Some climate change activists learned real fast that tribal rangers don’t mess around when you try to block their roadways. Half a dozen members of the “anti-capitalist” group Seven Circles “blocked traffic into Burning Man on Sunday, causing a standstill spanning several miles on a major thoroughfare in Nevada.” The blockade didn’t last long.
Activists neutralized by rangers
Videos are going viral which depict tribal rangers arresting the activists at gunpoint on August 27, for “trespassing on tribal land.” They thought locking themselves to a trailer parked across the roadway would prove their point.
They had a whole collection of signs proclaiming slogans like “Burners of the World, Unite!,” “Abolish Capitalism” and “General Strike for Climate.” People on their way to the festival were not impressed.
The group was convinced that their protest would “draw attention to capitalism’s inability to address climate’s ecological breakdown.” After getting stuck in traffic, the event attendants were supposed to be motivated enough to save the planet. Seven Circles must be smoking some of the platinum tier cannabis if they think what they did would really be effective.
Park rangers in Nevada drove through a climate direct action blockade that shut down the road, angering activists. pic.twitter.com/s1AKT8Josz
— Andy Ngô ????️???? (@MrAndyNgo) August 28, 2023
Still, the activists believe that their protest against “popularization of Burning Man among affluent people who do not live the stated values of Burning Man,” will result in “the commodification of the event.” They believe in the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy, too.
The group “specifically claims that the annual arts and counter-culture festival’s goal of being carbon-negative by 2030 is insufficient to tackle the pressing crisis.” We’ll have Waterworld by then, Seven Circles members whine.
All the activists managed to do is anger miles and miles of drivers, who thankfully didn’t have any medical emergencies or vehicle breakdowns in the desert heat, far from any sort of services.
No climate problem
These activists are taking the standard complaints and giving them an Occupy Wall Street twist. “We do not have a climate problem, the climate is behaving exactly in line with the laws of physics,” Thomas Diocano, co-founder of Rave Revolution, said in a statement. “We have an economic system problem, and that economic system is capitalism.” Anyone with the bread to attend burning man has the ability to change society. It’s one of those “eat the rich” variations.
“History shows that capitalism cannot be reformed. It cannot be changed from the ‘inside.‘ Are we really ready to sacrifice everything for an outdated, unequal economic system? The time to evolve has come.” It didn’t come as fast as the time for the greenies to get out of the road.
As several drivers were screaming and yelling at the protesters, giving them exactly the attention they were after, the activists became suddenly alarmed at the appearance of law enforcement on the scene. Right about the time one anarchist was chaining herself to the trailer, with her compadre shouting “this is a democracy, we have a right to protest,” a tribal ranger rammed his truck through the middle of it.
Words fail. Words utterly fail. Today a police truck PLOWED INTO a peaceful climate blockade. These are the people “entrusted” to keep us safe. These are the people we have granted a monopoly on the use of force. How is this ok?
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) August 28, 2023
Two of the rangers approach one female rabble rouser with a rather large handgun pointed straight in her face and told her to get on the ground. She’s heard yelling “hey, you’re hurting me,” as they handcuffed her ankles together but she didn’t try to resist.
A second video “shows a tribal ranger ramming his truck through the protest,” telling the activists “you better move” as they scream. After they were totally subdued, another ranger informs them they’re all under arrest for “trespassing on tribal land.”
They can protest anywhere in America they like but tribal lands aren’t in America, they’re sovereign nations of their own. No matter how much they screamed and cried, they still went to jail and the road was clear in moments.
