By Selwyn Duke

If you’re like me, you’ve become accustomed to the insanity that reigns in modern times and are hard to shock.  But try this story on for size:

A jury in England has acquitted some Greenpeace activists for damaging a power station because their concern over climate change gave them a compelling reason to commit the crime.

I kid you not.

It’s hard to believe, I know; it’s the kind of piece you might expect to find in the satirical publication The Onion.  But truth is stranger than fiction, and it seems nowadays that so are some Britons.  Writes Michael McCarthy in The Independent:

The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were
justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired
power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have
shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown
Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.

Jurors
accepted defence arguments that the six had a "lawful excuse" to damage
property at Kingsnorth power station in Kent to prevent even greater
damage caused by climate change. The defence of "lawful excuse" under
the Criminal Damage Act 1971 allows damage to be caused to property to
prevent even greater damage – such as breaking down the door of a
burning house to tackle a fire.            
       
            

Perhaps they ought to cut these jurors’ power for a few months and let them live in darkness, without refrigeration, TV, computers, or any of the other electric-powered devices we now take for granted.

Stupid is as a liberal does.

Read the rest here.

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