• jfc… she’s 77. Does the petrochemical industrial complex require so much protection from this tiny elderly woman that they need her to go back to jail? Because she’s not a threat to anything else.

    The terms of Delap’s curfew prevent her speaking directly to the media so her brother, Mick, is speaking on her behalf. “This is very cruel,” he said. “Gaie is sitting at home terrified with her suitcase packed waiting for a knock on the door from police. She has been unable to eat or sleep because of this.

    “She is hoping against hope that sense can prevail and that she won’t have to go back to jail.”

    • Atelopus-zeteki
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      336 days ago

      I love it when ‘big, bad corporations’ are scared shitless of tiny elderly women, who despite diminutive stature are explosive powerhouses of activism. It really shows the cowards for who they are.

        • Tenebris Nox
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          76 days ago

          Leave it out! Farmers are the good guys. The “Farmy Army” are only doing their best to avoid paying tax. How are their kids going to go to public school and Oxbridge if they have to pay tax like the rest of us? They haven’t got two shillings to rub together and all they can afford is a brand new Jag this year.

    • @Jackthelad@lemmy.world
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      -466 days ago

      She was part of a group who were literally blocking a motorway.

      They could have caused a serious accident. The idea that they’re “not a threat to anything else” is not true.

      • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 hour ago

        how exactly could they have caused a serious accident? violently slamming their bodies against a car with such force that it crumples the front?

      • Tenebris Nox
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        156 days ago

        Those Farage-saluting farmers literally blocking roads with their tractors? Cheered on as the “Farmy Army” by the press. It’s completely different, isn’t it and, of course, tractors can’t cause accidents and never stop ambulances from passing.

          • Tenebris Nox
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            55 days ago

            Not according to millionaire-owned media. Farmers good. Climate activists bad. Blocking roads for greed is justified whereas blocking roads to try and save humanity is criminal.

      • @theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works
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        146 days ago

        No, no they couldn’t have. Pedestrians literally legally cannot cause an accident with a vehicle. The driver will always be liable, even if those pedestrians are breaking the law.