{"id":970078,"date":"2021-11-04T23:44:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=970078"},"modified":"2021-11-04T23:44:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T03:44:47","slug":"32-insulate-britain-eco-warriors-face-up-to-two-years-in-prison-for-blocking-motorways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/32-insulate-britain-eco-warriors-face-up-to-two-years-in-prison-for-blocking-motorways\/","title":{"rendered":"32 Insulate Britain Eco-Warriors Face Up to Two Years in Prison for Blocking Motorways"},"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%2F32-insulate-britain-eco-warriors-face-up-to-two-years-in-prison-for-blocking-motorways%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=970078&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\/Screenshot-2021-11-03-at-12.32.53-pm-1-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Over thirty eco-warriors are facing up to two years in prison for allegedly violating an injunction against disruptive motorway protests, the far-left Insulate Britain group has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Insulate Britain, an offshoot of the climate change alarmist Extinction Rebellion group, have staged motorway&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/24\/insulate-britain-demands-churchillian-response-expands-protests-and-blocks-major-port\/\">protests<\/a>&nbsp;across the country in an attempt to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/11\/eco-warriors-insulate-britain-threatens-to-unleash-hell-if-boris-johnson-fails-to-meet-their-radical-green-demands\/\">blackmail<\/a>&nbsp;the country into bowing to their green demands.<\/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>On Wednesday, the group revealed that nine of its members have been summoned to appear before the High Court in London on November 16th on suspicion of violating an injunction that carries with it a penalty of up to two years behind bars. This is on top of 23 other radicals who are expected to face charges as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"15.66163141994\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u203c\ufe0f BREAKING: AT LEAST 32 INSULATE BRITAIN INJUNCTION BREAKERS FACE 2 YEARS IN PRISON<\/p>\n<p> Paul, 46, Warrington, on yesterday at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M56?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#M56<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask everyone to examine their conscience and consider whether they want to be complicit in genocide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Do we? <\/p>\n<p>\u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Kp7Tbxgzv\">https:\/\/t.co\/7Kp7Tbxgzv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Insulate Britain (@InsulateLove) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InsulateLove\/status\/1455859568353947648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insulatebritain.com\/at-least-32-insulate-britain\">statement<\/a> released by the group, Theresa Norton, a Labour Party councillor from Scarborough, admitted to having \u201cdisrupted traffic on the M56 motorway\u201d on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t do this lightly. But, like the nine who face court and a potential prison sentence, I have to stand up to government bullying; to overcome the fear they instil through threats and intimidating legal bureaucracy. They would rather silence us than protect the public from climate collapse,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are ever to achieve our climate commitments we need to start insulating homes now. I will continue being a part of this campaign and risk being imprisoned or losing my home until our government accepts that it must get on with the job,\u201d the Labour politician added.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the activists who disrupted the M56, Paul, 46, from Warrington,&nbsp;said that he \u201cknowingly\u201d violated the High Court injunction by blocking the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask everyone to examine their conscience and consider whether they want to be complicit in genocide. If the answer is no, then join us on the motorway. Nonviolent civil resistance is the best chance we have of achieving the changes we need to ensure the survival of our children,\u201d the Insulate Britain activist said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9942857142857\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Archbishop Welby: Failure to Act on Climate Means &#8216;Infinitely Greater&#8217; Genocide Than Holocaust <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zglP6vPulz\">https:\/\/t.co\/zglP6vPulz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1455475384636649473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Instead of winning over the public to their cause, the motorway protests have caused considerable anger amongst the average Briton, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/13\/why-arent-you-work-furious-business-owners-drivers-drag-eco-extremist-protesters-off-road\/\">instances<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/19\/watch-mother-tries-to-ram-through-eco-warrior-blockade\/\">exasperated drivers<\/a>&nbsp;pulling the radicals off the road being seen throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>In order to maximize disruption, members of Insulate Britain have regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/26\/not-one-of-my-better-moves-eco-nutter-regrets-gluing-his-face-to-road\/\">glued themselves to the road<\/a> so as to delay police officers removing them, a tactic previously deployed by Extinction Rebellion.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the demonstrations have allegedly resulted in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/21\/woman-paralysed-by-stroke-after-delay-caused-by-eco-protests-on-m25-claim\/\">serious injury<\/a>&nbsp;for people being prevented from reaching hospital care, a fact which Insulate Britain figures have attempted to excuse as being similar to collateral damage during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/05\/insulate-britain-invokes-ww2-collateral-damage-to-justify-deaths-caused-by-protests\/\">Second World War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group has been accused of acting like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/07\/farage-brands-eco-extreme-protesters-terrorists-willing-to-risk-peoples-lives\/\">terrorists<\/a>\u201d by Brexit leader Nigel Farage, who said they are \u201cprepared to risk the lives of other people just because they have this hysterical view that unless we go back and live in caves, billions of people are going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Insulate Britain has seemingly won the support of Sweedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2021\/10\/31\/greta-thunberg-says-protesters-need-to-anger-people-sometimes-15516995\/\">said<\/a> on Sunday that \u201csometimes you need to anger people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, for instance, the school strike movement would never have become so big if there wasn\u2019t friction, if some people didn\u2019t get pissed off,\u201d Thunberg said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9473684210526\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WATCH: \u2018Not One of My Better Moves\u2019 \u2013 Eco-Nutter Regrets Gluing His Face to the Road <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yfmuF2n0Au\">https:\/\/t.co\/yfmuF2n0Au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1453012038192562176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over thirty eco-warriors are facing up to two years in prison for allegedly violating an injunction against disruptive motorway protests, the far-left Insulate Britain group has revealed. 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