Greenpeace sorry for Nazca lines stunt in Peru

[zorgon]

Greenpeace sorry for Nazca lines stunt in Peru


Activists from the organisation placed a banner next to a figure of a hummingbird, carved more than 1,500 years ago

They were hoping to increase pressure on UN negotiators currently meeting in Lima.

The Peruvian government said it would prosecute the activists who took part.

The ancient depictions of animals, including a monkey and a hummingbird that are etched into the arid plain of Southern Peru are a vital part of the county's heritage.

Visits to the site are closely supervised - ministers and presidents have to seek special permission and special footwear to tread on the fragile ground where the 1,500 year old lines are cut.

Earlier this week 20 Greenpeace activists from seven countries unfurled a protest banner very close to the location of the lines.

'Slap in the face'
"With our message from the Nazca lines, we expect politicians to understand the legacy we need to leave for future generations," said one of the activists, Mauro Fernandez, on a video produced by the organisation.

"It is not a legacy of climate crisis."

Unfortunately, according to the Peruvian authorities, the legacy of the stunt was damage to the ancient site.



John Chewter:  "Just look at the damage that will be there for thousands of years!"

They say the green group entered a strictly prohibited area and left footprints. The government is asking for the identities of those involved and threatening prosecution and six years in prison for the offenders.

"It's a true slap in the face at everything Peruvians consider sacred,'' Deputy Culture Minister Luis Jaime Castillo said, speaking to news agencies.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30422994

[zorgon]

THIS is one of the A Holes who did it

[thorfourwinds]

Very stupid move on the activists' part.

[zorgon]

The Basic Law of Humanity

If there is a way to crew up something good... SOMEONE will do it

Back in Toronto (70's I think it was) there was a group of Animal Rights activists that decided they would protest the new Toronto Zoo...

Now that zoo had created awesome natural habitats for the animals.  The wolf pen was there target.  These wolves had been born at that zoo only knew captivity in their awesome large environment.

These nuts decided it would be a good idea to release the wolves. The zoo was adjacent to a huge ravine that led out of town. So their "logic" was that after they released the wolves they would flee up the ravine to freedom

Well the wolves were terrified as these nuts had to scare them out of the pen to make them go.  They did not run to the wild ravine but headed for the houses in the area. They were scared, they had no idea where to go....

End result was the police and rangers had to shoot most of them

Nice going guys  Wat to save the wolves

Forest Gump put it wisely...

"Stupid is as Stupid does!"

[Sinny]

Trivial..

[thorfourwinds]

Very stupid move on the activists' part.

Leaving any sign of being there is stupid, including footprints.

However, the Message worked.   

The rest of the story is trivial, to be sure; thank you Sinny.

[Wrabbit2000]

It is always a shame to see a group of otherwise well intentioned people become what they fight, and embrace extremism to the point of damaging the very thing they claim to cherish.

Sometimes, I think fighting fire with fire just results in everyone going up together....and harming what is being protected, to protect it, makes me question the sanity, if not the motives of the whole group involved.

[Sinny]

I find it crazy that we live in a society where 'leaving foot prints' is considered 'extremism'..

[Wrabbit2000]

I recall seeing wagon wheel tracks in Death Valley from over a century ago as clear as anything. It's amazing how long that sort of thing lasts.

I suppose its pretty extreme to the Peruvians tho.

[zorgon]

I find it crazy that we live in a society where 'leaving foot prints' is considered 'extremism'..

I suppose we could just paint graffiti over Petroglyphs  too... After all graffiti is our wall scrawling and the cave men are no longer around so what does it matter?

[zorgon]

And while we are at it  lets just push over those balancing rocks because they sure are unsafe

Boy Scout Leaders Destroy 200 Million-Year-Old Rock Formation And Laugh About it

[zorgon]

Buddhas of Bamiyan



The Buddhas of Bamiyan (Persian: – but hay-e bamiyan) were two 6th-century[1] monumental statues of standing buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, 230 km (140 mi) northwest of Kabul at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet). Built in 507 AD, (smaller), and 554 AD, (larger) the statues represented the classic blended style of Gandhara art.

The main bodies were hewn directly from the sandstone cliffs, but details were modeled in mud mixed with straw, coated with stucco. This coating, practically all of which wore away long ago, was painted to enhance the expressions of the faces, hands and folds of the robes; the larger one was painted carmine red and the smaller one was painted multiple colors.

The lower parts of the statues' arms were constructed from the same mud-straw mix while supported on wooden armatures. It is believed that the upper parts of their faces were made from great wooden masks or casts. Rows of holes that can be seen in photographs were spaces that held wooden pegs that stabilized the outer stucco.

They were dynamited and destroyed in March 2001 by the Taliban, on orders from leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, after the Taliban government declared that they were idols. An envoy visiting the United States in the following weeks explained that they were destroyed to protest international aid exclusively reserved for statue maintenance while Afghanistan was experiencing famine, while the Afghan Foreign Minister claimed that the destruction was merely about carrying out Islamic religious iconoclasm. International opinion strongly condemned the destruction of the Buddhas, which in the following years was primarily viewed as an example of the extreme religious intolerance of the Taliban. Japan and Switzerland, among others, have pledged support for the rebuilding of the statues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

Well heck can't go having Idols that don't reflect Allah

So  Blow em up

[zorgon]

Check this guy for dynamite.



Well I guess if the Taliban can do it, so can the Christians 

Q: Why did the Taliban dynamite the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas?

A: According to Taliban Mullah Omar, they were idols that offended God.

Now an Overland Park, Kansas Christian, David Engle, has determined that the Buddhas in front of the Asian exhibits at the Kansas City zoo are likewise "idolatry" that are "infuriating to God."

http://www.kansascity.com/637/story/979947.html

One wonders why the statues have heretofore escaped the notice of such a furious all-powerful deity.
According to Mr. Engle, not all idolatry is bad. Just the kind he disapproves of. "We can't have a cross or a nativity scene on public property. It is phenomenal to me that the zoo would put up Buddha statues."
Well, Dave, you can have a cross or nativity scene on public property.

You can also have your belief in God professed on your money, in the Pledge of Allegiance, in court-administered oaths, and in prayers said before the assembly of legislative bodies and at presidential inaugurals. You can have Bible quotations engraved on the sides of government buildings, too.

Because you can have all that, there can also be little Buddha statues outside the Asian exhibit at the zoo.

They are decorative and not intended to promote religion.

Dumbass.

http://thecrustybastard.blogspot.com/2009/01/check-this-guy-for-dynamite.html

[zorgon]

Sharia requires the destruction of the Statue of Liberty

Posted on March 2, 2011 by R.D. Walker
Ten years ago today, March 2, 2001, the Taliban dynamited the Buddhas of Bamiyan, 1,500 year old statues of standing buddhas carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamyan valley in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan. They were the largest standing Buddha statues in the word. The Taliban government declared that they were "idols" and, therefore must be destroyed.

Here are before and after shots of the taller of the two statues.



Islamists aren't done with statue destruction. They have a plan to dynamite the Statue of Liberty too.

The Statue of Liberty, designed by Frederic Bartholdi, stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor; representing Libertas, the Roman (false) goddess of Freedom, it is symbolic of the rebellious nature of the US constitution that elevates the command of man over the command of God.

In Islam, the public veneration of idols and statues is strictly prohibited. This has forced sincere Muslims to develop realistic plans that will aid in the removal of the Statue of Liberty.

Due to the scale of the task at hand, it is highly likely that rigorous safety checks will need to be employed before the demolition of the Statue of Liberty can commence; thus as a temporary measure, it is proposed that a large burkha is used to cover the statue, thereby shielding this horrendous eye sore from public view as well as sending a strong message to its French creators.

Post demolition, it is recommended that a minaret be built as a fitting replacement, allowing the glorification of God to be proclaimed daily as well as act as a powerful reminder of the superiority of Islam over all other ways of life.

http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=41284

[zorgon]

The Library of Alexander



Some regard the death of Hypatia as the final destruction of the Library. Others blame Theophilus for destroying the last of the scrolls when he razed the Temple of Serapis prior to making it a Christian church. Still others have confused both incidents and blamed Theophilus for simultaneously murdering Hypatia and destroying the Library though it is obvious Theophilus died sometime prior to Hypatia.

The final individual to get blamed for the destruction is the Moslem Caliph Omar. In 640 AD the Moslems took the city of Alexandria. Upon learning of "a great library containing all the knowledge of the world" the conquering general supposedly asked Caliph Omar for instructions. The Caliph has been quoted as saying of the Library's holdings, "they will either contradict the Koran, in which case they are heresy, or they will agree with it, so they are superfluous." So, allegedly, all the texts were destroyed by using them as tinder for the bathhouses of the city. Even then it was said to have taken six months to burn all the documents.

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/43ancients/02files/Library_Alexandria.html