As for Gail’s comment: I’m in Oakland California and I saw first hand what happened when protests turned into free-for-alls: violence, vandalism, and the destruction of the most visible components of the Occupy movement itself. So Gail, I know the context for your rhetoric and I’m calling it out as a crock of bovine excrement.

I know I wasn’t the only one who got the release from the Sierra Club that they had decided to undertake a civil disobedience action that was BY INVITATION ONLY and reacted by saying WTF?? And now I see it’s not just the Sierra Club insiders, it’s others “on the frontlines of climate change”.

This pathetic velvet cord, status-seeking mentality is constantly on display in so-called progressive movements. It’s been called out in many organizations, including at supposedly horizontal OWS, and was flagrant at the demonstration last week in New York to support Hedge’s suit against the NDAA.

Well, it’s only human nature I suppose so there’s not much point complainting about it, except it’s going to be the death of us because nobody will tell the Emperors that they have no clothes.

Targeting the pipeline is pointless and was always a poor choice as climate strategy. Obama is going to approve it – he was just waiting until after the election – because it’s part of a geo-political, anti-Venezuela move that Kerry will support because he hates Chavez. Likewise a campus divestment campaign is silly. The only thing that would help would be massive conservation and rationing of fuel but Gang Green won’t talk about that (or overpopulation).

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