Monsoons For Morons: Plane Stupid Protest Against Freedom At Heathrow
REMEMBER when freedom of choice was all the rage. Now choice is about ensuring other people make the right choice.
As the Independent’s Johann Hari says in a piece entitled “We should all be at Heathrow protesting”: “This week, two thousand people will gather at London’s Heathrow airport with tents and sleeping bags - not to EasyJet to the beach, but to alert their fellow citizens to the Weather of Mass Destruction we are unleashing.”
This protest - Camp for Climate Action - is organised by Plane Stupid. The premise is that the tourists who wish to have a terrific holiday abroad are stupid. The 2,000 in their tens are enlightened and here to show the stupid the way ahead. “Runways to ruin,” proclaims a banner.
“You are snobs, who sneer at working class people flying to Ibiza! No, we would love people to be able to take more cheap holidays, and to take them ourselves, if it wasn’t for the fact it will contribute to global disaster,” readers learn. “You are, The Times jeered, ‘dogmatic flat-earthists’ opposed to science! No, we are acting on the overwhelming scientific consensus.”
The Times chooses to call the prigs names. The prigs choose to set up camp in a field and educate the stupid.
The Indy tells us: “The two countries doomed to drown by global warming in my lifetime have already begun to disappear beneath the waves. Almost half of Bangladesh is under water as you read this, following monsoons four times more ferocious than they should be. Ten million people are now homeless in the region. In the Maldives, a series of massive swell waves stretching to 4.5 metres drowned 68 islands this spring.”
No little irony that the Maldives, that honeymoon trap is about to become a reef. Not great news for Bangladeshis. Perhaps if tourists went there the stupid would take more notice of such troubles?
“I have just been out on the borders of Darfur, meeting some of the survivors of the first global warming- triggered genocide,” writes Hari. Darfur is in the Sudan. It is unlikely the writer walked there or floated on stream of hot hair.
Chances are that he flew. But it wasn’t a holiday. No way. It was business. And this protest, staged in the summer months, is aimed at the fun-seeking flyer.
Perhaps if we were given less choice and just told what to do the protestors who exercise their civil liberties (“The Government has disgracefully encouraged the police to use powers introduced to deal with jihadi murderers against them”) would be happy?
Then we could all go camping, use a portable toilet and our left hands and be truly advanced and knowing…
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August 21st, 2007 at 11:23 am
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August 20th, 2007 at 9:37 am
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August 15th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I’m coming back to the ‘Old Country’ to visit my remaining relatives in a couple of weeks, by plane of course! Hitching a ride on a transatlantic container ship really isn’t an option for me. “Oh Arr Mateys…. etc”.
I wont be camping either… I never realized that I’m such a horrible, planet destroying, eco-terrorist, I just wanted to see my ancient auntys.
Well never mind, it looks like there will be some helpfull people on hand to explain to me the error of my ways.
It’s not as if anyone but the masochistic actually enjoy flying anymore…………
August 14th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
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August 14th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
My wife’s cousin works for EasyJet and he’s a bell end.
I’m not sure what that adds to the debate, but I feel like I’ve shared something with you all. Thanks for reading.
August 14th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
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August 13th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
I’m with Paul on this one - camping is not for everyone.
August 13th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Bloody well said Dogstar.
I think that people just think that it must be true because the Government say so.
It is an old yet valid argument, if the UK stopped producing carbon completely it will make no difference to the world whatsoever, so why don’t we just enjoy what we have got instead of making our lives difficult. I think we are so insignificant but the likes of Gordon Brown and Bliar obviously want to believe that we are the epicentre of the whole world and what we do affects such.
We are effectively told that we are irreversibly killing our planet in our 4×4’s etc which must be stopped, however if you are willing to pay a bit extra then that is fine.
Will murder be acceptable if we are willing to pay an extra ‘murder’ tax?
Accept climate change as something out of the UK’s control and adjust accordingly.
August 13th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
No - it’s just the way he walks!
August 13th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Are your camping Dave?
August 13th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Well I shall be joining the protest ,just as soon as I get back from my two weeks in Rhodes
August 13th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Global Warming. What a wheeze! It’s great, isn’t it? Another of those Great Lies of our time. What disappoints me most about it, is the way that the youngest and most impressionable are always mugged by the whole pack of lies, and enlisted into the swelling ranks of the bullying, indoctrinated campaigners.
‘Climate Change’ (in the Bono sense) has very little to do with the Earth’s natural climate variances and everything to do with world politics, world economies and world agendas.
Most people are just too plain dumb to see it. They imagine because they’ve been told to recycle the family rubbish they are doing something meaningful and worthwhile to save the planet. They imagine if the politicians tell them they’ll have to pay more for petrol, oil, gas to fund new ‘natural’ energies then it’s just a fact of life. They imagine if local councils sneak in council tax rises and punitive charges for ‘excessive’ household rubbish than that’s okay ‘because it’s saving the planet’. Hah.
In China, no such concerns. In India, ditto. Just two of the world’s largest populations and most emergent economies (got a few western politicians nervous) - and neither could give a rat’s ass about your weekly trips to the recycling bin. They laugh at you. Quite rightly.
Here in the UK and in much of the West, politicians beat their citizens about the head with the whole Climate Change thing, it’s a gift - something that can’t be defined, or even proved (yes, really - it’s not been proved Climate Change is due to anything other than the Earth’s natural processes, as witnessed for a FACT in countless ice cores dating back hundreds of thousands of years). It’s perfect. Governments can fund bogus, greedy scientists to produce wilfully vague, but ‘on-side’ ‘research’ and politicians can wave it in our faces as it it were fact.
People really should start thinking for themselves.