Black Lives Matter crowd "occupy" London City Airport's runway.

0byme75341jo28

http://news.sky.com/story/london-city-flights-delayed-after-runway-protest-10566897

In the latest attention-seeking stunt of the perpetually "marginalised" group, they decided to use boats to invade London city airport, in an attempt to highlight how the "environmental crisis is a racist crisis", and how the "The average salary of a London City Airport user is €136,000..." (I'd like to know where they get these facts), amongst other things.

If they were to be believed, it would seem that this airport is in fact a tool of racist oppression, instead of an opportunity for the local area to benefit from the influx of the super rich (if their stats are somehow correct), and the obvious creation of jobs associated with a busy airport.

What really is their point? How exactly is the environment crisis racist? And more importantly/worryingly, how on earth did airport security allow them on to the runway from a dinghy?

Letree

Did you see the photo of them, not one black person among them.

A Little Pony

A bunch of weirdos. Tarmac roller right over them.

BoJack Horseman

Letree wrote: »

Did you see the photo of them, not one black person among them.

That's because BLM-UK is a front organisation for the SWP.

kingtiger

Waiting for our eejits to setup another squat outside the central bank

NoCrackHaving

In reality they've probably just used the BLM as a way of getting media attention rather than having anything to do with the group, more news stories will be run rather than if it was a Greens or Climate Action group protest I'd guess.

lawlolawl

Treat it as a terrorist attack and deal with the perpetrators as such.

Disappear a few guilty white SJWS and we'll see an end to a lot of this assclownery.

me_irl

...and not one of them "occupying" jobs.

*laugh track*

lawlolawl

me_irl wrote: »

...and not one of them "occupying" jobs.

*laugh track*

Just because you want to sell out to the man and wear a suit and tie. Baa Baa!

I've got more important things to do like being an utter ****ing nuisance to normal people whilst trying to make some kind of ill conceived point!

/depends on the government completely for their income, housing and health care

**** the system!

Dr Crayfish

Nothing to do with London. Grade A morons.

Tipsy McSwagger

Black Lives Matter will turn people into racists.

SEPT 23 1989

would a few bodies really do much damage to the landing gear on a heavy plane

only one way to find out

Permabear

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BoJack Horseman

Permabear wrote: »

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I think Clarkson did on Top Gear a couple of years ago.

NoCrackHaving

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Quite a lot of airports are built beside water when you think about it.

gctest50

NoCrackHaving wrote: »

Quite a lot of airports are built beside water when you think about it.

High time to start using live rounds then before idiots get ideas ?

Flint Fredstone

I'll laugh my arse off when these bellends get 12 months or so in prison.

Widdershins

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Black Lives Matter will turn people into racists.

It will just make people more anti-eejit than ever. To be fair plenty of black people have said that BLM don't represent them and that they have no mandate to act as their voice.

0byme75341jo28

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

I'll laugh my arse off when these bellends get 12 months or so in prison.

They'll probably get a suspended sentence or community service..

Riddle101

I don't mind peaceful protests, but I lose sympathy with protesters when they become obstructive, and stop people from getting on with their day to day lives. All I can think about are the people at the airport who might have their flights delayed because of this.

brevity

The best way to get people on your side is to first not piss them off. Especially people who have paid money to travel somewhere.

Dohnjoe

They wouldn't be so fast to do this if one of the possible consequences was losing access to welfare

biko

I liked BLM when they focused on the issue at hand, blacks getting shot by US police.

As soon as it spread beyond that I knew the movement was lost because SJWs will appropriate any similar movement and destroy them slowly.

runawaybishop

Widdershins wrote: »

To be fair plenty of black people have said that BLM don't represent them and that they have no mandate to act as their voice.

Looks like some of the cops that arrested them are black. :pac::pac::pac:

Flint Fredstone

Royce Important Racer wrote: »

They'll probably get a suspended sentence or community service..

I would be very surprised if there's no custodial sentence. I'd imagine the worst place to pull a stunt like this in Britain is an airport.

osarusan

brevity wrote: »

The best way to get people on your side is to first not piss them off.

I don't think BLM (or at least, people making decisions about activist activities) have ever been concerned about getting people on their side.

They just seem to want to protest to get attention, and not even talk about any particular issues, because that might give them less cause to protest.

Actual advocates (and people within BLM who want to actually work on actual issues) must be tearing their hair out.

YFlyer

Permabear wrote: »

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Was done at Shannon Airport in protest of US aircraft been refuelled on the way to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Wigglepuppy

Flint Fredstone wrote: »

I would be very surprised if there's no custodial sentence. I'd imagine the worst place to pull a stunt like this in Britain is an airport.

Probably more lenient than the US or France though.

andekwarhola

I didn't follow the link but I'm guessing the protest has a high proportion of white, middle-class people with no jobs?

BrokenArrows

Why the **** are BLM (But not really because they were all white) protesting in the UK. The UK doesnt have a murdering black people problem, thats a US problem.

And why the **** did it take so long to clear them out. The pictures show dozens of vehicles, 20-30 police, ambulances etc and hours of closures.

And i cant believe they even made it that far. Surely the UK airports have an armed response units who should have been activated immediately that they began trespassing on the airport property and they shouldnt have had time to dig in.

What a joke.

super_furry

American police are killing black American citizens, so some white English people hold up an English airport.

Not really seeing the connection myself.

Arcade_Tryer

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Why the **** are BLM (But not really because they were all white) protesting in the UK. The UK doesnt have a murdering black people problem, thats a US problem.

When people protest something here like women allowed to be topless or wear burkinis, the retort from conservatives is often to look at how much worse it is in places in the middle east and address those issues instead.

And when people protest something that is affecting people in another part of the world here, the retort is, that's another country's problem!

Conservative logic/ Can't win.

Wigglepuppy

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

Conservative logic/ Can't win.

Remarkably similar to far left logic then.

brevity

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Why the **** are BLM (But not really because they were all white) protesting in the UK. The UK doesnt have a murdering black people problem, thats a US problem.

And why the **** did it take so long to clear them out. The pictures show dozens of vehicles, 20-30 police, ambulances etc and hours of closures.

And i cant believe they even made it that far. Surely the UK airports have an armed response units who should have been activated immediately that they began trespassing on the airport property and they shouldnt have had time to dig in.

What a joke.

There is a problem in the UK as well. Specifically around missing persons...

DEFTLEFTHAND

Putting restrictions on CO2 emissions does have an adverse impact on the development of poor African countries.

There is a point in there somewhere (although I don't agree that racism is the cause) that they're trying to make but they're going about highlighting it in an absurd manner.

0byme75341jo28

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Putting restrictions on CO2 emissions does have an adverse impact on the development of poor African countries.

There is a point in there somewhere (although I don't agree that racism is the cause) that they're trying to make but they're going about highlighting it in an absurd manner.

Yes, it does have an adverse impact in poorer countries, but to say that that's due to racism is absolutely ridiculous. Without having regulations on CO2 emissions the entire world will be suffer, and that includes black people, planet Earth isn't racist..

All I can deduce from this is that essentially they want to have their cake and eat it.

aphex™

Some black guy might have been late for a meeting due to the airport being closed and lost a big contract and got fired. :eek:

jimgoose

Royce Important Racer wrote: »

Yes, it does have an adverse impact in poorer countries, but to say that that's due to racism is absolutely ridiculous. Without having regulations on CO2 emissions the entire world will be suffer, and that includes black people, planet Earth isn't racist..

All I can deduce from this is that essentially they want to have their cake and eat it.

There is a valid point there somewhere. Us white folks burned the shite out of it for a couple of hundred years, blowing whatever we liked into the atmosphere and became quite wealthy and comfortable out of it. Many of the developing countries want a piece of that, only to now be told "Oh no, that is very wrong and evil and bad for the bunny-rabbits!!". I'd be pretty pissed off as well, in all fairness. :pac:

The_Valeyard

jimgoose wrote: »

There is a valid point there somewhere. Us white folks burned the shite out of it for a couple of hundred years, blowing whatever we liked into the atmosphere and became quite wealthy and comfortable out of it. Many of the developing countries want a piece of that, only to now be told "Oh no, that is very wrong and evil and bad for the bunny-rabbits!!". I'd be pretty pissed off as well, in all fairness. :pac:

To be fair, was there any scientific data back then that this was bad for the environment or had long last effects? Did people actually realise what was happening with say air pollution.

jimgoose

The_Valeyard wrote: »

To be fair, was there any scientific data back then that this was bad for the environment or had long last effects? Did people actually realise what was happening with say air pollution.

I should imagine that during the time of the Dark, Satanic Mills oop t'Nowth the fact that the air was yellow an tasted of sulphur would have been scientific enough for most people with functioning minds. But there was money t'be made, lad!

RDM_83 again

brevity wrote: »

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Why the **** are BLM (But not really because they were all white) protesting in the UK. The UK doesnt have a murdering black people problem, thats a US problem.

And why the **** did it take so long to clear them out. The pictures show dozens of vehicles, 20-30 police, ambulances etc and hours of closures.

And i cant believe they even made it that far. Surely the UK airports have an armed response units who should have been activated immediately that they began trespassing on the airport property and they shouldnt have had time to dig in.

What a joke.

There is a problem in the UK as well. Specifically around missing persons...

What's the issue with missing persons?haven't heard of that.
There is an issue with stop and search and so on but there is also a big issue with afro-caribean males ages 14-24 stabbing people all the time, it's under reported but some where like Peckham has loads of incidents that barely make the news.
To quote a friend when talking about over policing accusations for Notting hill carnival - when it's Gay Pride people don't get stabbed (both large street festivals)

Dohnjoe

Arcade_Tryer wrote: »

And when people protest something that is affecting people in another part of the world here, the retort is, that's another country's problem!

?

Happens all the time, protests against war, against global problems, against the treatment of certain people, against international leaders, against international situations

That has nothing to do with a small number of very privileged white middle class grade-a morons protesting that the "climate crisis is racist" and other absurd nonsense

Robsweezie

occupy = make a ****ing nuisance of themselves

conorhal

jimgoose wrote: »

There is a valid point there somewhere. Us white folks burned the shite out of it for a couple of hundred years, blowing whatever we liked into the atmosphere and became quite wealthy and comfortable out of it. Many of the developing countries want a piece of that, only to now be told "Oh no, that is very wrong and evil and bad for the bunny-rabbits!!". I'd be pretty pissed off as well, in all fairness. :pac:

Not really, climate change will hit the poorer regions of the world far worse then the West, if they want to burn their own funeral pyre let them. Besides, Africa and the third world receive massive subsidies in terms of carbon trading which allows the west to buy their quotas of carbon (which I think is a massive fraud dreamt up by qunagocrat morons) so if we all met our Kyoto targets in the morning half of Africa would be howling that we weren't burning enough fossil fuel....

jmayo

Royce Important Racer wrote: »

http://news.sky.com/story/london-city-flights-delayed-after-runway-protest-10566897

In the latest attention-seeking stunt of the perpetually "marginalised" group, they decided to use boats to invade London city airport, in an attempt to highlight how the "environmental crisis is a racist crisis", and how the "The average salary of a London City Airport user is €136,000..." (I'd like to know where they get these facts), amongst other things.

If they were to be believed, it would seem that this airport is in fact a tool of racist oppression, instead of an opportunity for the local area to benefit from the influx of the super rich (if their stats are somehow correct), and the obvious creation of jobs associated with a busy airport.

What really is their point? How exactly is the environment crisis racist? And more importantly/worryingly, how on earth did airport security allow them on to the runway from a dinghy?

So let me get this right.

Some bunch of gobdaws (being charitable here) decided that they would protest climate change by causing flights to be delayed, possible meaning the aircraft were sitting on runways idling when they could have been in the air on their way, causing flights to be diverted meaning using extra fuel to new destination and more on way back to base or original destination, causing people to have to travel home from airports when they didn't need to, etc, etc.

How much extra carbon emissions did this protest generate I wonder ?

Interesting methods. :rolleyes:

Outlaw Pete

They tried similar at Heathrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spHzvDgR76Q

What I can't understand is that the Met police 'negotiated' with them for six hours before arresting them and taking them away.

Meanwhile the airport was blocked and tens of thousands of people inconvenienced at airports all over europe.

Surely they could have arrived with bolt cutters and cleared them away in 10 minutes... or is this another example of Mets softly softly PC approach??

keith16

Cretins.

suicide_circus

I'd say the black people of the world are sleeping a little sounder tonight thanks to the trojan efforts of these crackers.

B.A._Baracus

suicide_circus wrote: »

I'd say the black people of the world are sleeping a little sounder tonight thanks to the trojan efforts of these crackers.

Cracker lives matter :pac:

jimgoose

conorhal wrote: »

Not really, climate change will hit the poorer regions of the world far worse then the West, if they want to burn their own funeral pyre let them. Besides, Africa and the third world receive massive subsidies in terms of carbon trading which allows the west to buy their quotas of carbon (which I think is a massive fraud dreamt up by qunagocrat morons) so if we all met our Kyoto targets in the morning half of Africa would be howling that we weren't burning enough fossil fuel....

I actually don't care. My KZ1000 with hatchet-holster is on standby in the shed. See you on the road, scag!