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Climate protesters caused the week's second serious security breach by climbing onto the roof of the Houses of Parliament for three hours today. The protest came as an embarrassment to the government as security was supposedly tightened in response to the terrorist threat and past demonstrations.

Despite the Houses of Parliament being one of Britain's most prominent terrorist targets, the protesters, from the climate campaign group Plane Stupid, were able to walk into Parliament as visitors, before walking through the building, taking a lift and climbing out onto the roof.

They then unfurled two huge banners, one saying "No third runway", and the other, "BAA headquarters" - a reference to the airport's operator.

As police tried to talk them down, the protesters made paper airplanes and threw them off the roof. One of the roof protesters said: "I am stood on the roof of Parliament because the democratic process had been corrupted."
richjm

3 responses // Parliament rooftop protest ends

  • http://current.com/items/88851668_greenpeace_go_out_on_...
    First an airplane wing and now parliament? How are these protesters gaining such seemingly easy access to places that, frankly, shouldn't be so easy to get to?

    I'd be more concerned about that, then the fact that some climate change protesters are making a fuss.
    abbym0308
  • Good on them. There is no need for a third runway. Pollution by airplanes releasing toxic vapors high in the atmosphere is awful. Check the research done shortly after 9/11 when no planes flew for a few days.

    Plus the poor people who are having a new runway built near them. Enough sound pollution as it is near there.
    Its just greed. Its not practical.
    Social_Fuzz
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPwbxEQmoyc
    This Bright Green Picture addresses the moral problem of increasing flights at airports, while knowing that their emissions are making the future very difficult for our children.
    Mr_Costello

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