From Super Hero to Leftwing Crackpot… Xena: Warrior Princess Busted at Greenpeace Shell Oil Protest
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 27, 2012, 3:03 PM
From super hero to leftist crackpot…
Xena: Warrior Princess is busted at Shell oil ship protest.
Yahoo reported:
Lucy Lawless, most famous for her leading role in “Xena: Warrior Princess” in the ’90s fantasy adventure series, was arrested over the weekend. Lawless had spent four days protesting on board a Shell oil ship with a group of six other environmental activists. The protest, organized by Greenpeace, was staged to raise awareness of oil drilling in the arctic. The global environmental organization opposes the drilling in New Zealand.
During the protest, Lawless live-tweeted what she was experiencing including, for example, “Seven of us came up the tower on Shell’s drillship, but 4 days later 130,000 will come down. In solidarity we can #savethearctic.” The protesters had to deal with the elements while atop the ship. The wind gusts proved difficult to withstand, but the activists held their ground. Chairman for Shell New Zealand, Rob Jager, said the protest had put people in danger. Jager also said he was disappointed that Greenpeace had not joined his company in a “productive conversation” about the drilling issue instead of protesting.
Lawless told the Associated Press that she got involved because she felt compelled to take a stand against oil drilling in the Arctic and global warming. However, the protest was brought to a halt when all of the activists were arrested and charged with burglary. Since then, more than 100,000 messages have been sent to Shell opposing its upcoming Arctic drilling plans. One supporter tweeted, “She may not be Xena in real life, but she is fighting for what she believes in.” Another person tweeted that Lawless is a “true warrior princess.”
In this photo provided by Greenpeace, actress Lucy Lawless joins activists in stopping a Shell-contracted drillship from departing the port of Taranaki, New Zealand, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. Lawless, a native New Zealander, best known for her title role in “Xena: Warrior Princess,” climbed the oil-drilling ship bound for the Arctic to try and stop it from leaving. (AP/Greenpeace)
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FurryGuy commented:
Lawless only acted responsible, it was just a role to her, she’s been a loony Leftist even before the show was created.
Why do so many people think a character an actor plays is what the actor really is like?
STLHawkeye commented:
She gets a pass; she’s still hot.
FurryGuy commented:
And how exactly did all these progressive balloonheads get to the protest site? I bet for many it was via the miracle of energy from that evil petroleum. Too bad the irony of that will never penetrate the ossified and petrified nature of their worldview.
wanumba commented:
Madeline Albright had no comment?
Redwine commented:
She’s living up to her name, Lawless.
HarryO commented:
Butch has failed at everything since her Xena series (which sucked by the way)…has to try and make herself relevant someway.
FurryGuy commented:
And thinking like that illustrates all too clearly how Americans could be so clueless as to freely elect a wanna-be dictator.
Linda commented:
She travels back and forth from NZ to the US — on a flying unicorn, perhaps? She wouldn’t be
using those oil-guzzling airplanes, would she?
Chris in N.Va. commented:
@Redwine — My initial thoughts exactly, combined with “brainless.”
Why engage brain when wailing histrionics and blubbering feelings are soooo much easier to produce and they make one feel sooooo much better and superior with hardly any effort at all?
FurryGuy commented:
This is not Lawless’ first foray into the Progressive Activist world. She protested Prop 8, and has been a proponent of Gay Rights for quite a while.
Yup, loony Leftist for a looooong time.
Missy8s commented:
So the rumors about “Xena: Warrior Princess” were true after all…
FurryGuy commented:
And what exactly would those rumors be?
Lawless is married, once divorced, with kids. Just because she’s a loony foreign national Leftist, she’s a New Zealand native, demanding the oxymoron of Gay Rights doesn’t mean she’s a lesbian. Yes, she’s on record of saying her character Xena was probably a lesbian, but that is all. Why do so many people have a hard time separating an actor from a role they play?
Nooooooo!!! commented:
Quite the shame. Still hot, though!
whit seven commented:
Nope. No longer hot. And never hot enough to get a pass.
Buffalobob commented:
There is a disingenuous article in the Sunday Insight section of the Idaho Statesman written by two directors of very important sounding institutes. They touch on the latest global warming scandal. No they do not mention Gleick the global warmest scientist who stole and faked emails concerning the Heartland institute. They only dance around the subject of discourse and then go on to lecture we the stupid people who just won’t stop questioning their junk science. Is it no wounder that twits like Zena would believe in their BS.
FurryGuy commented:
Ugliness of one’s character and soul always trumps the ephemeralness of one’s bodily appearance. But then she was never attractive to me, ever.
democraps suck commented:
Nothing less than jail time is acceptable when these lunatics act out like that….you can bet your a$$ that if someone fell and died the lawsuits would already be filed…
Nosmo commented:
Dr. Patrick Moore, one of the founders of greenpeace, left the organization years ago saying that the environmental movement “abandoned science and logic in favor of emotion and sensationalism.”
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Armed guards will typically stop this kind of thing fairly quickly…
Aaron Z. commented:
I like how she negates the “seriousness” of her protest by thrusting out her chest and making that duck-lip pouty expression that all the teenage girls do when they do sexy self-shots in the mirror to post on Facebook.
an observer commented:
What else would you expect from a Cylon?
an observer commented:
She was hot in Spartacus with Jaime Murry, though.
Militant Conservative commented:
Her bust size has more numbers than her I.Q.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Big Oil: Shell, Exxon/Mobil, and BP
That’s it.
They own SEVEN MF-ING PERCENT of the world’s oil deposits.
The rest are owned by government-owned oil companies. Saudi Arabia, Iran, U.A.E., Brazil, Russia, etc.
The Leftists would have IT ALL owned by governments.
Such state-loving idiots. They have no clue what they support in opposing “big oil”.
JimmyT commented:
I say “not bad” for a 44 year old plus size to climb up that tower. Now, put her in jail.
Carbon Pootprint commented:
Thanks for doing your small part to drive up my cost of living you rich spoiled beotch.
I hope the OWS types steal everything you own.
midusdew commented:
Hey loony,
I got news for ya..
Where is the data that proves global warming. You got none… and the UN doesn’t have it
either. So your either an idiot or your a communist
Patty commented:
Wow, it doesn’t take much to first fight as a Super Hero, then age badly and then Greenpeace.
This would be funny but it’s Not. Sad. She looks like a Man, now. That happens to liberals.
Age Badly.
The Real Jeff commented:
Ya know, everything that idiot is wearing is a by-product of petroleum. Maybe she ought to switch to something green, like raw wool and hemp.
She was not that hot anyway. I always thought she was a dyke character, the way she handled her little blonde partner.
Patty commented:
Speaking of a Hard core liberal woman aging badly…Ashley Judd, remember the hateful comments she made about Sarah Palin.
Wow, saw her in some ad for T.V. Show, ugly. I don’t often say that word but…..!
The Real Jeff commented:
#32 Patty, it’s hard work for the libtards who’ve lost their marbles, to try to convince us normal folk that losing ours would be so “enlightening” and would be the “best thing”.
That and being absolutely convinced you are responsible for saving the world, even if you are a no talent hack.
Fairfacts Media commented:
Oh, but the best bit about Lawless, is this:
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/199335/protest-stirs-new-interest-lucy-lawlesss-shell-ad
In the 1990s, she actually appeared in a tv commercial for Shell!!