Why Greenpeace don't play bully in the USA?

[duna]

 

It looks like a Photoshopped hoax straight from The Onion, but this really happened: Greenpeace laid down an ad next to a 1,500-year-old tracing of a hummingbird in the Peruvian desert, one of the delicate monuments known as the Nazca Lines.

Now the environmental group is apologizing profusely for the stunt, but its activists could face criminal charges nevertheless.

A Greenpeace team placed the message in yellow cloth letters near the monument on Monday, so it could be seen from above during global climate talks that are under way in Peru. The message read, "Time for Change! The Future Is Renewable ... Greenpeace."

The stunt sparked outrage from Peruvian officials as well as fans of the Nazca Lines, which were scratched in the desert surface centuries ago and depict plants, creatures and mythical beings. Archaeologists have suggested the mysterious lines might have been used as ritual astronomical calendars or religious symbols.

Deputy Culture Minister Jaime Castillo told The Associated Press that the move was a "slap in the face at everything Peruvians consider sacred."

Castillo said that no one is allowed into the area where the activists went without prior authorization, and that those who do get permission are required to wear special shoes so as not to disturb the patterns in the dirt. He told AP that those who were responsible would be sought out and could face charges of attacking archaeological monuments ? a crime punishable by up to six years in prison.

"You walk there and the footprint is going to last hundreds or thousands of years," The Guardian quoted Castillo as saying. "And the line that they have destroyed is the most visible and most recognized of all."

In a statement released Wednesday, Greenpeace said it was deeply sorry "for the offense caused by our recent activity laying a message of hope at the site of the historic Nazca lines."

"We fully understand that this looks bad," Greenpeace said. "Rather than relay an urgent message of hope and possibility to the leaders gathering at the Lima UN climate talks, we came across as careless and crass."

Greenpeace said Kumi Niadoo, its international executive director, would travel to Lima this week to apologize personally and represent the group in discussions with Peruvian authorities.
 

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/peru-strikes-back-after-greenpeaces-nazca-lines-stunt-n266616

There is a video in the source link showing how Greenpeace `take care` of the ground.

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Why...why these idiotic people did this?

I`m so p*****f that barely can write this thing.

Why this `gringo` have to go there to teach how the people must live their lives?

People, with good faith, will embrace nature and defend the environment as they please.

They dont need bastards like the cynical adventurer Hiram Bingham, the thief of Machu Pichu, that was later glamorized by Holywood like Indiana Jones.

Why Greenpeace dont give their chest to bullet in the USA fighting against hanting? Against mining? Against mining in Alaska?

This guys wont be prosecute in Peru. They will be expelled from Peru after paying fleshy fine from the Greenpeace stuffed arks.

 

my 2 cents.

[DocM]

For the record, in the US you need federal and state permits up the wazoo to mine, then it's taxed and regulated.

As to this crime against history,

Punks. Do that in a US national park etc. and you'd end up into federal prison. Peru should do likewise, harshly, starting by making an example of Kumi Niadoo.

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

I think 6 years in prison is too little for such "activist" ######

 

 

Don't destroy ancient history to promote your message.   

100 strokes (something with physical pain, that they remember!) + 20 years in prison, so the idiot learn not to touch SACRED ANCIENT PLACES for a modern political message!

(i know it is waaay too harsh... just the ancient monuments have survived for a lot longer...  and yet this idiots went and defaced them, for a minute thing!

PAST IS NOT RENEWABLE - YOU ######!!!!      if you destroy something that is ancient and PRICELESS, then you should pay accordingly)

 

 

i think damaging a modern church or a temple for such message would be not a big deal... you can rebuild as necessary.  

pubishin offensive mohammed comics too,  who cares, just people's emotions.

 

here, they are destroying actually physical history... and damaging ancient well preserved sites, that can never be rebuild the same

having watched a documentary about this place not so long ago, this makes me angry.      

 

 

 

damn greenpeace.    have they ever achieved any good for the planet, or caused more ever more problems??

[Rippleman]

Why this `gringo` have to go there to teach how the people must live their lives?

 

you do know that there wasn't any "gringos" involved right? Why do you say it?

[Ryoken]

The level of stupidity in what they did knows no bounds. In many areas of this world they would have been shot for even trying.. Can you imagine them trying to do this on a Pyramid or something? But it makes sense, because they, like PETA and other groups believe people must live a specific way they approve of, and as such, they don't even consider other peoples feelings. Anyone with perspective would have quickly seen how stupid this was.. even if not during the meeting, shortly after once they found out what would be involved to do it "Legally".

 

This isn't putting up a sign along the highway, this is illegally disturbing an international historical site for PR. I do hope they get arrested and sent to jail. And I DON'T mean the people on the ground. The runts doing the actual work don't know any better, probably didn't even clue into them that they were being told to do something illegal. I mean the people that decided to do this.

[Torolol]

they use yellow plastics for that stunts too, hypocrites as usual.

[duna]

you do know that there wasn't any "gringos" involved right? Why do you say it?

 

20 activists from 7 different countries.

Anyone who is not a peruvian is a gringo, a foreign.

I used the term as well because Greenpeace is a north-american organization.

And even if they are all peruvians, they were obeying foreign directions. Gringo directions.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3PBC1FVCRE

 

And finally, indians are the last people who are responsible for environment destruction.

[Rippleman]

20 activists from 7 different countries.

Anyone who is not a peruvian is a gringo, a foreign.

 

oh, sorry, I have never seen it used in such a manner, in north america it's slang for a person from USA.

[ctebah]

It's hilarious that people focus so much on our past monuments when humanity as a whole is destroying our future.  I'm not saying what these guys did was good, and they should be punished for it.  But who cares about our past monuments and works of art when our future is in jeopardy with the way we are using the resources on this planet.  I'm not even talking much about the global warming, but simply about humanity using resources on our planet as if they're limitless.  

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

It's hilarious that people focus so much on our past monuments when humanity as a whole is destroying our future.  I'm not saying what these guys did was good, and they should be punished for it.  But who cares about our past monuments and works of art when our future is in jeopardy with the way we are using the resources on this planet.  I'm not even talking much about the global warming, but simply about humanity using resources on our planet as if they're limitless.  

i see the irony, but there is absolutely no need to destroy past artifacts, to bring the message around.     not sure greenpeace is helping in anyway really... but they sure are hurting more.

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They should be executed immediately.

[remixedcat]

These _______ should be locked up a long time

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

They should be executed immediately.

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