Monday 23rd August: Action round-up
The Climate Camp media team have issued a press release providing an overview of the main actions that have taken place today.
Importantly, the media team have expressed bewilderment as to police claims of oil being spilled on a main road, and have no knowledge who was responsible for it if the incident did take place.
the police have already confirmed a trail of thhhe oil went back to the campsite. They reported this on BBC Scotland News.
what is your abswer to this accusation?
idiosta on August 23, 2010
Action round up – more terrorism.
Strongly opposed on August 23, 2010
A successful day???
Do you even know how much damage you idiots caused??? And guess where the money comes from to fix that damage and clean up all the crap you morons did… TAXPAYERS
As a taxpayer I want to beat the crap out of you, and as a human being I want to beat the crap out of you again.
Biggest load of morons on the planet!!
“lets save oil… by pouring on the street”!!!! IDIOTS
concerned citizen on August 23, 2010
As demo’s go I think this attempt was weak, lacked good ideas, leadership and PR. I think you guys need to re think what, where and when as this one did not fly on any count.
If done properly you’d have gained more support, understanding and awareness but instead you’ve antagonised those people directly impacted by your actions and irritated your sympathisers by the bad PR.
Neutral, Edinburgh on August 23, 2010
As for your media team being bewildered… What do you expect when you encourage people to take action as far as they are willing to. Your encouragement of these actions make you as guilty as those that did it. I’m just glad no one got hurt, otherwise you would have blood on your hands.
Strongly opposed on August 23, 2010
Why all the self-congratulation at “closing down” the RBS headquarters for a day? Like any big organisation, RBS has systems in place for key people to work at home, so nothing grinds to a halt. As for staff who are not required to work at home, no doubt they would be more than happy to have an extra day – on full pay – added to their weekend. And, since you are so concerned about the taxpayers funding RBS, who would be paying for staff to have an extra day off on full pay? The taxpayer, of course!!
No congratulations on August 23, 2010
Pouring oil over city roads attempting to kill innocent people is hardly going to get anyone on your side. Totally reckless!
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
What you people did today really showed you in your real light, you care little about the cause you claim to hold so dear, shame on you for pouring oil on a busy main road placing the lifes of every man woman and child using that road in real danger. Criminals who’s true remit is to have a go at the police and cause as much damage as possible before going back to your homes and leaving the people of Edinburgh to pick up the bill. Go home you are NOT wanted here.
Cavey on August 23, 2010
Such a bunch of irresponsible idiots. Damaging property is of no benefit to your cause, legitimate though it may be.
Did you all walk to the camp or did any of you use transport, thereby contributing to global warming! Think about that
If any of yor mates wre responsible for the oil on the roads you should be ashamed, but I don’t think you have the brains.
COLLIEDUG on August 23, 2010
You’re a total bunch of mugs who need locking up.
Tony T on August 23, 2010
Climate Camp FAIL
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
I have this wonderful dream.
It is a dream where all those people who support alternative energy, wind, solar, wave, whatever, take themselves off to live in land where ‘green’ energy is their only source of power.
It would be idyllic, a place of shuffling sandal clad mung bean munching tree hugging dreamers, gathered around a camp fire singing folksy songs.
Not for them the trappings of modernity supplied by oil, gas, coal or nuclear power. As pious advocates of an alternative lifestyle, pride would not allow them to take advantage of anything like that.
Then in my dream the leader of this band of idealists requires surgery. The surgeon, knife in hand, gazes out of the hospital tent towards a distant wind farm. The blades are still. No wind. No light. No heat, no nothing.
Unfortunately at that point I wake up.
Martin Loofah Bling on August 23, 2010
Was that it – A day of action which involved
Throwing some treacle at some buildings
Climbing onto the roof or putting a few banners up
Using some superglue
Causing a bit of congestion in and around the Gyle
Trying to stop a speaker at the Festival who is actually against the banks (that was clever – why no mnetion in the press release?)
Whoopee – you must be very proud and for what
The people of Edinburgh will already have forgotten about you by tomorrow as they go about their daily business
Cairn Energy are still drilling, Forth Energy are still building power stations and RBS …..Hate to tell you but no matter how much spin you put on it RBS operations did not grind to a halt, its 1200 branches still operated, the cash machines kept going, its daily processing was completed and no doubt the corporate guys did some more deals with oil companies. Sure the staff got a day out of the office but I quite enjoyed missing the usual commute, relaxing at home doing my work and no soakings to boot in that rain.
As someone said on your facebook page, more like a badly organised Rag day outing by students. It would be funny but for the darker side with someone trying to cause traffic chaos and threatening the lives of motorists by covering roads with oil. Which mindless thug will hold their hands up to that in the name of climate change?? Your media department don’t have the guts to answer questions on this or the fact RBS (dissappointingly) have allowed them pretty much to do everything on site with their blessing. Such a radical movement … not.
Good bye – just make sure Gogarburn grounds are returned to how you found them.
Pete on August 23, 2010
Climate Camp = cowards bent on mindless vandalism and violence. Not one of the cowards from this organisation dare answer a question because they know they are in the wrong. As for those arrested, I hope they get a very long jail sentence in order to reflect on their violent ways. Climate Camp members are nothing but the scum of the earth – total brain dead wasters who should be ashamed of themselves. On a Monday, most hard working folk are at work – what were climate camp folk doing? Nothing but wasting tax payers money. It is quite clear they are long haired, benefit scroungers who are shy of a bar of soap. I hope the riot police finish you off.
Tony on August 23, 2010
Pointless protests by ill informed idiots. So much for peacefull protests – damaging RBS buildings really brave -not!!! As for oil on the roads absolutely stupid –
RBS continued to operate despite your claims – in short you are all losers
Braveheart on August 23, 2010
“RBS Operations Closed for the Day as Activists Target Sites around Edinburgh”
Clearly you’ve not heard of Business Continuity Planning!! Operations continued, just in different locations…good planning on behalf of RBS – but then they always have been a few steps ahead of you!
So whatever you were trying to achieve you failed. All you’ve done is waste valuable resources….or did you think all the damage you’ve caused would repair itself naturally – it won’t…
Do you think it is OK for environmental campaigners to waste resources and damage the environment through vandalism? Because that’s what you’ve been doing for the last few days. How does that make you any better than those you oppose?
We won’t expect an answer ‘Simon’, so don’t worry. I think everyone opposed to your actions, who has contributed on here, has given up on anyone from climate camp answering direct questions about their actions. However, if you do answer, you’ll no doubt try to persuade us that it’s OK because it’s smaller scale, or because a small crime is OK etc etc – well it’s not!
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
Where’s scummy Simon? Oh!! He is hiding under a stone – what a surprise. Climate Camp = total cowards. Hopefully some strong retribution will follow this bunch of low life cowards who fail to answer questions.
Tony on August 23, 2010
Let our powers combine! Earth! Fire! Wind! Water! Heart! By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet! GO PLANET!
Planeteers, I know you have good intentions, but remember, prejudice and hate are as toxic as any other pollutant.
Captain Planet on August 23, 2010
Too easy for the police to set this oil situation up. I do not believe for a second it was committed by Climate Camp. Those who understand the media propaganda machine that is the spectacle can see through this stunt. Watch the media spin this story with no evidence!
Climate camp go for it there are many people behind you!
Steven on August 23, 2010
“We did it!
We closed RBS HQ for the day as autonomous actions hit climate criminals across the city.”
You didn’t really though did you? If you’d ‘done it’, RBS wouldn’t have been able to operate….instead they carried on operating following their carefully planned procedures etc. And so, you were prevented from taking much in the way of further ‘direct action’ at Gogarburn mainly because by most people working from home or other sites, you had no audience and noone to intimidate…so you had to ‘walk’ to other locations (presumably you didn’t use any form of transport that requires oil!).
Your headline needs an amendment ‘RBS did it’ – they definitely got one over on you! Much harder to intimidate in small groups than a large gang of 500+ isn’t it?!
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
Trust the Police and the Media……NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Harry B on August 23, 2010
Funny how there are so many negative posters on here.
All part of a set up me thinks!
This oil bullshit stinks!
Johnno on August 23, 2010
Funny how there are so many negative posters on here.
All part of a set up me thinks!
I smell a rat with this oil lie!
Johnno on August 23, 2010
Ignore the flood of commenters just regurgitating media hype. Well done on a good day of action! Nice to see such a diversity of tactics over the last couple of days. Very proud, you can come back to Edinburgh again! Far more welcome than RBS, the festival hordes or the cops.
Edinburger on August 23, 2010
The police have confirmed the oil led a trail back to the camp. no media spin, thats what the police confirmed.
end of story.
idiosta on August 23, 2010
Your headline says you closed RBS for the day. Erm, news for you – no you didn’t.
It then says you hit climate criminals. Erm, news for you once again – the criminals today were you.
You must, by now, be taken aback by the anger and outrage directed at you across the media by the public. It is the public, after all, that you need to support you. All that you have done is lost all credit, all respect and you will be leaving Edinburgh in utter disgrace.
I would hope that not one of you would have the gall to return again. You are not welcome, you are not wanted (except by the authorities) and you are parasites.
You are complete fools on August 23, 2010
RBS closed 0.62% higher today on the FTSE. Good work on shutting it down.
Fail.
Fail on August 23, 2010
Would it not have been more sensible to try to encourage RBS employees to see things from your perspective so that they could campaign internally for dealings with environmentally suspect companies to be curtailed? Instead, you took a ridiculously childish approach that hasn’t done anything to further your cause. As previous comments have stated, you didn’t have any impact on RBS’s operations (that’s what happens when you target the admin functions rather than the guys in London actually lending the money to the oil industry, geniuses) and actually caused a far greater CO2 output by forcing staff to travel to the contingency site in the middle of nowhere – no public transport for getting there – and for the police to mobilize in such great numbers.
So, despite all of the self-congratulatory waffle on your Twitter feed, you failed. On an epic scale.
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
Would just like to tell the twat who made the below comment to wake up and smell the coffee. Corporations control our world and our politicans and our media. If we do not act now our world will very shortly become completely uninhabitable. Stop watching and start living. We must all get active and not simply watch the most powerful and greedy destroy our world!
Make an effort to search for the truth yourself and do not repeat what you here off the tv parrot fashion. Wake up!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EpeF1fcji0
Did the below poster not see that these people are everyday people. They just happen to give a shit about our world and see how our politicians are in the pockets of the corporate world that are now the most powerful force on earth that only care for profit. Posts such as this scream out ill informed individuals that get there info from the murdoch press like the Sun/Fox/Times. That do not bother to research a subject themsleves and just believe all they hear from offical channels. You are very sad or indeed paid to be posting by those that wish this grass roots movement with great potential to fail. Well done Climate Camp the powers that be have clearly took notice of you, and you should be proud of your efforts. The below poster needs to wake up!
Climate Camp = cowards bent on mindless vandalism and violence. Not one of the cowards from this organisation dare answer a question because they know they are in the wrong. As for those arrested, I hope they get a very long jail sentence in order to reflect on their violent ways. Climate Camp members are nothing but the scum of the earth – total brain dead wasters who should be ashamed of themselves. On a Monday, most hard working folk are at work – what were climate camp folk doing? Nothing but wasting tax payers money. It is quite clear they are long haired, benefit scroungers who are shy of a bar of soap. I hope the riot police finish you off.
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
The police have confirmed the oil led a trail back to the camp. no media spin, thats what the police confirmed.
end of story.
What a load of nonsance idiosta “End of Story”
Do you have no idea of history and just trust the police and establishment blindly.
End of story you are such a mug!!!!!!
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
RBS closed 0.62% higher today on the FTSE. Good work on shutting it down.
Fail.
The world isn’t only about numbers, these people are actually living their lives and standing up for what they believe in. The natural world is the real world. Not the spectacle of TV, celebrity and consumer culture. We should be doing everything we can to save our world.
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
Is your organization financed by a foreign power with the goal of destabilizing the UK? I’m just asking, I’m German, and our domestic terrorists in the 70ies got their backing from the GDR. As you’re doing destabilization tactics, i guess it’s the same business model with you.
Iran? North Korea? China? Russia?
DirkH on August 23, 2010
What a bunch of self-deluding bigots.
Defending the climate. What tosh.
PS Co2 is plant food and bacteria think oil is food.
You are going to look so foolish in 10 years time…it’s going to be quite chilly for the next few years…the climate experts now tell us.
Moonbat Watch on August 23, 2010
well let’s see what the polis say the morra and how many more “peaceful protesters” fuck up their own lives by getting huckled for a mindless act of stupidity that put innocent people’s lives at risk.
no use beatin about the bush with yous beacuse the hypocrisy of the lot of you, is astonishingly blatant.
idiosta on August 23, 2010
The truth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EpeF1fcji0
Great speech, watch and wake up
Anonymous on August 23, 2010
everybody watch that video with the pig outside cairns where in Simon’s text he alludes to ‘an oil like substance’ the exact same line the police used in their statement.
At the exact same time they were clearing it up off the A720/A8 roads.
Cliamte Camp having a wee laugh at the expense of putting lives at risk to further promote their campaign?? nah, only the meedja and the polis do that!!
Hypocrisy: Our New Democracy
idiosta on August 23, 2010
You are going to look so foolish in 10 years time…it’s going to be quite chilly for the next few years…the climate experts now tell us.
Are you blind to the floods in Pakistan? The fires in Russia. The freak weather events all over the world. Climate change is here. The droughts are very real… Ok all the Uk is getting is another August that feels more like Autumn.
People like you are blind to the suffering of the developing world. Have you no compassion? Are you really that unaware?
Blind on August 23, 2010
You Campers just don’t get it do you?
The wider public isn’t for companies that contribute towards damaging our environment. The wider public is for protecting the environment.
What the wider public is against is how idiots like you go about it.
Putting other’s lives at danger is a line you shouldn’t have crossed.
Take a look at how Michael Moore goes about things and he’s acheived a heck of a lot more than you ever will.
You just don't get it do you? on August 23, 2010
It’s all very well watching movies but the truth is the wider public need to start demonstrating but are a little bit too comfortable for that at present. They would rather passively sit on their couches and watch more diversionary rubbish on the TV and in films whilst our planet dies and very quickly becomes uninhabitable.
What do you suggest?
Blind on August 23, 2010
Certainly not trying to kill people on a motorway, damaging buildings, vandalism, terrorising innocent people etc etc.
I think the idea of having the sustainable camp was a good idea, shame it wasn’t the only item on the agenda.
Strongly opposed on August 23, 2010
And that picture of police surrounding a group of masked men behaving anti socially on your front page. Is that really the message you are trying to send out. Like creating anarchy is something to be proud of?
Strongly opposed on August 23, 2010
I have not seen the evidence that was the case. If it happened, yes bloody stupid thing. I would not put it past it being a set up. I don’t believe all I read and hear that comes from official sources. I am too long in the tooth for that. I remember Hillsborough as an example and the lies written about liverpool football fans that came from Police sources. Our world is being vandalised by the corporate world that is for certain. Profit is all they seek at the expense, of all of us.
It is this profit at any cost attitude that must change and our natural environment must be considered. Sustainability is the key a balance between giving and taking.
Too many people passively absorb so much junk on TV and don’t even read these days. It is frightening how brainwashed the masses have become. A grass roots movement that gets out and demonstrates and get’s the peoples voice heard is what is needed above the spectacle of the media owned by the vested interests of the most powerful that have the most to lose from slowing down on their consumption.
Some spirit is what is needed to stand up to a corporate world that enslaves the third world in sweatshop labour in order to maximise profits. Factory farm animals so that they do not even see the light of day. It is this profit at all cost attitude that is ruining our world.
Economics really isn’t cool, numbers are shallow, science and technology has become as much of a dogma as Religion!!!!
Blind on August 23, 2010
Lets these people return this bank to the private sector….
Meanwhile I will re-educate my children as to who the real criminals in this land are after watching some of your antics on the news.
finallky, i can only pray that we indeed have more right wing police officers who kick the shit out of you losers next time you arrive in the region.
Grow up.
Taxpayer Tom on August 23, 2010
Again, agreed. But there is a big difference between a peaceful march for instance and people smashing up buildings and pouring oil on motorways. That is why I’m opposed. As for not reading, I have read a lot on this site about your beliefs, your cause. However, you fail to see we are in a period of transition, this won’t happen overnight. Your actions are not speeding it up, if anything it is putting true environmentalists in the same stead as climate camp, which is a shame.
Strongly opposed on August 23, 2010
WAS THAT IT?
M U P P E TS
Jambo on August 23, 2010
You could have got so many people on your side if you hadn’t acted so irresponsibly.
Instead of a peaceful protest, building a groundswell of people that might have changed bank funding, you’ve simply pissed off so many people.
I notice you got no coverage at all on the national news.
You should be truly ashamed of your actions.
The only thing you have done is 100% live up to stereotyping.
Shame on these people on August 23, 2010
A period of transition you say. Yet RBS is investing heavily in drilling for oil in the arctic as the ice caps melt.
Is this OK?
Corporations finance politicians and our media?
You will not find the truth in the mainstream media next to a toothpaste advert.
The diversions of modern life are becoming psycopathic as we witness the world crumble all around us.
We simply have to stand up to the corporate profit at all cost mentality. I am not a climate camper but it does now seem that direct action is now the only way.
Blind on August 23, 2010
Why dont you halfwits think for yourselves and realise that this planet will never be saved from it’s own natural cyclic phenomena. If you really must vent your useless sleens go to China – India – and the USA and play silly buggers. A miniscule island like ours would never have any impact on global warming even if it was due to mankinds use of fossil fuels. Wise up and get some serious work done if you feel you have time on your useless hands. You will never ever change the publics hatred of your pathetic ramblings. I hope this new Government gives the police powers to shoot the lot of you at any future demos.
coalman on August 23, 2010
What a stupid comment below?
Climate camp are protecting about a profit at all costs attititude that is destroying our environment. Such as drilling in the arctic. BP is a British company doughnut and look what unsafe drilling has done to cost of the US. I think for a tiny island history tells us we’ve actually reaped quite a bit of destruction. Nothing has changed same callous attitude rules the world, perhaps it’s time for a change. Ignorance like the below comment is frightening.
That shooting comment at the bottom was a little bit frightening to be honest. Enjoy x-factor on Saturday Robot boy!
“Why dont you halfwits think for yourselves and realise that this planet will never be saved from it’s own natural cyclic phenomena. If you really must vent your useless sleens go to China – India – and the USA and play silly buggers. A miniscule island like ours would never have any impact on global warming even if it was due to mankinds use of fossil fuels. Wise up and get some serious work done if you feel you have time on your useless hands. You will never ever change the publics hatred of your pathetic ramblings. I hope this new Government gives the police powers to shoot the lot of you at any future demos.”
I was Blind but now I can see! on August 23, 2010
Dear coalman
please could you leave one bag at my back chute with your head in it ! either that or you could just bury yourself down the hole you obviously live in !
Mr Callum Brodie on August 23, 2010
Do you realise that most of those unwilling to give full names are most likely government policy spin doctors protecting their investment in RBS whilst still claiming they want to promote green policies as a government. You are not pulling the viscose over anyones eyes !
Mr Callum Brodie on August 23, 2010
It was pointless, pathetic, arsey, and totally irrelevant. You got fuck all news coverage and everyone thinks you are a bunch of wankers. RBS don’t give a fuck and neither does anyone else. You couldn’t even get more than two “indigenous peoples” to come and support you. If they were that bothered or thought you were anything other than a bunch of pointless twats I’m sure they would have come in their droves. The bottom line is the reason you have to resort to pointless tactics like today is because you are irrelevant and nobody gives a shit what you have to say or ever listens. The reason is 99% of you have no credibility and are a rag tag bunch of alchys, posh students and psychologically fucked people looking for something to make their unbearably empty lives seem worth living.
Everyone knows about the tar sands. They did four days ago. Nothing you have done since then has made any further difference except piss people off. I was actually on the verge of writing to RBS whom I bank with and have my mortgage with about it but you can fuck off. I hope they dig the whole fucking lot up and drown you idiots in diesel fumes. Piss off back to your bedsits and booze you’re just junkies but more irritating and pointless and without the smack.
Your protest was shit on August 23, 2010
OMG Callum Brodie you are such a typical leftie. Yes it’s all a conspiracy. You’re actually right about all your ridiculous theories and anyone who disagrees with you is a secret government agent just trying to make you look bad and discredit your ideas to prevent people discovering the one real truth – yours. You total muppet. Wake up and smell the coffee. The government, like RBS and everyone else in Edinburgh doesn’t give a shit about these pointless idiots.
Your protest was shit on August 23, 2010
Richard Bernard’s family must be so proud!
Proof positive that Richard is a muppet has been played three times on the Beeb.!
I’ve put it on YouTube.
Mystified on August 23, 2010
Sorry, did sommething happen today? I must have missed the special news bulletin.
In need of enlightement on August 23, 2010
To your protest was shit!
I think the fact that your on this site relentlessly posting is proof positive that actually people have taken notice of this movement. Their is a growing anti-corporate movement growing all around the world. It does not mean you are a leftie if you wish to save our natural world.
The profit at all cost mentality has raped our planets resources for far too long. Sustainability ie the balance between giving and taking simply has to be observed if we are going to save our world.
The corporate philosophy if not stopped, that cares only for profit at any cost to the environment, people and animals will make our planet completely inhabitable otherwise!
Mr B Smith on August 23, 2010
Mr Smith
This idiotic excursion has made not a jot of differece to my notice of environment issues. I studied and environmental degree at uni when global warming and peak oil were only starting to gain academic ineterest and no one else had heard of it.
I do not subscribe to profit at any cost.
I do subscribe to sustainability.
I loathe ignorant, self righteous, provocateurs and tag alongs who just want to fuck things up rather than do anything about it.
I support education, more education and that followed by achievemnt and responsibilty by enabling positiv change.
I do not support the thick, dysfunctional and irrelevant behaving like twats.
Additionally I have extensive practical experience of the realities of the environment which these almost exclusively city people cannot even fathom. Don’t talk to me about tar sands when you’ve never started a generator or pulled a lamb out of a sheeps nether regions. Climbing up a pole and throwing pretend tar at a building doesn;t change the world, it just makes you an embarassing wanker.
These idiots are doing more to retard the progress of real change than any big oil sponsored agitator could dream of. They don;t even need to try. These fuckwits need to grow up, get an education and stard behaving like responsible members of society instead of spoilt brats and hobos on a power trip.
Your Protest Was Shit on August 23, 2010
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Anarchy-in-Edinburgh-as-climate.6490533.jp
Nobs.
Your Protest Was Shit on August 23, 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11061661
Your Protest Was Shit on August 23, 2010
Remember August 2008 when the chickenshit police down in Kent cried ‘Boo-hoo-hoo, those big and beefy protesters hospitalised 80 of us honest coppers!’?
Then a few months later it turned out that all the police injuries were actually down to insect stings, or their inability to handle locked doors and operate vehicles properly..?
How soon we forget what liars they are!
Only time will tell if any photographs or prosecutions surface regarding the alleged ‘oily road’ incidents.
But if you think it’s ‘end of story’, you’re a sucker for sure!
Cliff Stoll on August 24, 2010
The slick media image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7CRGkqxcr0
The reality
http://tweetphoto.com/40930862
Your Protest Was Shit on August 24, 2010
The slick media image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7CRGkqxcr0
The reality
http://tweetphoto.com/40930862
Awwww on August 24, 2010
Yes, if it is anything bad against the climate camp it must be a fabrication by the nasty government, or the police, or the banks, or the CIA, or Israel, or the US yadayadyayada….
... on August 24, 2010
The image
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7CRGkqxcr0&feature=related
... on August 24, 2010
The grubby reality
http://tweetphoto.com/40930862
... on August 24, 2010
Wot is he like?
bferguson@scotsman.com
The Spook in Leith on August 24, 2010
The CIA? Israel? Have you just drifted off into the realms of fantasy tonight or is that your usual domicile?
Cliff Stoll on August 24, 2010
I’d say the difference between the video and the more recent photograph proves beyond doubt that the climate *is* changing – and in the space of just one year!
No wonder so many of the more hardcore environmentalists I know have bought houseboats and yachts to live on..
Cliff Stoll on August 24, 2010
Another ‘environmental’ protest farce that achieved precisely the opposite effect it was meant to.
Why? The methodology is all wrong. On two levels. Firstly, much as you people go on about police or pick-an-agency bullying, it’s you that are trying to push and ram-fuck an agenda. Edinburgh is a fabulous, fine, city. Do you really think super-glueing yourself to anything and clogging up aerterial routes to the capital accomplishes anything? Other than pissing working people off. You people are the real bullies. And shame on you for it. The worst thing is you don’t even realise it.
Why? Part two. Here’s a thing. Most of us have more immediate worries to consider. Perhaps you don’t. I kinda wish I had that luxury.
chims on August 24, 2010
Good work guys. Your reckless oil on the roads prank has caused national outrage.
Anonymous on August 24, 2010
No that wasn’t them it was an MI5 agitator trying to discredit them or a leaking transit, surely you realised that? The police just got it wrong because they’re biased and in pay of the corporations.
... on August 24, 2010
No wonder so many of the more hardcore environmentalists I know have bought houseboats and yachts to live on..
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Cliff Stoll on August 24, 2010
Good. Keep off the streets you work-shy, tax dodging, soap-swervers!
idiosta on August 24, 2010
At least the idiots are angry. Climate Camp was a success. More angry idiots please!
And go…
Anonymous on August 24, 2010
Was sympathetic to the cause, and you know what? I kinda like the environment, cos I live there. But you guys got it all wrong, you’re an absolute disgrace and have done the planet no favours by turning off so many good people – you’ve completely and utterly failed in your objectives as far as i can tell. The sad thing is, you’ll never know it.
And oil on the road??? Don’t you dare try to wriggle out of that one. I drive on that road with my wife and 10 week old son, and it’s by the grace of God you didn’t kill them. Your representatives are YOUR responsibility, ALL of them. Take some responsibility for once and stop blaming everybody else for all the worlds problems. Try to regain a shred of respectability here (haha) ***** by apologising unreservadly on your website ***** – you could have KILLED people! What is wrong with you.
I won’t hold my breath waiting though. No doubt it was a banker fatcat / police conspiracy. Bunch of losers, you had an opportunity and you blew it.
People’s hatred of you is apparent in the comments here, and bear in mind most people just can’t be bothered posting or even visiting the site because you are irrelevant. Caring for the environment isn’t mate, but you lot are.
You’re nothing but a bunch of pointless gypo scumbag wank-heads. Fucking useless would-be murderers. Get out of my city and never come back. Filthy fuckers.
Not In My Name on August 24, 2010
Was that it?
disorganised and ineffective
The only people put out are the city’s taxpayers, who have to cover the cost of your stupid antics on the bypass and all the extra police on your camp ground.
If this is the best that environmental protesters can do the planet is indeed doomed.
What an anti-climax!
Just go home on August 24, 2010
Well what a fuss, if you were to stop and think about the politics behind the so called spilt oil incident could it be that our authorities have a superb anti activist story, or as they say a bit of spin to justify to us taxpayers, spending £100,000 on policing this event??
resident on August 24, 2010
a protest movement? I’ve had bigger and better bowel movements ya fannies. Now fuck off.
Getitrightupyou on August 24, 2010
According to your website you are not due to close the camp until the 25th. It is being widely reported that you are leaving today, a day early. Why are you closing the camp a day early? Poor attendance?
Anonymous on August 24, 2010
Keep up the good work and ignore the trolls. You’re doing a fantastic job of highlighting RBS’s complicity in climate crimes.
ian on August 24, 2010
As a committed environmentalist living in Scotland, I would like to say well done to the Climate Camp protestors for their actions this week.
Well done for creating genuine public sympathy for the RBS, which is something I never thought I would see in a million years in Scotland.
Well done for tarring all genuine environmentalists with the same molasses brush as the mindless eco-criminals who tried to kill road users on the A8 and A720 all the way from RBS @ Gogarburn to RBS @ Drummond House, the Gyle, by pouring oil on the wet roads.
Well done for turning everyone in Scotland (including its environmental activists) against you.
And well done for making the police look good – an accomplishment that no previous Climate Camp has managed before. It seems your tactics for goading them into violence failed to their credit and your eternal shame.
Go and live in a real police state and see how tolerant they are to protestors who commit crime.
Gandhi? You have no right to use his name. He was against violence.
Scottish Environmentalist on August 24, 2010
Well done wankers, you achieved fuck all except proving that you are just a bunch of mindless vandals who are self serving, arrogant, deluded mongs.
Enjoy your tofu you scrounging tossers, I hope you all choke on your soya milk. Fucking wankers, get a job.
You Fail on August 24, 2010
Did you all walk to the camp or did any of you use transport, thereby contributing to global warming! Not only that, have you any idea of how many people sat in traffic jams around Edinburgh polluting the environment and using up gallons of our precious fossil fuels. But I don’t expect you even consider the impact!!
Edinburgh commuter on August 24, 2010
Why don’t you go and set up camp in Iran. What with their nuclear aspirations I’m sure they would welcome your point of view.
Also, please stop using the collective ‘we’ when referring to taxpayers owning RBS. That title is exclusively held for people who contribute to society you work shy lazy bastards.
Cheerio.
Pointless on August 24, 2010
Just like to re point everyone’s attention to this video.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11061661
Well done Climate Camp, you have shown your true colours.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11061661
Stop denying it!! on August 24, 2010
All the moaning posts are great. They prove that the camp is having an effect and is getting the issues across. Beyond the moaners the silent majority lie and not all of them will agree with the moaners.
I got to the camp by walking and using the bus. The bus would have been operated whether I was on it or not, so the extra greenhouse gases by it carrying me were minimal.
We is the appropriate word to use about RBS. Most climate campers work and all of them pay taxes, it is only rich people like senior bankers who avoid paying some taxes by clever financial tricks.
John on August 24, 2010
Hello Again John. You truly are deluded. I have never in my life posted on any blog before this week, but your mob’s criminal and pointless actions have forced me to vent. If you think that the silent majority are behind you, why don’t you set up in the High Street today, introduce yourself and find out what kind of reception you would get. Please film it too, we could all do with a laugh.
PS – I am more concerned about the antics of your mob than I ever will be about Tar Sands. Another convert eh? Nice.
Troll (Apparently) on August 24, 2010
John you need to get your head out of your arse.. yes you got people to listen, but not about your issues, but rather how disgusted we have been with the way CC have conducted themselves. Im only posting here because i am so disgusted by the fact that CC are incapable of organising a simple peaceful protest which has cost the taxpayers over £100,000, and could have cost some innocent civilians lives.
So live in denial, but if you wanted to see the true reaction you would get from the public, listen to the post above.
Stop denying it!! on August 24, 2010
This close down of the HQ did not effect the bank. The main people were just moved to a different location. It did however effect the general workers (myself included), who are out of two days wages.
Thank you.
John Doe on August 24, 2010
John you should have had your protest at Carstairs.. at least they would have locked you up there!
I hope you have cleaned up and left the grounds and the raods around RBS the same way as you found them..
The great things is all the hatred on here and all the newspapers against you guys..
Wake up start living in the real world.. and by the way you better start a whip around before you leave Gogarburn for 100k for the police bill etc.
WE NEVER WANT TO SEE OR HEAR OF YOU WASTERS IN SCOTLAND AGAIN !
Ellie on August 24, 2010
The costs for policing should be billed to Climate Change. Those attending this camp were nothing but thugs, intent on violence and vandalism. Climate Change does nothing but encourage such unlawful acts and should be banned. I am very pleased to see on tonights television, that all the scum leaving the camp site are being searched, their details noted, and most importantly, their photographs are being took. Climate Change you are not welcome in Scotland – go and take your dirty tricks back home. Go and smash your own windows and spread oil over your own roads. As an Edinburgh Council Tax payer, it is me that pays for your “happy holiday” – how are you going to repay me? Or will you shrug your shoulders and pass all responsibility onto others who have nothing to do with you?
CLIMATE CHANGE ARE NOTHING BUT UTTER SCUM – DON’T EVER COME BACK TO SCOTLAND – GO BACK TO YOUR PARENTS IN ENGLAND AND CREATE THE SAME MESS IN THEIR HOUSES – AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
CLIMATE CHANGE – YOUR MEMBERS ARE UTTER LAYABOUT MAGGOTS. I HOPE THE DHSS WERE WATCHING YOUR LAZY WORKSHY MEMBERS IN EDINBURGH AND STOP THEIR DOLE MONEY.
Tony on August 24, 2010
The media team are ‘bewildered’ at the claims of oil on the a8. Presumably not bewildered at video footage of windows being smashed. Anyway it has all been said. I have voted Green at every election I could since 1997. I am ashamed of association with you people. This will go on record as the biggest failure of our movement in the last decade. You are juveniles and I will also be cancelling my membership of FOE until its leaders denouce you rather than be part of your media team being ‘bewildered’. Why pick on a bank anyway? Presumably my car loan from Lloyds means you will be attacking them for funding my fossil fuel burning rather than persuading me to scrap my car. Fools. And I am a Green voter!! Robin Harper do something please…..
Local Parent on August 24, 2010
Regardless of whether or not the camp was responsible for the road spillage (and I do not buy the lame conspiracy theories for a second) the actions of the protesters I saw with my own eyes were nothing more than juvenile vandalism. Your cause is environmental yet you have damaged and defaced property meaning cleaning products will be used, and new glass will need to be made. These have a negative environmental effect. Vegetation and reed beds have been trampled and damaged by you at the HQ and emergency services and police have been taken up dealing with childish pranks.
I work for myself and your selfish, juvenile actions have stopped me working for two days and counting. That’s two day’s wages I will lose. I have two small children to support and this is something no one needs in these poor economic times.
My wife and I try to live with consideration for the environment and your actions have left me with nothing but contempt for you and your cause.
bigsimon on August 24, 2010
Where are the comments from those from Climate Change? Obviously they have crawled back under the stone they came from. Climate Change and it’s members are nothing but scum. They are the sort of sh1t I wipe off my shoes. Climate Change members are nothing but juvenile, childish maggots who should be put down. I sincerely hope that those arrested are sent to jail for many, many years.
Tony on August 24, 2010
you’ve achieved nothing but cost the tax payer police overtime. now fuck off back to middle england.
laughing at you on August 24, 2010
“the police have already confirmed a trail of thhhe oil went back to the campsite. They reported this on BBC Scotland News.”
Then even a police force as inefficient as Lothian and Borders would by now have followed the trail back to the campsite. The trolls tell us that all the protestors from England, so the police would have found someone who said
Cor blimey Guv’nor,
You’ve got me banged to rights and no mistake,
Slap the bracelets on.
Had the police found a trail and arrested someone they would have put it to the mass media.
John on August 24, 2010
“If you think that the silent majority are behind you, why don’t you set up in the High Street today, introduce yourself and find out what kind of reception you would get.”
I was on a stall ten days ago, which is how I gauge what the silent majority think.
From the anonymity of their keyboards a handful of posters have been offered the chance to let off some steam. They have threatened many things which they wouldn’t do in real life.
I don’t have a lot of time for John Prescott, but I think his remark about the contorted faces of the Countryside Alliance sums up my attitude to those who loudly condemn climate camp.
John on August 24, 2010
Take note of the followinng from the BBC news website. The climate camp scum have appeared in court, and not one of them is from Scotland. These maggots are not welcome in Scotland:
“Five climate change activists have come before Edinburgh Sheriff Court over the Royal Bank of Scotland protests.
Giovanna Speciale, 38 and Tim Gee, 25, both from London, along with Cara Whelan, from Caredigion, Wales, denied breaches of the peace.
Eleanor Smith, 24, from London, denied painting graffiti on RBS bins and Martin Wallace, 58, from France, denied assaulting a policeman.
The Gogurburn climate camp was set up in protest at RBS’s oil investments.
All five were granted bail on the special conditions that they left Edinburgh by 1900 BST on Monday and that they did not enter the city unless attending court or pre-arranged meetings with their solicitor.
They were also told not to go within 500 yards of the RBS HQ at Gogurburn.
Mr Speciale, Mr Gee and Ms Whelan are accused of committing a breach of the peace on 23 August at a branch of the RBS in Nicolson Street by preventing customers from entering and by chanting slogans and gluing themselves to each other and the entrance door of the premises.
Ms Smith was accused of painting graffiti on eight bins belonging to the bank on the Royal Mile on 23 August and damaging them.
Mr Wallace was accused of assaulting Sgt Kevin Storey of Lothian and Borders Police at Gogarburn Bridge on 22 August by rubbing his head, which had nettles attached, against the policeman’s arm.
He was also accused of assaulting unknown officers by attempting to strike them with a stick or similar instrument.
A total of 18 people have been arrested since the Climate Camp was set up in Gogurburn last Thursday.”
CLIMATE CAMP – WHY NO COMMENTS ON THE SCUM IN COURT?
Tony on August 25, 2010
“I am very pleased to see on tonights television, that all the scum leaving the camp site are being searched, their details noted,”
Searching is an attempt by the police to intimidate people.
As for having their details noted, hope campers have read the legal briefing at http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/actions/edinburgh-2010/edinburgh-legal-briefing and find out what offence the police officer reasonably suspects them of having committed.
Cue comments from some moaners at their keyboards.
John on August 25, 2010
Apart from the obvious crimes against fashion, Malicious Mischief, Breach of the Peace and conspiracy to commit Malicious Mischief and/or Breach of the Peace.
Edinburger on August 25, 2010
John, stop deluding yourself about the “silent majority” and come back to the real world. There’s a reason the majority are silent and that’s because either they think you’re just a total bunch of twats or couldn’t give a fuck.
Instead of trying to defend the indefensible why don’t you get a job and pay some taxes to help foot the bill that you and your stinky friends have created?
Dave on August 25, 2010
John – you lazy, idle, layabout. Buy some soap, scrub up, and go and get a job and start paying taxes to pay for mess your lot did. Maybe someone will employ a maggot.
Tony on August 25, 2010
“..Had the police found a trail and arrested someone they would have put it to the mass media…”
They did. that’s why I posted it.
idiosta on August 26, 2010