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That is not in the news story I posted. They "allegedly planned to sabotage". I can't find an English source here and the Letzte Generation web page has been sh
by hkwerf 3y ago
That is not in the news story I posted. They "allegedly planned to sabotage". I can't find an English source here and the Letzte Generation web page has been shut down, so here's a German source from a right-wing online newspaper about the sabotage [1]. I'll try to translate what they write, including a quote from a Letzte Generation publication:
> In einer Pressemitteilung teilte die Gruppierung mit, es seien in ganz Deutschland „Rohöl-Pipelines abgedreht und damit der Ölfluss unterbrochen“ worden. In Zweierteams hätten Aktivisten die Notfall-Absperr-Stationen der Pipelines betreten und „mit ihren eigenen Händen die Sperrventile“ aktiviert, die in Notfällen ein sicheres Abdrehen des Öl- und Gasflusses ermöglichten.
> In a press release, the group [Letzte Generation] announced they "turned off crude oil pipelines" all across Germany "and thus disrupted the flow of oil". Supposedly, the two-person activist teams entered emergency valve stations of pipelines and manually activated the shut-off valves, which are responsible for safely turning off oil and gas transmission.
If the right-wing media already acknowledges that there is no "blowing shit up" but "safely turn[ing] off", I'm pretty sure you'll find it hard to frame it otherwise. It also would not fit the picture: Letzte Generation has been explicitly non-violent.
You'll also find that this happened over a year ago. There was definitely no emergency, as "blow shit up" would imply.
1: https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article238407383/Letzte-Generation-Klima-Gruppe-versucht-Pipelines-abzudrehen.html https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article238407383/Let...
- nate_meurer 3y agoYou're dancing around my question. Do you believe governments should allow climate activists to vandalize, sabotage, destroy, or disrupt infrastructure or public property?