Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Today, I stumbled across this blog post glorifying the damage that ignorant ‘activists’ with too much time on their hands can do. Apparently, the lunatics at an organization called 'Energy Action Coalition,' a far-left group of 'youth environmental activists' think it's okay to form a mob and storm a privately-owned business with the intention of denying its owner income for a day.
Make sure to note that this young idiot thinks it’s perfectly okay to drive for 20 hours, presumably in a gasoline-powered car, to make herself look like a fool protesting issues she doesn’t understand.
Apparently, this is something that’s going to happen all over the country soon.
ThinkProgress has learned that Power Shift 2011 participants are mobilizing to stage protests all over the country on April 20, to boycott and shut down BP gas stations in their communities to tell President Obama to make BP pay to restore the Gulf.’
My question to Energy Action Coalition: what do you hope to accomplish with these ridiculous stunts? Do you understand that a gas station with a BP logo might not share any financial association with the BP oil company? Do you realize that with your actions, you deliberately hurt a small businessman and everyone (hint: the people you hurt most probably make less than $10 per hour) who works for him?
I’m assuming the answer is no, because left-wing activists care much more about making themselves feel good than about the poor saps who suffer because of their ignorance.
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Jun '10
Re: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Injuring the innocent to punish the "guilty" is evil. But if Christ happens to own the gas station, they'll all be forgiven. Odds of that...slim.
Dec '10
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Sadly, her parents are likely proud of her. A phrase comes to mind: They are truly "Stuck on Stupid!"
Oct '10
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I don't understand. Didn't Obama already make BP pay? What exactly are they protesting?
May '10
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The Left pushes, pushes, pushes, and pushes. They have an absolutely childish approach where they believe they can act however they wish without consequences. Take this along with the video of leftists heckling at and attempting to disrupt last weekend's Tea Party rallies.
Sooner or later, somebody is going to push back. It's going to be ugly.
I'm not advocating this, but I am predicting it.
Apr '11
Re: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Sounds like there was a drum circle starting up in the background, who would have thought? Sadly I think the stupid are being used as useful idiots by the evil. Like you mentioned @keder, it's funny that she drove 20 hours in presumably a gas powered car to protest against an evil gas station. I guess she only stopped to fill up at Chevron or Exon.
Edited on Apr 18, 2011 at 8:26pmRe: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Josiah Fast: Sounds like there was a drum circle starting up in the background, who would have thought? Sadly I think the stupid are being used as useful idiots by the evil. Like you mentioned @keder, it's funny that she drove 20 hours in presumably a gas powered car to protest against an evil gas station. I guess she only stopped to fill up at Chevron or Exon. · Apr 18 at 8:25pm
Edited on Apr 18 at 08:26 pm
Knowing them, she probably stopped at a Chavez-owned CITGO.
May '10
Re: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Evil or stupid? That's a false choice which I reject.
(what, I'm the first to say that? Slow on the draw tonight, people. I enjoyed some fine BP petroleum products just this afternoon.)
Jul '10
Re: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Definitely stupid. These kids lack the intellectual capacity of a gerbil, let alone the know-how to be evil.
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It never ceases to amaze me, the idiot self-defeating actions of the looney left. Thank God, though, for video -- it's always useful to be reminded.
Jul '10
Re: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
How about both.
Um, didn't Obama make BP pay to the tune of $20 Billion? I'm sure I heard that somewhere.
And, oh by the way, wasn't most of the damage to the gulf due to Bureaucratic Nonsense and Presidential Innaction?
May '10
Re: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Dennis Prager made a very insightful point about the left in his last column. He said that the left cannot identify and fight real evil, that is, the evil that men do, as the left views all behavior as relative. So the left fights pretend evil, things like inequality and environmental problems.
This is not to say that inequality and the environment are not problems that need to be addressed but, they are not the serious issues that a moral people need to confront. They are decadent luxuries that only a wealthy, well-fed society can afford.
Of course, the young lady and her friend's protest in the video won't make a dime's difference toward achieving their ostensible aims of a pristine environment. It will only indulge their own over-inflated sense of self-importance. It is a parody of the romantic 1960's, which will forever be with us, sadly.
I was glad she was able to drive 20 hours to get to the protest. I thank Big Oil on her behalf.
Mar '11
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I'm starting to think rallying is a completely outdated form of political speech. What does it really accomplish? Who do rallies convince of anything? Is there really a point to rallies besides getting together with like-minded people? That by the way is all I think this youthful protest amounts to, a social outing for teens trying to look "deep", whatever that means.
Edited on Apr 18, 2011 at 9:23pmRe: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Argh. ARGH PLUS. There are BP stations in my neighborhood, and I make a point of patronizing them - not because I like BP; the "beyond petroleum" tagline is the usual defensive crouch that only guarantees additional beatings - but because the Good People shun BP as a manifestation of oily evil, and I know they're actually small businesses surviving on micrometer-thin margins. My family's business back in North Dakota is built around a gas station. We employ people. We sell you milk at 11:58 PM. We watch ten minutes' profits vanish when someone drives off without paying, and a month's profits evaporate with a new EPA reg.
But we're the enemy to the thoughtless brigade of shiny-faced Earnest Young Things, who see a logo on a sign and conclude it's one vast monolithic edifice they can shame into shutting down the refineries, and beating derricks into windmills. I'd respect them a bit more if they could walk to the protest, but even that's too much to ask.
Dec '10
Re: Evil, or Just Stupid? Youth Activists Descend on Gas Station
Is that ground not private property?
Where it my place of business, I would have asked them to leave, and then called the cops. Trespassing is trespassing.
Let them sing their stupid chants from the sidewalk, but not one shall set foot on the private property unless they want to engage in commerce.
Jan '11
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I've told friends of mine for many months to watch for "Flash Mobs" to be the new thing for "youth" and "the left" - ie going into big box stores and looting (for their own benefit of course) under the guise of "ethical protest". Bah!
May '10
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Their whois is unremarkable....google-fu don't fail me now....
This was it: http://www.powershift2011.org/
Oh look, AlGore was there.
Organized by: http://energyactioncoalition.org/
And here is the office: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1850+M+St+NW+Washington+D.C.,+DC+20036&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.934478,71.806641&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=1850+M+St+NW,+Washington+D.C.,+District+of+Columbia,+20036&z=16
Who else is on the 11th floor?
Well, well, look who's down the hall: http://www.apiavote.org/
And their sponsor: http://www.soros.org/
That man is a menace.
Edited on Apr 19, 2011 at 5:08amMay '10
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Let's see: The Gulf oil spill was an unintentional screw-up, but the Left is certain that BP is evil incarnate. In contrast, the Left caused the deaths of one or two hundred million people in the last century--not to mention the impoverishment of many hundreds of millions more--and still clings to the stupid and evil ideas that are at the root of those disasters, but the Left is never to blame because their intentions are good. Yeah, right.
Aug '10
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It's not that the spokesperson in the video is stupid or evil. She is young. She is full of passion for whatever is the Cause of the Day (as many of us might have been decades ago).
Unfortunately, nobody wants to grow up these days, it seems. (If 60 is the new 40, then 20 is the new 13.) So, this young lady may not outgrow her silly ideas for another 20 or 30 years.
Aug '10
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Did they do this before or after they just met with the President?
http://www.powershift2011.org/news/president-obama-meets-power-shift-youth-clean-energy-leaders
Jul '10
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Yep, they're a bunch of slacktivists if you ask me. Which you didn't.