Yes Men Crash BMW Gala, Demand they Stop Making Cars

[aysikl]

LoL Survivaball really is good for ANY situation.. even avoiding apprehension .. just turtle up and roll away..! xD

[fgtxpaco7458ss]

...................BMW should return to F1 ;)

[davidleviteacher]

@djole I'm glad you like many Yes Men stunts. I think you miss something here. They did not randomly target BMW. BMW was, in a fit of hypocrisy, staging a gala event for very rich people in the name of "peace." There is nothing "looney" [sic] in saying that cars cause wars. It's evident. The most visible wars for the continuation of car culture are the oil wars, in Iraq, Lybia, etc. Oppression and violence secures the raw material for cars. Finally, cars themselves cause great violence.

[djole777]

So typical of greenies.. they can not help but cross the line of sanity and lose moderate audience like me. Bhopal stunt, you had my support, US chamber of commerce, you had my support , Exxon Mobil you had my support , NY Times Iraq war ends you had my support... STOP MAKING CARS, CARS CAUSE WAR.. aaaaand you gone over the Looney Line. Its just like when i went to a Green peace rally to protest Whale hunts, and then some hippie chick gave two hr lecture on going Vegan to save planet... I left

[Tinko92]

@djole777 Yeah, right when it gets realy uncomfortable the looney line is crossed. You support saving the planet but not for the price of comfort. Well, I guess you are right in establishing boundaries.

[Anijacka]

isn't BMW not the car branch who doesn't still wanna pay the poor jewish labour they used during the worldwar 2 ???

[victor9245]

Well have BMW stopped making cars you fucking yesmen faggots? No!!!

Just got my BMW 335d. Love it!!

[Naddia49]

@victor9245 Enjoy your oil wars sir! Well played, kudos!

[baradathlin]

i agree with the general spirit of the protest- but not the format- and probably for different reasons. automakers charge EXORBITANT amounts for vehicles that in truth did not cost them very much to manufacture. they encourage caste systems by making products only the rich can aspire to afford. in europe the mass transit system may work, but in many places in (especially rural) america it is broken. we have no choice but to drive if we wish to get anywhere... my $.02

[BeverlyHillsKitten]

hahahaha ! omg genius

[sj0beck]

So ..... there is a tiny kernel of truth in there, isnt there?, that it is outrageous for BMW to use the word "peace".

(I also want to buy the 5 Series that performs like it does today but has zero emissions & zero footprint.)

[rock3tcat]

I love cars, but I'm still a fan of the yes men! :D

[freedo333]

as always, i laughed aloud at these guys, but i wonder what making cars have to do with making war- there's a lot more warlike things to protest. i get the feeling they were just wanting to lay a prank on someone & couldn't come up with better at the time..

[xoZiggy]

omg i'm in love with these guys

[nicobobo3]

but I like Cars!

[CathRun08]

I love it! But I have to wonder: Are they trying any of these "pranks" in China?

[baradathlin]

@CathRun08 doubtful. the chinese government does not possess a sense of humour.

[xqeenx]

haha! that's hilarious!

"you can't sit here"

"but if we move we can't protest."

this is how protests ought to be. harmless and funny. now we just need more people to join them!

[ausendundeinenacht]

@xqeenx Like when sb says to them You Sir are a Fraud! they reply We thinkwe represent what this company SHOULD BE DOING ? correctly

or sth along thise lines I admire them so much that I m disappointed there arent more of them , of US like that ?

Why don t we hatch things , work together , instead of consuming other peoples waste and garbage ?

[Physco219]

@xqeenx i agree where do we go to do this ourselves? lol

[xqeenx]

@Physco219 I think the yesmen have on their website steps on how to get involved in global protests? I'm not too sure though haha.

[101101101777]

Just get people obsessed with b.s. political talk about liberal this, republican that, democrat conservative, and all these idiots will fight amongst themselves.

[ausendundeinenacht]

@101101101777 Bit WORTHIER to fight abt IDEALS than to fight over Football though!

[OfficialFrizzo]

WTF? Protest cars? Where does liberalism end and insanity begin? You people are fruitcakes.

[fdmipgo]

It is a protest to "making" cars. Since cars exist, like a whole lot, the process of making more in only a business model and not a necessity. Therefore, when BMW pretended to do it for peace, they protested.

[chriswise72]

global warming and Gore's science is not telling you all the info... the earth has done this for many thousands of years. ask any scientist ...even NASA had to change, recant When they agreed with global warming...the earth is always doing this.. My boss is a geologist professor who studies Ice age periods specifically..has science come to "who ever can appease the political funding sources is right..." ?

i encourage you to find unbiased facts for your self and you wont fall for this lie.....

[phoboskitty]

JACKSFA lives in his own little world....

[JackSFA]

"Yes, everyone stop making cars! Everyone stop making technology! Everyone stop eating meat! Everyone let homosexuals get married! Everyone stop using electricity! Everyone stop having jobs!" You liberals fail at economics. Global warming is debunked by 30,000+ scientists, yet you still don't shut up about it. WTF are you trying to do, throw us into another "stone age?" You're all ignorant as fuck.

[nincumpoop4580]

Global warming was "debunked"? Ha! Even Bush's "scientists" admit global warming is real. The irony is that you morons that think any economic progress is good progress are the ones driving this planet towards another "stone age."

You probably think 30,000+ scientists also claim evolution by natural selection is false, huh? The reality is you are making up numbers because you are a f*cking idiot. Luckily, morons like you are becoming more and more the minority. Your 19th century view is sad.

[JackSFA]

You're an idiot. I'm not a republican and I don't like George Bush if that's part of the insinuation. I however despise liberals because of people just like you. If I don't agree with a liberal 100%, I am just wrong. There is no better option than the liberal one, you claim. You fools have no compromise. You guys and your republican counterparts can go rot in a deep grave.  You all ignore the constitution and any liberty there is to be had. RON PAUL!!!!

[nincumpoop4580]

Anti-vegetatarian, anti-gay marriage, anti-alternative energy, anti-sustainability - of course I assumed that you were a republican, but there is always that spoiler 3rd party: the Libertarians or are you guys now the Ron Paulians. Your devotion to that man is disgusting. He is like a god to you. Regardless of how different you think you are from the Republicans, you are just taking from Republican votes each election and aiding the liberal candidates. Thank you!!!

[Sinan97082]

whats the problem with the stone age... after the stone age? is our society on many ways better then the stone age? next year i 'm going to study economy... so .. what are our benefits? ok we live longer, but we also suffer on more deseases caused by the way of life of the modern world. unequal seperation of worlds, more wars, and we suffer much more under psych-problems. u r right its relaxing with technology.. but do we need it REALLY?? No! Just a different system for slavery...

[JackSFA]

More wars? "Deseases?" I'm not even going to humor this...

[dw053408]

when it really comes down to it the main reason we seem to have so many health issues in our old age is simply because prior to about the 20th century nobody lived past the age of 50, therefore the issues plaguing people today, cancers, late stage diabetes, ect, never really had a chance to set in in the past

[weazz]

once we can solve that we'll all live to 100 :P

[paulparanoid]

@ dw053408 ... not really true. if you look at the upper classes throughout history, you will see that they lived much longer than the "average" lifespan of their era -- approaching to modern life expectancies. it was the horrible conditions the poor lived under that they rarely lived to 50, if lucky. and while you're correct about some cancers, many of our cancers and other diseases ARE caused by environmental factors.

[dw053408]

Well put. Please let me get back to you

[dnbwhynot]

So what is your plan? Use up all natural resources? Issue bonds time and again?!

Pushing a problem forward and effectively adding to it, is that your way of solving issues?

What are you trying to do?

Squeeze the earth dry and let our grand grandchildren figure it out?!

Let them pay the debt we rake up?!

6 billion of us, and still increasing, is a tremendous strain on this planet and if we do not find ways to take some of the load of mother earth's shoulders we might be done for.

[ausendundeinenacht]

@JackSFA you are making these figures up

whicjh really makes you look exactly like the idiot that you ARE

your wek points are numerous but the worst one is that you seem incabable of subletey and throw EVREYTHING into the SAME POT

so tell me in LIFe; like when your toothbrush malfunctions, do you then stop brushing ur teeth? If you suuccesfully block gays, does that somehow make YOU a person with integrity?NO! it jsut shows you re worse than POL POT and The Holy Inquistion rolled in one

[Petzuhhut]

uh... bmw still makes cars. just sayin'

[DCKNW]

Cinema for peace my ass! Cinema for promoting our new sports model  more like.