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2 Charged After Pouring Red Powder Over Case Holding U.S. Constitution | Two activists poured the powder over the protective case to call attention to climate change

2 Charged After Pouring Red Powder Over Case Holding U.S. Constitution

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/01/us/constitution-powder-activists-charged.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z00.lgbn.3EYBMidB2B4E

Two activists poured the powder over the protective case at the National Archives Museum last month to call attention to climate change, prosecutors said.

2 Charged After Pouring Red Powder Over Case Holding U.S. Constitution

The Constitution was not damaged, according to the National Archives Museum, which said that the powder was found to be a combination of pigment and cornstarch.

25 comments

TheFriar

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Interesting they’d use powder, a way more suspicious substance than paint.

How the fuck did it cost $50,000 to clean up though? Get a goddamn vacuum, some paper towel, a mop. Fifty goddamn thousand?

jawa21

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Likely because they had to consider the possibility of dangerous chemicals and pathogens.

ETA: Given the nature of the location, they may have even hired an archivist and document restoration specialist as well. And being since it was a government job, that may have been added onto the single bill.

Coasting0942

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Hazard pay for all involved too. Emotional distress and all. You never know what these tree hugging terrorists will do. I keep Tom Clancy Rainbow Six on my nightstand.

riodoro1

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Hazard pay

Yeah, I don’t think that the employees who cleaned it up got even a quarter of the money.

FinishingDutch

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I love that book. Hey, Olympics this year, and close to Hereford…

Mango

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I manufacture the highest grade of hazmat suit material there is. $1600 will get you an XXL suit. I couldn't come up with a way to make this cost more than say $4k-5k.

strawberry

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slap on a respirator and gloves for an extra $200, still not 50k

very intersting

GluWu

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Private crime scene clean up crew. Need to scrub the brain matter off the ceiling before it soaks in and makes the next tenants uncomfortable. That'll be $2700. Oh we need to vacuum up a bunch of dust, but in a super special location? The government funded federal cleaning crew will have that vacuumed up with 2 wipe downs for only $50k.

Mnemnosyne

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Would be hilarious if, while the people are getting arrested and the fancy cleaning crew is being called and all, Bob the Janitor came by, mopped it up, and went on with his day without giving it much more thought.

wildcherry

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ThomasLongBottom

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Nobody will change. I appreciate the spirit of these protesters, but people have been warning about this stuff since the 80s. Humans have the built in ability to think they will survive and prosper, while everyone else falls away. We saw this on full display when wearing a mask to protect, even superficial or not, your fellow human being became a contentious issue.

It's just all so disheartening. I could just doom dump a bunch right now.

silence7

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We've been getting change; when the Democrats had a razor-thin majority in both houses of congress last session, we got meaningful climate legislation

A bunch of regulation has been layered on top of it to try and get additional emissions cuts.

It's not enough yet, but the operative word is yet. Put a bunch more Democrats into positions of power, and the US may actually do its part.

altec

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Great, so the US is going to marginally cut their greenhouse gas emissions. Unfortunately, this is a global problem, and globally, we achieved record emissions this year.

silence7

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The US isn't the only country to cut emissions during that time; the EU has done something similar, putting itself on a path towards zero emissions.

China is also on the cusp of a switch from rising emissions to falling ones.

Get those big three economies on the right path, and the easy default choice for the rest of the world will be decarbonization too.

JJROKCZ

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The US is one of the largest emitters though as third highest population globally, one of the most heavily developed, and one of the most dépendant on wasteful technologies like automobiles.

Marginal cuts to their emissions is worth more than a small nation going completely green. Both should happen mind you, but take wins wherever you can

wildcherry

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wildcherry

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KevonLooney

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No, the Republicans controlled Congress for most of that time, or it was divided:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_(1856%E2%80%93present)

wildcherry

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PoolloverNathan

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You do know how the American government works, right?

That instance you're looking for is called Twitter — you'd probably fit right in.

wildcherry

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Izzgo

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Since a few decades before that actually.

In 1896, a seminal paper by Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius first predicted that changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels could substantially alter the surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. In 1938, Guy Callendar connected carbon dioxide increases in Earth’s atmosphere to global warming.

BolexForSoup

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I don't get why so many comments online go "why does nobody protest?" then every time we see one all I see is "well that was pointless." What are any of us doing? What "effective" protest has anyone in this thread done lately?

At least we're talking about it here, so they did something clearly. Throwing that powder is more than anyone here can claim to be doing.

kapulsa

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https://feddit.de/post/9186385

Mango

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We should draw more attention to the fact that the Constitution is absolutely butchered by the people responsible for implementing it. They're doing far worse than corn starch. Let's charge them. It's best if we do it without their say so or using their means.