Heathrow Greenpeace Protesters

25Feb08

If you were flying out of Heathrow Airport today you could be forgiven for losing your temper at the sight of Greenpeace protesters climbing on the top of a Boeing 777 to unfold a banner in protest against the 3rd runway expansion. Personally, I would have just treated them as a terror threat and shot them on the spot.

However, they’ve already saved me the job by shooting themselves in the foot with today’s protest.

1. Most ordinary folk will see the action as militant, inappropriate, and unnessesary. It is something more inkeeping with the now defunkt Fathers for Justice. Why is it defunkt? Because the founder said the protests had gone too far and the organisation too extreme. Sounds familiar. Most folk will now see Greenpeace as an extremist element and shut their ears to their protest against the 3rd runway rather than be inspired by it. Of course, a few nutters and hippies will love the action and want to join in, thus sending the organisation further away from peaceful protest.
2. The protest was hardly green. With police vehicles, media vans, and planes having to circle the airport or the ensuing delay to the carefully managed flight control system the carbon footprint as a direct result of the action was probably quite large.

I hope they feel better that their action has caused more damage to the Earth and undermined their arguments. Hardly green or peaceful.

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