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Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by jfk13 on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:19AM (#20189669)
> I disagree with your assessment. I myself am certainly not a lawyer, but the way I interpret that language is for something to be considered an act of terrorism it has to meet a criteria from section [1] AND section [2]. I agree that the planned drone demonstration meets 1c, but I don't think it meets any of the criteria from section 2.

Also not a lawyer, but it seems pretty clear to me that flying drones around an airport can be considered to fall under 2(d): "creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public".

The fact that the airport can respond by closing down operations to mitigate the risk does not make it OK, any more than phoning in a warning before setting off a bomb makes that OK.

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Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by samcday on Saturday June 15, 2019 @08:42AM (#20189738)
This is actually the best rebuttal I’ve seen so far, thank you.

I still think it’s unfair to compare a drone inside restricted airspace (and notified well ahead of time) to an explosive device in the terminal.

But I can certainly see how the two things can be put in the same category by many people.

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Re:Drones piloted by climate-change activists target Heathrow by brokenmachine on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:18AM (#20199900)
Shutting down essential services is a risk to the public.

Imagine someone waiting for a life-saving kidney transplant or whatever. Now you have to get an uber to deliver it.

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