Judge praises DSEI train blockers!
Gulliver | 22.09.2006 13:11 | DSEi 2005 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | London
Well almost, Lord Justice Moses, hearing the appeal against sentence of 10 people who blockaded trains taking delegates to the DSEI arms fair in London stated that every one of them had given considerable public voluntary service to the community.
The ten protesters, including 2 from Nottingham, had admitted a charge of obstructing an engine or carriage using a railway at a London station in 2005 and were given community service orders and ASBOs. On Wednesday this week the orders were quashed by Lord Justice Moses in the Appeal Court.
Well done to you all for your courageous and principled service to the international community. Perhaps if more people were like you the people of Lebanon could today be gathering their olive harvest without he fear of detonating one of the hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bombs.
More details
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5365368.stm
Well done to you all for your courageous and principled service to the international community. Perhaps if more people were like you the people of Lebanon could today be gathering their olive harvest without he fear of detonating one of the hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bombs.
More details
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/5365368.stm
Gulliver
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good news
22.09.2006 13:52
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Might as well just publish their whole frickin addresses, BBC!
26.09.2006 15:54
Surely quite an infringement of their privacy, and a potential threat to their safety? (Bearing in mind these are soulless, guiltless, wealthy arms dealers we're confronting here - not the kind of organised criminals I would be comfortable having virtually my entire home address.)
I mean, publish names and hometowns of the wrongly convicted if you must - but street names too? Evidently other people's privacy and security matters not a jot to the BBC!
Just seems like another media intimidation tactic to me: take direct action, and even if your wrong conviction is quashed, we'll still publish virtually your full home address online. Seems like the realm of Redwatch, not the BBC.
Bog Brither