Another childhood icon extirpated, by their own hand

Greenpeace.

Gosh. I looked up to them in the '70s and '80s when they were saving whales from those seemingly evil Japanese fishermen. They used to take on noble causes with honorable intent. Or so it seemed to my youthful perspective.

But then, they started acting more and more fringe, becoming more destructive and aggressive—the opposite of the second half of their name, "peace" . Looking at some of the historical accounts, it appears they were always pretty aggressive and destructive, but the media, even then, portrayed their actions with glossy noble terms and portrayed their actions as honorable and justified. The leftist propaganda was less overt then, but it still sucked me in. Most courts agreed. Internationally, Greenpeace "activists"* were arrested and charged with assorted crimes of trespass, assault, vandalism, destruction of property, etc. And courts decided these were "acceptable actions" because they were performed by those with a noble cause - that is, "environmentalism".

Well with all human interactions, if you remove barriers and consequences to actions, you get more of and more extreme actions than were permitted and excused.

Greenpeace may have finally found a limit. A boundary they should not have crossed.

Times changed, and Greenpeace didn't. At their core Greenpeace was anti-human, under the disguise of Pro-Gaia.

My twinge of remorse is that for longer than I wish to admit, I thought they were a noble cause. They were in reality eco-terrorists.

Today, eco-terrorists are torching Teslas. Allegedly, the Nazi-ish Musk is more dangerous than potential climate change.

It is hard to keep up.