This really is the epitome of the peculiar, almost pure, kind of stupidity that you can expect from radical environmental activists. And pig-headedness. And a fundamental inability to understand why other people have this little voice in their heads that tell them when it’s a bad idea to do something. And… oh, I could go on about this for hours. But marvel:
“Time for Change; The Future is Renewable” was the message of Greenpeace activists protesting at the ancient Nazca Lines UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Peruvian desert on Monday.
The activists placed yellow letters next to a famous hummingbird design, and now Peruvian authorities are threatening to sue Greenpeace and criminally charge the activists with “attacking archaeological monuments,” according to The Associated Press.
The Nazca Lines, for those who never watched any Ancient Astronaut-inspired TV in the 1970s and 1980s, are a bunch of lines drawn in the dirt that form pictures when seen from the air. They are rare, they are fragile, and the Peruvian government is about half-ready to strangle somebody over this. I don’t think that Greenpeace quite realizes yet that somebody’s going to go to jail over this…
Moe Lane
PS: As you know, I’m not one to say ‘white privilege’ when the motivations for actions or events are questioned. But as my wife more or less noted when I told her this story, danged if this isn’t exactly the kind of Ugly Americanism (more accurately, Ugly Europo-Americanism) that has been driving South Americans collectively nuts for the last century.
PPS: Next time? Try Photoshop, kids.
Being politically correct leftist means never to have to be accountable. Green Peace is well known for their polluting ships all around the world. Perhaps they didn’t spill as much oil as the Valdez, but close enough.
Well yes, intentions matter much more than results.
Sue the pants off em. Greenpeace has some surprisingly snazzy boats that maybe Peru could put to better use doing, well, almost anything really.
to steal from Jeremy Clarkson, take the Rainbow Warrior and turn it into a tanker
It’d be more useful turned into razor blades ..
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Mew
but JC’s idea causes more heartburn amongst the GP set
Yes, but it’s such an old piece of crap it wouldn’t work… Better to buy it, scrap it, and recycle the name.
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Mew
They may welcome prison time. It will feed their martyr complex and they’ll view themselves as political prisoners for standing up for the Earth and speaking truth to power. Plus their friends get to have a ‘Free the Peru Five’ movement complete with bumper stickers and everything. It’s a win/win/win
Bastards deserve what happens to ’em.
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Not just “going to prison”, “going to a south american prison”.
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Mew
I thought about that, but these days I’m not sure they’re much worse than around here. 21st century and all.
I guess the partisan thing to do here would be to find a Democrat that has supported Greenpiece and ask them to comment on this situation.
i’m not worried… i think lots of them will have late-night abduction-and-probe experiences soon. cows may play a part.
Not that I’m supporting Greenpeace, or endorsing the potential endangerment of World Heritage Sites, but the article quotes a Peruvian official who seems to be saying that there had been ACTUAL DAMAGE to the site — to wit, that they had destroyed one of the lines, which would be a huge disaster for Nazca. However, it sure doesn’t look that way on the long-range photo.
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Does anybody have some more details? Because while what Greenpeace did was a Bad Idea, absent some evidence, I’m going to have to write that official off as a victim of hyperbole.
I don’t know about whether an individual line got wrecked, but I’ve seen pictures of the aftermath (on a Gawker Media site, so f*ck giving them the link), and there is a LOT of damage. The basic reason that Nazca ‘works’ is because the topsoil and the clay just underneath it are two distinct colors – and even a footprint can be visible. Researchers apparently wear special shoes that can help keep that from happening; the stupid f*cks at Greenpeace traipsed around in sneakers, which is why there are a goram set of lines from where they apparently parked their cars to the place where they damaged the site.
Actually, here’s a non-Gawker link. Everything in red was NOT there before.