HEATHROW 13 – WHEN THE ESTABLISHMENT USES
ORDINARY PEOPLE TO COVER UP ITS FAILINGS !
On Monday
13th. July 2015, 13 ordinary people now known as the Heathrow 13,
who are members of an environmental direct action group Plane Stupid, managed
to cut a hole in a perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport and gain access to a
runway where they set up a peaceful protest against the affects of a proposed
expansion by chaining themselves together and to fencing allegedly causing the
airport to have to cancel 22 flights, worldwide delays and astronomical cost.
After 6 hours they were arrested and charged with aggravated trespass and being
airside without permission.
To ordinary people
Heathrow Airport appears to be the jewel in the crown, a major gateway to the
world used by Royalty, visiting Presidents and dignitaries, celebratory,
politicians, business people, international travellers and even ordinary people
and as such we would expect it to be one of the most secure sites in the
country. So can somebody explain how the people directly responsible for the
security at Heathrow Airport, which operates on a 24/7 basis, allowed a group
of 13 ordinary people, at 3.30am on a Monday morning, to cut a hole in a
perimeter fence, get themselves and their equipment into a restricted area on a
runway and then setup a sophisticated fortress with a polar bear seated on top
of an iceberg in a cage with the rest of the group chained and locked on in various
ways. Surely if the security systems and the people responsible for them and
their operation had been on their metal, as the whole of the country would have
expected them to be, then the protestor should not have even got any further
than the security fence and been restricted to protesting outside.
In order to blame
the environmentalist protestors for its failings the airport would have used
the full force of a well financed PR machine.
James
Hancock.
A Good Common Man.
( Because of what happens when “good men do nothing”
Edmund Burke)
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