(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Officers with Nevada’s Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police averted a potential outbreak of violence and mayhem on Sunday when they arrested climate change activists blocking the only road into the annual Burning Man festival.
As traffic stretched for miles in the blazing desert sun, tensions ran high when climate cultists chained to metal beams and protest signs agitated an already explosive situation.
Traffic was backed up as climate activists blocked the only road leading to #BurningMan pic.twitter.com/9oDorimFxz
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) August 27, 2023
A Pyramid Lake Tribal Rangers truck was first to arrive on the scene, from video shot by FreedomNews TV.
“Disband, get off the highway. This is a state route,” the first ranger responding to the scene announced in an commanding but calm voice. “Everybody will be arrested, if not. Thirty seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let’s talk. Get off the fucking road.”
About 40 seconds later, with no productive response from the climate agitators, another Pyramid Lake Tribal Rangers truck drove on scene and through the roadblock. Circling back to the protest, the officer announced from his truck, “I’m going to take all of you out. You’d better move.”
As the officer emerged from the truck and was met with activists still blocking the road, he raised his gun and can be heard shouting for the activists to “get on the ground, now!”
When the protestors still refused to comply, the officer took one to the ground and an unidentified officer’s voice could be heard asking, “So who’s (unintelligible) to get the gun?”
When another climate cultist screeched, “We have no weapons at all. We’re environmental protestors,” a Lake Pyramid ranger responded, “You’re trespassing on tribal lands.”
"30 seconds, send your leader to my vehicle, let's talk, get off the fucken road" – Tribal Ranger announced on the highway leading to #BurningMan festival where climate activists blocked the road. About 37 seconds later a ranger RAMMED through blockade, made arrest at gun point. pic.twitter.com/JUckcr6qoE
— FreedomNews.Tv FNTV (@FreedomNTV) August 28, 2023
The tense standoff unfolded after a Pyramid Lake Tribal Police officer on Friday night was killed “when he was struck by a car while attempting to stop a fleeing suspect,” reported the Reno Gazette Journal.
“Good morning, it’s with great sadness to say we lost one of our own officers . The PLPT PD and Rangers will still stand tall and be on duty today. The investigation is still ongoing. Prayers to family, friends, and everyone who knew him.”
James Phoenix
PLPT Chairman pic.twitter.com/hdvrH0rQnM— Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe (@plpt) August 26, 2023
The self-professed “activist coalition” Seven Circles boasted in a press release about blocking “a main thoroughfare using a trailer, lock-ons, and banners with the words ‘BURNERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!’, ‘ABOLISH CAPITALISM’ and “GENERAL STRIKE FOR CLIMATE”.
In disrupting the opening day of the festival, Seven Circles was demanding that Burning Man leadership urge “Burners to actively participate in direct action and support general strikes to initiate system change,” the statement informed.
“This effort should be done in collaboration with existing social justice and environmental movements,” including mandates to “ban private jets, single use plastics, unnecessary propane burning.”
The Lake Pyramid tribal rangers who shut down Sunday’s disruptive, illegal and potentially dangerous climate protest were roundly lauded, including one grateful festival-goer who had been stuck in the desert heat and could be heard saying, “Thank you, police,” as rangers cleared the scene and rounded up climate protestors.
“Blocking a public highway is in no way ‘peaceful’ and should be considered domestic terrorism,” wrote one commenter, while another agreed, “It absolutely endangers people’s lives on the roads,” and professed that the cultists deserves to be arrested.
“When do we get to watch Australian Climate Protestors get the same treatment? Can it be soon please?” asked one admirer. “I would like to buy them all a beer,” replied another.
Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C.
The general public is DONE with this.
— JD Sharp (@imjdsharp) August 27, 2023
Mark Pellin is an editor at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/sabrepaw70.
