LONDON, England (CNN) -- Four Greenpeace activists climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday to protest plans to build a third runway, the environmental group said. I love how they call all these kinds of peeps "activists" or "militants" -- instead of "terrorists" or "jackasses."
The protesters unveiled a banner atop the plane which reads, "Climate emergency -- no third runway."
"I'm standing on this plane because our planet and the people who live on it are in danger," said Anna Jones, 27, one of the Greenpeace protesters. "Climate change can be beaten, but not by almost doubling the size of the world's biggest airport."
Greenpeace said the activists -- two men and two women -- waited for all the passengers on the Manchester, England to London flight to disembark before they walked through the terminal, crossed the Tarmac, and climbed stairs onto the plane's fuselage.
"We may have exposed a hole in security at Heathrow, but it's not as big as the hole in (Prime Minister) Gordon Brown's climate change policy," said Sarah Shoraka, 30, another of the protesters.
Shoraka said airport security was using a cherry-picker crane to remove the protesters from the plane. Cherry picker? How boring. You're never going to teach them a lesson that way. What about a firehose? What about covering them with sticky flowers and releasing wasps?
"We will get arrested but obviously we've thought about this very carefully," Shoraka said. "We're really, really serious about what we're doing. We really care, and we don't want dangerous climate change to happen." More here:
The protesters unveiled a banner atop the plane which reads, "Climate emergency -- no third runway."
"I'm standing on this plane because our planet and the people who live on it are in danger," said Anna Jones, 27, one of the Greenpeace protesters. "Climate change can be beaten, but not by almost doubling the size of the world's biggest airport."
Greenpeace said the activists -- two men and two women -- waited for all the passengers on the Manchester, England to London flight to disembark before they walked through the terminal, crossed the Tarmac, and climbed stairs onto the plane's fuselage.
"We may have exposed a hole in security at Heathrow, but it's not as big as the hole in (Prime Minister) Gordon Brown's climate change policy," said Sarah Shoraka, 30, another of the protesters.
Shoraka said airport security was using a cherry-picker crane to remove the protesters from the plane. Cherry picker? How boring. You're never going to teach them a lesson that way. What about a firehose? What about covering them with sticky flowers and releasing wasps?
"We will get arrested but obviously we've thought about this very carefully," Shoraka said. "We're really, really serious about what we're doing. We really care, and we don't want dangerous climate change to happen." More here:
Whew -- thank God for Greenpeace. The climate change emergency is over.
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Well I think they should have just started to taxi to the runway and then take off
I think they should have put them on the back of a DC-10 and fired up engine 3 for 2 minutes.
Isn't greenpeace the same organization that went after a Japanese commercial fishing boat with the goal of pouring acid on the crew?
Is it the same greenpeace whose ship became disabled and needed rescuing by the same commercial fishing boat they were targeting?
Once their disabled ship was repaired and they were able to continue under their own power, didn't they continue their mission and ultimate hit their original target with acid?
It seems to me that these people are nothing but idealistic criminals who don't have any concern for the safety of themselves or others.
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