British Anti-Airport Expansion Activist Denied Entry At JFK Airport

Yesterday, the FBI met a Delta flight that landed at JFK Airport from London. Why? Because of a suspicious passenger An early report said that a passenger or group made threats against President Obama, but MyFoxNY reports that the FBI said, "The FBI met the flight and an individual from that flight was denied entry to the U.S. There was no threat to the president."

The person who was denied entry was "a British citizen tied to a radical environmentalist group that opposes airport expansion. The group apparently believes more runways mean more flights polluting the atmosphere." The group is HACAN—"campaigning against aircraft noise"—and the man is John Stewart. The Evening Standard says, "Mr Stewart, 62, who heads the anti-airport expansion protest group HACAN and who led the campaign against the third runway at Heathrow airport, was believed to have fallen foul of the US's strict visa entry requirements because he planned to spend a month travelling across the country campaigning."

Stewart was ordered to return to the U.K. He had been accused of hypocrisy for flying out of Heathrow.

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By Jen Chung in News on September 30, 2011 12:00 PM

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whiteiris

Report him to Attack Watch!

nicemarmot

No surprise there, the government has been using over-the-top tactics against environmentalist types for years now. When I was in college some "eco-terrorists" had set fire to a few Humvees at a dealership near the school. The feds decided that, of course, us evil college students must be behind it. They used the Patriot Act and raided an off-campus house where a couple of students lived, completely trashed the place, confiscated all their computers and a bunch of other items, and then...nothing. None of them had anything to do with "eco terrorism" but they never got their stuff back. Or their security deposit, what with the house being badly damaged by the raid. But it's worth giving up our privacy and feeling of personal safety, I mean, just think, somebody could set another SUV on fire! Won't someone think of the auto manufacturers and their precious endangered merchandise?

Environmentalists do crack me up sometimes though. If you're against airports, shouldn't you...not be flying?