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Green Peace damages Nacza lines
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 12, 2014 at 7:27 pm
Got your attention, didn't they?
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 12, 2014 at 7:51 pm
Yes, damage or not, being disrespectful did get a lot of attention. Is it the right kind?Thinking

Did it help them or hurt them. TBH I didn't even read what their banner said, I was appalled they did such a thing.
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 12, 2014 at 7:53 pm
(December 12, 2014 at 7:27 pm)Lao Shizi Wrote: Got your attention, didn't they?

Not much point in getting atention when people are talking more about their disrespect than their actual message.
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 12, 2014 at 7:56 pm
MacLuhan was more right than they reckoned, in this case.

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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 12, 2014 at 9:45 pm
I never thought green peace had any perspective other than self importance. The fact that part of their self importance derives from taking stands which happen to have been of some merit is largely subsidiary to the value of their own importance.
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 12, 2014 at 10:03 pm (This post was last modified: December 12, 2014 at 10:04 pm by Jenny A.)
(December 12, 2014 at 7:18 pm)Chas Wrote:
(December 12, 2014 at 7:12 pm)Heywood Wrote: This is willful defacement of a historical monument. It isn't any different than TPing (covering in toilet paper) Mount Rushmore. It is vandalism pure and simple.

Not even government officials are allowed on that site without special permission. It is so sensitive to foot traffic that when people do visit it, they are required to use special shoes and follow a strict protocol(which I am imagining probably involves walking on their tippy toes)

Nope. Vandalism requires damaging or defacing.
(December 12, 2014 at 7:03 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Here's a USA Today article explaining it more in-depth:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world.../20318005/

Still no evidence or even a description of damage.

It's good that they used cloth letters. BUT no one is generally allowed in the area to limit tracks and those who are allowed in must wear special shoes. Footprints damage the site for hundreds of years. Yes they may have damaged the site. And why risk damage for a stunt?

Quote:The Nazca lines depict living creatures, stylized plants and imaginary figures scratched on the surface of the ground between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago. They're believed to have had ritual astronomical functions.

"They are absolutely fragile. They are black rocks on a white background. You walk there and the footprint is going to last hundreds or thousands of years," Castillo said. "And the line that they have destroyed is the most visible and most recognized of all."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world.../20318005/
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 13, 2014 at 10:29 am
I wonder if there is some (unstated) racial animus in the Greenpeace hierarchy ??

The lack of respect for Peruvian laws and their cultural sensitivities and heritage is, in my opinion, indicative of an especially unsavory attitude and mindset towards people they consider to be 'not their kind'.

I am appalled at the destruction of the irreplaceable Nazca art, Greenpeace should know better. That they clearly don't is an especially unpleasant eye opener.
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 13, 2014 at 11:54 am
(December 13, 2014 at 10:29 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I wonder if there is some (unstated) racial animus in the Greenpeace hierarchy ??

The lack of respect for Peruvian laws and their cultural sensitivities and heritage is, in my opinion, indicative of an especially unsavory attitude and mindset towards people they consider to be 'not their kind'.

I am appalled at the destruction of the irreplaceable Nazca art, Greenpeace should know better. That they clearly don't is an especially unpleasant eye opener.

I suspect they did know better and decided to go on with the vandalism anyways. That was an organized event with lots of people involved. I can't believe they never considered, "Hey it might be a bad idea to deface this historical monument". It seems to me the vandalism and the apology were planned ahead of time.....that they took the attitude that it is better to ask for forgiveness then to ask for permission.

These guys are assholes as far as I am concerned.
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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 13, 2014 at 12:15 pm
(December 13, 2014 at 11:54 am)Heywood Wrote: These guys are assholes as far as I am concerned.

Agreed.

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RE: Green Peace damages Nacza lines
December 13, 2014 at 12:22 pm (This post was last modified: December 13, 2014 at 12:23 pm by vorlon13.)
(December 13, 2014 at 11:54 am)Heywood Wrote:
(December 13, 2014 at 10:29 am)vorlon13 Wrote: I wonder if there is some (unstated) racial animus in the Greenpeace hierarchy ??

The lack of respect for Peruvian laws and their cultural sensitivities and heritage is, in my opinion, indicative of an especially unsavory attitude and mindset towards people they consider to be 'not their kind'.

I am appalled at the destruction of the irreplaceable Nazca art, Greenpeace should know better. That they clearly don't is an especially unpleasant eye opener.

I suspect they did know better and decided to go on with the vandalism anyways. That was an organized event with lots of people involved. I can't believe they never considered, "Hey it might be a bad idea to deface this historical monument". It seems to me the vandalism and the apology were planned ahead of time.....that they took the attitude that it is better to ask for forgiveness then to ask for permission.

These guys are assholes as far as I am concerned.


And hey, they're just Peruvians ,what do they know, we're Greenpeace!!

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