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Climate activists are convinced that human irresponsibility has led to catastrophic warming of the planet, to the extent that people are starving. But now they’ve hit on a solution: deface the world’s great artworks with soup. On Sunday, the Mona Lisa got the treatment, and I feel cooler already.
Two women with t-shirts reading “Riposte Alimentaire,” that is, Food Counterattack, entered the Louvre in Paris, made their way to the Mona Lisa, and yelled: “What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food? Your agricultural system is sick. Our farmers are dying at work.”
This was a glimpse into the muddled mind of a leftist. The Mona Lisa has graced the world with its presence since the sixteenth century. When Leonardo da Vinci first painted it, he did not deny anyone the right to healthy and sustainable food by doing so. Nor does the renowned painting’s continued existence impoverish or starve anyone. And our agricultural system is indeed sick, not because of greedy capitalists heating up the planet, but because (for one thing) of socialist internationalists (like those of Riposte Alimentaire) who are forcing the closure of farms in Germany and the Netherlands, and destroying the livelihood of the farmers, in the name of climate action.
Nevertheless, despite their proclamation making no sense at all, they then proceeded to douse the protective glass that prevents terrorists like them from damaging the Mona Lisa with soup. And Riposte Alimentaire isn’t even alone in employing this lunatic tactic. Back in Oct. 2022, purple-haired climate doom fanatics from a group called Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup onto Vincent Van Gogh’s famed Sunflowers painting in the National Gallery in London, because it’s an oil painting. Really. That same month, activists hurled mashed potatoes at Claude Monet’s Haystacks in the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, before they glued their hands to the wall and settled in for a long day of climate hectoring, mythology, propaganda, and sloganeering. The Mosa Lisa has also been attacked before, by a nut who smeared its protective glass with cake in May 2022.
It’s an annoying and stupid form of protest. Couldn’t all this soup (and mashed potatoes, and cake) have gone to feed the starving people for which these leftists are supposedly agitating? In any case, there is going to be a lot more of it, and worse. One principal reason why this is so is that as this self-righteous and ignorant vandalism continues, authorities do little or nothing to stop it. In the Louvre on Sunday, all that museum security officials did was put black screens between the Riposte Alimentaire soup-throwers and the aghast museum visitors, who were then evacuated.
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SC says
Tattoo ‘Art Vandal’ on back of each hand in normal ink and on each cheek in UV ink that should slow down their climate repair activities oh and they get 1 stroke of the birch for evey pain stroke Da Vinci used to paint it.
DaBoogster says
Great idea. I think a minimum five year jail term in a general population jail (not a country club jail) with zero exceptions and no plea down allowed would be a great deterrent.
Biggles says
Cup-a-soup, I bet.
Westman says
This is what happens to youth who have no spiritual purpose-for-life foundation. They find a cause which becomes their temporary religion. We remember young men who believed that committing suicide would take them to a place behind a comet and nutters who sold everything and went into the desert to await the coming of a heavenly being.
We remember the 60s Hippies who castigated capitalism and then became the most excessive capitalists in history.
These sorry youth who throw paint on art, public statues, government buildings and businesses or glue themselves to the streets are trying to give their life the purpose it lacks, believing in the false immediacy of some problem they must address – in this case, climate change. In 5 or 10 years the realities and monotony of real life will erase the youthful misdirection, replaced by a more stable foundation.
If you want to start a revolution you must first convince the youth that it must be done immediately and that it will bring them some Nirvana. The Bosheviks, Nazis, and the 1979 Iran revolution are examples of how youth can be exploited.
somehistory says
All True. Humans **need** spiritual direction. Without it, life is like a boat in a storm at sea, no rudder, and no anchor, whipped to and fro by the winds and drowned by the waves.
tim gallagher says
I’m probably like a lot of people in that I don’t get that there is any connection between what these art vandals do to paintings and the issue they are seeking to champion. i guess that getting publicity is all that they are about. Probably the media should ignore their actions altogether and then there would no point in them carrying out their idiotic and very disrespectful actions. There is no excuse for these attacks on great paintings. I suppose that these scum also have no respect for any aspect of western civilisation, so they think that attacking great paintings is quite OK. Brain dead clowns is all they are.
James Lincoln says
Brainless, Leftist, nut cases.
Penalties:
Pay for all cleanup costs.
A hefty fine.
Jail time.
Lifetime ban from all museums in France.
terry says
NOTHING is scared to Lucifer, his zombie hordes of rapist, murders, and thieves, that great babe-daddy of all Plagiarist, now almost ruling, nearly completely owning almost everything- and everyone!
Adams says
The painting is protected by strengthened glass so very easy to clean . Make the idiots who did it clean it and afterwards make them eat bugs for a month!
michael says
This action sums up the mental state of these morons.
Nancy Albert says
Whenever protesters glue themselves anywhere, including a street, they should be left to soil themselves. Just divert cars around them with orange traffic cones.