(Video: Fox News)
When protestors in Italy decided to behave like children by physically blocking a highway, motorists responded by treating them as such and, for the team at Fox News Channel’s “The Five,” the ensuing hilarity may have been “proof that sometimes violence is the answer.”
Thursday in Rome, Italy, climate activists saw fit to sit in the middle of a major highway to demand their message be heard. Reportedly representing the “Last Generation,” according to Corriere Dello Sport, the subgroup of Extinction Rebellion was protesting an end to all fossil fuel usage in favor of Green initiatives like wind and solar.
However, busy Italian motorists with places to be were not interested in hearing what the climate activists had to say and decided to physically remove them from the road. After “The Five” aired the clip of protestors getting dragged toward the side of the road with traffic backed up beyond sight, the co-hosts could not contain their laughter.
“In case you didn’t hear that,” Jessica Tarlov said as she attempted to transition into a brief discussion on the incident, “that is the judge cackling at this because she loves it so much,” she noted of her co-host Jeanine Pirro.
At the same time, Greg Gutfeld was gleefully offering, “That guy is amazing.”
“He doesn’t even take the cigarette out of his mouth,” he added. “That is an Italian hero. I love everything about that person.”
Pirro could barely be understood as she tried to talk through her continued laughter. When she recovered she asked in amusement, “Was there a question on the table?”
With the video still rolling, Gutfeld suggested discussion wasn’t necessary and offered, “Let’s just keep watching this. It’s so much fun,” before Dagen McDowell chimed in, “One of the chicks gets pulled by her hair, which is even better.”
Their joviality was tempered by reality though when Gutfeld noted the inherent danger that the protestors added by impeding traffic. “This is something that, somebody could be going to an emergency.”
That prompted Joey Jones to conclude matter-of-factly, “You know what this is? This is proof that sometimes violence is the answer.”
While the actions against the Extinction Rebellion members would likely be considered violence by them, Gutfeld returned to the potential harm they could be causing when he expressed, “I wouldn’t call that violence. I would call that concern…you could argue there’s somebody that could lose their life that’s in traffic right now.”
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Disrupting transportation has been one of their preferred forms of demonstration, notably blocking London commuters in 2019 by standing atop their train cars. Much like the Italian motorists, the patience of the commuters wore thin as shouts of “I need to get to work, I have to feed my kids” were heard. Eventually, the members of Extinction Rebellion were forcefully removed from the train cars by commuters.
According to the Daily Mail, legal actions have been taken against the protestors in Italy that include injunctions meant to “deter activists with potential prison sentences.”
“Why do people think this helps your cause?” Gutfeld asked in a way that concluded the topic. “It makes your cause so unlikeable.”
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31 thoughts on “‘Sometimes violence IS the answer’: ‘The Five’ react to Italians manhandling road-blocking protesters”
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To remove people protesting from a highway by dragging the idiots off is preventing there death by accident , this is not a violent act it’s protecting others , like an ambulance or any other emergencies .
Run them over and then sue them for damage to your car!
Gutfield is correct. Our nation has gone too far in allowing activists to block roads, bridges, and everything else to even emergency vehicles by themselves, or leaving the emergency vehicles too far back in the blockage to save a life..
Tossing smelly hippies over guard rails can be a liberating experience! lol
Joey Jones was right sometimes violence is the answer. The extreme left has known and used that for decades. In the 60s it was the Black Panthers, the SDS, the Weatherunderground, They all followed Maos quote from the Little Red Book, “Political Power grows out of the barrel of a gun”. To this day who commits the majority of violent political acts? Antifa, BLM. Hint to that blunderer in chief it aint conservatives being violent, it aint white supremacists.
In Florida BLM decided to try blocking the streets until DeSantis claimed they were Terrorists and could be LEGALLY ran over. Then the people started buying Brush Guards and started looking for them and after the first one was run over the rest all left and never did it again!!!
Removing trash from the road which is impeding traffic isn’t ‘violence’; it’s being a good citizen by helping others. Violence would have been running over them but the morons had that coming too so I won’t squawk about it.
They literally need their asses beat, with clubs and truncheons.
I guess I missed the “violence” part. Now if they would have shot them…. I’d still be okay with that.
Your rights end where mine start. It’s a simple concept.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I have always insisted that if you’re standing along the curb, you’re a protester. If you’re sitting in the road, you’re a speed bump.
Good for the Italians — somebody with common sense AND balls !!!
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that these protestors need real jobs?
They are probably unable to handle, let alone keep, a real job. Likely, too much protesting about work requirements, hours, or pay.
Your right of free speech does not include interfering with my right of free passage.
Philosophy against enemies absent violence is nonsensical rhetoric foreas pacifism is a plague of death.
Every protestor blocking traffic should do a term in prison. On the other hand peaceful protestors on J6 that are now in jail for no other reason than some pig that is speaker of the house thinks they should be is a travesty of justice. In this case the only that should be jailed is Pelosi and her cabal!!
Every protestor receiving any form of public support should be cut off immediately.
Don’t know how to stop this? RUN OVER EVERYONE OF THEM! When these people witness the brains and guts being squished out of them, THEY WILL LEAVE!
I wonder if that level of violence would only gain them sympathy as victims. Personally, I’d prefer that they serve prison time.
Every driver have a container of bleach in the car to apply to clothing, or a cattle prod?
At last!! Real Life adults fix the problems of real life infants!!
The closest route to a destination is a straight line. Their desitination was to clear the road. They took a straight line. Actually I would say that the clearance team did a very mature adult job of clearing the road. Quit playng with whimps who think they know everything.
If That happened in the USA the stinking bastard demorats would cry foul .
AHOLES.
No, those men violating peoples rights would be jailed without bond.
And whose rights are being violated?
Hey EagleBoob, thanks for being a part of the problem in this country you antifa loving hippie.
Golf Foxtrot Yankee lib!
Comment meant as sarcasm. If you check I upvoted the original hux1470 comment. btw, name calling is a lib unhinged response.
OK just saw this addition I read you right ! Well done.
Thanks for sarcasm . At first I wasn’t sure. ++
I gave you a thumbs up in hopes I am reading your comment as you intended; That is that in todays federal “Justice” system of Biden and Garland those trying to clear the roads would be jailed for violating the protesters “right” to impede other peoples ability to travel freely.