Climate activists are seeking to increase in lawlessness, and our officials are encouraging them.

From Daily Mail. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib has urged climate activists to be ‘much more aggressive’ as they plan a campaign of blocking highways and chaotic protests later this summer, DailyMail.com can reveal.

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DailyMail.com gained access to private talks in which Tlaib, a member of Congress‘s leftist ‘Squad,’ gave a pep talk to some 125 hardliners from Climate Defiance, Declare Emergency and other environmental groups.

The activists have already blocked US highways, vandalized an artwork in Washington, and heckled politicians at speaking engagements. They’re understood to be plotting much larger European-style climate protests later this summer.

‘We have to be much more aggressive in regard to fossil fuel expansions,’ Tlaib, a Detroit Democrat, told the online gathering. …

The congresswoman praised the groups’ ‘civil disobedience actions’ and urged them to ‘use the bullhorn,’ saying Congress and the White House would not cut pollution enough until ‘the streets demanded it.’

Tlaib was joined by filmmaker Adam McKay, who pledged $100,000 to fund climate activism in the US, the environmental journalist David Wallace-Wells, and activists who had broken laws and served jail time for their protests.

They include Tim Martin, who faces jail over a protest at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in April, when he and Joanna Smith allegedly daubed paint on the case protecting Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.

His group, Declare Emergency, wants President Joe Biden to declare a climate crisis and use his executive powers to radically cut emissions of planet-heating gases. …

Climate Defiance, meanwhile, has grabbed headlines by heckling and disrupting politicians’ speaking events, including Democratic senators Amy Klobuchar and Joe Manchin, and White House climate adviser John Podesta.

In the online session, Declare Emergency’s Seattle-based mobilizer Donald Zepeda unveiled plans for the protests on federal properties that the group plans to stage in New York City and Washington in August. …

‘Doing massively disruptive, nonviolent civil disobedience, it’s a necessary and important part of getting us to where we need to be’ [Zepeda said]. …

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(Excerpt from Daily Mail. Photo Credit: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Take Back the Court Action Fund)