U.K. Greens’ Uncivil Disobedience - Brendan O’Neill - Planet Gore on National Review Online

This is why the eco-poshos hate flying: it’s clever, arrogant, exploratory, and desirable. And at Stansted today, where 50-odd eco-worthies have prevented thousands from soaring through the skies, we can glimpse, in an undiluted form, a major battle of our times: that between green misanthropy and mass desire.

In response to the protest at Stansted, an environmental writer for the Guardian compared the Plane Stupid protesters to Rosa Parks. What a monumentally historic insult to the U.S. civil-rights movement. Where Parks refused to get out of her bus seat, and went on to organize a mass boycott of buses, in order to increase people’s rights and choices — to increase equal access for everyone to the transport system and beyond — the miserabilists at Stansted fundamentally want to restrict our freedom of movement and limit our choices. If they had been around in 1955, they would probably have started an activist group called “Bus Stop,” ejecting everyone — black and white — from the seats of dirty, polluting buses.