About 5 days ago, the organization that calls itself "Greenpeace" carried out an "action" in Peru during recent climate talks.
What the so-called "Greenpeace" did was to plan and carry out one of their publicity stunts that ended up causing massive, irreversible damage and vandalism to the most important cultural indigenous icon of Peru, the ancient Nazca Peruvian hummingbird geoglyphs of Southern Peru.....that have been undisturbed for over 1000 years.
It was an action carried out at night that was planned for months by Greenpeace leaders that has eclipsed news coverage of the climate talks in Peru.
Here are several articles covering this matter which contain pics of the hummingbird geoglyphs and the damage done to the site by Greenpeace functionaries in this act of cultural terrorism.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
http://www.peruviantimes.com/...
This last link shows aerial images of the damages caused by Greenpeace to the site:
http://elcomercio.pe/...
And an opinion piece from Vancouver:
http://www.vancouverobserver.com/...
Greenpeace's so-called "apology" for this act of vandalism and cultural terrorism is very much like Rush Limbaugh's "apology" to Sandra Fluke......a 'non-apology' apology. That non-apology was on 12/10 after Greenpeace first previously claimed that they left no marks and caused no damage, and also claiming the involvement of an archeologist in their criminal activity.
The 12/10 "apology" did not indicate that the organization was sorry for carrying out the act. Greenpeace was only apologizing because the Peruvian people took offense at their conduct. Nothing about the 12/10 "apology" takes actual responsibility for the organization's decision to carry out this cultural terrorism in Peru.
"We fully understand that this looks bad. Rather than relay an urgent message of hope and possibility to the leaders gathering at the Lima UN climate talks, we came across as careless and crass."
So an organization that engages in criminal conspiracies to create safety hazards to both themselves and others as part of extreme attention whoring that require responses from police, firefighters, military or coast guard....now finds itself committing physical acts of vandalism that are cultural terrorism in Peru.....and thinks it is only a problem because it "looks bad."
Greenpeace is not sorry and Greenpeace isn't cooperating with the Peruvian investigation and prosecution when it refuses to tell those Peruvian authorities about all of those involved in this conspiracy to carry out cultural vandalism as noted in the NY Times piece.
3:10 PM PT: Where are the standard indicators of non-profit organization accountability in Greenpeace?
Greenpeace hasn't announced any board members resigning or being discharged or firing its staff or executive director over this. Things like that happen in organizations that are accountable to their members and donors, but apparently Greenpeace is above such accountability.
5:08 PM PT: National Geographic on the Nazca matter and Greenpeace's vandalism:
http://www.peruviantimes.com/...
Greenpeace is still taking the position that their actions did not cause
any damage at Nazca in Peru, in direct disagreement with Peruvian officials:
http://www.wsj.com/...
So they are sorry people are pissed at them, but they are not sorry for what they did since they are still in denial mode claiming that they did not do any damage when they clearly caused major damage to the site.
9:13 PM PT: Earlier this year, a Greenpeace employee lost the Euro equivalent of $5.15 million of Greenpeace organization funds in a currency trading matter:
http://www.cnbc.com/...
Correction....here is the National Geographic Link on this:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...