What a lovely start to a Friday morning.
First, we were high and dry here (our ardent thanks to every last one of you wonderful folks who asked after us, bless you all), with our hearts going out to our fellow Americans in Helene's path across the SouthEast. May your situation not be dire, your losses be few, if any, your recovery ever so swift, and your governors as capable and caring as ours.
In the crazy world of environmental protests this morning, a tiny, shimmering little glimmer of light emerged out of the madness.
Just peeking out of the detritus remaining from the insane, irritating, obstructive, increasingly manic, and destructive stunts these entitled cretins feel emboldened to indulge themselves in during their performative tantrums comes a teensy hint of what's been missing all along.
It's known as "accountability."
The most obnoxious group for larping as world saviors and Green crusaders is the group of mental cases known as "Just Stop Oil." They've been particularly busy plaguing the British public with their sociopathic performance art...
...knocking bicyclists off their bikes...
Knocking a cyclist off his bike with your Just Stop Oil protest. Oh, the irony.
— Jack David (@FFS_WhatNow) June 26, 2023
Well done those two men for clearing these idiots from the road. https://t.co/08CWQySA68
...interrupting Wimbleton and desecrating British War memorials.
...No one’s paid JSO’s nonsense the least bit of attention lately, no matter the stunt. A week and a half ago, the spray happy enfants terribles had fire extinguishers filled with their signature orange paint, and used it to make a mess of the two-hundred-year-old Wellington Arch War Memorial. The “eco-yobs” (and I am so stealing that) crapped all over that glorious memorial, had their little orangey smoke flares going, hung a banner, and gave their usual sad little speech.
But it didn’t stop the King’s Life Guards. Rode their horses through the arch right on schedule for all the orange-glo.
Everyone in England is over the eco-yobs.
But what really brought the group the infamy they were desperately seeking was their stunt at the National Gallery. Two of the barmy buggers pulled off the coats that had disguised their t-shirts, threw cans of tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh's Sunflowers, then launched into demented rants...and then GLUED THEIR HANDS TO THE WALL BENEATH THE PAINTING...VURT DA FURK...as people just stood around and watched the whole damn thing go down.
Like, they were scared of the cans the whackos were brandishing.
But then, they glued their hands to the wall, and STILL no one did anything to stop them.
Blows my American mind.
CAUTIØN: SØUP CANS KAN BE PRETTY NASTI
More performative juvenile insanity followed elsewhere from the group, some actually destructive. Thankfully not in this instance, as Van Gogh was thankfully protected by some sturdy glazier's art, and this high act of vandalism faded into distant memory. After all, it's been surrounded by so many other lunacies that it's hard to keep track.
Astonishingly, though, it turns out someone was. There is a British justice system hidden somewhere.
Breaking: The Just Stop Oil protesters who threw soup on a Van Gogh painting have been jailed.
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) September 27, 2024
Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland have been found guilty of criminal damage. Phoebe Plummer got 2 years!
Good. Our leftist two-tier justice system finally got something right. pic.twitter.com/uYPQZXJbY3
This judge didn't take what the loons did lightly either and gave them both a good smack on the tushies.
Two Just Stop Oil activists have been jailed after pouring soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery.
Phoebe Plummer, 23, and Anna Holland, 22, were jailed for two years and 20 months respectively at Southwark Crown Court on Friday for the protest in 2022.
...The court heard the activists had come close to “destroying” the masterpiece and had caused up to £10,000 worth of damage to the gold-coloured frame worth £28,000.
Gallery staff inspected the painting and frame for damage while the women were attached to the wall, and were worried the soup could have dripped through the protective glass.
...Judge Christopher Hehir, sentencing, said the painting could have been “seriously damaged or even destroyed”.
He said that soup “might” have seeped through the glass, adding: “You couldn’t have cared less if the painting was damaged or not. You had no right to do what you did to Sunflowers.”
YOU HAD NO RIGHT
Day-yum! I'll bet you they've never heard that before in their lives!
Just Stop Oil went into HELP! HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED! victim meltdown almost immediately.
Sent down for throwing soup? Judge Hehir turns state repression into an art form
Two Just Stop Oil supporters who threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 2 years by Judge Christopher Hehir at Southwark Crown Court today. [1]
Phoebe Plummer was jailed for 2 years for the soup throwing plus 3 months for a S7 offence, while Anna Holland received a prison sentence of 20 months. They are also subject to 3 year Criminal Behaviour Orders and are expected to serve at least half of their sentences in custody.
In July, Phoebe and Anna were found guilty of causing criminal damage exceeding £5,000 after they threw tins of tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting at the National Gallery in October 2022, although the painting was protected by glass and was unharmed. Judge Hehir preemptively dismissed all legal defences—including the defence of ‘proportionality’ and their Article 10 rights under the Human Rights Act 1998—without hearing any evidence from either side. [2]
Makes it practically a human rights abuse case, doesn't it?
So Just Stop Oil did exactly what you think they'd do, judging by the unhinged response.
They sent two more nutjobs right back into the National Gallery a couple of hours ago to dump some more soup on Sunflowers.
🚨 BREAKING: 2 VAN GOGH PAINTINGS SOUPED HOURS AFTER PHOEBE AND ANNA SENTENCED
— Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) September 27, 2024
🥫 3 Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over 2 of Van Gogh paintings in the 'Poets and Lovers' exhibition at the National Gallery.
➡️ Support people in resistance: https://t.co/Rh65arOwa1 pic.twitter.com/Tc3Bvd10OB
This makes these pseudo-subversives certifiable psychopaths.
I'm pretty sure the British people have noticed, but perhaps the authorities will finally.
In the meantime, I hope Starmer saves enough room to start stuffing these cretins in next to the grannies who post internet memes.
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