London Protesters Copy the Thais – Airport Sit In for Climate Change
It appears the new trend in getting what you want is to raid the airports, stop the flow of traffic and chaos will ensue.
So yeah, the links I point out above are from just one protest over Thailand’s government. One note reported Thailand was losing between $50mil – $85mil a day from the airport blockage. Unfortunate in a country where the people’s cash cow is the influx of tourism. I can’t imagine people are rushing to buy their tickets to Bangkok now.
Over the weekend, another group of protesters in London were inspired over the weekend to preach doomsday in the form of climate change on a runway at Stansted Airport. Oh yeah, and that Runway was closed for maintenance:
The protest, by 54 campaigners, saw demonstrators occupying a runway and taxi area which had been closed for maintenance work at around 3am.
Thailand’s was WAY better than this sorry excuse for a protest. Seriously, you broke into an airport and stood on a closed runway? Imagine the looks on the faces of the five airport runway maintenance staff as they find 54 people run into the middle of an empty airstrip carrying doomsday signs.
Things brings to question: What was the protest about? Well, it was about climate change…. er, airport expansion. Charts have proven that airport expansion is EXACTLY proportional to a rise in temperature. Meaning, the more airport run ways you build, the warmer the airport gets. Sort of like…. every time we build one, God will drown a cute polar bear. You know, like sound logical science type stuff.
But what was it REALLY about? It’s about FUN: getting attention….. civil disobedience…. creating inconvenience for the “status quo”…. breaking and entry…. getting arrested.
