James O'Brien gives his opinion as five Just Stop Oil members - including one of its co-founders, Roger Hallam, - have been jailed for between four and five years for conspiring to organise protests that blocked the M25.
Hallam - who also co-founded Extinction Rebellion - was sentenced to five years' imprisonment while the other four defendants were each handed four years' imprisonment.
The environmental group have described the sentences as a "obscene perversion of justice".
Prosecutors alleged the protests, which saw 45 people climb up the gantries, led to an economic cost of at least £765,000, while the cost to the Metropolitan Police was more than £1.1 million.
James O'Brien insists that 'you need to do something significant to draw the attention that the emergency demands', but also finds Stonehenge 'ridiculous', and stresses the need for 'peaceful' protest.
James O'Brien also compares Just Stop Oil's jail sentences to the consequences of Boris Johnson's premiership.
'An ex-PM, who caused countless unnecessary deaths by transferring resources from pandemic response to preparation for his lunatic no-deal Brexit, gets no punishment at all', says James O'Brien
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