{"id":271311,"date":"2023-07-21T06:45:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271311"},"modified":"2023-07-22T05:59:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T05:59:19","slug":"so-whats-the-real-point-of-just-stop-oil-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=271311","title":{"rendered":"So what\u2019s the REAL point of \u201cJust Stop Oil\u201d protests?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian.org July 20, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>It seems every day lately there is a new \u201cshocking viral video\u201d of \u201cdesperate drivers losing patience with Just Stop Oil\u201d, or some similar phrasing.<\/p>\n<p>Something like this\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83e\udd4a BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Supporter Assaulted While Demanding No New Oil and Gas<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\uddba Daniel was assaulted while marching this morning, and remained nonviolent throughout. Disruption is difficult, but it&#39;s necessary.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd8b\ufe0f Sign up to slow march at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7BzUVS02dZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/7BzUVS02dZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/U8QTGntkG3\">pic.twitter.com\/U8QTGntkG3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Just Stop Oil (@JustStop_Oil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustStop_Oil\/status\/1681589579520913410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No sporting event has been spared the orange dust and hi-viz vest of Just Stop Oil, and wherever they go they are either cheered on for their antics, or the subject of vigilante justice\u2026which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yqweEynG5Uk\">likewise gets a cheer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But are these videos and protests organic? And if not, what is the point of these clashes?<\/p>\n<p>First of all, let\u2019s agree the protests themselves are pointless, even on \u00a0their own terms.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do none of the people being inconvenienced by the blocked traffic or disrupted sporting events have any power at all to \u201cjust stop oil\u201d, but slowing down traffic actually increases emissions whilst the destruction and disruption will certainly turn many people against the movement.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn\u2019t actually matter anyhow because the entire movement is FAKE.<\/p>\n<p>Yup, stop the presses guys, news incoming is that Just Stop Oil are not actually a guerilla band of desperate anti-petrol hippies!<\/p>\n<p>Turns out they have branding and funding and social media managers.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out they are a product being marketed as much as anything else, and they are backed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/climate-emergency-fund\/#:~:text=Aileen%20Getty%20is%20the%20founding,Trust%20before%20he%20passed%20away.\">Climate Emergency Fund, a US-based NGO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shocking, right.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, \u00a0before any of you get apoplectic, it\u2019s perfectly possible some (or all) of the JSO people out there actually wearing their hi-viz and chanting their slogans genuinely believe they\u2019re doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s just as possible they\u2019re all being paid to be there.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, just like charity collectors or seat fillers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-crowds-extortion-20181021-story.html\">paid protesters exist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hell, it\u2019s possible the \u201cordinary people\u201d doing the violence are paid too and the many of the \u201cviral videos\u201d are entirely staged.<\/p>\n<p>Staged or not, paid or not, the violent videos will certainly encourage real violence eventually. And even if they don\u2019t spawn more physical violence, they provide endless ammunition for violent disagreement.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you guessed it, it\u2019s another fake binary.<\/p>\n<p>A dialectic construction to control the conversation. Making the question on the public mind not<em> \u201cis climate change a problem?\u201d<\/em>, but <em>\u201cis protesting hydrocarbon production this way right?\u201d<\/em> or <em>\u201cis violence against protesters acceptable?\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, no matter how you answer those questions you\u2019re providing support for one establishment narrative or another.<\/p>\n<p>See, if you support the protesters, you\u2019re agreeing we should be using any means necessary to reduce CO2 emissions etc. You agree that the <em>problem<\/em> these people are <em>reacting<\/em> to requires a <em>solution<\/em>. That way lies carbon taxes and a laundry list of restrictive policies that contol and impoverish people in the name of \u201csaving the planet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But, on the other hand, if you\u2019re anti-protesters you\u2019re going to be gaslit into supporting <em>\u201cnew anti-protest legislature\u201d <\/em>to \u201c<em>stop environmentalists disrupting daily life\u201d<\/em> or <em>\u201cprevent outbreaks of violence\u201d <\/em>or something.<\/p>\n<p>This anti-protest legislation will be used to stamp-out REAL protests when they inevitably occur in response to Great Reset policies down the line.<\/p>\n<p>See how it works? It\u2019s a win-win for the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the nature and purpose of the false binary. Violent disagreement across a very narrow band of opinion, and no matter which side you take you\u2019re partaking in a constructed reality that directs your behaviour and responses into endorsing a New Normal policy.<\/p>\n<p>This is almost literally everything that\u2019s been in the news since Covid sputtered out, and the solution is always the same: Keep objective and refuse to take a side.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liberapay.com\/OffGuardian\/donate\">Liberapay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2023\/07\/19\/so-whats-the-real-point-of-just-stop-oil-protests\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kit Knightly argues that the Just Stop Oil protests are a subtle ruse that not even many of the protesters themselves are aware of. Instead of asking if \u2018climate change\u2019 is a REAL problem, people ask if such disruptive protests are acceptable and whether or not new anti-protest legislation should be brought in to deal with them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":271313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ClimateGate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271318,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271311\/revisions\/271318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/271313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}