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Cute spoiled kids, looking for meaning and purpose in their empty, easy, self-indulgent lives through telling me to turn off my lights, my heat, and my computer. (Not their own, of course, because they have important "organizing" work to do, and organizing people is hard, important work.) Furthermore, they want me to quit eating Whale Sushi. I can't help it: it must be a chemical addiction and not my fault.

Via Tim Blair, a vid on Greenpeace indoctrination and training:

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Didn't click it. I know I can't bear to watch these things. Perhaps they are too like I was at that age.

#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2011-04-17 16:55 (Reply)

I prefer to stand in front of a firing squad before I click on the video.

Seriously. I chose death. Or if I watched it, I would have to get a rope.

#2 Cilla Mitchell (Link) on 2011-04-17 17:24 (Reply)

Somehow I made it through the video, even though it almost made me physically ill.

I wish the training they were getting with ropes was for a different purpose.

#3 Big___Al on 2011-04-17 17:34 (Reply)

Hey - look at it this way - they got some valuable exercise AND learned how to properly rig ropes, belaying, rappelling ascenders and descenders and proper knots.

#4 Tom Francis on 2011-04-17 18:36 (Reply)

I wanted to punch the pony tailed self righteous blowhard dudes and if I had been there would have definitely been hitting on the brunet and the blond...organizing can be so rewarding.

I've never gotten along with dudes with pony tails...perhaps I need therapy.

#5 phil g on 2011-04-17 20:08 (Reply)

Boy, those beaches looked terrible (sarcasm). My family lives down there and they say the beaches look great all along the gulf coast.

Someone needs to create a "conservative greenpeace", so someone will hang banners over government pork barrel projects and around government built slums, etc.

Of course the media would never show those banners?!?!!?

#6 Mark M on 2011-04-17 20:44 (Reply)

I think there are dog turds larger and more prevalent there than those oil globs they showed on the beach.

What a bunch of crap, pun intended!

#6.1 Big___Al on 2011-04-17 21:16 (Reply)

Was just down along the Gulf Coast on the FL panhandle and it is prestine as ever. Only blemishes are the tatooed rednecks.

#6.2 phil g on 2011-04-18 16:43 (Reply)

Have had several discussions with people at my church that think of themselves as green, though their main contribution is trying to get YOU to sacrifice. Like the good libs that they are, they think themselves to be too important to be expected to be inconvenienced , that is what the peasants are for. Don't expect them to turn down their thermostat, they won't use paper plates but insist on using the dishwasher for a few dishes cause by golly, THEY don't have time to hand wash something. Liberal is just a polite word for HYPROCRITE.

#7 Dirk on 2011-04-17 21:16 (Reply)

Ok. I watched the whole video. It wasn't easy...
I wonder if those children were told about how Greenpeace lied for months about the Brent Spar that Shell was trying to dispose of in the North Sea or how one of their founders has disowned the organization? I wonder how those kids got from Washington to the Gulf Coast? Certainly they didn't use fossil fuels!
One of the few cheers I've had for the French was when they sank a Greenpeace boat when they were trying to get in the way of their developing nuclear warheads near New Zealand.

#8 mudbug on 2011-04-17 23:26 (Reply)

Perhaps I should invite them over for my annual Sei Fry?

#9 SCOTTtheBADGER on 2011-04-18 00:55 (Reply)

Poor, dumb students.

#10 Observation on 2011-04-18 01:21 (Reply)

“The second day we got to graduate into the industrial equipment, the equipment they use in Greenpeace actions.”

“Industrial equipment”? Industrial? Am I missing something here?

“I hope to be hanging somewhere with a banner someday on the news.”

Yes, but in some countries less scrupulous about human rights that might well mean hanging from a lamp-post with a rope around your neck and a placard on your chest proclaiming: “INFIDEL WESTERN ENEMY OF OUR GLORIOUS NATIONAL PROGRESS”.

#11 JJM on 2011-04-18 08:13 (Reply)

JJM,

You'd have to check the regs but, up here, harnesses for industry need to be rated for a minimum of 5000 ft-lbs of force. The recrearional rapelling equipment, shown, does not have to be rated that high and cannot be used in industrial applications.

#11.1 Garry on 2011-04-18 11:58 (Reply)

...I wonder how impressed they would have been had they been given the opportunity to:

(paraphrased) "actually go onboard ......" " ..... with all of those brilliant scientists and engineers doing such valuable work .....".

I'll guarantee a visit to a huge offshore rig or drillship or an office in Houston would impress them more ...... they're looking in the wrong place if they want to change the world. The Press frequently turns down offers for these visits - opportunities to learn facts rather than opinion.

#12 H Briscoe on 2011-04-18 09:07 (Reply)

Trust fund brats.

#13 class factotum (Link) on 2011-04-18 10:19 (Reply)

Children are only children.

So, aspiring to be danglers ain't all that bad but better company will be expected in the future.

Use be tattoo was earned after the first foreign port fornication or other dementia.

The children causing me sure mirth are the yankee ones who hang pants from thighs.

Figure they'll be plumbers, someday.

#14 Leag on 2011-04-18 11:16 (Reply)

World needs more plumbers than Greenpeacers.

#14.1 bd on 2011-04-18 18:58 (Reply)

i didn't watch the video but do notice the optimistic, beaming, youthful faces -- it is a nice thing to see.

#15 observor on 2011-04-19 14:44 (Reply)

Plumbers are alright but the issue i raise is the part in the back.

Bye the by bd, how many are yall?

#16 Leag on 2011-04-20 12:15 (Reply)

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