A southwest Ohio prosecutor announced felony indictments Wednesday of nine Greenpeace activists linked to an eye-catching protest at Procter & Gamble Co. headquarters in downtown Cincinnati.
The nine activists were arrested March 4 after protesting the consumer products company’s use of palm oil from a supplier Greenpeace says is tied to tropical forest destruction in Indonesia. The activists slipped past company security and unfurled giant banners from P&G’s two towers as a helicopter filmed them.
Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said a county grand jury indicted each on felony counts of burglary and vandalism. Deters said the charges carry a possible sentence of more than nine years in prison and $20,000 in fines with convictions.
A message was left for the activists’ attorney.
Authorities were stunned by the security breach at P&G, and Cincinnati’s police chief has called for a security meeting with downtown businesses.
P&G called it a well-planned protest, saying one protester claimed to have an appointment and let the others in.
Deters said Wednesday the protesters used fake identification and entered P&G dressed in business attire with rolling suitcases.
No I think nobody is surprised that I have a deep-seated hatred of Greenpeace. While I may look back and regret the labors of my work as a Marine Biologist supplying fisheries data to NMFS, I had all the good intentions and believed my superiors that the hard and dangerous work I was doing was all to help the fish, the environment, and probably the fishermen in the long run. In fact it helped government scientists get grants to keep their easy lab jobs alive, and helped put honest fishermen out of business.
Still there were many times when people were incredulous when I claimed I was one of those Government observers they had to take fishing with them. You see Greenpeace terrorists had made similar claims in the past to take unflattering photos of fishing boats to make them seem worse than they were, or worse yet, would sneak on boats to sabotage them so they could no-longer fish.
I quickly dispelled this by giving them free access to my paperwork, and showed them all my little government permits. They knew a false-flag terrorist wouldn’t be working as hard as I was just to hold up a simple ruse.
Still those bastards made my job harder, and if they were honest, we were on the same damn side.
But again, they’re not environmental protectors, they are vengeful terrorists looking to enact retribution on people and corporations they feel are “evil”.
I hope those sallow trust-fund “Progressives” enjoy their time in Prison. They should give lots of amusement to their cell-mates…
I agree with your feelings on Greenpeace, and hopefully, if they did what is alleged, they do some real jail time, but this was just a grand jury indictment, not a conviction. They still have to go to trial now. As one prosecuter is always quoted as saying, “I could indict a ham sandwich.” Getting an indictment is not much of a hurdle at all.
Edited about the indictment you are 100% correct on the ease of an indictment, and this meaning nothing about a conviction.
Still Greenpeace isn’t a group about subtly, nor do they try to skirt loopholes in the law. They’re terrorists and the acts they do are openly criminal, and they have no shame.
I suspect there is lots of camera footage, as well as seized false IDs which should make at least some of the charges stick.
As for real prison time, I’m as dubious of you, even when I misread the article about it being a conviction.
It’s disturbing that Greenpeace is among the most ‘respectable’ of the Green Inc. activists.
But yeah, as one reformed marine biologist to another, I hate that I contributed to NMFS’s war on humans and then whored myself out as a PAC rep before changing sides and joining the good guys.
I am always amused at the amount of *cough* concern and understanding the greenies show for the plight of little brown people in the third world.
Thus, I would propose this challange for the full time trust fund babies of the environmental movement. Sell all your possessions, give up the trust funds, and renounce your western citizenship, then move to some third world rain forest and live as a substinance farmer. Too many people visit posh ecotourist resorts and think they understand third world problems.
And no, you can’t load up at REI before you go. You get a bush knife, a cheap cooking pot, two changes of secondhand clothing, and about $20 in local currency.
After a few years of nonstop sweating, malaria, scabies, ringworm, skin ulcers, toil, and the other joys of REAL third world life, bulldozing the damned jungle won’t seem so bad.
Or a life of a “Fair Trade” Coffee or Brazil nut harvester that needs to fish the fruits out of untamed jungle, while the dudes up the road who sell the Folgers get to walk up and down manicured rows.