{"id":283023,"date":"2023-10-12T19:08:51","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=283023"},"modified":"2023-10-12T19:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T17:08:54","slug":"australias-answer-to-greta-thunberg-faces-years-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=283023","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s Answer to Greta Thunberg Faces Years In Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Climate activist Lane-Rose said she wasn\u2019t expecting to be immediately arrested as she arrived.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kids grew up: Australia is reaping a bitter harvest, for enabling and encouraging a foreign criminal<\/a> climate radical to groom our kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Australia\u2019s answer to Greta Thunberg is facing years behind bars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At 19, this climate activist is now facing serious legal consequences over a foiled protest outside the home of the boss of an energy giant in Western Australia. Here\u2019s why she still believes she\u2019s on the right side of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published 12 October 2023 5:40am
By Tessa Fox
Source: SBS News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even as a young kid in school, Matilda Lane-Rose always spoke up when she saw injustices in the playground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, at the age of 15, she\u2019d stand in front of hundreds of students engaged in the School Strike for Climate rallies<\/a> with a megaphone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For her, the anxieties and fears now-famous climate activist Greta Thunberg <\/a>held of the future amid climate change were relatable, and seeing someone the same age taking action was empowering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just decided I\u2019m going to do something to stop this rather than just accept it,\u201d Lane-Rose told SBS News on her decision to campaign for climate justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five years later, Lane-Rose has become a prominent young climate activist, and the university student, now 19, faces a charge of conspiracy to commit an indictable offence. She\u2019s also been slapped with a violence restraining order, had her home raided and possessions seized and been banned from associating with fellow campaigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more: https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/why-australias-answer-to-greta-thunberg-is-facing-years-behind-bars\/ionacwx5y<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Matilda Lane-Rose is legally an adult, so she will have to answer for her actions in an adult court. There is no fixing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But all the teachers, politicians and other adult influencers who helped make Greta Thunberg such a big part of her life, who encouraged her to embrace the climate extremism which led to her alleged criminal acts, should hang their head in shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All those teachers unions and church groups who backed the climate strikers<\/a>, all the senior politicians who voiced support, who gave Greta a megaphone which she used to twist the minds of our kids<\/a>, you helped make Matilda into the climate radical she is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article claims even as a kid Matilda has a strong sense of justice, that she tried to keep other kids safe. Imagine such a dedicated, committed person using that sense of justice in a positive way, teaching and protecting kids, working in child safety, or for our police or security services. She could have been a real asset to society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All those doors to a better future which could have been will be closed if Matilda is convicted of a serious crime, closed by the child groomers who took Matilda\u2019s love and care for others, and twisted it into fanaticism and climate radicalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matilda Lane-Rose will, she must and will bear responsibility for her adult actions, and be punished for any crimes she has committed. But with all my heart I wish the cowards who egged her on, who enabled and encouraged Greta and other climate radicals groom our kids, I wish they could also be made to pay for what they did to young adults like Matilda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update (EW): Matilda\u2019s arrest appears to be in relation to\u00a0radical climate activists targeting Oil CEO Meg O\u2019Neill.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Climate activist Lane-Rose said she wasn\u2019t expecting to be immediately arrested as she arrived. From Watts Up With That? Essay by Eric Worrall The kids grew up: Australia is reaping a bitter harvest, for enabling and encouraging a foreign criminal climate radical to groom our kids. 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