HEATHROW 13 - WHEN THE ESTABLISHMENT USES ORDINARY PEOPLE TO COVER UP ITS FAILINGS !

HEATHROW 13 – WHEN THE ESTABLISHMENT USES

ORDINARY PEOPLE TO COVER UP ITS FAILINGS !

 

On Monday 13^th. 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)

ORDINARY PEOPLE - TRYING TO BE HEARD.

ORDINARY PEOPLE – TRYING TO BE HEARD.

 

There are a number of ways that ordinary people, who have a particular view, and who become frustrated because they are “only ordinary people and nobody listens to them”, can take in order to try to be heard. They can write letters to local and national newspapers, form organisations, arrange marches, raise fighting funds to pay lobbyists but the only ones that we ever get to hear about are the ones that become direct action activists because they are the ones that the media decide to consider as being newsworthy, not normally because of the message but because of the method chosen to highlight it. But now the establishment has decided to make an example of one of these groups, we can only assume to give a message to deter others, by threatening them to ‘expect jail’ for aggravated trespass and entering a security restricted area.

 

The group, Plane Stupid, cut through a perimeter fence at Heathrow Airport and thirteen activists chained themselves together on the north runway causing what was claimed to be disruption during their peaceful demonstration. In reality the Airport Authority, rather than pursuing the prosecution of these people should be GRATEFUL to the group for having highlighting a serious breach in their security and relieved that it wasn’t a group of terrorists who would have been spraying bullets and using explosives and the outcome could have been far more disruptive including wounding, destruction, devastation and even fatalities.

 

As a sign of their appreciation, Heathrow Airport should appeal to the court to have the threat of jail removed from these thirteen ordinary people who were only “ trying to be heard ” and in the process did them a great favour.

 

It was the airport’s responsibility to ensure no unauthorised access.

James Hancock.

A Good Common Man.

( Because of what happens when “good men do nothing“ Edmund Burke)