias towards Toronto transit interconnectedness.
16Nearly every other developed country on the planet has rail connecting their major airports. It just makes sense. Of course i didn't bring my personal car with me on the flight. The train is often cheaper than a taxi too.
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Locking this post since some troll isn't getting the message.
6I wish they could figure out a better strategy than making people hate them.
1Doesn't anything less mean they get ignored?
18It's not about the climate. It's about inconveniencing other people. They use the climate as a fake motivation as it's the latest coolest thing to care about.
In the best case scenario it's a false flag operation coordinated by big oil, and these people are just easy prey to play their cause. That way it's actually an excuse for their behaviour.
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From a recent ruling in the UK.
“I acknowledge that at least some of the concerns motivating you are, at least to some extent, shared by many,” he said.
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”
1What an absolutely tone deaf and patronizing statement. The world is ending but god forbid we inconvenience anyone while trying to do something about it.
10No, no you misunderstand. Let me translate:
"Die in a hole you filthy peasant. Your life is expendable and you won't be missed when the police gun you down in the climate riots 20 years from now."
8Read it again. You are NOT morally superior. The three people he was writing about are now spending 2, 2, and 3 years in prison because they mistakenly believe that they are absolutely morally superior and that that absolute moral superiority justifies anything that they do to anyone they see as inferior. This is the same mistake that every extremist makes.
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Yes the harm of being delayed a coupled minutes while siting in a nice climate controled vehicle that has comfy seats and an entertainment system.
5Have you ever been to the Montreal airport? 45 minutes to drive the loop is normal without protesters. It took hours with the protesters. What if someone missed a flight and didn't get to the hospital to see their dying patent or child for the last time? What if someone missed a court appearance and ended up in prison? There are so many reasons that this protest could cause real, lasting harm to the people who are, "inconvenienced". I think that the judges words, voices on the ruling where he sentenced the people to two and the hearts in prison for the same sort of protest, really last it out perfectly well. Your comment and the protesters are utterly tone deaf.
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guy needs to look up the meaning of the word "sole"
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1The UK is deporting innocent people to fucking Rwanda, lmao.
They were. The new government killed that plan on day 1.
“I acknowledge that at least some of your concerns are shared by many but since we don’t want to do anything about it because that would mean changing our western week-end-at-the-resort lifestyle, we’ll just put you in prison. Fuck you.”
“But the plain fact is that each of you has some time ago crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic. You have appointed yourselves as the sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change, bound neither by the principles of democracy nor the rule of law.
“And your fanaticism makes you entirely heedless of the rights of your fellow citizens. You have taken it upon yourselves to decide that your fellow citizens must suffer disruption and harm, and how much disruption and harm they must suffer, simply so that you may parade your views.”
I suspect that it's very clear to most people at this point that the actions of these fanatics and the whinging, feeble attempts at shaming, insults, name calling, and harassment by fanatics and their apologists online aren't actually intended to change anyone's minds. It's a fanatical circle jerk, as the judge suggested in the quoted ruling.
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Glued their hands to the road. My forth thought was solvent which might give them chemical burns. Then I thought leaving them there for days in the sun to sit in their own filth.
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2In Germany the police do this.
Cut them free, charge them, then let them go. I hope he's left handed. Good luck wiping your own ass!
2Typical from the average polluter.
My convenience is more important than the climate My comfort is more important than atmospheric pollution My schedule is more important than those people's life Run them over
PS fuck you mod you're complicit. When the forest fire will come for you, nobody will cry. The average canny is polluting 8 time more than the average human. You are not entitled to poison the air, idiot.
2We need your kind of person to show how selfish polluters really are. Disrupting their schedule should be a death sentence for these scumbags. Our convenience is more important than the climate. Our comfort is more important than atmospheric pollution issues. Our schedule is more important than a protester life. Run them over!
Thanks for illustrating the need for violent actions. The average idiot will not listen to peaceful protests.
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