Seventeen climate change protesters were reportedly arrested Tuesday night in a demonstration where members of their activist group superglued themselves to an underground entrance of the US Capitol.
At least 16 environmentalists from Extinction Rebellion staged the sticky demonstration, where they affixed themselves to subway entrance doorways between House office buildings and the Capitol, according to USA Today.
The group immobilized themselves in an attempt to draw the attention of passing Congress members en route to a 6:30 p.m. House vote.
By 8 p.m., they were wrangled and arrested by US Capitol Police.
All 17 protesters were charged with “crowding, obstructing or incommoding,” according to the Washington Post. All but two of them were also slapped with defacing public property charges, while 8 were charged with resisting arrest.
Kaela Bamberger, a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion, said the group’s goal was to pressure Congress to pass a resolution introduced earlier this month that would declare a climate emergency.
“Part of the point in using civil disobedience is creating this situation where we disrupt business as usual for congresspeople and put pressure on Congress to demand a climate emergency and to see that resolution through the legislature.”
The resolution was introduced in the House by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer. It’s backed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Senate.
Tuesday’s protesters hail from the same group of climate change protesters that were arrested last month during a rally outside of The New York Times building.
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Boy what a bunch of idiots these Eco-Wackos are just how stupid can anyone ever be? What was they said about stupid people in large numbers? This bunch of Granola Bar Muncher’s and Tree Hugger’s just take the cake on mass stupidity.Darwin Award for these Nit-Wits
They are idiots for buying into the climate change fraud but perhaps not as stupid you think. Don’t forget that similar tactics in England by the extinction rebellion results in the UK declaring a climate change emergency. They are trying to repeat that success here.
If they superglue only their clothes to a wall, they are easily removed.
If they were truly committed to their cause, they would superglue their skin directly to the walls.
But then the authorities might just leave them there, and then what would they do?
These stunts — simple geniuses.
If they glue themselves to the wall, it would make them less able to do it in future once the police have pulled them off, perhaps?
Some one with an ant farm…. anybody???? 🙂
Never mind the ants lets just drop spiders on them from above lets see how long they can take the cob webs in their faces and spiders crawling up their legs
Note: these useful idiots are controlled by a small group of Marxist would-be revolutionaries. Their anti-capitalist mentality is more than obvious.