Anyone who’s ever been a responsible parent knows that you don’t indulge tantrum-throwing toddlers. Even the most progressive child psychologists are clear: “Be consistent about not giving in to demands. This will help your child learn that tantrums don’t help them get what they want.”
Others also identify a common cause of tantrum-throwing: the “Little Nero” effect. This is driven by the desire to control and manipulate… behaviour during these is often deliberate and calculated. Dealing with the Little Nero tantrum is clear and unambiguous: Don’t give in. Say ‘No’, firmly and clearly. Introduce negative consequences, like time out.
“Climate Protestors” are Little Neros in adult bodies. Their tantrums are driven solely by a calculated desire to control and manipulate. Indulging them only encourages them, like the mental toddlers that they are, to shout and scream and stamp their feet harder.
Finally, some of them are getting some well-deserved time out.
The climate change protestor who blocked the Sydney Harbour Bridge will serve at least eight months in jail for disrupting peak hour traffic – a sentence NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet on Monday described as ‘pleasing to see’.
Environmental protester Deanna ‘Violet’ Coco was sentenced to 15 months behind bars on Friday and will have to serve a minimum non-parole period of eight months after she used a van to block a lane on the Harbour Bridge, triggering commuter chaos in April.
Like all toddlers dealt an unexpected punishment, the Climate Cultists are shocked and bewildered that a too-long-indulgent parent has suddenly given them a sharp smack on the arse.
Human rights advocates called the sentence ‘unbelievable’ and said individuals should not be criminalised or imprisoned for peaceful protesting.
Daily Mail
In true Little Nero fashion, groups like Extinction Rebellion and BLM explicitly coach their footsoldiers in keeping the damage they inflict below the threshold which would trigger a trial. Because they know that, the legal fraternity has been hollowed out by the Long March through the Institutions so judges are more likely to be sympathetic and let protestors off, whereas a jury of ordinary citizens is more likely to be pissed off by these (inevitably bourgeois) tantrum-throwers.
An Extinction Rebellion activist wept as she was warned she could face jail along with six other women for causing almost £100,000 in damage to Barclay’s London headquarters.
Carol Wood cried as she was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court today of causing criminal damage over the incident on April 7 last year, when the seven XR activists smashed the windows of the bank’s Canary Wharf office.
It should surprise no one that Wood is a former teacher. In fact, the group photo of the offenders is a classic example of what I call the “Nosey Nannas”: post-menopausal biddies who fill their empty, post-child-rearing years by endlessly scolding and interfering. That “dreary tribe of ‘high-minded’ women”, as Orwell called them.
They’re also classic Little Neros. Look at their smug faces: they’re loving the attention.
In April last year, the group spread out along the front of Barclays bank in Canary Wharf, east London, before using chisels and hammers to break the large glass panels that made up the exterior of the bank […]
The women then sat in a line on the street as members of the press videoed and photographed them, jurors heard.
Except that they made the mistake of getting carried away with their tantrum-throwing and caused more damage than they had realised. A jury of their peers was clearly unimpressed with their foot-stamping and breath-holding antics. Suddenly, mummy is bringing the slipper out.
Prosecutor Diana Wilson said the women could receive sentences ranging from community orders to 18 months in prison.
Daily Mail
This is the only way the current wave of Climate Cultist tantrum-throwing will be stopped. So long as they are endlessly indulged, they’ll keep glueing themselves to roads, desecrating priceless artworks and all their other childish antics.
As children will, as soon as they realize that there’s a negative consequence, their tantrums will dry up very, very quickly.
