NotBy Jon Kelly, BBC News, Heathrow
As the
workshy tanned,
wasted cheerful twenty-somethings set up their tents, you could be forgiven for thinking this was the summer's latest music festival.
But the lines of
able bodied, working burly police officers around the site, not to mention the
bleedin obvious 747s roaring overhead, give a clue as to the true purpose of this gathering.
Flanked by Heathrow Airport on one side and west London's outer suburbs on the other, this is an unlikely setting for an impromptu eco
nazi-village.
Collectivist, self-obsessed, delusional Environmental campaigners have assembled here not just to oppose a third runway for the airport
but to ram their own crackpot ideas down the throats of everybody, with force if necessary.
With their
pestilential compost toilets,
tokenistic but useless wind turbines and
faux-leaderless command structure, they are also keen to
present the charade demonstrate that an alternative, more sustainable way of living is possible.
But despite the inevitable privations they face
(aw, diddums!), not all the protesters conform to the typical eco
nazi-warrior
twattish stereotype.
Brenda Hatton, 60, a
retarded retired head teacher from
an inner city Soviet hell-hole central London, says she woke up to the issue of climate change after her 29-year-old
gullible son began
being indoctrinated studying geography at university.
"I'm not here for me
much - I'm here for my
cats children and my grandchildren," she said
with a thousand yard stare.
"
I've just arrived It's all been very good-natured so far. I hope there won't be any trouble
for us, and if there is
we are all going to live in denial and blame-shift it won't be because of the people on the camp."
The police, however, are
collecting their overtime not so sanguine.
Some 1,800 officers have been
dragged away from their BBQs mobilised, almost matching the 2,000 campaigners who are expected over the coming week.
All vehicles approaching the site are searched under section 44 of the Terrorism Act and photographs are taken of anyone who enters
so just like driving down the M4, then.
Campaigners - who insist their protest will be peaceful -
want a free hand to cause mayhem so disingenuously complain that the police approach is heavy-handed.
"We've had to shuttle all the supplies in here using
stolen wheelie bins. It's not exactly high-tech," laughs
barely shaved gibbon volunteer Tony Chambers, 35, a forestry worker from Ceredigion, mid-Wales.
"But we've managed to set everything up without any problems so far. The attitude of the authorities just smacks of
parental resignation over a screaming tot desperation, really."
So far only about 250
sponging, disingenuous collectivists activists have gathered at the camp, but organisers are preparing for
cholera an influx they expect to join them as the
weather improves week progresses.
Protesters pitch their tents alongside others from the same area - Oxford, London and Nottingham already have settlements, each with their own kitchen serving
sanctimonious, inedible, methane generating vegan,
high carbon-footprint organic food.
More than 100
propaganda fests workshops are due to be held on subjects like carbon
denial offsetting and building
tokenistic wind turbines.
But despite their
faux-leaderless structure - where all decisions are taken by
the first sheep to move consensus at regular meetings - reporters must follow the
censorship and control protocol of going through a dedicated media
politburo team before setting foot on site.
On Sunday - expected to be one of the airport's busiest days of the year - they plan
opportunistic lawlessness and vandalism "mass direct action", although all insist this will be non-violent
as long as everyone lets them do precisely what they want and there will be no attempt to blockade runways
because the terminal buildings will be razed to the ground.
"We have to
think first do something," says Gary Dwyer, 34, a care assistant from Southport, Merseyside.
"Climate change is the biggest issue
I've been told about we face and we haven't got
I don't know how long to act.
"I can't tell you what will happen, because
I will be wasted we'll decide collectively when everybody gets here, but it will be a peaceful protest
as long as everyone lets us blah blah blah"
As they wait for
more hypocritical parasites reinforcements to arrive
using carbon-producing tranport, the campers say they are enjoying the camaraderie of pulling together and
committing a blatant act of trespass setting up their temporary community.
"It's been fun so far - I've been topping up my tan while I
don't work," laughs Claire Blatchford, 20, a "full-time
parasite protester" who has spent four months
claiming benefits and increasing the burden of law enforcement at a peace camp outside Faslane naval base in Scotland.
"I've brought
lesbian day-wear sturdy boots and my waterproofs, though. I'm sure I'll need them after the summer we've had."
Even the most ardent climate change protester, it seems, is forever at the mercy of
4bln years of climate change British weather.
3 comments:
That got me smiling, at least.
Excellent! You actually got me chuckling there - made all the more amusing by the fact that it was all true.
I still say we should be shooting them when they protest at Faslane - that would take a few of them out of the protest loop...
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