Greenpeace on Mount Rushmore

Greenpeace, an organization consisting of well fed and very well educated persons who are congenitally opposed to the generation of wealth that pays for food and college, staged a protest at Mount Rushmore. Here is a clip produced, I am supposing, by the insurgents who hung the banner next to Abe's face. Hat tip to my friend and Keloland coconspirator Cory Heidelberger.

Apparently our own Stephanie Herseth denounced the act as "outrageous." I say: well done. I am not a big fan of "civil disobedience" among persons who have every right to peacefully assemble and petition anyone they please for a redress of grievances. But I think that the appropriate response is to prosecute them to the full extent of the law, and then play the YouTube clip at parties.

The clip shows the difficult process of unfurling the banner. I found that engaging in its own right. When finally positioned, the effect was striking. Obama's face added to Mount Rushmore with the slogan: America Honors Leaders, Not Politicians: Stop Global Warming. There is a bit of self-imposed ignorance there. Every face on Mount Rushmore is the face of a politician. And since I live in South Dakota, I am in favor of global warming. But as an act of political theater, it was well staged and elegant, and harmless enough.  

Ps. Since Native Americans generally consider Mount Rushmore to be a violation of their sacred rights, doesn't this make Obama a coconspirator with all those White Presidents?