Support Katharine Gun's Courage
Epimenedes | 30.11.2003 23:47 | London | World
Katharine Gun is the brave GCHQ officer who took a stand on principle in January/February and blew the whistle on the US/UK plans to spy on the non-permanent members of the Security Council. She is now being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act.
Katharine Gun is the brave GCHQ officer who took a stand on principle in January/February and blew the whistle on the US/UK plans to spy on the non-permanent members of the Security Council. She is now being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act.
Press articles on her case include:
http://www.news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1310122003
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,9061,1095152,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3243266.stm
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/content_objectid=13668061_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Officer--leaked-email-to-save-lives--name_page.html
The Antiwar community should lend its support to her. There are many more people who are part of the Intelligence machine who have contemplated taking the risk of standing on matters of principle. There are many who do not want simply to follow orders from a corrupt leadership. We need to give them all of our help and comfort and encouragement. Someone who is better at organizing than I am might want to think of how this might be done. I would be willing to contribute at least day's wage towards her legal defence costs
Press articles on her case include:
http://www.news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1310122003 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foi/story/0,9061,1095152,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3243266.stm http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0600uk/content_objectid=13668061_method=full_siteid=50082_headline=-Officer--leaked-email-to-save-lives--name_page.html The Antiwar community should lend its support to her. There are many more people who are part of the Intelligence machine who have contemplated taking the risk of standing on matters of principle. There are many who do not want simply to follow orders from a corrupt leadership. We need to give them all of our help and comfort and encouragement. Someone who is better at organizing than I am might want to think of how this might be done. I would be willing to contribute at least day's wage towards her legal defence costs
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Katharine Gun?
15.12.2003 18:47
I'm from the U.S. so I'm not up on the local details of the case against Katherine Gun either her prosecution or her defense, nor the local public and government reaction to her case, I can imagine it's divided? Has there been any local or for that matter international petitions or fund raisers in her benefit? Or public protests? All the information that I have seen about this cases has been gleaned from the Internet, I don't watch much TV but I don't recall seeing anything on U.S. news broadcasts about Katharine Gun.
It's just amazing what passes for a democracy. The way the likes of Blair, Bush and Spains president Anzar and their lackeys can use the word democracy and phrases like "defending democracy" with a straight face is so hypocritical it is disgusting to say the least. In the U.S. public opinion is less clear but in the UK and Spain it is very clear that the vast majority of the people did not approve of either Blairs or Anzars plans for war yet when it came down to it the desires and opinions of the majority of nations people meant nothing.
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