Heightened Security at Heathrow at around 11:00 5.12.2009

Heightened Security at Heathrow at around 11:00 5.12.2009

Eye witness acoount, no relative articles found. Appologies if the wrong section. This however is news. the news is below.

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[edit on 5-12-2009 by mushibrain]

[edit on 5-12-2009 by mushibrain]

5.12.2009 at about 11:00AM London time, there were unusual security measures taking place at Heathrow Airport. The exact terminal and other details are to be confirmed soon.
a queue of passengers boarding on a Virgin flight were singled out by an armed soldiers, all with machine guns pointing at passengers, not in the ground. The entire queue was surrounded and no one was allowed to leave the queue. One guy wanted to go to toilet and was not allowed to break from the queue.

This created an unpleasant atmosphere amount the passengers. The military stayed there for half an hour at the most, and then just left, leaving passengers alone.




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[edit on 5-12-2009 by mushibrain]

Testing public response to a possible Martial law? it sure looks like it. That the first thought that came to mind when i read this thread...

reply to post by mushibrain


Hi mb, is this something that you witnessed?

reply to post by mushibrain


Can you name source?

Also, it would be unlikely that military would have jurisdiction here. Could have been SO 19 if all dressed in black?

Originally posted by schrodingers dog
Hi mb, is this something that you witnessed?

no, a friend of mine who was visiting me, sent an text on the phone. This friend was actually in the mentioned queue. I'll be able to get more info once the flight is landed at the destination.

Originally posted by chillpill
Can you name source?
Also, it would be unlikely that military would have jurisdiction here. Could have been SO 19 if all dressed in black?

No details on the clothing, just lot's of guys with guns cordoned off the queue. Could be SO 19 or who knows. The queue was completely surrounded; no one was allowed to leave. It was a Virgin long distance flight.

Originally posted by lagenese
Testing public response to a possible Martial law? it sure looks like it. That the first thought that came to mind when i read this thread...

Martial law in Britain! Having a laugh. The military does not work like (ahem) Iran.

Regards

reply to post by paraphi


Martial law will be imposed in the UK very soon, just watch and see. They will probably be one of the first country to have Martial law...

[edit on 5-12-2009 by lagenese]

Originally posted by lagenese
reply to post by paraphi

 

Martial law will be imposed in the UK very soon, just watch and see. They will probably be one of the first country to have Martial law...

[edit on 5-12-2009 by lagenese]

Sadly i think that's true.

Just look at the changes in our freedoms. The suspicions, the nannying, the observing, the fear-mongering, the division, the protests, the counter protests, the riots and the media.

All pointing in one direction.

Brown even said it himself... 'The new world order is here'

-- to add, i can't find any sources yet.

[edit on 5-12-2009 by mr-lizard]

Ok thats pretty interesting and im not sure if something i seen today is related,
I live under the flight path and today there was a passenger plane very low in the sky (I thought it was very odd to be that low) There where 4 police helicopters around it, which again was very odd in itself, I came home to check the news in case there was something going on, But heard nothing about it,

So not sure if what i saw was possibly related, I seen the plane about 3pm, would have landed i would guess about 20 mins from when i see it,

opps lol wrong place,

[edit on 5-12-2009 by asala]

see what i mean, these people walking around with guns telling you you can't use the bathroom. why can't we all have gun just so e have a fighting chance at using the toilet. these people i swear, they want to keep all the guns to themselves just so they can say "no."

I am waiting for a friend to show up online. I know that plain landed OK, I got a text from a friend.
On the other hand (and to my embarrassment) I got some of the facts wrong, It was Gatwick airport, and it was a bit earlier than 11:00 (closer to 9:00AM). I better say no more because I am sure I'll get it wrong again. I'll wait for a friend to go online and then ask all kinds of questions - type of uniform, how many, for how long, were there any dogs, did they say anything (like be calm we're looking for illegal package of mature cheddar cheese ) and so on.

My friend is no stranger to an armed "security" in airports, but this one was different so that it was worth talking to me about. guns were pointed at passengers all the time and their general behaviour was not like other times, and the numbers of them...

Finally got the updates.

- there were about 6 armed uniforms. Uniforms looked like the police.
- 5 of them had machine guns pointing at the line of passengers of the Virgin flight.
- 1 of them who had no machine gun was walking with a dog sniffing everyone in the queue.
- the queue was before the boarding or control, the first one, registration and check in.
- if dog could not reach backpacks or handbags, passengers were asked to put the stuff on the ground for the dog to sniff. The entire sniffing process was much more thorough than usual.
- no one was allowed to leave or enter. the entire siege lasted about 30 min, after which they just left. No other queues were affected.
- the armed unit blocked the exists in such a way that no one from the queue could escape. One guy was returned back after he tried to leave the queue.
- all of them had also 2 spare magazines for the machine gun, pistols, gas, batons, and all the gear.
- it was around 9AM.

reply to post by mushibrain


I know this is shinanigans HOWEVER the current US Flight threat level is High.. Watch out for those terrorist! www.dhs.gov...

reply to post by lagenese


Calm down. Martial law in the UK won't happen because the military won't allow it. This is due to a separation of the military from the state.

Apart from the obvious, the military machine in the UK is small and would not be able to impose martial law.

Regards

Originally posted by paraphi
reply to post by lagenese

 

Calm down. Martial law in the UK won't happen because the military won't allow it. This is due to a separation of the military from the state.

Apart from the obvious, the military machine in the UK is small and would not be able to impose martial law.

Regards

Why woudn't military allow martial law? just curious.
also, what if EU troops come in to help?

reply to post by mushibrain


I think the question is "why would the military impose martial law". I know there are those who think authority is out to get them, but in the case of most advanced democratic nations the military would not act against their own populace because the state and the military just don't work like that.

The population would not accept martial law and the military would not carry out instructions to impose it. I cannot think of any EU nation who would do the same thing against their naeigbour either and I cannot think of any "local breakdown" which would lead to it happening.

Besides, in the UK the army at least owes alliegence to the Queen and not some fly-by-night politician and the Queen still has the theoretical right to dissolve Parliament.

Regards

Originally posted by paraphi
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I cannot think of any EU nation who would do the same thing against their naeigbour either and I cannot think of any "local breakdown" which would lead to it happening.

Besides, in the UK the army at least owes alliegence to the Queen and not some fly-by-night politician and the Queen still has the theoretical right to dissolve Parliament.

Well, we had Kosovo, Bosnia. UN troops were keeping peace. I think martial law was in place. The Queen has theoretical power but I don’t think she will dare to use it. But you're right, I don't see martial law happening just yet, I still have hope in humanity.

This thread is a great demonstration on why people laugh at conspiracy theorists. From one unsubstantiated report of happenings at Heathrow, we have people saying martial law is about to be enacted in the US. All without any evidence at all.

How do you expect to learn anything when you're filling your minds up with unsupported claims you hear on the internet? You're like old women talking over the garden fence - gossiping about the world. All rumour, no fact.