Climate Change Protesters Killed as they block the highway

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..it was only a matter of time until this happened. I don't wish death on them but they've caused such havoc across the western world , blocking roads , stopping emergency services getting through, it was just a matter of time until someone snapped.... and someone did...

An American retired lawyer and university professor was caught on camera on Tuesday shooting dead two climate change protesters in Panama.

Kenneth Darlington, 77, appeared before a judge in the town of La Espiga on Wednesday afternoon, and after a two-hour hearing was remanded in custody.

Eliécer Plicett, a lawyer for the two victims, both of them teachers, said Darlington was being charged with murder and illegal possession of a gun, TVN Noticias reported.

Darlington was seen on Tuesday, in front of a large number of photographers and television crews, walking up to a road block on a section of the Pan-American Highway in the Chame district, about 55 miles west of the capital, Panama City.

The protesters have for three weeks been campaigning against the Panamanian government's agreement with a Canadian firm to run Central America's biggest open-pit copper mine for at least another 20 years. The mine is in an environmentally sensitive area.

Darlington, who lived in the exclusive Paitilla district of Panama City, reportedly told other passengers in the car, as he got out: 'This ends today.'
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American lawyer, 77, shoots dead two Panama climate change activists
 

ah hell, here we go....of course it's not the protestor's fault!!! I mean, sometime people are stupid due to stupid things.......
 
Were there only 2 protesters on site, or did he run out of ammo, or what? If you're gonna shoot 2 you may as well empty the magazine.
 

Even though he's an American, ship him off to jail for the rest of his life. The idiot doesn't seem to realize that the threat of climate change is more important to people in other parts of the world whose country is affected more than here in the U.S.:mad:
 
Paladin1950 said:
Even though he's an American, ship him off to jail for the rest of his life. The idiot doesn't seem to realize that the threat of climate change is more important to people in other parts of the world whose country is affected more than here in the U.S.:mad:
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The shooter is a retired American lawyer... so given that fact.. I can only imagine he must be mentally ill.. because no-one knows more than a lawyer exactly what will happen if you kill people in cold blood...
 
againstthegrain said:
Might not be subject to prison due to his age.


And the protest was over mining operations, not climate change. Article is using "climate change" and "American" as raw meat for the masses.
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I see.. thanks for clarifying that. However. protesters are a western scourge at the moment,.. but it's up to the police and the govts to make it illegal to do this... not some random nutter killing because someone has blocked his way
 
hollydolly said:
I see.. thanks for clarifying that. However. protesters are a western scourge at the moment,.. but it's up to the police and the govts to make it illegal to do this... not some random nutter killing because someone has blocked his way
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Hey Holly, this is one area where you and I are at polar opposites. Protest is a vital tool for people to express themselves. Sometimes it's all we, the people, have to register our concerns. Without protest we'd all be poorer. Making it illegal is just a terrible, terrible idea. It'd be like Russia, where protesting gets you jail time.

I once worked for Shell, both in London and then Houston, TX. Pickets were outside the offices every day because of the environmental damage Shell does. It wasn't great walking through them everyday, but then I did some research online and was aghast at what I was - in a very small way - enabling.
 
VaughanJB said:
Hey Holly, this is one area where you and I are at polar opposites. Protest is a vital tool for people to express themselves. Sometimes it's all we, the people, have to register our concerns. Without protest we'd all be poorer. Making it illegal is just a terrible, terrible idea. It'd be like Russia, where protesting gets you jail time.

I once worked for Shell, both in London and then Houston, TX. Pickets were outside the offices every day because of the environmental damage Shell does. It wasn't great walking through them everyday, but then I did some research online and was aghast at what I was - in a very small way - enabling.
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sorry JB.. but I am dead against people having the right to block ambulances, and emergency services...or preventing people getting to work....regardless of their complaints.....what#s worse is most of these people are lazy good for nothing unemployed...
 
hollydolly said:
sorry JB.. but I am dead against people having the right to block ambulances, and emergency services...or preventing people getting to work....regardless of their complaints.....what#s worse is most of these people are lazy good for nothing unemployed...
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No reason to be sorry. These people don't aim to block ambulances or emergency services. They have a strong belief system, and they clearly don't mind standing up for it. Inconveniencing others is kind of the point.
 
VaughanJB said:
No reason to be sorry. These people don't aim to block ambulances or emergency services. They have a strong belief system, and they clearly don't mind standing up for it. Inconveniencing others is kind of the point.
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they know precisely what they're doing by blocking ambulances and emergency services..otherwise they'd be blocking trains or planes.. or pavements..
 
hollydolly said:
they know precisely what they're doing by blocking ambulances and emergency services..otherwise they'd be blocking trains or planes.. or pavements..
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Agree to disagree. They're blocking traffic, not specific traffic. Blocking trains? Well, that would be useless, they're not running on time anyway. :D
 
VaughanJB said:
Agree to disagree. They're blocking traffic, not specific traffic. Blocking trains? Well, that would be useful, they're not running on time anyway. :D
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ok I must have been imagining Ambulances being stuck behind Morons sitting in the road.. and Imagining men jumping out of cars begging them to get up and off the road so they can get their wife whose in labour to the hospital.... couldn't have seen that at all..obviously... ...:rolleyes:
 
hollydolly said:
ok I must have been imagining Ambulances being stuck behind Morons sitting in the road.. and Imagining men jumping out of cars begging them to get up and off the road so they can get their wife whose in labour to the hospital.... couldn't have seen that at all..obviously... ...:rolleyes:
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Not imagining, I think that happened. But that was a specific event, and does not represent every such event. Protest is, indeed, indiscriminate by nature. Kids getting to school though, is irrelevant.
 

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