Just Stop Oil radicals sentenced to jail for throwing soup at van Gogh art — comrades respond as expected



Two members of the environmental extremist group Just Stop Oil will spend a considerable time behind bars after they threw soup at a priceless painting from legendary artist Vincent van Gogh.

In October 2022, Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer marched into the National Gallery in London and threw tomato soup at "Sunflowers," a work of art van Gogh painted in 1888. They subsequently glued their hands to the wall underneath it as well.

'Non-violent civil resistance is the best, if not the only, tool that people have in order to bring about the rapid change required to protect life from the accelerating climate emergency.'

The soup caused roughly £10,000 — or about $13,400 — worth of damage to the frame surrounding the painting but, thankfully, did not damage the painting itself.

But it could have, Judge Christopher Hehir of the Southwark Crown Court argued during their sentencing hearing on Friday. For that reason, Hehir sentenced both defendants to prison after a jury back in July found them guilty of criminal damage.

"The pair of you came within the thickness of a pane of glass of irreparably damaging or even destroying this priceless treasure, and that must be reflected in the sentences I pass," Hehir said during the hearing.

Judge Hehir was not finished lambasting the unrepentant extremists. "You two simply had no right to do what you did to 'Sunflowers,'" he continued, "and your arrogance in thinking otherwise deserves the strongest condemnation."

After all was said and done, Holland, 22, received a sentence of 20 months behind bars while Plummer, 23, received 27 months, three of which were added for interfering with national infrastructure for her role in a march through western London in November, the Guardian reported.

When her turn to address the court came, Plummer — who prefers "they/he/she" pronouns, according to her X account, ziggystardyke — expressed no remorse and instead likened herself to other famous protest leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. She also apparently considers physically attacking a priceless cultural artifact simply another form of "non-violent" protest.

"On 14 October 2022 and in November 2023 I made the choices to take actions that I knew would likely lead to my arrest and prosecution," she said, painting herself as a victim of unjust prosecution. "I made those choices because I believe that non-violent civil resistance is the best, if not the only, tool that people have in order to bring about the rapid change required to protect life from the accelerating climate emergency and the political decisions being made that pour fuel on the flames and which sentence us all to a catastrophic future."

According to the Guardian, both Plummer and Holland "blew kisses to the public gallery" in the courtroom before they were led away "to their cells."

In a show of solidarity to their imprisoned comrades, two other members of Just Stop Oil apparently copied Plummer and Holland's crime just an hour or so after the women were sentenced and threw more soup at the "Sunflowers" painting.

"Future generations will regard these prisoners of conscience to be on the right side of history," Phil Green, one of the alleged participants, said following the latest soup incident. Just Stop Oil posted a video of it to social media.

Meanwhile, more than 100 artists likewise stand with Plummer and Holland, who, they claimed, ran almost no risk of damaging van Gogh's artwork with their act of vandalism. The group also views the defendants as artists, boldly tossing about "splatter" and "blooms" of color à la Jackson Pollock to make political statements.

"As artists, art workers and art historians, we are concerned by the courts’ defence of a false notion of artistic purity in their judgement and sentencing. Art can be and frequently is, iconoclasm. These activists should not receive custodial sentences for an act that connects entirely to the artistic canon," they said in the letter.

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Stonehenge vandalized by climate terrorists!



Climate activists love to demonstrate their fidelity by vandalizing the environments they claim to love.

Brilliant strategy, said no one ever.

Last Wednesday, “Just Stop Oil,” a climate activism group notorious for disruptive protests, decided the best way “to demand that the UK government commits to signing the Fossil Fuel Nonproliferation Treaty and ... stop burning fossil fuels by 2030” was to spray orange paint all over Stonehenge the day before the solstice.

But don’t worry, the paint was made of cornflower and therefore completely harmless.

Or was it?

Climate Terrorist VANDALIZE Stonehenge!youtu.be

The brain behind the operation, 21-year old Oxford student Niamh Lynch, justified the demonstration in a video, in which she said, “These stones have stood here for 5,000 years. What will the world look like in 5,000 year’s time? What will our legacy be? ... We end the fossil fuel era or the fossil fuel era ends us.”

“Well, I can tell you that your legacy will be ... that everyone will hate your movement because you're so insufferable,” Sara Gonzales fires back.

In response to the vandalism, @StonehengeU.K tweeted:

Looks like Just Stop Oil might’ve actually contributed to the damage they’re supposedly trying to prevent.

“Let’s cause destruction under the auspice of doing good. Let’s burn America down and say it’s peaceful,” mocks Jaco Booyens, BlazeTV contributor and host of “The Bottom Line.”

“[Lynch is] a completely indoctrinated human being that is not capable of making any logical sense whatsoever,” he adds.

Sara, however, speculates that this level of climate absurdity may be more complicated than we realize.

“I read this awesome conspiracy theory that I totally am bought into that ... the climate activists are actually a psyop that was put on by Big Oil to get people to hate the climate change activists,” she says.

To hear the rest of the theory, watch the clip above.

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Stonehenge vandalized by environmental extremists



One of the most iconic prehistoric monuments in the world is currently covered in orange paint, thanks to two members of a radical environmental group notorious for damaging valuable property and bringing traffic on busy thoroughfares to a frustrating halt.

At around noon on Wednesday, Rajan Naidu, 73, and Niamh Lynch, 21, of Just Stop Oil stormed the grounds of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, and apparently began spraying orange powder paint on the stone edifices. Others standing nearby noticed the two vandals and attempted to stop them, to little avail. Video of the incident can be viewed here.

'Either we end the fossil fuel era, or the fossil fuel era will end us.'

According to an X post from Stonehenge curators, "a number of the stones" have been doused in the paint. An investigation into this "extremely upsetting" incident is underway, but the site remains open to the public.

Wiltshire Police arrested Naidu and Lynch "on suspicion of damaging the ancient monument," the agency said in a statement. The pair seemed to time the incident to occur on the eve of the Summer Solstice, when thousands of visitors from around the world gather at Stonehenge to mark the longest day of the year.

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak slammed the activist group as a "disgrace." "Just Stop Oil should be ashamed of their activists, and they and anyone associated with them ... should issue a condemnation of this shameful act immediately," he added.

Despite the strong words from the prime minister, Naidu and Lynch do not appear to be "ashamed" at all. Naidu insisted the paint was made up of "cornflour" that "will soon wash away with the rain." However, the need for radical government intervention "to mitigate the catastrophic consequences of the climate and ecological crisis" remains, he claimed.

"Either we end the fossil fuel era, or the fossil fuel era will end us."

His alleged coconspirator, Lynch, claimed she and others associated with Just Stop Oil are trying to preserve their generation's "legacy." "It’s time for us to think about what our civilization will leave behind," she said.

"Standing inert for generations works well for stones – not climate policy."

Mike Pitts, archaeologist and author of "How to Build Stonehenge," believes that if Just Stop Oil intended to protect the environment, vandalizing Stonehenge was the wrong way to go about it. "A rich garden of life has grown on the megaliths, an exceptional lichen garden has grown," he said. "So [the attack is] potentially quite concerning."

Stonehenge is just the latest heritage site or artifact vandalized by Just Stop Oil. The group has also thrown tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting and broken the glass case protecting the Magna Carta at the British Museum.

Members have also incited the wrath of their fellow countrymen in recent years by shutting down major British highways and interrupting popular sporting events. They claim these are acts of "non-violent civil resistance."

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Anti-oil activist tells colleagues their movement is too 'white' and 'middle-class' and needs to work with more Muslims



An activist from the group Just Stop Oil told informed colleagues during a meeting that the movement needed to shift away from being seen as a white, middle-class group of activists and focus more on being inclusive to all.

The activist, known only as Olive, has been pictured in anti-oil protests including when the group halted traffic on the London Bridge in June 2023.

A reporter infiltrated the eco-group's weekly strategy discussion over meeting software Zoom, where the team of environmentalists opined about its public image.

Olive reportedly made pleas to the meeting's 50 attendees, who were reportedly taken aback when she said the group needed to push for more diversity.

"One of our key aims in this shift is to break out of this white, middle-class, student bubble that a lot of the time we find ourselves in," she declared. She added that the group needed to make their "spaces and actions something that all young people want to be a part of."

The leader, said to be in her 20s, stated that the group was creating a new youth division called Youth Demand, with a focus to increasingly target the rich. In addition to this plan, another element of the group's approach would be to work with more Muslim groups, including a group called Palestine Action.

Who knew? Just Stop Oil zealot admits: Were too White and middle-class \nOlive sporting pink hair said the group has become too white and needs to be more diverse We must work with Muslim groups to break out of our bubble.\nJSO has now joined forces with Pro Palestinan activists
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It was also revealed by the journalist that the group planned to join forces with the pro-Palestinian activists to cause a significant disruption in central London, England, the Daily Mail reported.

"This month, we're doing high-profile action to launch our campaign into the headlines."

"In April, from 7th to 11th, young people from across the country are coming together to take action in London. They're going to be targeting individuals and institutions who are acting that genocide is acceptable. We're going to show that we're on to them and they cannot hide their crimes," the activist said in reference to the Israel-Palestine war.

The undercover journalist said the anti-oil and Palestinian groups planned to meet for a "mass civil disobedience action" in London to argue that energy companies are fueling the Israeli military and, as such, displacing and killing Palestinians.

\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Just Stop Oil Met With Counterprotest\n\n\ud83e\uddba Supporters of Just Stop Oil were met with a counterprotest while preparing to slow march in Elephant & Castle, but after explaining their reasoning for demanding an end to new oil and gas, the counterprotesters dispersed.
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The Just Stop Oil group has effectively made disrupting public events and day-to-day traffic its primary form of protest. June and July 2023 were busy summer months for the activists, with showcases of disruptive behavior boiling over into reactions from the public.

Along with the aforementioned bridge protest, June 2023 saw activists doused with a bucket of water from a balcony as they slow-walked down a busy road.

In mid-July 2023, a protester was dragged away after disrupting a university's graduation ceremony with orange paint. Just Stop Oil frequently has spread orange paint at public events, which typically causes minor disruptions in activities and only annoys onlookers, with any environment-related messaging going by the wayside.

About a week later, the activists were met by counterprotesters while again trying to block a busy English road. The counter-demonstrators surrounded the anti-oil activists wearing shirts that read "Just Stop Pissing Everyone Off."

It was unclear if the group was involved with Just Stop Oil, given the alleged ease with which they willingly ended their resistance. Metro UK cited a Twitter user who claimed the counterprotest was "a stunt to try and make them seem reasonable."

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Climate alarmist champions limiting families to one child; claims having more children is 'selfish'



Climate alarmists are becoming increasingly forthright about their hostility toward human life.

Donnachadh McCarthy, a failed politician involved in Just Stop Oil and one of the leading figures of Extinction Rebellion, recently went on British television to peddle depopulationist solutions to imagined problems. McCarthy suggested to GB News — just weeks after calling for Israeli forces to surrender — that "there is a moral issue" with having too many children and that families should be limited to one child.

When China adopted as policy the voluntary scheme McCarthy proposed Tuesday, it ended up with a half-billion dead children, a devastating sex ratio imbalance, and a demographic crisis. It's clear, however, that a similar population collapse is precisely what McCarthy and other alarmists want for the West.

McCarthy — who has previously shared a stage with photo opportunist Greta Thunberg — made clear that he regards children as mobile pollutants, citing disputed statistics as evidence.

"Every child in an industrial country like ours has around 505 hundred tonnes of carbon over their lifetime," said McCarthy, who has himself fed plants with his carbon dioxide for over 64 years. "That's equivalent to 1,000 years of electricity for a household. So each child has an impact, and we're saying one is great, two is plenty, and three is selfish."

McCarthy made clear that he is not only concerned about procreation in Western nations like the United Kingdom — which accounts for less than 1% of global carbon dioxide emissions. He similarly bemoaned the British government's apparent failure to do more to help the developing world abort its young.

"When women have access to family planning, rights to work and a right to education, the birth rate falls naturally," he said. "What I think is tragic is that the U.K. government have cut funds for girls in the developing world, and I think that is sad."

McCarthy appears to have been referring to the U.K.'s 2022 reduction in funding for foreign abortions, euphemistically referred to as sexual and reproductive health rights, by nearly a third.

The climate alarmist has long been a proponent of abortion, claiming that the pro-life position of the "patriarchal Abrahamic religions ... is a stain on human progress."

Despite his apparent desire to have the human population reined in, McCarthy's group Extinction Rebellion elsewhere claims to be a movement for the young dedicated to combating a system "contemptuous of humanity."

Nicole Ratcliff, a parenting coach on the GB News panel with McCarthy, said in response to the radical's depopulationist rhetoric, "I am one of four. I'm sorry, we've got a lovely family, and the idea that three is selfish is shocking."

"For me, I think if someone is choosing not to have children because of climate change, that is not somebody who is driven to have them," said Ratcliff. "The need to have children is something that is built within us, and if you are somebody that wants to have them, then you can't switch that urge off."

"There are people out there pending every single penny that they have got to have a child, and if they are made to feel guilty they are contributing to climate change — I feel quite offended by the idea that bringing a much-loved child into the world would be a bad thing to do," added Ratcliff.

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Like other radicals, McCarthy's climate hysteria has not only pitted him against big, happy families, but also againstdaily showers, affordable energy, holiday flights, road trips, water hoses, critics of communist China, meat, and pet ownership.

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Climate alarmist: Just Stop Oil members are 'victims,' not hypocrites, for driving gas-powered vehicles



Climate alarmists affiliated with the extremist organization Just Stop Oil may drive gas-powered vehicles, wear petroleum products, and rely upon fossil fuels for their survival, but according to one member, that doesn't make them hypocrites.

Instead, the motorists turned extremists keen to congest highways, block emergency vehicles, and deface beloved works of art are allegedly "victims."

Leisure-time victims

So-called climate scientist Larch Maxey, 50, is a member of Just Stop Oil. Maxey told the Telegraph on Monday that "we are all victims of this horrendous crime against humanity of fossil fuel production in a climate emergency."

Maxey, who claimed last year there would be societal collapse by 2023, suggested that it would be wrong to point out the fact that the anti-oil extremists rely upon the very energy product they seek to deprive the world of.

"It's really important that we don't shame and blame the victims," he said.

Despite their zeal, it is clear that Just Stop Oil extremists will not just stop using oil themselves.

Maxey said the organization does not presently and shouldn't ultimately have a policy requiring members not to drive or to use only public transit and bicycles to get around.

'Ordinary people'

The 50-year-old extremist spoke to the Telegraph at a Just Stop Oil blockade preventing motorists from going to or from their families and work in south London on Tuesday. This blockade is part of a broader seasonal campaign that is expected to last until Dec. 14.

Maxey suggested that Just Stop Oil extremists are "ordinary people," apparently with plenty of time to spare.

Although it is unclear whether one truck driver stuck behind the extremists' blockades is similarly "ordinary," he was extraordinarily upset, especially after police took issue with his honking but not with the blockade.

"The police officer told me my air horn was hurting his ears. ... The police need to get a backbone — we should drag [the extremists] round the corner and give them a good kicking like they used to," said the truck driver.

With Maxey's compatriots ahead, blocking three lanes of traffic, the truck driver added, "My thoughts would be run over the lot of these — why don't they go to China and do it — they produce far more emissions than us."

A taxi driver stuck in traffic as a result of the Just Stop Oil blockade told the Telegraph, "The police just asked me 'how I feel.' I said, 'What?!' I told them to do your job properly."

While the extremists held up working-class commuters, they were sure to let cyclists by.

When the extremists took to the streets again Thursday on the east side of the city, blocking rush hour traffic on Whitechapel Road, one pedestrian protested against the extremists' holdup of traffic.

London police officers reportedly issued the pedestrian a warning, stating, "They're minding their own business; what harm are they doing to you?"

At a previous protest, one Just Stop Oil extremist said, “We are holding the government to account. We do not want to disrupt the lives of ordinary people.”

Whereas authorities appear in many such instances deferential to or at the very least patient with the extremists, some "ordinary people" whose lives have been disrupted have clearly had enough.

In late October, infuriated London motorists dragged Just Stop Oil extremists off the road.

Motorists drag Just Stop Oil protesters off central London road youtu.be

A war on mobility funded by California elites

TheBlaze previously reported that both Just Stop Oil and Last Generation, a similar group fighting against energy security, receive funding from the Climate Emergency Fund, on whose board sits Adam McKay, a Hollywood director and screenwriter; Aileen Getty, the American actress from the ultra-rich Getty oil family; Rory Kennedy, the youngest child of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy; and other wealthy climate alarmists.

The Climate Emergency Fund has funneled cash to 94 organizations. According to its website, it has helped to mobilize over 1 million activists. In 2022 alone, it has disbursed $4.5 million.

Aided by California millionaires and oil family heiresses, Just Stop Oil and Last Generation have both achieved notoriety in recent months not just for blockading roads but for defacing beloved works of art and vandalizing private property.

According to the Just Stop Oil website, the aim of their extremist attacks on British art, property, and U.K. citizens' mobility is to resist the government, target the U.K.'s oil and gas infrastructure, and to force, by way of undemocratic means, the government to comply with their demands.

Climate protesters throw tomato soup at famous van Gogh painting, glue themselves to wall



Two climate activists were arrested Friday after throwing tomato soup at a famous Vincent van Gogh painting and gluing themselves to the wall at the National Gallery in London.

The female protesters belong to a group called Just Stop Oil, a coalition of climate alarmists demanding that the U.K. government halt all new oil and gas projects. They entered room 43 in the National Gallery, in which van Gogh's "Sunflowers" is displayed, at approximately 11 a.m. local time and threw the contents of two cans of Heinz tomato soup over the painting.

"What is worth more, art or life? Is it worth more than food? Worth more than justice? Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people? The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of oil crisis. Fuel is unaffordable to millions of cold, hungry families. They can't even afford to heat a tin of soup," one of the activists said, according to video of the protest filmed by Just Stop Oil activists.

Watch:

Just Stop Oil Supporters throw Soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers | National Gallery | 14 October 2022 youtu.be

London Metropolitan Police said the protesters were arrested for criminal damage and aggravated trespass. Specialist officers were sent to the scene to unglue them, and they were taken into custody to a central London police station.

There was some minor damage to the frame, but the $80 million painting was unharmed, police said.

Van Gogh paintings that are displayed in museums are kept behind protective glass to shield them from light, touching, or vandalism.

Just Stop Oil said that the National Gallery protest followed "two weeks of continued civil resistance" by the group "in response to the government's inaction on both the cost of living crisis and the climate crisis."

Earlier this month, the U.K. North Sea Transition Authority, an agency in charge of oil and gas reserves in the North Sea, began awarding new licenses for companies conducting underwater fossil fuel exploration, CNBC News reported.

The government had paused the issuance of new licenses in 2020 for a "climate compatibility check," but Conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss recently announced the process would resume.

"This is not a one day event. This is an act of resistance against a criminal government and their genocidal death project," Just Stop Oil said. "Our supporters will be returning – today, tomorrow and the next day – and the next day after that – and every day until our demand is met: no new oil and gas in the U.K."

The group in recent weeks has disrupted traffic at various locations in London, infuriating drivers. Videos from an Oct. 9 protest show frustrated motorists exiting their vehicles and dragging the protesters off the street to clear the roads.

"I have to go to hospital for an appointment, I'm deaf, let me get on with my life and stop interfering with us," one man says in the video.

\u201cDAY 9: We are not backing down.\n\nToday, the Occupation of Westminster enters its 9th day. Massive disruption has been caused throughout the borough with multiple bridges and key A roads repeatedly blocked.\n\n#CivilResistance #A22Network #JustStopOil #NoNewOil #EnoughlsEnough\u201d
— Just Stop Oil \u2696\ufe0f\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udee2 (@Just Stop Oil \u2696\ufe0f\ud83d\udc80\ud83d\udee2) 1665316261

Truss' government has also lifted a 2019 ban on hydraulic fracking in response to the energy crisis affecting all of Europe due partly to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Conservative members of Parliament have called for increases in domestic energy production, including use of fossil fuels, to reduce reliance on natural gas exports from Russia.