• Login
  • Register
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In
The Daily Sceptic
No Result
View All Result

Flights Cancelled as Eco-Protestors Glue Themselves to Runways – But is the State Secretly Encouraging the Protests?

by Eugyppius
14 July 2023 5:23 PM

Yesterday, Letzte Generation climate activists forced their way through the fenced perimeter of the international airports at Hamburg and Düsseldorf with bolt cutters.

They then used rented bicycles to make their way onto the tarmac where they glued themselves to taxiways, causing multiple flight cancellations and considerable delays precisely at the start of the school holidays.

Ordinary travellers experience airports as bizarre fortresses. They’re routinely subject to arbitrary and invasive screenings by security personnel on the pretence that policing the amount of liquid in carry-on luggage is necessary to prevent terrorism. Apparently, though, even the most naïve and inexperienced university students can just break into these terror-proof airfields with nothing more than standard tools available at every home improvement store, and move freely within them while wearing high-visibility orange reflective vests.

A look at the Letzte Generation website suggests we can expect more of this. Its online recruitment form asks respondents what they’re willing to do in order to combat climate catastrophe. Roles are listed in order of escalation – you can volunteer “in the background” or participate in “protest marches,” which involve “minimal risk”. The more daring can “block streets”, which interestingly is said to entail “limited risk,” but that’s not all. There’s a still greater level for truly insane activists who wish to contribute “spectacular” acts of resistance involving “high personal risk”. We can presume that the taxiway gluers represent the debut of the spectacular Letzte Generation high-risk commando.

The action was a prelude to the midsummer blitz Letzte Generation has planned before some of them depart for their three-week holiday tomorrow. Today we got the frontal attack, a coordinated campaign of street blockades in 26 cities, including Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig and Munich. Activists wore printed masks to assume the personae of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Economics Minister Robert Habeck and Transport Minister Volker Wissing, and with their unglued hands unfurled banners declaring “Wir brechen das Gesetz” – “We’re breaking the law”. The message is that the Scholz Government, by not doing more to combat emissions, are guilty of violating the climate legislation and the German constitution. Sudden interference with traffic is dangerous, and today’s protests have already contributed to at least one serious accident in Nuremberg.

The political establishment, including the Greens, have widely condemned the protesters, and I continue to insist that this is a hint as to their real purpose. Their insane demands allow radical politicians like Robert Habeck to pose as moderates, while they fight to impose climate legislation opposed by three-quarters of the citizenry and a majority even of their own party. If the German state really wanted this to stop, the protesters would all be in jail and their movement under investigation by the political police. Certainly, state media wouldn’t be granting extended interviews to Letzte Generation spokesgirls like Lina Johnsen, allowing them to rehearse their doubtful and oblivious talking points mostly unchallenged before an audience of millions.

This article originally appeared on Eugyppius’s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here.

Tags: Climate AlarmismGermanyJust Stop OilNet ZeroProtests

Donate

We depend on your donations to keep this site going. Please give what you can.

Donate Today

Comment on this Article

You’ll need to set up an account to comment if you don’t already have one. We ask for a minimum donation of £5 if you'd like to make a comment or post in our Forums.

Sign Up
Previous Post

Britain’s Public Finances Crippled by Huge Rise in People Off Work Due to Ill-Health After Lockdowns

Next Post

News Round-Up

Subscribe
Login
Notify of
Please log in to comment

To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.

Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.

37 Comments
Oldest
Newest Most Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

NEWSLETTER

View today’s newsletter

To receive our latest news in the form of a daily email, enter your details here:

DONATE

PODCAST

In Episode 35 of the Sceptic: Andrew Doyle on Labour’s Grooming Gang Shame, Andrew Orlowski on the India-UK Trade Deal and Canada’s Ignored Covid Vaccine Injuries

by Richard Eldred
9 May 2025
4

LISTED ARTICLES

  • Most Read
  • Most Commented
  • Editor’s Picks

Hugely Influential Covid Vaccine Study Claiming the Jabs Saved Millions of Lives Torn to Shreds in Medical Journal

10 May 2025
by Dr Raphael Lataster

NHS Nurse “Forced Out for Mocking Trans Flag” to Sue Hospital

10 May 2025
by Will Jones

Major British Chemical Plant Faces Closure as Energy Prices Soar

10 May 2025
by Will Jones

News Round-Up

11 May 2025
by Will Jones

The Backlash to the War Against Boys

11 May 2025
by Noah Carl

Hugely Influential Covid Vaccine Study Claiming the Jabs Saved Millions of Lives Torn to Shreds in Medical Journal

29

News Round-Up

26

Major British Chemical Plant Faces Closure as Energy Prices Soar

16

Miliband Plots Surge in Wind Farm Subsidies to Rescue Net Zero

9

The Backlash to the War Against Boys

9

Declined: Chapter 18: The Unthinkable

11 May 2025
by Molly Kingsley

The Backlash to the War Against Boys

11 May 2025
by Noah Carl

Hugely Influential Covid Vaccine Study Claiming the Jabs Saved Millions of Lives Torn to Shreds in Medical Journal

10 May 2025
by Dr Raphael Lataster

Reflections on Empire, Papacy and States

10 May 2025
by James Alexander

Ed Miliband’s Housing Energy Plan Will Decimate the Rental Market and Send Rents Spiralling

10 May 2025
by Ben Pile

POSTS BY DATE

July 2023
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31  
« Jun   Aug »

SOCIAL LINKS

Free Speech Union
  • Home
  • About us
  • Donate
  • Privacy Policy

Facebook

  • X

Instagram

RSS

Subscribe to our newsletter

© Skeptics Ltd.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password? Sign Up

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Articles
  • About
  • Archive
    • ARCHIVE
    • NEWS ROUND-UPS
  • Podcasts
  • Newsletter
  • Premium
  • Donate
  • Log In

© Skeptics Ltd.

wpDiscuz
You are going to send email to

Move Comment
Perfecty
Do you wish to receive notifications of new articles?
Notifications preferences