‘Woke’ Heiress Virtue Signals Her Way Into Handcuffs
The “woke” heiress to the Disney franchise, Abigail Disney, was arrested on Friday while participating in a climate change protest in Long Island, New York.
Left-wing extremist groups staged a protest to disrupt the “exclusive vacations of wealthy fossil fuel investors and polluters driving the climate crisis,” according to a press release obtained by Fox News. These groups included the New York Communities for Change, Planet Over Profit and Sunrise Movement NYC.
Disney joined these extremist groups to form a blockade at the main entrance of East Hampton Airport on Long Island — which does not have commercial flights, only private and charter flights.
“It is situated in the Hamptons, a ritzy community in eastern Long Island that is home to a number of celebrities and affluent residents,” according to Fox News.
The protesters locked themselves into pipes to prevent police from easily removing them, causing officers to have to use power tools to remove them.
Disney has released her own statement about the disruptive protest.
“As a person who has been privileged enough to use private jets, I know it’s hard to give up a luxury that is special. But I also know that the time has passed for spewing greenhouse gasses like this merely for our personal comfort,” the statement read.
“The events of the past week alone, with Earth’s average temperature hitting an all time high, drought and fatal heat waves across the country, floods in Vermont and New York, and ocean temperatures around Florida well over 90 degrees, should remove all doubt once and for all. The wealthiest 1% uses as much greenhouse gas as the entire bottom 50%. It is time for real change and this is the most obvious place to start,” the statement continued.
Footage of Disney being hauled away in handcuffs by police officers has gone viral on social media.
Despite using private jets countless times in her life, Disney has been outspoken against this form of transportation for some time now.
“My dad’s plane was a 737, and it was insane to have a 737 as a private airplane. It had a queen-sized bed with one big, long seatbelt across it and a shower, and it was ridiculous. We would use the plane occasionally because I have four kids, so it was much easier, obviously, to ride on my dad’s plane with them,” the heiress said during a 2019 interview with The Cut.
However, Disney did admit during that interview that she had stopped using private jets, telling the outlet about the moment she made the decision.
“The moment for me, when I decided I couldn’t fly in (my father’s private jet) anymore, was about 20 years ago. I had to fly out to California for a meeting, but I had to get back to New York by the next morning for a conference. And the guy who ran our family’s company put me on the 737 alone,” the heiress said.
“I flew across the country overnight, by myself on that giant plane, and I was sitting there thinking about the carbon footprint and the number of flight attendants and the other pilot on-call and what it was costing, and I just wanted to be sick. By the way, my parents always made fun of the fact that I thought it was terrible and awful because they were very comfortable with what they were doing,” Disney added.
