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by padraic - 1 of Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group - Indymedia Ireland
The trial began on Monday March 7th and is expected to last for just over a week. Watch this space for daily updates as things progress:
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The trial is of interest for one reason only. Although the defendents are a small minority even among the anti-war movement they represent a strain of thought which is as prevalent as it is pernicious. We don't mean vigilanteism as we don't think that that is particularly prevalent beyond the provisional movement. We mean pacifism, though the provisionals cannot be accused of that.
There are plenty of quite plausible arguments why the war in Iraq might not have been justified. Pacifism is not one, but it is the argument invoked today by the defendents.
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If the defendents in the dock are wondering why they have received so little attention they should consider the depth of their analysis. When 100,000 took to the streets two years ago there were some sensible reasons to query to whole enterprise. At their trial, seventy people turned up to support them. We would like to think that the remarkable, joyous election on January 30th had something to do with that, but in truth the facile, self-regarding claims of the defendents are probably no less compelling a factor.
So 100,000 can't be wrong but 70 necessarily must be? The morality of cowards and villains.
Amy Goodman interviewed Bishop Gumbleton
about the PitStop Plowshares.
Here's the snippet:
http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/media/2005/03/202915.mp3
http://mke.indymedia.org/en/2005/03/202914.shtml
The whole show is at:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/07/1449246&mode=thread&tid=25
http://www.warontrial.com
people who repeatedly blare on about 'freedom' are almost certainly free market right wing warmongers. a sad fact. the freedom institue quoted above headlines its homepage with a quote by personable old war criminal, ronnie reagan who certainly engineered the deaths of many thousands of people. 'freedom' in the hands of these people is a word with a very different meaning to the one in the dictionary.
one of the hammers was a 6-foot long plastic inflatable "baloony thing" in the Irish Tricolour with the words "Hammered by the Irish" written on it.
pity the judge did not allow the shrine and films
heres a pic of another shrine from the pitstop ploughshare crew, last sep 11th
hammered by the irish
sep 11 shrine (2004)
At link
...is that they are exhonerated as quickly as possible.
Some of those who use the term "freedom" are right-wing warmongers - e.g. the risible Mark Steyn. Others use it for their own ends - it's often a rhetorical term.
I think Wittgensteins' comment on not asking the meaning of a term but it's also quite useful when examining "freedom" as used by writers.
Pit Stop Ploughshares outside the Four Courts with Kathy Kelly (left, http://vitw.us ) and Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Very best of luck this week!
from AmericanCatholic.org:
March 14, 2005
St. Maximilian
(d. 295)
We have an early, precious, almost unembellished account of the martyrdom of St. Maximilian in modern-day Algeria.
Brought before the proconsul Dion, Maximilian refused enlistment in the Roman army saying, "I cannot serve, I cannot do evil. I am a Christian."
Dion replied: "You must serve or die."
Maximilian: "I will never serve. You can cut off my head, but I will not be a soldier of this world, for I am a soldier of Christ. My army is the army of God, and I cannot fight for this world. I tell you I am a Christian."
Dion: "There are Christian soldiers serving our rulers Diocletian and Maximian, Constantius and Galerius."
Maximilian: "That is their business. I also am a Christian, and I cannot serve."
Dion: "But what harm do soldiers do?"
Maximilian: "You know well enough."
Dion: "If you will not do your service I shall condemn you to death for contempt of the army."
Maximilian: "I shall not die. If I go from this earth my soul will live with Christ my Lord."
Maximilian was 21 years old when he gladly offered his life to God. His father went home from the execution site joyful, thanking God that he had been able to offer heaven such a gift.
Comment:
Rome’s draft board made no provision for conscientious objectors. Maximilian, wise beyond his years, looked beyond his conquering nation’s pride and saw the horror war inflicted on innocent people. He chose death rather than take an active part in it. Compulsory military service presents few problems to us, but national pride does. Like this martyr, we need to take a hard look at how well our country’s policies serve the rest of the world and act accordingly.
The Cries for Justice Continue to Sound
- War and Peace in Ireland
For the past week, the "Pitstop Ploughshares" were the defendants in a dramatic trial in Dublin -- a trial that crashed even more dramatically on Monday. Their high-powered lawyers were fighting to convince a jury that the five acted in the "honest belief" that they were protecting the lives and property of other people. The judge accused O'Reilly (the only one who has got a chance to testify) of trying to use the court as a political platform, and wouldn't allow some defence witnesses and evidence to be heard by the jury. Finally, after legal argument, the judge sent the jury home -- a good-enough outcome in the circumstances, though the five accused must wait to see if the State tries again later this year.
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The Americans were the most striking contingent: Kathy Kelly from Voices in the Wilderness was here, and Kelly Dougherty from Iraq Veterans Against the War. Bishop Thomas Gumbleton came from Detroit and, from the east coast, 13 members of the Grady family (it sometimes seemed like 30), a few of whom had to scoot back to upstate New York to face new federal charges for an action at a military recruitment center -- an action that a state jury has already failed to convict them on. The name "Berrigan" falls frequently from their lips.
Irish anti-war activists have moved among these beautiful visitors, soaking up the passion and peace that emanates from them, considering and reconsidering our own commitments, tactics and attitudes. In a country that has only recently shaken off one sort of Catholic power, we wonder are we ready to admit another. (It came as some assurance when one defendant assured us that the Catholic Worker movement is full of Atheist Slackers.)
Two years ago today, March 17, 2003, four peace activists in Ithaca, New York, poured their own blood on the walls, posters, windows, and a US flag at a military recruiting center in order to try to stop the imminent invasion of Iraq. They took action based on international law. Then knelt in prayer and waited to be arrested. Though one state court jury refused to convict them, today they face serious federal charges.
Last year the peace activists convinced nine members of a state court jury that their actions were consistent with international law. Daniel Burns, 43, Clare Grady, 45, Teresa Grady 38, and Peter DeMott, 57, all members of the Magnificat Catholic Worker community in Ithaca, admitted to the jury from the very beginning that they poured blood in the recruiting center in order to try to stop the war in Iraq. They testified they risked arrest in order to protect our sons and daughters in the military and to protect our sisters and brothers in Iraq.
The four argued that their actions were legal because the invasion of Iraq was illegal under international law. Because the United Nations had not approved the invasion of Iraq, the invasion was a series of serious illegal acts that constitute war crimes. And, under the Nuremberg Principles of international law, individuals have international rights and duties to prevent crimes against humanity which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual state.
They further argued that if their actions were indeed illegal, they were authorized under the defense of necessity because the harm they caused was far smaller than the harm they were trying to prevent.
They talked with the jury about Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks, and the Boston Tea Party. They reminded us, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, that everything done by supporters of Hitler in Germany was illegal, it was only those who tried to stop him who were violating the law.
When I saw this poster in Copenhagen airport yesterday it made me think of the Pitstop Ploughshares.
Though I don't speak a word of Danish, if it's anything like German the text means: "Fly classless to Stockholm. With class." The image depicts seven classy air stewards of Nordic Air, who've chainsawed the "business class" divider still found on snooty airlines.
Something the judge said during the trial, and others have said it before too, was that the necessity defence in the Criminal Damage Act (at section 6.2) which the activists argued was never supposed to be used for people in danger in far away places. Sure, save a stranger trapped in a burning house *in Dublin*, but not Faluja.
Well anyways, the best way to tell what was meant by our lawmakers is to look at the public record (Dail Eireann Volume 477) and see what they were saying during the reading of the Bill:
http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0477/D.0477.199704150016.html
(Search for "Criminal Damage Act")
Can I just point this section out
[And, under the Nuremberg Principles of international law, individuals have international rights and duties to prevent crimes against humanity which transcend the national
obligations of obedience imposed by the individual state.]
What you're all doing is extraordinarily brave, and not enough Americans know about you. Hope this helps a bit. The blog gets a half million hits a day, so a few people will learn about you. THANK YOU!
Some more information on the abuse of Irish neutrality in abetting the invasion of Iraq and the international transport of detainees to torture centers by the CIA:
1. Irish Police and government desperately try to hide the evidence from planespotters
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68866
2. Irish activists and planespotters try to get the Irish government to stop colluding in torture
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67865
3. Irish activists propose turning Shannon into a sanctuary for US troops refusing to serve
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68544
4. Irish Activist (who spraypainted US plane at Shannon) forces judicial consideration of use of Shannon airport by US planes
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68530
5. Protests in Derry against Raytheon
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68079
6. Another Irish activist disarms a US warplane (and is convicted for it later)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67216
7. Anti-War Banshees arrested at airport
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67254
8. Bush UnWelcomed in Ireland
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65773