Greenpeace activists aboard the Noble Discoverer have been arrested and are coming down, a Greenspeace spokemsman on the ground Steve Abel says.The protesters have come down on their own not willing to risk the safety of themselves or police and it was only visual confirmation they had been arrested, Mr Abel says.
NBR is in the process of confirming Mr Abel's account with police.
NBR is wise in confirming a Greenpeace activist's account, because we know that sometimes, where Greenpeace is concerned, the facts get in the way of a good publicity stunt.
But if Lucy Lawless and her mates have indeed been arrested, all we can say is "good job", and now let the justice system take its course.
UPDATE: And now the NBR reports that police have charged Lawless and her co-conspirators with burglary; a slightly more significant offence than they may have expected to be charged with. Whilst jail time would be highly unlike if convicted, it might be harder to explain to immigration officials than a simple conviction for trespass.
Ah well; you makes your bed; you have to lie in it...
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Greenpeace spend 10% of their budget on PR aka lying.
"Greenpeace says 133,000 people sent emails to Shell, telling them to abandon plans to drill for oil in the Arctic."
How do Greenpeace know that Shell received 133,000 protest emails unless Greenpeace members sent them ?
That 133,000 would be about 3% of their membership.
"Over the weekend, the protesters say they were subjected to "Guantanamo-style tactics" of loudspeakers and bright lights."
"Routine work standard procedure requires the crane's horn to be sounded when the crane moves over the vessel," says Shona Geary, Shell corporate communications manager.
It appears that on Saturday night the protesters disabled the light at the top of the drill tower. These lights are there for safety reasons.
A spotlight had to be used instead to light up the area to help ensure the group were safe during crane and other night time operations."
Read more: http://www.3news.co.nz/Lawless-Greenpeace-activists-arrested/tabid/1160/articleID/244315/Default.aspx#ixzz1nX00tBSq
Motella.
Has a pretty nice take on the hypocritical bitch.
Go Lucy!
You've succeeded in drawing world wide attention to the issue of drilling in the Arctic and Shells involvement in it. You've shown that you are willing to get down and dirty and demonstrate that your concern is real and you've irritated the hell out of the armchair conservatives here who are torn between lusting after you and despising your rule-breaking. Imagine a Warrior Princess who did everything she was told to by red-tape loving pc bureaucrats!
Go Lucy!
"Warrior princess"?
You really are a confused little felless anon.
@anonymous 1:28pm - the 'integrity' of Gp & their flunkies might be more believable if they didn't lie. New Plymouth as Gitmo - LMAO.
six wet bus tickets please.
That assumes they will be charged Baxter.
If they don't get charged for breaches of the Maritime Security Act and the Maritime Transport Act they don't get court time and thus no oxygen for their campaign.
Well that is a surprise, the greenpeace being charged at all that is.
Burglary has as a penalty a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years.
For any of the protesters a conviction may make visiting the US problematic
The following is from section 231 Crimes act which describes what burglary is in case there is a question about why the charge has been laid.
"Every one commits burglary and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years who—
(a)enters any building or ship, or part of a building or ship, without authority and with intent to commit a crime in the building or ship; or
(b)having entered any building or ship, remains in it without authority and with intent to commit a crime in the building or ship"
Also as a matter of pedantry the vessel the protesters boarded is not owned by Shell at all. It is owned and opperated by Noble Drilling International of Texas. Itself quite a large business opperating in almost all of the oil regions on the planet.
There campaign has already been fed plenty of oxygen.
Burglary?
That'll be laughed out of court.
Go Lucy!
@ Anon; read Quintin Hogg's comment just above yours. I would venture to suggest that he knows just a little bit more about the law than you do. On the basis of what he has written, I would opine that the police will have little difficulty proving the elements of the charge of burglary.
Go the Police!
I tend to disagree, that "intent" bit might be hard to prove. It'll be deflated spy domes all over again.
a google search on lucy lawless shows hardly a mention of the protest but quite a few of her getting her kit off.seems to me overseas media havnt given this as much publicity as greenpeace say.
who would have thought
"Go the Police!"
Authoritarian much?
Go the police! What a Tory suck-up!
"with intent to commit a crime in the building or ship"
That's what you and the police (Go the police!!!!) are building your hopes on?
I will track this case with great interest and when it's lost (Go the police!!!) I'll be laughing my arse off for hours.
No Robert; I was taking the piss out of your "Go Lucy" comment; or did you leave out two words? Perhaps "to jail" should be inserted between "Go" and "Lucy"...
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