Nothing wrong with protesting in my opinion. The British don’t do enough of it, and (it could be argued) the French do just a little too much of it.
What DOES wind me up though are professional protesters. There’s plenty wrong on this planet of ours, but when I hear about self appointed guardians of the planet committing what amounts to a terrorist act my eyebrows raise and it bothers me.
So what is this news item? Well - essentially Greenpeace are worried about the new runway at Heathrow and so climbed onto an aeroplane to display a banner telling us all how terrible we are for daring to want to travel overseas as frequently as we all do. Aside from the fact that these people irritate me because they aren’t glued together right it REALLY bothers me that they seem to think that it is OK to inconvenience everyone at the airport that day to do what amounts to telling them off.
I don’t like pollution. I don’t like guillemots getting their feathers all dirty when a tanker decides to do the reverse of it’s original design. I don’t much like it when I walk down the street and tread in some errant canine owners faeces (I assume that it comes from the dog rather than the owner - but you cannot be sure can you?). But more than this (as the song goes) what I really don’t like is people that insist on demonstrating that they know so much more than me, and it is their duty to remove the scales from my eyes so that I will change my wicked ways.
Well - they may have a point. To be honest we should all be thinking about pollution and how we can individually mitigate the pollution that we are responsible for. However, here is a quote from one of the Greenpeace protesters who climbed up on the aeroplane:
Sarah Shoraka, 30, said: “The door was broken so there was no security. It was ajar. Once we got to doors and saw that they were open, we walked through calmly and it felt quite normal.”
Sarah love, you broke into a secure area in this day of terrorism and fear and you think it feels normal? Get a proper job, pay taxes and then we can talk. Until then you just fall neatly into the “nutter” category.
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