08-03-2010, 10:00 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Greenpeace....
They're on the Calgary Tower right now. Fire trucks and police all down 9th avenue, the area has been taped off now. Apparently, they went up the elevator and then took a ladder and went out the escape hatch. They're bilaying down it looks like.
Hopefully the wind picks up...
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08-03-2010, 10:02 AM
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Voted for Kodos
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the best thing to do is to simply ignore them.
Same principle as TV not showing streakers, and announcers not mentioning them. Ignore them, and the tactics become pointless.
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08-03-2010, 10:05 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Calgary.
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Greenpeace......the poor execution of an excellent idea.
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08-03-2010, 10:07 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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ah yes greenpeace, the bank account that keeps getting bigger and bigger with little results. biggest scam in the world!
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08-03-2010, 10:08 AM
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Location: Winnipeg
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At least it ins't PETA.
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08-03-2010, 10:18 AM
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Poor mis-guided souls.....
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08-03-2010, 10:25 AM
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Self-Ban
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Calgary
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Last edited by skins; 08-03-2010 at 12:39 PM.
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08-03-2010, 10:25 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Apparently they are hanging a banner that reads "Separate oil and state" or something similar.
Anyone close by have a view? Worth walking a few block to check out?
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Last edited by united; 08-03-2010 at 10:32 AM.
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08-03-2010, 10:26 AM
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Crash and Bang Winger
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I hope none of them fall
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08-03-2010, 10:27 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Of those that have responded thus far in this thread, how many actually believe that global warming is happening and is caused by mankind?
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08-03-2010, 10:29 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Of those that have responded thus far in this thread, how many actually believe that global warming is happening and is caused by mankind?
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Not me.
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08-03-2010, 10:30 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Did they really spell separate wrong? Too bad we got all that golfball sized hail already.
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08-03-2010, 10:32 AM
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My face is a bum!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Of those that have responded thus far in this thread, how many actually believe that global warming is happening and is caused by mankind?
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Who cares.
How many people think illegally grandstanding and putting up a banner on a building and taking emergency workers away from real emergencies at a cost to all of us that pay taxes is a really crappy way to drum up support for your cause?
It's like those abortion protestors shoving fetus posters in my face every day. I leaned to their side a bit before, but now I wish I could get pregnant so I could go get an abortion on the sidewalk right in front of them out of spite.
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08-03-2010, 10:32 AM
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Voted for Kodos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Did they really spell separate wrong?
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No, they did not.
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08-03-2010, 10:35 AM
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Voted for Kodos
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Who cares.
How many people think illegally grandstanding and putting up a banner on a building and taking emergency workers away from real emergencies at a cost to all of us that pay taxes is a really crappy way to drum up support for your cause?
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Yup. the medium is the message. The methods Greenpeace use totally take away all effect from the message they try to promote.
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08-03-2010, 10:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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send them the bill for all the emergency crews who are down there instead of responding to actual emergencies. The Calgary Tower should also send them the bill for all the business they have lost this morning due to these clowns. And throw them in jail just for being a general nuisance.
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08-03-2010, 10:37 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo
Greenpeace......the poor execution of an excellent idea.
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Yep, which unfortunately is pretty crappy, since the underlying idea is one we should all be supportive of.
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08-03-2010, 10:38 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Who cares.
How many people think illegally grandstanding and putting up a banner on a building and taking emergency workers away from real emergencies at a cost to all of us that pay taxes is a really crappy way to drum up support for your cause?
It's like those abortion protestors shoving fetus posters in my face every day. I leaned to their side a bit before, but now I wish I could get pregnant so I could go get an abortion on the sidewalk right in front of them out of spite.
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Oh dear. This board goes in circles. We had this debate a month or so ago. Are you saying that civil disobedience is wrong in all forms? There were many police at Martin Luther King Jr ralley. Was Martin Luther King an asshat for having the ralleys? The poor taxpayers had to pay for those police who could have been off doing REAL work.
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08-03-2010, 10:38 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Who cares.
How many people think illegally grandstanding and putting up a banner on a building and taking emergency workers away from real emergencies at a cost to all of us that pay taxes is a really crappy way to drum up support for your cause?
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I agree - I'm all for free expression (and to some extent sympathize with the larger objectives of Greenpeace, even though I think they're out to lunch on a lot of the specifics), but stunts like this end up costing taxpayer money. I would like to see them charged for the costs associated with their stunts, including the costs of emergency response crews, security, removal of the banner, and any disruptions to other people's jobs.
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