German Police vs Greenpeace at sea

[HeyJoe]

When protesters try to get to close to G8 summit by sea and disrupt the event, the Germans rolled out their new Combat Boat 90 and the fun began.....

 

[Tom]

What could be better than hippie/anarchist hunting?

 

[Brett327]

I didn't know Charlie was a member of Greenpeace.

Brett

 

[HeyJoe]

I didn't know Charlie was a member of Greenpeace.

Brett

That's the way it was sent...maybe Greenpeace is more appropriate metaphorically

 

[WishICouldFly]

35 seconds left on the third video...AWESOME moment, the police boat completely washes out the Greenpeace one.

So much fun, I would love to drive that CB 90. Just like a sheepdog herding sheep...

 

[GroundPounder]

For those of you who have never been to Germany; ( More of an Army thing I realize ) The Polezi tell you once to do something. You either do it right then, or the next thing that you will expereince is being struck with a baton. They don't just beat people for the hell of it, but they don't put up with much. Very much different from what most of the protesters are used to I would think.

Looks like the G8 protesters forgot where they were.

 

[WVUBetaHornet]

Without a doubt an amazing-looking ship..

Great music choice on the 3rd video as well

 

[Pugs]

Looks like the G8 protesters forgot where they were.

Looks like a pretty good object lesson for the trust-affarians. Here's to many more.

 

[Flash]

This reminds me on some incidents in 1989 off Cape Canaveral. The Navy was trying to fire off a new Trident II in July 1989 and Greenpeace stopped it by using Zodiacs to get close enough to the sub to put a banner on the testing antenna sticking out of the water. It was pretty embarrassing and the Navy guy in charge vowed they would not get the chance to do it again.

Well, the Navy tried again in December '89 (not sure if it was the same test) and Greenpeace brought down its flagship. The Navy used a pair of support boats to play bumper boats and rammed the ship a few times and turned their fire hoses onto it. Greenpeace obviously doesn't know much about making a ship watertight because the water got into the engine room and killed the engines. The also had SEAL's mess with the Zodiacs. I remember the picture with this article, the idiot Greenpeaceniks were getting swamped.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,959355,00.html?promoid=googlep

 

[Rasczak]

hah. idiots.

 

[statesman]

"A terrible outrage . . . an unbridled act of aggression!" cried Greenpeace's executive director as the group prepared legal action against the Navy.

I just don't understand what reality these people live in sometimes. In what society is it okay for you to be an aggressor but when you receive resistance call it unfair?

 

[Herc_Dude]

'Aggression', 'strength', 'masculine', 'testosterone' - these are all evil words in the Euro-sissy mans world. This 'executive director' is showing us a nice example of double-speak. His group passes lines set up by police, police confront Greenpeace, they run, police stop them, police are the bad guys. I think Im starting to understand ...

 

[statesman]

Normally I would agree with you, but the quote was taken from the article posted by Flash. Regardless though its just ridiculous that they can interfere with defense assets, and then when they try to do it again and are stopped they get there feelings all hurt. It just makes NO SENSE. I feel like Im going to have an aneurysm when I read things like this.

 

[skim]

Sounds similiar to a story my father in law has told. When he was either the CO or XO of a ship, Greenpeace tried boarding his ship, and they blew them off with firehoses, they (Greenpeace) then complained about the aggression. He has a few other stories about that organization.

 

[OldNavy]

The caption on the second video reads:

"Greenpeace - Boote drigen in sperrzone ein"

Which I believe means

"Your ass is mine!