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It's hyperbole to suggest that risk exists when the protestors are telling everyone the exact date, time and location they will fly the drones. If the airport s
by zmmmmm 7y ago
It's hyperbole to suggest that risk exists when the protestors are telling everyone the exact date, time and location they will fly the drones. If the airport still chooses to fly airplanes during that time and people still choose to get on them, then I think you can't say the risk was introduced by the protestors.
Which is not to say I agree or disagree with the protestors, but please don't dilute the meaning of terrorism.
- roywiggins 7y agoThe Provisional IRA did the same thing with bombings, and they were definitely terrorists. Not that I think these people are terrorists, but "telling everyone ahead of time" isn't an inoculation.
- peteretep 7y ago> The IRA's armed campaign, primarily in Northern Ireland but also in England and mainland Europe, caused the deaths of approximately 1,800 people I mean I feel like that's a difference? What's Extinction Rebellion's body count?
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoThe IRA generally only gave hours warning. The Manchester bombing got 90 minutes, Birmingham pub bombings about ten minutes.
- zmmmmm 7y agoI know this is a "slippery slope" type argument, but if you are going equate "mild inconvenience of your flight delayed" with death and destruction, you are opening up a huge invitation for authorities to apply some pretty frightening laws to anybody who wants to protest about something. Protests have traditionally obstructed traffic or caused other inconvenience and often when notified in advance the police even help them by directing traffic or doing crowd control etc. This isn't that much different and in some ways is better because aviation is actually one of the huge unsolvable contributors to climate change, so this protest is highly targeted to the people who are contributing to that.
- roywiggins 7y agoI agree, it's not that different from scheduling a protest blocking a freeway. The last people to disrupt a UK airport got arrested and charged with terrorism-adjacent charges, which was an egregious overreach. Hopefully Extinction Rebellion won't face anything similar. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/world/europe/uk-stansted-15.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/world/europe/uk-stansted-...
- sdinsn 7y agoYour logic makes no sense. We told Japan that we would drop a nuke on them. Does that mean it was all Japan's fault, and America created no risk?