Sunday, September 29, 2024

Savages Sentenced

 Two protestors who tried to destroy a Van Gogh painting will have plenty of time to ponder the consequences of their actions. The New York Times reported:


When a London judge handed down prison sentences on Friday to two climate activists, who threw soup on Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” he said he wanted to deter protesters from trying similar stunts.

Judge Christopher Hehir sentenced Phoebe Plummer, 23, to two years in jail for damaging the painting’s frame during the 2022 attack at the National Gallery in London. Anna Holland, 22, received 20 months for the same offense. Their actions were “criminally idiotic” and could have caused “irreversible damage” to a masterpiece, Judge Hehir said. Article. 

Unfortunately, some more savages tried to destroy the painting a few hours after the pair was sentenced.

Just over an hour later, three other members of Plummer and Holland’s protest group, Just Stop Oil, entered the National Gallery’s “Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers” exhibition and threw Heinz vegetable soup over the painting again. They also splashed the orange liquid on another van Gogh “Sunflowers” painting, on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the gallery’s blockbuster show.

In a video of the incident, released on social media by Just Stop Oil, museum patrons appear startled. One person shouts: “Why are you doing that?” The London police said it had arrested the three activists.

Perhaps Europe's "humane justice" has something to do with the attacks: 

 Friday’s jail terms were the heaviest penalties handed down by a British court in response to such attacks. A protester who glued himself to the frame of another van Gogh work, “Peach Trees in Blossom,” at the Courtauld Gallery in London, was sentenced to a three-week prison term in 2022, but most activists have avoided jail time. Five Just Stop Oil members who stuck themselves to the frame around a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” and spray-painted the phrase, “No new oil,” on a wall at the Royal Academy were each fined £486, about $650.

 Start throwing them in prison for awhile.  They don't have the right to destroy our history.  They are nothing less than enemies of civilization.  They deserve a good flogging but we are too civilized for such measures today. 

20 comments:

Anonymous said...

You living in la la land

Anonymous said...

They should give them wacky punishment for this wacky action. Do something wacky, like glueing them to a post out in the woods stick a sunflower down their pants and Throw tomato soup on them every day for a few months. Feed them tomato soup every meal. If they would let me decide, I could come up with other things that would be both wacky and appropriate.

Anonymous said...

Drill baby drill !

Anonymous said...

The two year sentence seems tame. Damaging a multi-million dollar painting should get a more stiffer punishment.

Anonymous said...

The duo will serve their time with relish, become icons of the movement

Kingfish said...

Unhinged, are we?

Anonymous said...

Nothing sways my opinion on environmental matters quite like seeing soup on a work of art.

Anonymous said...

1930 film, "From Soup to Nuts." The film debut of the Three Stooges. This group has it all, Soup, Nuts, and stooges. The film writer, literally Rube Goldberg. Oh the irony of jerkwads inventing new ways to destroy things and convince people of nothing.

Anonymous said...

I love being judgmental and am playing a game of gender-reveal while looking at their photo. Like my kids, these two probably grew up eating SpaghettiOs and never got over it.

Anonymous said...

They should put these paintings and all other museum paintings behind glass.

Anonymous said...

@7:15 The paintings were shielded by protective glass and were not damaged. In fact, the activist ensured the painting were protected before splashing tomato soup on them. 2 years seems about right.

Anonymous said...

Those clowns need to go to a Philadelphia Eagles game and throw some soup on some Eagle stuff.

Chaucer said...

"In fact, the activist ensured the painting were protected before splashing tomato soup on them."

That's a pretty bold claim there, Mona. You got a link?

Anonymous said...

@ 8:59am I usually don't like doing research for folks, but for you, I'll make an exception. https://tinyurl.com/25drb4ae

Anonymous said...

@Kingfish, great idea, throw them in prison for a while. Just look how well that’s brought crime under control in Murka.

Anonymous said...

Oil paint is made from linseed oil, not crude oil. The frame is gilded not painted.

Anonymous said...

9:25, you left some things out: "Van Gogh's 1888 masterpiece, painted in Arles in the south of France, was not damaged in the 2022 attack as it was covered by protective glass.

However, the gold-colored frame suffered $13,000 worth of damage. Museum staff had worried that the soup could have dripped through and caused immeasurable damage to the painting."

Losers all.

Anonymous said...

So, no public flogging, how about stocks on the courthouse square?

Anonymous said...

Good job by the judge. Idiots like these need to be stopped.

Anonymous said...

Cut off one ear on each to get outta jail early.


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