KOYAANISQATSI Posted June 2, 2007 Report Share Posted June 2, 2007 It may have been some drunk locals mistaking each other as greenpeacers and getting all their mates in to beat each other up. Stranger things have happend in there and you know what some folk are like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostrider Posted June 2, 2007 Report Share Posted June 2, 2007 Greenpeace have very little credibility locally these days anyway, but if any of their members were actually paying customers in Posers, their credibility just took a steep dive even further.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted June 2, 2007 Report Share Posted June 2, 2007 I used to like green peace, no more, I will do all I can to blacken their name and destroy them (everyone needs a hobby). Pansies, despise the French after i had the miss fortune to go to their blighted country but they had the right idea (Loved how they tried to blaime us for what they did, great guys...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlady Posted June 2, 2007 Report Share Posted June 2, 2007 ^^^Styles you'd better edit out the P word before the Mods see it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted June 2, 2007 Report Share Posted June 2, 2007 Best to edit it before a young person sees it. I think most of the mods can cope with the odd rude word now and again. I have to say I rather like greenpeace, they go quite nicely with roast beef. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandhopper Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 OFF TOPIC but ... Greenpeace tried to enter the security zone around the G8-Hotel in Heiligendamm from the waterside ... Didn't stop when comanded by police. Police inflatables overrun GP inflatables ... 8 injured, 23 arrested, 3 boats seized by police. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 First time I have found myself cheering for the police. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandhopper Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 ... puuuh - that was a narrow thing. Just saw the videos in the news. Things went in favour for GP until a massive hulled "combat boat" (capable of up to 90 m/hrs) reached the seen. Chased one boat, they touched side to side ... a few seconds later the GP crew lost controle and the boat capsized at full speed spitting four crew into the water and who were then run over by their own boat.Then they took on the second boat going across its course when a police inflatable run into the combat boat; the inflatable was thrown around and run over the GP boat ... and took to rest on it ... A third GP boat tried to escape the scene but gave up ... the motherboat from where they started is now chained up at Rostock-Warnemünde "to cover potential costs for the police action" as a police spokesperson said on the telly ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styles Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 The police should have been issued with a bazooka for these sort of situations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 *Ahem* One of our core principles is that our campaigning is non-violent, which means we don't put anyone, other people or our own, in jeopardy. So I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandhopper Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Swedish TV coverage: http://svt.se/svt/road/Classic/shared/mediacenter/index.jsp?&d=70494&a=845507&lid=puff_845531&lpos=extra_0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachcaster Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Greenpeace are hardly about to admit that their people are going around starting punch ups in nightclubs when they are in port and i find it hard to believe that anyone would listen to a word Greenpeace say after this carry on and their blatant double standards. I spoke to 3 Shetland lads who were jumped by 8 Greenpeace "activists" (not more drunken shetlanders like a previous post said) and 1 of the bouncers who threw threw them out and i have no reason to disbelieve them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medziotojas Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 In the past I have helped campaign and raise money for Greenpeace. I have also worked as a fisherman. I only hope that any of the money I helped raise in the past isn't being used in this wanton destruction of the cause! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted September 25, 2013 Report Share Posted September 25, 2013 Latest from Greenpeace: BRITISH activists being held by Russian authorities who boarded a Greenpeace protest ship in the Arctic face the prospect of jail terms of up to 15 years after reports that they could be charged with piracy.Lawyers for Greenpeace International have demanded immediate access to its members on board the ship, which has been towed close to the north-west port of Murmansk after armed Russian personnel took control of it last Thursday.Sue Turner said she had yet to hear from her engineer son Iain Rogers, 37, one of six Britons on board the Arctic Sunrise. Speaking from her home in Exeter, Mrs Turner, 62, said she was worried. “If they charge them with piracy, there is a 15-year jail sentence and a £10,000 fine,†she said. “I’m not so concerned by the fine, we can get around that. But Russian prisons are not the nicest places to be.“They might deport them straightaway, they might charge them and then imprison them a while, I don’t know. We have to wait and see.â€Mr Rogers, who lives on a boat in Portugal, has been working as an engineer on the Arctic Sunrise since it headed to the region in the summer, she said. Mrs Turner praised Greenpeace, saying it was working hard to get news of the people held. The 30 activists on the ship are from 18 countries.Russian investigators have told reporters that they will file piracy charges against an unspecified number of activists who tried to climb on to an offshore drilling platform owned by state-controlled gas company Gazprom.Two activists tried to board the Prirazlomnaya platform on Thursday, while others assisted from small inflatable boats.Greenpeace said yesterday that Russian officials had merely opened a criminal investigation, which did not necessarily mean they would bring charges. The environmental group reiterated its call for the release of the activists, who it says have been held for four days without legal or consular assistance since the ship was boarded in the Arctic’s Pechora Sea.The charity’s executive director, Kumi Naidoo, defended its activities, designed to highlight damage to the Arctic environment.“Peaceful activism is crucial when governments around the world have failed to respond to dire scientific warnings about the consequences of climate change in the Arctic and elsewhere,â€he said.“Any charge of piracy against peaceful activists has no merit in international law. We will not be intimidated or silenced by these absurd accusations and demand the immediate release of our activists.â€Greenpeace is campaigning against attempts by companies to extract oil from Arctic waters, warning that a spill would be environmentally damaging and extraction of more fossil fuels would add to climate change.Gazprom’s plans to start drilling from the Prirazlomnaya platform in the first quarter of 2014 raise the risk of an oil spill in an area that contains three 
nature reserves protected by Russian law, campaigners said.Greenpeace said independent legal experts had backed its claim that boarding the Arctic Sunrise was illegal, and the green group has rejected Russian allegations that the vessel was involved in piracy. Other Shetlink's:Stena Carron protest in Shetland - Greenpeace Esperanza Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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