{"id":1024084,"date":"2021-11-17T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024084"},"modified":"2021-11-17T15:29:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:29:23","slug":"climate-crazies-uk-eco-group-compares-itself-to-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/climate-crazies-uk-eco-group-compares-itself-to-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Crazies: UK Eco Group Compares Itself to Martin Luther King Jr"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fclimate-crazies-uk-eco-group-compares-itself-to-martin-luther-king-jr%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1024084&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/insulate-britain-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Extinction Rebellion splinter group Insulate Britain has again indulged in fantastical delusions of significance, after comparing itself to American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>The Insulate Britain spokesman made the remarks after nine activists were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/11\/17\/nine-insulate-britain-eco-warriors-jailed-for-blocking-british-highway\/\">convicted<\/a> on Wednesday of contempt of court for breaching the injunction against protesting on the M25 motorway and jailed for between three and six months, with the judge insisting all eco convicts serve at least half of their time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following sentencing, one of the group\u2019s spokesmen quoted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insulatebritain.com\/a-letter-to-the-british-public\">letter<\/a> from the criminals, which claimed that the government had failed in \u201cprotecting the people of this country from climate collapse\u201d&nbsp;by refusing to drastically cut carbon emissions, and which appeared to present the group in the context of other historical social justice movements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the public we say, no one is coming to save you. In the past, when governments have failed to protect their people the right thing to do is to highlight this injustice, breaking the law if needed, this is what the suffragettes and Martin Luther King did and it is what Insulate Britain has done,\u201d the spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GBNEWS\/status\/1460933704155553794?s=20\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a choice. To act, to come and join us help change the tide of history, or to be a bystander and be complicit in enabling genocide,\u201d the letter added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>This is not the first time Insulate Britain has entertained fantasies of their own importance, after having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/22\/insulate-britain-spox-compares-climate-protesters-to-churchill-opposing-hitler\/\">compared<\/a> themselves to Winston Churchill opposing Hitler years before the outbreak of World War Two.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5796178343949\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Insulate Britain Eco Activist Compares Sceptics to Hitler Appeasers, Traitors <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E1QYt5jMdE\">https:\/\/t.co\/E1QYt5jMdE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1444669315991564289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Insulate Britain thinks highly of itself, it has levelled some of the most damning comparisons to its alleged adversaries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/03\/insulate-britain-eco-activist-compares-sceptics-to-hitler-appeasers-traitors\/\">claiming<\/a> last month that those sceptical of the group\u2019s tactics were like Hitler appeasers and traitors.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman Liam Norton had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/03\/insulate-britain-eco-activist-compares-sceptics-to-hitler-appeasers-traitors\/\">told<\/a> media: \u201cWhat they were called was appeasers, because they said Hitler wasn\u2019t a threat. They said that they weren\u2019t a threat at the time, and you\u2019re suggesting the UK shouldn\u2019t reduce emissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest with you, people that take that position in the future, within a few decades, they\u2019ll be seen as cowards and traitors to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group had gone even further in their bizarre rhetoric and had been criticised for appearing to not care about those whose health may be impacted by stopping traffic on the UK\u2019s busiest roads, with Mr Norton implying that&nbsp;sometimes, you have to allow people to die for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know Turing in <em>The Imitation Game<\/em>? They had to allow British soldiers to die because if they\u2019d have stopped every single attack through cracking the Enigma code, the Nazis would have found out that they were cracking the code. So they had to allow people to die,\u201d Norton had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/05\/insulate-britain-invokes-ww2-collateral-damage-to-justify-deaths-caused-by-protests\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9018404907975\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Insulate Britain Invokes WW2 Collateral Damage to Justify Deaths Caused by Protests  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tDX1bYYVpy\">https:\/\/t.co\/tDX1bYYVpy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1445406171402276878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extinction Rebellion splinter group Insulate Britain has again indulged in fantastical delusions of significance, after comparing itself to American civil rights campaigner Martin Luther King Jr. The Insulate Britain spokesman &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}