DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Read it.

I guess Trump made ’em do it.

A group of environmentalists are claiming “necessity defense” regarding their attempts in 2016 to shut down two pipelines, arguing that the threat of climate change is so imminent that they were justified in their actions. The Minnesota Court of Appeals in April ruled in their favor. The Minnesota Supreme Court subsequently declined to review this decision, allowing the protesters to fight their criminal charges using the necessity defense strategy.

I’d like to see their evidence that ‘climate change’ is even a thing. Courts aren’t like universities, they want to see actual proof, not ‘models’.

None of the four activists charged are actually natives of Minnesota, but hail from far away areas, such as Seattle and New York City.

Courts also like to see some showing that there is some personal connection to the alleged harm. This could get amusing.

“For many of us engaging in work to avert civilizational collapse, there comes a point when all else has fallen away, and it becomes clear that the one thing left for us to do is to put our bodies in the way of the machine,” reads a portion of their website.

I’m in favor of having the machine run over those bodies. I’ll be happy to drive.

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