Kyoto protest beaten back by inflamed petrol traders

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Sorry that I've been sitting on this story for a while, I've been looking for some supporting information, but little exists (at least in terms of recent news).

When 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail.

What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.

“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”

Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”

Greenpeace had hoped to paralyse oil trading at the exchange in the City near Tower Bridge on the day that the Kyoto Protocol came into force. “The Kyoto Protocol has modest aims to improve the climate and we need huge aims,” a spokesman said.

Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said.

“They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.”

That is beautiful.
Best line in the entire article: “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”
Compare that rhetoric to what Greenpeace planned to do:

They made their way to the trading floor, blowing whistles and sounding fog horns, encountering little resistance from security guards. Rape alarms were tied to helium balloons to float to the ceiling and create noise out of reach. The IPE conducts “open outcry” trading where deals are shouted across the pit. By making so much noise, the protesters hoped to paralyse trading.

Just how could anyone listen to any point of view when alarms and foghorns are going off all over the place?

We all know that Greenpeace is effectively a terrorist group, just like Earth Liberation Front (that group which torches everything), that requires little explanation.

Here is some quasi-"insider" discussion of the event.

I have an idea: why don't the oil exchange centers start funds to purchase the biggest, least efficient, most polluting SUV ever made. So, when protestors appear, the exchange center can drive them to prison and burn about 200 barrels of oil in the process.
And, get some of those giant water fountains, but fill them with oil. Just make the abundance of oil grotesque, and the protestors will simply faint next time.
Or, maybe they should just torch 10 barrels of oil for every protester who broke in. Torch them out in the open, and cause as much pollution as you possibly can. Maybe they could hoist some tires over the barrels. Mind you, don't torch something simply because protesters show up, just those who broke in, it's probably not a good idea to try to prevent demonstrations as a whole.

Oh yes; "on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: 'Sod off, Swampy.' "