Anarchists' weapon is 90 gallons of cooking oil

[emad]

July 08, 2005

Anarchists' weapon is 90 gallons of cooking oil
By David Lister and Shirley English



ATTEMPTS by anarchists to disrupt the G8 summit in Scotland were thwarted yesterday when a series of weapons were seized by police.

Items confiscated over the past 48 hours include 90 gallons of cooking oil, which police said anarchists had intended to pour on the A9, the main route from Edinburgh to Gleneagles. Police also said they had recovered knives, wooden and metal poles, a crowbar, bolt cutters, axes and canisters of CS spray and pepper spray.

With protesters leaving Scotland in growing numbers, police showed their determination to prevent a repeat of Wednesday’s violence by surrounding an “ecocamp” outside Stirling, where thousands of protesters have been staying over the past few days. Police believe that the camp has been sheltering about 300 violent anarchists who took part in attacks on Wednesday morning, smashing car and shop windows and hurling stones at officers.

In other searches after clashes outside the Gleneagles Hotel on Wednesday, items recovered included an axe, a saw, a machete, rocks, stakes and a catapult with ballbearings.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1685448,00.html

[MrScorpio]

1. Goddammed anarchists

Peaceful Demonstration is just NOT in these guys' vocabulary

[Teaser]

20. They've never said they were peaceful.

Anarchism, has not been a peaceful philosophy, by and large. Why were people expecting different?

[K-W]

31. Dont over generalize.

Destruction and violence as a form of protest has almost always been a small minority tactic amongst anarchists, and when it wasnt, the government and business elites were themselves employing violence against the peaceful attempts by the working class to assert thier rights.

[Teaser]

35. Who's over-generalizing (sic)?

Not me. Nothing I wrote is at all contradicted by anything you wrote.

[K-W]

37. I guess it depends on your definition of peaceful.

All anarchists are revolutionaries.
Only a select group of anarchists today choose violence or property destruction as valid tools of the social revolution they hope to achieve.

[MisterP]

40. yes! they were making confrontational non-peaceful pancakes

[Billy Burnett]

2. I guess biodiesel is now a terror threat.

Just f*cking great.

Neocon mission accomplished.

[Massacure]

26. Cooking oil is not the same as biodiesel.

[Chemical Bill]

29. When cooking oil is outlawed...

only outlaws will have biodiesel.

[Massacure]

30. You don't need cooking oil to make biodiesel.

All you need is an oil and and a alcohol. You could go skim the algae of a pond and squeeze the oil out of it. Then you would need to make some ethyl alcohol, which is easy to do if you look at the prohibition era. Then they are mixed in a 9:1 ratio and put through a transesterification process.

[MercutioATC]

3. A crowbar and cooking oil? The BASTARDS!

I won't even comment on the rocks...

[bvar22]

7. Don't forgot the poles

The police found some poles within 5 miles of the G8. I wonder if these suspicious and deadly poles had telephone wires or lights attached.
I heard that one of the poles was within 500 yards of a rock!

[MercutioATC]

9. I didn't...

The bastards even had ROCKS!!!

[mom cat]

19. They had rocks! In Scotland! Where would they find rocks?

They must have destroyed an old castle were something. Shame on them.:sarcasm:

[MercutioATC]

33. The rocks were obviously imported by terrorists.

Stop making excuses, you pinko liberal!

;)

[mom cat]

34. Flaming Pinko Liberal!

[yellowcanine]

16. Maybe they were going to poke somebody? Someone could lose an eye! Let's

hope they don't have a supply of rubber bands and paper airplanes!

[DBoon]

28. Shh. Rubber bands are a terrorist weapon

Let's not even mention spitball shooters.

[thoughtanarchist]

27. don't forget Poland!

why do they hate the Poles?

:evilgrin:

[Richardo]

4. Somebody misread 'The Anarchist's Cookbook'

:)

It's NOT REALLY A COOKBOOK, GUYS!

[Robb]

5. LOL!

"Cor, but this stuff tastes awful!!" :D

[Richardo]

12. HA!

Always like the 'Cor!' card. :thumbsup:

[slackmaster]

25. Good call

:toast:

[ret5hd]

6. 90 gals of cooking oil divided by 300 anarchists...

(assuming the camp consisted ENTIRELY of the 300 anarchists they were searching for)...

works out to a third of a gallon of cooking oil apiece. WOULD IT BE CONCEIVABLE THEY WERE USING IT FOR...(wait for it, wait for it)...

COOKING?

[emad]

8. Head of UK anti-terrorist cops is called Commander Fry.

Maybe they were working undercover for him.......tehe....

[formercia]

14. as in Fish Fry.

maybe they were going to cook up some fish and chips to celebrate.

[elehhhhna]

10. A quart on the pavement is more than enough to make GW slip on his trike.

[Deja Q]

11. I would have said 'one evaporated drop', myself...

[elehhhhna]

15. one scintilla of a sniff !

one atom in the atmosphere...


good point, hypto

[yellowcanine]

22. Throw in some of those big pretzels and we could have a major incident.

Enough to amuse Barney the dog, anyway.

[yellowcanine]

23. Some folks (* word alert) have found other "personal" uses for cooking oil

Maybe they were planning a "group grope"?

[formercia]

32. Crisco Party

oh dear. LOL

[WhiteTara]

39. has asscrap gotten appointed to some other

post?

[formercia]

13. Reminds me of the riots in the late 60's

where the police searched a garage, found a can of gas, empty bottles and some rags and charged the owner with having the materials to make Molotov Cocktails. Look in your garage. Better clean up before the cops get there. LOL!

[Sgent]

17. Crap I have a full

5gal gas tank in my garage... for my boat. I'm sure I have rags as well.

[yellowcanine]

21. A couple of empty beer bottles and a cig lighter and you are good to go.

[yellowcanine]

18. And then there were those "killer burritos" Manuel Noriega had in his

freezer. Or were they enchiladas? I agree that either burritos or enchiladas can be a deadly weapon if they fall into the wrong hands (colons).

[sendero]

24. And we've got candlesticks, and lots of cocktail sticks

we are the true wheel.

[BuelahWitch]

36. Damn! Am I going to have to show ID and sign for cooking oil now?

"But officer, I'm taking this home to bake a cake, really I am!"

:party: :spank: :hide:

[Zorra]

38. No torches or pitchforks? n/t