Remember October 2008 when Old growth forest lumberjacks attack[ed] environmentalist protestors?
Now fishermen have assaulted Greenpeace activists who suspected foul play.
[As activst Emma boarded the vessel on sea] they punched her, pulled her hair, picked her up and threw her overboard [and later on the pier] She was viciously assaulted by a burly sailor twice her size, holding her down and punching her repeatedly in the face.
Read A black eye for Emma and another step forward for bluefin tuna at the Greenpeace Staff Blog.
An interestingly identical video appeared even before I managed to blog the above: Coal mine workers verbally abuse anti-coal protesters at what appears to be a quite cozy event. See Treehuggers Pro-Coal Thugs Crash Peaceful Anti-Coal Event in West Virginia – This is Getting Ugly (Video) or click play right away:
Both the big fat lumberjacks and the big, fat and half naked coal miner are just physically intimidating while intellectually challenged. But notice the female coal worker says:
“You may have another way of earning a living, but we don’t.”
That might as well be a quote by the equally bone headed oil industry. Rather than exploring new ways of “earning a living” they sponsor anti-environmentalist propaganda organizations (just a quick search immediately found a note about Exxon at SourceWatch.org and a website called “Follow the Oil Money“.)