If you don't want to buy oil produced by BP, then that is your freedom to do so.
If you want to protest outside BP petrol stations so as to convince others by argument or gesture, that is your freedom, too, as long as you do not endanger lives, hinder people, coerce or damage lives or property*.
If you take it upon yourselves to force other people, against their will, to not (be able to) buy BP fuel, then that is another matter entirely, for that is arrogance, Totalitarianism of thought and forced collectivism.
How very dare they, in fact. What possesses such people to think they have the "right", the authority, to dictate to others?
If I want to veto BP, the person who decides the when, where and how, is me, not YOU. Not the Government. Not the US Senate. Not Obama, Cameron, Her Majesty the Queen, but I. I decide when, where and how. Unilaterally. Independently. If I wish to abdicate to a collective, the when, where, how and with whom will also be unilaterally, independently and utterly of my own choosing, not the presumption and whim of dictators.
For let us be clear, Greenpeace are acting as Dictators. Totalitarian. Authoritarian. Coercive. Arrogant. Self-serving.
If you don't like BP products or the company, don't buy them. If you want others to not buy it, go and convince them with your arguments and reasoning. Bully-boy tactics, violence, aggression, coercion and downright vandalism might be "right on" ecothuggery, but all it does is demonstrate that those performing them either
a) realise they have weak arguments, no logic and are really only interested in maximising self-serving publicity.
b) Too lazy to do the leg work.
I am tempted to think the actual answer is both.
For shame, "Greenpeace", for shame.
All you have done is INCREASE the chances of my using a BP petrol station, if only to ensure you get no reward nor any encouragement from your disgraceful, spoilt child, aggressive behaviour.
* bearing in mind not to coerce, steal, damage, threaten and to remember that they are franchises, who are likely to suffer the most, running on wafer thin margins. But then again I think it is too much to expect of Greenpeace to ever consider even for a nanosecond their plight.
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Since these bastards were let off by the courts with criminal damage to GM crops - they've now got too big for their boots.
They just imagine they can do anything and get away with it under the false assumption that the judiciary are on their side.
Every thing the greenies say is a LIE.
For example ever seen this message at the bottom of an email ?
Help to save some trees. Print e-mails only if you really need to.
This is an obvious LIE.
Trees pulped to make paper are managed ,farmed if you like for instance you have huge areas of forest farmed by a simple method as each tree is cut ,more are planted in its place ,so by the time the felling reaches the end which is a matter of decades the original planted trees at the start are fully grown.
A forester who did not employ this method would go out of business.
LIES LIES LIES.
I agree with Tim on this. The Greenpeace campaign would only encourage libertarians and other freedom lovers to buy BP. They should stick to policies that are not coercive.
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