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Extinction Rebellion attempts a 3-day shutdown of London City Airport with a 'Hong-Kong' style occupation

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Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:26 UTC

Eco-activist group Extinction Rebellion (XR) says it is attempting a "Hong Kong-style" occupation and shutdown of London City Airport for three whole days starting Thursday. Police are already arresting protesters at the site.

Extra security and policing have been put in place at the UK airport after the group threatened it would attempt a major disruption, with its members "lying, sitting or glueing-on in front of the departure and arrivals gates" in a desperate bid to block entry to travelers.

Footage and images from the airport, taken just minutes after the protest officially got under way, show police removing XR members from the airport entrance and making arrests.

Access to the terminal is reportedly being restricted unless people have a boarding pass valid for travel and ID, adding an extra delay and screening measure to the already security-laden site.

Comment: More shenanigans:

Paralympian James Brown climbed on top of a British Airways plane on the tarmac of London City Airport as part of ongoing Extinction Rebellion protests.

It's understood the athlete, who is visually impaired, managed to climb up onto the aircraft during boarding. A woman who was with Brown and was filming his actions was arrested at the scene, according to the Independent.

Photos from the scene show police and firefighters assessing the situation and addressing Brown from passenger steps positioned on either side of the aircraft. He was eventually removed and taken away by police.

....and

A man claiming to be part of the Extinction Rebellion protests at London City Airport caused an Aer Lingus plane to be grounded after he boarded it on Thursday morning.

Footage shared by a passenger shows a flight attendant confronting the man who says he "is extremely sorry for the inconvenience" but his actions are part of the protest movement. Irate passengers can be heard calling on the protester to"sit down," with one suggesting that the crew simply "do us all a favor" and remove him immediately.

At one point a flight attendant responds to those urging the protester to take his seat, saying that at this point he must be escorted off the plane.

The plane was about to take off for Dublin, Ireland when the man stood up and began talking about climate change, refusing to return to his seat. The plane taxied back to the gate, and police boarded to remove him.

Reader Comments

Jawla · 2019-10-10T19:53:00Z

I will continue to make the biggest carbon footprint I possibly can and have already booked my aeroplane hols for next year. And if those duck heads are glued, sitting or lying in front of my gates, I'll be quite happy trampling over them.

Jason · 2019-10-10T21:25:58Z

Jawla Indeed, that not winning our hearts and minds wth their hysteria.

If they're out in the open i think water canons would put the damper on them.

Jason ·

*that should they're

· 2019-10-10T21:26:46Z

arcsmith · 2019-10-11T00:17:03Z

A completely transparent pro-lib movement of degenerates and bought and paid for idiots. If these fake a$$ hippies were so concerned with the planet they would spend their time developing farming co-ops, that actually benefit the many, not in major cities, trying to create the "next pro-lib fake a$$ agenda".

Joan · 2019-10-11T00:36:42Z

To my mind, I find this tragic, that a certain segment of western society (mostly young privileged kids) are so blind, like some disease of mental infestation, that could so fervently believe that there acts of lunacy, can make any impact on the planet on which we live.

The planet on which we live has survived for 3.5 billions of it's history as we know, survived many cataclysms, many destruction's of civilizations as we know it.

And of all a sudden, with such hubris, we are now told by the youth and others of like mindset, we are about to destroy the planet we live on.

A most interesting ideology, all targeted at the youth, our future generations,.

Strange, that none of them seem to me to question how we can live in a sustainable world, use resources responsibly, not just in the western world (which most of this drama is coming from).

How we can live together in a world of the future with the sharing of equitable resources.

Instead, they are nothing more than a bunch of self serving mind slaves to the agenda that has been fed to them.

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