Guest Post by Kit Knightly
It seems every day lately there is a new “shocking viral video” of “desperate drivers losing patience with Just Stop Oil”, or some similar phrasing.
Something like this…
🥊 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Supporter Assaulted While Demanding No New Oil and Gas
🦺 Daniel was assaulted while marching this morning, and remained nonviolent throughout. Disruption is difficult, but it’s necessary.
🖋️ Sign up to slow march at https://t.co/7BzUVS02dZ pic.twitter.com/U8QTGntkG3
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) July 19, 2023
No sporting event has been spared the orange dust and hi-viz vest of Just Stop Oil, and wherever they go they are either cheered on for their antics, or the subject of vigilante justice…which likewise gets a cheer.
But are these videos and protests organic? And if not, what is the point of these clashes?
First of all, let’s agree the protests themselves are pointless, even on their own terms.
Not only do none of the people being inconvenienced by the blocked traffic or disrupted sporting events have any power at all to “just stop oil”, but slowing down traffic actually increases emissions whilst the destruction and disruption will certainly turn many people against the movement.
But that doesn’t actually matter anyhow because the entire movement is FAKE.
Yup, stop the presses guys, news incoming is that Just Stop Oil are not actually a guerilla band of desperate anti-petrol hippies!
Turns out they have branding and funding and social media managers.
Turns out they are a product being marketed as much as anything else, and they are backed by the Climate Emergency Fund, a US-based NGO.
Shocking, right.
Ok, before any of you get apoplectic, it’s perfectly possible some (or all) of the JSO people out there actually wearing their hi-viz and chanting their slogans genuinely believe they’re doing the right thing.
But it’s just as possible they’re all being paid to be there.
Yes, just like charity collectors or seat fillers, paid protesters exist.
Hell, it’s possible the “ordinary people” doing the violence are paid too and the many of the “viral videos” are entirely staged.
Staged or not, paid or not, the violent videos will certainly encourage real violence eventually. And even if they don’t spawn more physical violence, they provide endless ammunition for violent disagreement.
Yes, you guessed it, it’s another fake binary.
A dialectic construction to control the conversation. Making the question on the public mind not “is climate change a problem?”, but “is protesting hydrocarbon production this way right?” or “is violence against protesters acceptable?”.
And, of course, no matter how you answer those questions you’re providing support for one establishment narrative or another.
See, if you support the protesters, you’re agreeing we should be using any means necessary to reduce CO2 emissions etc. You agree that the problem these people are reacting to requires a solution. That way lies carbon taxes and a laundry list of restrictive policies that contol and impoverish people in the name of “saving the planet”.
But, on the other hand, if you’re anti-protesters you’re going to be gaslit into supporting “new anti-protest legislature” to “stop environmentalists disrupting daily life” or “prevent outbreaks of violence” or something.
This anti-protest legislation will be used to stamp-out REAL protests when they inevitably occur in response to Great Reset policies down the line.
See how it works? It’s a win-win for the establishment.
That’s the nature and purpose of the false binary. Violent disagreement across a very narrow band of opinion, and no matter which side you take you’re partaking in a constructed reality that directs your behaviour and responses into endorsing a New Normal policy.
This is almost literally everything that’s been in the news since Covid sputtered out, and the solution is always the same: Keep objective and refuse to take a side.
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It’s from the same astroturfing organization that brought you BLM.
It all leads to the same end game.
The Morgenthau plan, now for the US.
Marxists of every stripe.
Why, chaos. What else?
And then, order. Reset.
My buddy was a paid protestor. He was a college kid in Seattle in the early 90s. He told me it was a decent gig protesting at Hanford nuke plant. He got $8 an hour + free lunch to stand around and wave a sign.
For this and many other reasons, I never trust or believe or care about protests. Under our current regime, only leftist protests count.
oi, point taken…but I really would like to kick Daniels arse meself.
These “protests” are staged and fake !
I don’t know if there are any going on in the US. So far I have seen it happening in Europe and the UK.
If they try it here, it will end badly.. It is against the law to block streets and highways so you don’t need a an anti-protest law. They are free to protest, just not block streets. If the law is not enforced then someone will be injured or killed and it will be the driver who is punished not the protesters. Since we have no rule of law anymore, what do you think will happen?
Avoid driving in places where you could get blocked in. Try to stay on roads where you can drive off road to get around the protesters.
You must have missed all of the streets being blocked in the People’s Republic of Seattle a few years ago … including I-5 … as well as how an entire neighborhood was taken over by the antifa/blm thugs who then handed out semi-automatic AR-15 clones to any and all of their sycophants.
The City of Seattle actually sanctioned the creation and existence of CHAZ by having the local police help to carve out the area that the thugs wanted for themselves. The irony occurred earlier this year when the City was forced to pay $3.6 million to the owners/possessors of the properties that the thugs, aided by the police, prevented from being accessible by those owners/possessors.
Stop oil?
The orange vest is made from oil.
Likely 90% of what they are wearing, made from oil.
Probably all arrived in anoil powered vehicle.
They need to be explaining HOW we live without oil. But first, let us see them stop using it, fucking hypocrites.
That’s how you know it’s fake and gay.
Anon- LNG will replace oil when it comes to refined petroleum fuel. Tires will soon be made of other substances other than oil/rubber. LNG will be used to produce H2, green, red and blue hydrogen will be brought into production.
Oil is really not relevant in the future, protests or otherwise.
And you know this, how?
New LNG terminals here in the US are being prevented from being built … by the same whining, NPCs that are doing this damage — and they’ve got virtually carte blanche to continue destroying things, including our way of life.
AA- I know this because it is now mainstream knowledge, try reading and researching bud. I have been bringing this here for close to a decade yet people are still stuck on oil? It is in the news, on every platform yet you seem to have no clue.
Get ready Tony, it’s coming like a freight train. The US is already the largest LNG supplier, we will be the Saudi Arabia of LNG output.
Look at the signs they’re carrying. They are manufactured and all the same. Any time you see similar manufactured protest signs you know the protest is staged and paid for by someone.
Makes sense.
We need to stop calling them NGO’s……they’re anything but……it’s a revolving door of personnel back and forth between these”organizations”and government agency-state as they implement what the government is too shy to!…
QUASI-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS,I believe is much more accurate.