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Climate campaigners plan Heathrow drone shutdown

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By Dmitry ZAKS

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Hopefully this eco-terrorism is worth the effort and in due time, those who remain of humanity, will be greatful to their hardcore ancestors.

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Shoot the damn drones out the sky and give these 'activists' to those who's flights have been affected.

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This type of action won't do much to endear them to the wider populace.

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Just remind these activists that there are disabled transgender people of color on these flights looking to claim asylum once they land at Heathrow. That should give them a crisis of conscience.

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The leader of this group has posted several essays online as to how he wants to bring down global governments and societies. Another political extremist highjacking a serious cause to promote their anarchy and it denegrates the efforts of all those who are trying to get governments and individuals to tackle climate change.

As for the silly idiots who think flying drones near an airport is acceptable, they will see arrest as some kind of martyrdom to impress their guests at dinner parties.

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It will be funny when all these climate campaigners finally realize they are just pawns used by the lobby machine of the new multibillion "green" industry.

It will be even more funny when they find out the people behind this "green" industry are the same globalist companies and investors that are controlling the masses today and who don't give a twat about the environment, they just found another way to gain money and power control seeing as their old tricks are starting to wear off.

It's one things these climate campaigners are completely annoying but it's another thing entirely when they are engaging in eco-terrorism as is the case here and I hope they will be punished to the full extent of the law.

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The drones aren't flying, the signals are being jammed.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/13/heathrow-protests-two-held-near-airport-as-activists-threaten-drone-disruption

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"Like-minded citizens just know that what we are doing is not a criminal act,"

Um, no... I'm pretty sure it is. It's also inconsiderate and a dick thing to do.

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Arrest them all and fine them 10,000. Do that every time they disrupt other people trying to enjoy their freedom of travel.

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Arrest them all and fine them 10,000. Do that every time they disrupt other people trying to enjoy their freedom of travel.

Why would a UK court issue a fine in Euros? Besides, this sort of crime carries a custodial sentence.

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"Like-minded citizens just know that what we are doing is not a criminal act," group member Sylvia Dell told AFP as she prepared to fly her own drone in the coming days.

"You need to make disruption painful before the authorities take notice," Dell said.

Statements such as these only prove that these eco-terrorists are mad/crazy, and are willing to put other peoples lives in danger, as it serves their own purpose.

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This is about celebrity. U.K. is obviously lax in it's expectations of these groups motive. Surely any accident causing loss of life, caused by these yankers will chaulk up to freedoms of expression in sympathy and fear of the causes activists and linked media.

Unsurprising considering it's source, a wholly inaccurate and ignorant statement.

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