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In reply to the discussion: He said "make me do it" so they showed up to make him, but were arrested. [View all]dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)I will not accept the argument that their goal was to get arrested, their goal is to stop the pipeline. I'm entirely certain of that, they would happily have left with the pipeline stopped even if they had not been arrested.
I have no quarrel with the President for their arrest, I have quarrel with him for considering (and quite possibly allowing) the construction of this pipeline, a far more serious issue than their arrest.
The knee-jerk outrage is in your imagination, since you are talking about outrage about these people's arrest. The outrage is that we are getting pretty deep into this climate change scenario, and we're taking baby steps, with no urgency from the top, fiddling if you will, while not only Rome but the rest of the planet also burns. And it appears quite possible that this pipeline will be allowed by our President to be built.
I'm aware that he makes some steps in the right direction on this issue, but I've watched the last two U.N Climate Change conferences covered on Democracy Now, hours of it, and it was very clear that this administration is part of the problem rather than part of the solution re climate change. I get no joy in saying that, in fact it makes me very sad, also though it motivates me to not accept neo-liberal corporate leaders who view the world as a race to the top or land as resources for extraction for corporate profits rather than as an interconnected web of life that we have taken to the brink of its ability to self-correct in anything less than a scale of hundreds of thousands of years. We're literally driving a mass extinction event, pedal to the metal, race to the top. That's the real outrage this OP, and the protesters, are speaking to.