{"id":2014558,"date":"2023-08-28T17:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/straight-up-comedy-gold-applause-as-nevada-rangers-plow-truck-into-eco-protester-blockade\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T17:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T21:28:41","slug":"straight-up-comedy-gold-applause-as-nevada-rangers-plow-truck-into-eco-protester-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/straight-up-comedy-gold-applause-as-nevada-rangers-plow-truck-into-eco-protester-blockade\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Rangers receive applause for plowing truck into eco-protester blockade, hailed as comedy gold."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fstraight-up-comedy-gold-applause-as-nevada-rangers-plow-truck-into-eco-protester-blockade%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=2014558&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--><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When eco-protesters set up a blockade blocking the road to\u200d Burning Man in Nevada, rangers from the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police \u2062Department drove their truck straight through the blockade, breaking\u200c up the impasse that had \u2064gridlocked \u2063traffic for miles;\u2062 roughly 150 vehicles were reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/chaotic-video-shows-police-breaking-up-burning-man-climate-protest-blocking-road-causing-traffic-jam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backed \u200bup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The protesters had blocked the\u200b road with\u200b signs attached to a \u200btrailer. Angry \u2063drivers failed to move the blockade with their own efforts until the rangers intervened. One woman had chained herself to the trailer. Some of the signs read, \u201cGeneral Strike for Climate\u201d and \u201cAbolish Capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re non-violent!\u201d one demonstrator\u2064 yelled as police \u2063handcuffed\u200c her.\u2064 \u201cWe\u2019re environmental protesters,\u201d screamed another. \u00a0When one \u200cprotester \u2062told \u200da ranger, \u2063\u201cYou\u2019re going to hurt\u200b someone,\u201d the ranger fired back, \u201cI don\u2019t care\u2026 there are people with\u200b medical problems here and you are causing\u2063 them to be in\u2062 the \u200bf<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/straight-up-comedy-gold-applause-as-nevada-rangers-plow-truck-into-eco-protester-blockade\/\" title=\"Nevada Rangers receive applause for plowing truck into eco-protester blockade, hailed as comedy gold.\">***ing hot sun<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The rangers meant business; one got out\u2064 of his truck\u2062 with his weapon drawn, ordering, \u201cGet out now! On the ground! All of you on the ground now!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: Nevada Rangers has \u200brammed their\u2062 truck through climate protesters \u2062as\u200d they attempted to shut down\u2063 the Burning \u2064Man Arts and Music Festival<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccc<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Blackrock?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Blackrock<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nevada?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nevada<\/a><br \/>\u2070Climate activists attempted to halt a significant music and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coachella-and-stagecoach-music-festivals-canceled-for-third-time\/\" title=\"Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals canceled for third time\">arts festival<\/a> known as Burning Man, which is\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ormnHYIPgy\">pic.twitter.com\/ormnHYIPgy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200c R A W S A \u200dL E R T S (@rawsalerts)\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rawsalerts\/status\/1695968910804132271?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August\u2064 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Much of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-man-freaks-out-animal-rights-protesters-by-eating-shish-kebab\/\" title=\"WATCH: Man Freaks Out Animal Rights Protesters By Eating Shish Kebab\">social media applauded<\/a> the action of the rangers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhat makes this extra amusing is that the \u2018Rangers\u2019 are Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police,\u2062 and the backed up traffic is for Burning Man,\u201d pundit\u2062 David Burge wrote. \u201cNative American cops busting \u2063up a standoff between \u2064two tribes \u2062of white progressives is \u2063straight up comedy gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What makes this extra amusing is that the &#8220;Rangers&#8221; are Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal\u2062 Police, and the backed up traffic is for Burning Man. Native\u2063 American cops busting up a standoff between two\u2062 tribes of white progressives is straight up\u200b comedy\u2064 gold <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQzvVmTuo2\">https:\/\/t.co\/YQzvVmTuo2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Burge (@iowahawkblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iowahawkblog\/status\/1696183989206147183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seven \u200bCircles, a coalition that organized the protest, issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1GDuXFndEUdEqCr42bBvS6-lqfzazjg0XIuPkbgO3pME\/edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> \u2063 asserting, \u201cThis\u200d action follows a long history of \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/americas-new-civil-rights-movement\/\" title=\"America\u2019s New Civil Rights Movement\">nonviolent civil disobedience<\/a> as a tool for societal change, such as sit-ins during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-snaps-at-civil-rights-leaders-in-leaked-call\/\" title=\"Biden Snaps at Civil Rights Leaders in Leaked Call\">civil rights movement<\/a> and traffic obstruction \u2063by women suffragettes. The purpose of the blockade is to draw attention to capitalism\u2019s inability to address climate and ecological breakdown. The blockade is also in protest \u200bagainst the popularization of Burning Man among affluent\u200c people\u2063 who do not live the stated values \u2062of Burning Man, resulting in the commodification of the event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The group\u2064 insisted that Burning Man \u201cAdmit that \u2062infinite growth is incompatible with\u200c sustaining \u2064the Earth\u2019s systems and that the\u2064 green transition is\u2062 a \u2063lie perpetuated by those in power,\u201d \u201cFormally issue a call to action to \u2063the Burning Man community, urging Burners to actively participate in direct action and support general strikes to initiate system change,\u201d and \u201cBan private jets, \u2062single use plastics, unnecessary propane burning, and unlimited generator \u2063use per capita at the nine day event in Black Rock City, \u2063Nevada.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco-protesters blocked the road to Burning Man in Nevada, causing a gridlock for miles. Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police Department rangers swiftly resolved the impasse by driving through the blockade, dispersing roughly 150 backed-up vehicles. The road had been obstructed by signs placed by the protesters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2014559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014558","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}