The battle over the climate is escalating, and nowhere more than in Western Australia, where a new generation of protesters is prepared to break the law to make their point.

When this happened Meg O’neil ran around town exclaiming how fearful she’d been. But the cops were there, at her house, waiting for the activists.

And whats happened since? Has the Woodside exec been hassled? I haven’t heard about anything more. The activists have though. Who should actually be afraid of who in this situation?

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee
    67·
    11 months ago

    That seems like a retaliation to the people saying they weren't targeting the right people when protestors blocked traffic - well now they're targeting the right people!

    • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      11 months ago

      They've done something similar and Redditors still got mad because they said it was going too far. The reality is that a lot of people don't like protests and will continue to shift the goal posts until you're nothing more than an easily ignorable group holding signs on the side of the road.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      4·
      11 months ago

      Same thing happened in the UK, block traffic and they say you're just hurting normal working people trying to go about their day, which is a fair criticism. So they targeted the PMs house, then got more moral pearl clutching by the same parties. Which slim group of locations and people are legitimate protest targets then?

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        Nothing is. It's never been a legitimate criticism. It has always been an attempt at justifying a stance against the idea of protesting at all.