HP the Victim of Enterprising Greenpeace Stunt 36
An anonymous reader writes "Employees at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto received a shock this morning as they checked their voicemail and found that each and every one of them had received a message from Captain James T. Kirk, AKA William 'The Shat' Shatner, upbraiding the company for abandoning their plans to remove toxins from its hardware. The organization behind this stunt was Greenpeace, who, to underline their point, scaled the building and painted 'Hazardous Products' on the roof with toxin-free paint."
I found this funny (Score:2)
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Trespassing, yes.
"Vandalism" would be a stretch IMHO, but heck send the cleaning bill to Greenpeace.
"Terrorist actions"? WTF you fucking crazy brainwashed american dumbass.
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Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:5, Insightful)
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This isn't terrorism you twat. It's not even a hate crime. It's trespassing and vandalism.
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Funny)
Can't you just hang, draw and quarter them as an expression of traditional American respect for dissenting opinion and tea parties?
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No, no hangings after the fact, but if i caught them on my roof, they would be coming back down in body bags. I don't care who they are, or what they thought they were doing, as they were trespassing and a unknown personal threat.
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Killing somebody for trespassing is murder, both morally and legally. If you really are worried about your safety, you would call the police first and only confront them when directly threatened. By purposely confronting them you increase the threat to yourself and anyone with you if they happen to really be dangerous.
On top of this, you're commenting about something that has happened to commercial property, not your private residence.
Please, stay in Texas
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I don't believe Greenpeace (or rather their affiliated extremist organizations) is above threatening the lives or safety of those they disagree with.
I remember them burning a housing development on the outskirts of Phoenix with no regard for any homeless who may have been squatting inside.
Extremist factions must be delt extreme measures. I guess it proves you would die for your ideas. If I owned a business Greenpeace disagreed with and they sent their toadies (who they would deny have anything to do with th
Paranoia (Score:1, Funny)
I don't believe Greenpeace (or rather their affiliated extremist organizations) is above threatening the lives or safety of those they disagree with.
Greenpeace does not have any "affiliated extremist organizations." There is the issue of Greenpeace UK, an anarchist group who trademarked (ironic?) the name in Britain before GP could, they certainly are not above violence (even against GP itself). But GP's non-violence is a core corporate policy, and the reason, for example, that Paul Watson left GP to fo
Self defense (Score:1, Troll)
Killing somebody for trespassing is murder, both morally and legally. If you really are worried about your safety, you would call the police first and only confront them when directly threatened. By purposely confronting them you increase the threat to yourself and anyone with you if they happen to really be dangerous.
On top of this, you're commenting about something that has happened to commercial property, not your private residence.
The World Trade Center was commercial property.
Greenpeace and PETA are nothing more the eco-terrorists and deserve to be hit with both RICO and Patriot Act.
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The world trade center was destroyed, not spraypainted.
Is still an attack on private property, where people work for ideological purposes.
Your reference to RICO and the Patriot Act are nonsensical, and it would be extremely unlikely for provisions of either act to be used to prosecute Greenpeace, even if they were killing people. In reality, you are making yourself appear to be dangerously crazed or seriously misinformed as to the nature of those Acts.
RICO can be used to go after the money; in the fact that the organization is a criminal enterprise.
The Patriot Act can be used in the fact that even an eco-terrorist, it still a terrorist.
This act was not intended to incite terror, nor was it terribly political in nature. Therefore Greenpeace cannot be labelled as terrorists of any flavor. Were there any demands issued? Ransoms? Threats? Did anyone get hurt?
The demand was simple, stop using certain chemicals; HP did not comply.
Eco-terrorism is defined by the FBI as "the use or threatened use of violence of a criminal nature against innocent victims or property by an environmentally-oriented, subnational group for environmental-political reasons, or aimed at an audience beyond the target, often of a symbolic nature."
They broke in and vandalized the building because HP would not give into their demands. By doing what they did they made a point beyond just the writing on the roof; they
But that black paint... (Score:3, Funny)
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Apple now sells products because they are the greenest.
[Citation needed]
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Guess you didn't read it, or your reading comprehension is low:
NAD stated that Apple has high EPEAT ratings across its entire line of laptops, while no other manufacturer has "comparable high ratings for all of the notebooks it produces."
Apple "elected to only produce computer notebooks that meet the highest EPEAT ratings," NAD said in its Thursday ruling. ...
"The NAD's ruling is a clear victory for Apple. The case challenged our claim to the 'world's greenest family of notebooks,' and NAD has confirmed tha
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I've been a greenie since the 70's, GP's political ideologists took over their scientific foundations decades ago. Many of the founders have left in disgust, particularly after they started campaingning against chloride in the late 90's. You still hear people say chlorine in water should be banned after GP's stup
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If you look at Greenpeace victories and campaigns, you'll find inspiring and effective results. Anti-nuclear testing, whales, toxics, fish, global warming, forests. I can bet behind all that. GP is usually a couple of decades ahead of other greenies.
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Greenpeace SUCKS! (Score:2)
Massive boxes (Score:2)
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Guess what Greenpeace? You lose! (Score:1, Troll)
Hey Greenpeace, guess what, the paint thinner and sealant they're going to use to undo your vandalism is toxic!
Lusers!