Far-left extremist activists have been popping up in the news for vandalizing and nearly destroying priceless human artifacts, all in the name of saving the planet.
We’ve seen the footage of rainbow-haired “activists” throwing soup on Van Gogh paintings in what they say is an action to stop climate change. The two young women associated with the radical group Just Stop Oil who tried to destroy the painting Sunflowers have been convicted.
But it’s not just the young. Two elderly British women, one of them a clergywoman, took a hammer and chisel to the glass case containing one of only five extant copies of the foundational document underpinning all Western democracies, the Magna Carta.
Now the harassment is getting personal. Famous Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi found his home spray-painted in red and black by “activists” associated with the leftist extremist environmental group Futuro Vegetal (that means Vegetable Future). They describe his house on the Spanish island of Ibiza as “illegal,” and said they wanted to send a message to rich people about what they believe are the wealthy’s responsibilities for the alleged climate crisis.
The vandals are quite brazen and proud, taking credit for their actions on the social media platform Instagram while bigging themselves up for being very moral indeed. They said that despite the idea that “the powerful are untouchable,” the rich are “only 1 percent.”
Continuing to gloat, they wrote that while it may only have been “three activists” who “decorated” the soccer star’s “illegal mansion,” how much more could they do if they were able to “organize” the 99 percent of the population.
The Vegetable Future fruitcakes founded their campaign group in 2022. They issue demands to the Spanish government to stop all subsidies to livestock farmers and turn the government’s efforts toward encouraging the growing and eating of “sustainable” vegetable diets. Or, in the modern parlance, “plant-based.”
The group operates similarly to Just Stop Oil. In 2022 Vegetable Future members glued themselves to two Francisco Goya paintings in the Padro Museum in Madrid.
