London’s Metropolitan Police arrested 23 Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists, after the climate change alarmist group targeted media organizations in London, including the dumping of horse manure outside the offices of the Daily Mail on Sunday.
At around 6:40 am on Sunday morning, a group of Extinction Rebellion radicals made a “surprise” visit to the Daily Mail newspaper’s headquarters in London, scaling the building’s scaffolding, hanging banners, and dumping seven tonnes of horse manure in front of the building.
Cut the Crap! Extinction Rebellion dump pile of (bull)shit outside Daily Mail Group offices at Northcliffe House
Join @4billionaires @killthebill_1 @united4BL @XRebellionUK and others from 12 at Parliament to #FreeThePress #FakeDemocracy #LondonProtest #ActNow pic.twitter.com/ylS0U2VPZr
— Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 (@XRebellionUK) June 27, 2021
The Met said that they arrested five people for alleged violations of Section 148 of the Highways Act, with four also being arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage.
A sixth man was arrested before he was able to dump more horse manure outside “a commercial premises in Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria.”
“Had he succeeded, it would have caused disruption to employees and members of the public. Proactive police intervention prevented him from dumping the manure,” the police force said.
Extinction Rebellion later shared footage of activists spray-painting the Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp building before quickly being arrested by police.
BREAKING: “MORE ARTISTS ARRESTED”
Our Submission for the 2021 Turner Prize 😉#Rebel4Life #ActNow #FreeThePress https://t.co/JeyTNtFwic
— Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 (@XRebellionUK) June 27, 2021
At 8 pm, the Metropolitan Police Events social media account revealed that 23 activists in total were arrested through the course of the protest.
Extinction Rebellion said in a statement that their day of “action” was intended to send “a message to the 4 billionaire owners of 68% of the UK’s print media – Rupert Murdoch, Lord Rothermere, Sir Frederik Barclay and Baron Evgeny Lebedev – to ‘cut the buillsh*t!’, demanding an end to media corruption that suppresses the truth from the public for profit.”
Gully Bujak of Extinction Rebellion said: “For the British public, who’ve seen the criminal behavior of this government and their ‘cronies’ throughout the pandemic, the conclusion must surely be clear: the arenas of power in this country are rotten, and where the billionaire-owned press is concerned – corruption is the business model.
“It’s time they cut the crap and stop acting as though they are providing a noble service to the public while greenwashing the climate crisis and stoking the culture war to divide people.
“The need for a truly free press in Britain has never been more evident or urgent than it is today. Until the press is free, and those in power truly accountable, we cannot consider ourselves to live in a democracy, and without a functioning democracy, we cannot hope to survive the multiple and devastating crises heading our way.”
We are outside News International
Can you hear us now? @TheSun @thetimes @Daily_Express @DailyMailUK @Telegraph @rupertmurdoch pic.twitter.com/wQLOCX9hGh
— Extinction Rebellion UK 🌍 (@XRebellionUK) June 27, 2021
In September, Extinction Rebellion also targeted the mainstream media in Britain by blocking the entrance to two British printing plants, causing disruption to the distribution of the Rupert Murdoch-owned papers The Sun and The Times, as well as the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and the Financial Times.
The action has spurred on Home Secretary Priti Patel to put forward a swath of draconian restrictions on the right to protest in order to combat the likes of Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter.
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There are measures that can be taking to stop this type of behavior but the victims never do it. That would be to sue those who dumped the manure for the cost of clean up.
In away, dumping manure is symbolic. Before the us of fossil fuels, the streets where littered with horse manure. If the Excretion Rebellion gets its way, some may return to using horses.
Probably just get a pat on the back
I agree with XR that corruption is rampant. It’s spreading through the Internet.
Sonnyhill
In another post you said, “Yesterday, a technician from Bell Canada drove an hour and a half to my home to install wireless Internet. After setting up his diagnostic equipment, he informed me that I was not eligible for service because my “sector” was fully subscribed. He left for his 90 minute drive home.”
You have been commenting on this site for a long time. Have you been using dial up? That is really hard to use these days with all of the garbage that the web sites load. At our home in Washington we used dial up for a long time. We eventually got satellite and later fiber optic came out this far. The house I inherited from my father north of Klamath Falls was on dial up for a long time but now is on satellite which is needed for the security system.
Make the jerks pick it all up with their own Hands these idiots and their stupid way they do to get the M.S. lie a day Media to pay attention to them and cover their stupid protests
Demanding an end to the suppression of truth from the public for profit is a joke, coming from this lot.
Don’t many wealthy catastrophists beloved by this lot suppress the truth and profit from that, daily?
Rupert Murdoch is an extremely wealthy ‘denier’, yet his media companies daily put forward ridiculously catastrophist views for profit and his decades-long desire to engage in the Chinese media market shows an attitude that is far more worrying than his more principled stand on Brexit could ever placate. Limiting the spread of the Murdoch Empire is fine by me, after all I have never been a supporter of my ex-countryman, but it won’t achieve much more for this lot than making them feel good.
If one is really concerned about doing something about the suppression of truth, the tax-funded BBC is a good place to start. Then ask oneself just what the CCP really think.
Another sino phobia sufferer
Very generous of them! It’ll add the most spectacular blooms at the Chelsea Flower Show. What a wonderful community spirited bunch of idiots… bless!
Looks like they took a wrong turn for the service… like everything they foolishly try to deliver. Could try planting them head down in their delivery to see what sprouts from their arses… definitely would be more worthwhile and logical than the hot air that comes out of the planted end!
I’m staggered that some of the protesters didn’t split off into a counter-protest, because the spreading of manure is the commodification of animals and should be protested…
I’ve been told that this couldn’t happen because the protesters can’t wear two hats at once, which I find a wee bit odd as they seem to each have two faces.
Free the Press is a Joke coming from these Nit-Wits who want all skeptics silenced