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| Nevada Rangers Ram Through Climate Protest Blockade, Point Gun at Activists, Slam Them to the Ground (VIDEO) |
| 2023-08-28 |
| [Gateway] Nevada Rangers rammed through a climate protest blockade near the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nevada on Sunday. Sunday marked day one of Burning Man 2023, a yearly music and art festival in Northern Nevada. Climate protestors blocked the road leading to the Burning Man festival causing a major traffic jam. The green Nazis were demanding Burning Man ban private jets and single-use plastics, according to a reporter on scene. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #16 Update tomorrow: Hollywood funding |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-08-28 20:11 |
| #15 I can’t believe that many people sweltering in the Sun wouldn’t have gotten out and beat that arse but I’ve never been nor will ever attend burning man, my Psilocybin days are very rare now |
| Posted by: Beavis 2023-08-28 19:39 |
| #14 Thanks for the very thorough explanantion secret master. Also glad to hear they are going to get fucked royally. |
| Posted by: Chris 2023-08-28 14:39 |
| #13 I've spent a fair amount of time on and around several reservations in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico. It is definitely an intelligent choice on a visitor's part to behave respectfully while on the reservation. It's especially a good idea to behave respectfully when something like the death of a reservation police officer has recently occurred. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-28 14:32 |
| #12 I live in Gerlach. (In fact, I'm posting from there right now.) So I can clear up a few things. It's great watching the Burning Man azzholes basically remain silent while this happens. We're ARE all a little busy up here right now, you know? However, yeah: The Org isn't going to say anything because it doesn't benefit them to say anything. They walk a delicate "frank and earnest" balance. By which I mean in San Francisco they're Frank, and in Nevada they're Earnest. That's the game they play because it's the game they have to play. Burners themselves are certainly talking about it on social media. And not in a friendly way toward the protestors. The video of the reservation police going ballistic on them is being warmly received by Burners and locals alike. I understood Burning Man was cancelled due to TS Hilary flooding the site? It was pretty wet out here last week, and The Playa turned into a mud pit for a couple of days. Then it completely dried out and is fine. That's what Nevada is like. And in the 'Nations', the cops don't take any chances as they're used to things going south in a hurray and will defuse the situation by any means necessary. Well said. The activists chose of their own free will to "f__k around and find out" on The Res. Any Black Rock Desert local can tell you that's a very, very bad idea. If they had any respect for the Paiute, then they would have read the news before coming out here and found out that a Paiute Lake Reservation cop was killed on the job just last week. To avoid this, all they would have had to do is go a little further up the road past the reservation boundary sign and it would have been left to the Washoe County Sheriffs Department. Who are not as a general rule as, uh, "decisive" about things. As it was, they chose to block the main road through The Res, choking it and potentially preventing emergency services from reaching either the 1100 people that live there (including a lot of old people and children) or the Burners stuck in traffic on a hot, dry day on an eighty mile stretch with no shade, no towns, and no services. So you get what you get. My favorite part of the video was the guy shouting "This is a democracy!" Actually, where you're standing right now it really isn't. It's an independent polity ruled by a tribal council of elders whose community you are currently screwing around with. They don't have time or patience for you. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2023-08-28 12:54 |
| #11 "someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists blocking the street" We were denied Karmatic Justice, |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-08-28 12:34 |
| #10 Where's the video? |
| Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-08-28 12:33 |
| #9 Wait until the climate morons discover they are facing a Tribal Court, whose interests in keeping the Burning Man profitable are significant. Hours long traffic jams in the desert on an isolated strip of highway do NOT give participants a good memory. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-08-28 12:08 |
| #8 Disappointed the videos were so short. Was enjoying the show. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2023-08-28 11:59 |
| #7 ** hurray = hurry |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-28 09:10 |
| #6 ...saying that someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists blocking the street. In that part of the rural world, not surprising at all. And in the 'Nations', the cops don't take any chances as they're used to things going south in a hurray and will defuse the situation by any means necessary. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2023-08-28 09:09 |
| #5 From the article: The climate change activists were arrested. A Nevada Ranger told a reporter at the scene they received a 911 call saying that someone in the crowd was going to shoot the activists blocking the street. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2023-08-28 08:22 |
| #4 Awwww, was hoping they'd stake the protestors out for the ants. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2023-08-28 08:10 |
| #3 It's Tribal Police. The Pyramid Lake Rangers. They aren't part of the State Government. |
| Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2023-08-28 07:57 |
| #2 It's great watching the Burning Man azzholes basically remain silent while this happens. Says a lot about them. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-08-28 07:13 |
| #1 I understood Burning Man was cancelled due to TS Hilary flooding the site? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2023-08-28 07:00 |