Sarah Shoraka says from atop the fuselage of a British Airways plane, “We may have exposed a hole in security at Heathrow, but it’s not as big as the hole in Gordon Brown’s climate change policy.”
Two men and two women we able to walk through two double doors at Terminal One at Heathrow International, walk across a tarmac and climb stairs in order to hang signs on a domestic flight from Manchester to London.The flight from Manchester to London is only an hour long flight. The trip is said to take only two hours by train. The government wants to build a third runway that would increase flights the airport can handle by nearly double. Currently there are approximately 480,000 flights a year the third runway and 6th terminal would increase those to approximately 700,000 per year.
The theory that Heathrow needs to be expanded to accommodate International flights seems to be flawed. 100,000 flights a year take place between Heathrow and destinations within 500 kilometers from the airport. Protesters claim they are destinations easily reachable by train, and that train travel is up to 10 times less damaging to the climate than flying. By using the trains for these trips the traffic at Heathrow would be essentially reduced back to the levels the airport was seeing in 1990.
Editor’s note: Since September 11, 2001 the amount of resources both human and economic has known no bounds. It is patent those resources have gone either into a black hole where they have been lost forever, or they are now lining the pockets of a few of those wearing H. Huntsman or Anderson & Sheppard. Clearly those resources have not been spent on improving the security of the masses, but it would appear the financial security of some has been greatly improved.
They say 1 picture is worth 1,000 words. These pictures represent what has ‘not happened’ to the millions and millions of dollars spent toward security, and in the end they actually represent only 3 words. We need to start pouring our resources into the security that really matters. The securing Earth from the raveges of her enemies should be our first priority. Without that we are nothing.
