OscailtCosantóirí Síochána, Shannon Banner Drop Photo Report.An account of the ‘Shannon Banner Drop’ & subsequent vexatious arrest of 4 peace activists at Shannon Airport on Saturday 17th September 2005.
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We donned orange jumpsuits, (Mr. Harnett and I), while Mr. Cregan donned remainder of army fatigues, including a ketchuped bandage to his forehead. We then proceeded to hang banner. It took a couple of minutes to tie in place and we then held up another banner and tied this up also. Mr. Cregan and Mr. Harnett called out/ vocalised our shared concerns, i.e. CIA torture jets out of Shannon, no US military through Shannon etc. Ms. Liddy and St John were using cameras & video camera from carpark.<br />
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After approx. 10 minutes the airport security entered the balcony and proceeded to attempt the removal of banners, grab Mr. Harnetts dictaphone by force, prevent us from continuing and question us, all simultaneously. 1 APO started to untie large banner by me and I stood to impede his untying, he grabbed me from behind, put my arms behind my back and told me I was arrested / detained and pulled me back, which I did willingly. As the arguments with Mr. Harnett, Mr. Cregan, the APO’s and other staff commenced in earnest, and the apparent urgency to remove the other banner the security goon released me and proceeded with other matters. While Mr. Harnett and Mr. Creegan became embroiled in an argument about taking dictaphone and 1st removed banner I held up part of large banner still in place vocalised our concerns as outlined above. As I was doing this an APO requested my name and address which I gave instantly.<br />
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When they had removed the banners and failed in their attempts to snatch / wrestle the dictaphone which Mr. Harnett continued to use and asked all security on the balcony their names and their purposes which they all refused to answer repeatedly.<br />
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They then decided to remove us to another area of the airport. 1 APO propelled Mr. Harnett and I in front and Mr. Cregan was dragged / partially carried by 3 to 4 men. Mr. Harnett and Mr. Cregan continued to voice our concerns, interceeded by Mr. Harnett requesting to know names of security and other related info as well as narrating scene to dictaphone. We were escorted across 1st floor into elevator, to lower floor proceeded in same manner across this floor to baggage reclaim. Approx 1000 people between both floors witnessed this. On entering baggage reclaim we commenced crossing the 30-40m of floor to the far side, our destination, the APOs decided to force Mr. Cregan into a wheel chair, which he verbally and later physically resisted. The baggage reclaim was largely empty at this time.<br />
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Once there, arguments ensued largely about dictaphone possession, legality of recording, property possession, and refusing to enter a tiny first aid room. 2 Gardai arrived , followed by 1 or 2 more shortly afterwards. The Garda told Mr. Harnett/us repeatedly that he hadn’t given consent to be recorded on dictaphone and that he would prosecute Mr. Harnett for this, (repeatedly stated), the APO was very fast to chime in with, me too. No consent, want to prosecute. He also told Guarda that he had been assaulted, (as he had said on balcony, he said Mr. Harnett assaulted him with a dictaphone when Mr. Harnett resisted his clumsy attempts to wrest it from him.)<br />
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APOs then made another attempt to wrest dictaphone off Mr. Harnett, the dictaphone was severally damaged during this clumsy procedure. (You could hear it cracking and breaking). The dictaphone then fell, hit the ground after falling over 5 feet and the batteries and back burst off it. It was then taken by Garda CL42 Dave Condren, Mr. Harnett repeatedly requested it to be put in envelope, sealed and be signed for by Guarda and himself, which the Garda was unwilling to do.<br />
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An APO came over from arrivals hall and said to others that there were cameras outside and immediately 2 or 3 left to grab these.<br />
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Members of the travelling public had arrived at the closest luggage carousel and after awhile Mr. Harnett and I knelt down, with our heads down with Mr. Cregan standing over us, in a typical Guatanamo style scene. We were quickly told to stand, and ordered to stand by Conor!, which we did. Other than this we were quiet except to discuss dictaphone, being put into small room and removal of personal property.<br />
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Gardai took names and addresses, which we all gave. He then asked Mr. Cregan for proof of ID, (to substantiate it), Mr. Cregan replied he had given what was legally required. Garda arrested him immediately and handcuffed him. He then asked Mr. Harnett to substantiate his name and address which Mr. Harnett couldn’t or wouldn’t do, then the Guarda and Mr. Harnett entered the 1st aid room and went through Mr. Harnetts belongings. He again requested that his dictaphone be properly and correctly looked after. CL42 told Mr. Harnett he would personally look after the property in question and that it would be looked after correctly. The search procedure took approx. 5 minutes, while Mr. Cregan and I waited outside. Mr. Cregan knew 1 of the Garda outside with us and they started chatting, there was a bean Guarda also present. While handcuffed he got phone call. Mr. Cregan the asked the Guarda he knew to please remove the handcuffs, which the Guarda did. After this, once Mr. Harnett was out, he was taken into 1st Aid room to identify his stuff, witness search of property.<br />
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After this a squad car arrived to a side door closest to our location.<br />
They were then led towards the car, I/we asked about myself and I was instructed by a Garda to leave the area immeditely, with APO, across floor, exiting out into the arrivals hall. I crossed floor as lads led away, I reached fat APO and commenced questioning me. I informed him I had been instructed to leave the area by the Garda.<br />
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He said I was in a sterile area and was leaving with him. He asked how I arrived and I said I walked. He got phone call and another APO was standing alongside and I said actually came out on the bus. Fat APO finished phone call and asked what bus. Bus Eireann. Where from, Limerick. When, 12.30, asked if I arrived at 1, no, ¼ past or ½ past. He asked if I had walked around airport in orange jumpsuit sine 1.30 to which I replied no. I was then permitted to step through baggage reclaim to arrivals hall. He told me to exit immediately, go to bus stop and get bus out of airport. I proceeded immediately outside and up to bus stop. As I neared bus stop St John called out to me and I acknowledged him briefly from a short distance. I looked at bus stops and located the correct 1 where I waited for bus. I could see St John, Ms. Liddy and Sorcha talking to security. A bus pulled up and I rang MS. Liddy and told her not to give up footage and walk away. I left other people board the bus, St John and MS. Liddy went with security back to airport building, Sorcha talked for another minute with security or Guarda and then came over to buss. I boarded and she follwed. I was still in Guatanamo style jumpsuit. We left the area noticing a long vehicle queue to enter the airport grounds due to a sudden increase in security.Niall's Statement: Shannon Banner Drop 17/09/06http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1442772006-03-30T21:50:48+00:00Niall HarnettOn Saturday 17th Sept I arrived at Shannon Airport with Aron Baker. We went upst...On Saturday 17th Sept I arrived at Shannon Airport with Aron Baker. We went upstairs to the restaurant for a cup of tea. While paying for our teas/coffees, I asked the till lady if we could go out on to the balcony, which was closed at the time, and she said she’d contact the manager. We sat down in the restaurant near the balcony doors and a man, who I now know to be Restaurant manager Art Karabanau approached us. We asked him to open the balcony doors because we’d like to sit outside and he opened one of the doors for us, (there are 2 doors, one at each end of the balcony, one remained locked).<br />
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Aron and I sat at a table on the balcony to drink our tea and coffee. An airport worker came out on the balcony to eat his lunch as well as an older couple. Conor Cregan arrived on the balcony too. After the couple and the Airport worker had left about 45 mins after we arrived, there were just Aron, Conor & me on the balcony. As soon as the 3 of us were alone, Aron & I put on orange jumpsuits and Conor wore army combat fatigues and a bloodstained white bandana round his forehead. We proceeded to tie 2 banners to the balcony railings with rope. I used a penknife to cut some of the rope. When the banners were hung we used our voices to address the public about the ongoing abuse of Shannon as an American pitstop for war and as a pitstop for the CIA torture jets. At this stage I could see Mags and St John filming and taking pics of the protest.<br />
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We carried on our protest for about 10 mins until a number of men in shirts and ties burst out on to the balcony. I went to the railing to start taking down the banners as I was worried they would be ripped down by these men and when I started to untie the ‘Na Cosantoiri Siochana’ banner I was assaulted and pulled back away from the banner by a number of these men. They started to rip down the banner themselves. I told them to mind the banners, I took my dictaphone from my pocket and turned it on and immediately asked the man, who I now know to be APO Brian Casey, who he was and why were they taking down our banners. I asked him a number of times to identify himself and others and to show me his identity card to which he replied ‘Give me the Dictaphone’. He asked me for my name and address and I asked him why he wanted it and who was he. He then assaulted me, making a grab for the Dictaphone and my hand which was holding it and tried to forcibly remove the Dictaphone from me. I held the Dictaphone firmly in my grip asking him continually why he wanted it and to identify himself. He continued to squeeze my hand and the Dictaphone, damaging it and causing it to stop, and being reckless as to whether damage would be caused to my property. Attempts were made to rip down the banners in the same reckless way also. I asked him why these men were ripping down the banners. At one stage Conor Cregan intervened and tried to block with his body the attempts to take my Dictaphone saying to the men that recordings from this Dictaphone can be used as evidence in court and that he had recently been vindicated in court for his previous use of a Dictaphone in conversation with the police. Brian Casey moved away from me to ‘deal with’ Conor Cregan and then another man, who would not identify himself despite repeated requests and who I now know to be APO Tom Burke, assaulted me with no regard for my property and attempted to forcibly remove the dictaphone from me. After a few minutes of us trying to protect ourselves, our banners and property from the pulling and dragging of these men and after continued requests to individuals to identify themselves and show their ID which none of them had on, we were told that we were being removed from the balcony. Aron and I were physically removed from the balcony, walking, held by two men, and Conor was carried from the balcony, refusing to walk, to draw attention away from me and to protect the integrity of the dictaphone. Our property including our bags and our banners were taken separately from us by the men.<br />
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We were all led away from the balcony, through the restaurant, downstairs in a lift and over to the baggage hall area. We took this opportunity to continue to voice our concerns to the general public about the US abuse of Shannon etc. Conor Cregan was being manhandled by a number of men, ripping his clothes and trying to force him into a wheelchair, which he resisted. I continued to question the men who were holding us as to their identity, which they refused, saying nothing. I tried to play the tape on the dictaphone to test it and when I heard the tape playing ‘between slow and normal’ voices, I asked the man holding me to verify that he could hear the voices on the tape. He refused to answer. I asked Aron, who was beside me to witness this. On arriving in the baggage area I continued to ask people to identify themselves and show their identity, which they all refused to do including a woman who was there too.<br />
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Two Gardai arrived and more arguments developed around the Dictaphone. I asked the Gardai to identify themselves, which they did and Garda Sgt Dave Condren told me to turn off the Dictaphone. I told him I was using it to collect evidence and he told me that he did not consent to being recorded, attempted to grab the dictaphone and put his hand over my hand squeezing it causing the dictaphone to stop recording. At this stage APO Brian Casey said that he did not consent to being recorded either and also accused me of assaulting him. I tried to turn the Dictaphone back on but then APO Tom Burke made a grap for it and when he pulled it from me it was thrown onto the floor, breaking and cracking open with the batteries falling out of it. Sgt D. Condren took the dictaphone and I told him repeatedly that I wanted it sealed in a envelope and a receipt for it. He refused to do that. Then he asked me for my name and address which I gave him. He asked me for my DOB and I asked him “Am I obliged to give it to you”. He said “It will help me to identify you” and he told me he was arresting me to bring me to Shannon police station until he could verify my identity. I asked him did he believe I had given him a false name and address and he said, “You may have”. I asked him could I take my property which was visible in a room beside us with the door open. He asked me which bag was mine and to account for my own property which I did. He asked to see all the property in my bag and in my pockets, which I agreed to, showing him everything including a rope and a Swiss Army penknife. As soon as I produced the penknife I stressed the fact that I had brought the knife consciously to Shannon to use to cut the rope. He then told me he was arresting me under the offensive weapons act. I stressed again the role of the knife and I asked him to remember that I had volunteered this information to him before he arrested me. I was then told I was being taken to Shannon. I asked Aron was he being arrested and he said no and a garda told me that he was being released. Conor was going through accounting for his property and being led away when I asked him had he been arrested. He told me to ‘leave it’, meaning not to push the question. It was not clear to me that he had been arrested. Conor and I were taken to Shannon Garda station separately, me in the car with Sgt D. Condren and Garda P. Harte.<br />
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Once in the station I gave my full name and address again with my date of birth. My mobile phone was taken from me by Sgt D. Condren for no apparent reason, he said he wanted it for evidence. I said I wanted it sealed in an envelope and a receipt for it and the same for the dictaphone which he refused to do. He was very disobliging to us and our questions and he adopted a very aggressive attitude towards us, for no reason, and especially to Conor and told the member in charge to search us in the office. The member in charge (from whom we have received no statement), took our details and made notes of some of our property. I was given a copy of my rights and I asked to receive a visit from a friend, Tim Hourigan, who was at the station and I was told by the member in charge that he would speak to Tim and tell him that I wanted to see him. I was put in a cell, called in on occasionally by the MIC who I repeatedly asked to see Tim. No Tim. Later on I was joined by St John who was put in my cell. At about 7.30pm I was brought out to be charged under Section 33 of the Air Transport & Navigation Act, to which I replied under caution:<br />
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"I came to Shannon as part of a peaceful protest to highlight the ongoing use of Shannon Airport as a U.S. Military Airbase, to highlight the facilitation here of CIA torture jets, and to highlight the deal done by Minister for Injustice Michael McDowell with the CIA, giving them carte blanche interrogation rights in this country. I made this peaceful protest under Section 40 of the Irish Constitution and I expect those rights to be respected and vindicated by the law enforcers of this country." <br />
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I was then asked if I would like to make a phone call. I said I wanted to receive my visit first from Tim only to be told that he had just left and that the member in charge hadn’t had a chance to speak to him! This after repeated assurances all day that I could speak with Tim at the frist available opportunity. As it turns out, Tim had not ‘left’ but was just outside the station. Was fed shitty food late that night and following morning, brought to court for 11am.Great Photographs ...http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1442842006-03-30T23:01:07+00:00Elaine... and a brilliant report. Well worth waiting for. Congratulations on a fantast...... and a brilliant report. Well worth waiting for. Congratulations on a fantastic action and an excellent outcome.Ditto that!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1442852006-03-30T23:06:31+00:00Fintan LaneExcellent action, great photos!! Well done all!Excellent action, great photos!! Well done all!..http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1442892006-03-31T01:19:29+00:00EdFair play, we need more people like this putting their arse's on the line down a...Fair play, we need more people like this putting their arse's on the line down at shannon!<br />
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Good gonghttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1442902006-03-31T01:30:26+00:00CiaronGood going. Great action, good report.
Latest Australian screw up inIraq is the...Good going. Great action, good report.<br />
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Latest Australian screw up inIraq is the shooting of an elderly professor Kay Juma 72, killed by an Australian security guard from the Unity Resources Group, which is run by former Australian army personnel. Proffessor Juma held a residents visa in Australa, his wife is from Adelaide.<br />
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I attended a film on Depleted Uranium last night in Melbourne. 3 bands good turn up, but even greater turnover...hardly recognised anyone form the Jabiluka '98 generation. China is poised to make huge uranium deals in Australia, the Labor Party Oppositin is poised to roll over and abandon any opposition to uranium mining and export. U.S. forcec are poised to continue the use of Depleted Uranium munitions in Australia. The net big one being Operation Talisman Sabre '07 at Shoalwater Bay, near Rockhampton, Queensland. I'm heading up their in the next few weeks to give anti-war talks at schoolsand churches. Keep on keeping on at Shannon. See y'all soon.<br />
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CiaronDepleted Uranium in the Dentist's Office! PROTEST!!!!http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1443432006-03-31T15:55:42+00:00MichaelDon't you clowns know that every time you get a dental x-ray in your local denti...Don't you clowns know that every time you get a dental x-ray in your local dentist's office that you probably have an apron lined with DU laying on your chest? And that a lot of commercial airplanes carry DU as ballast? You've probably flown on MANY planes that were loaded with a ton or more of DU -- have you grown a third head yet? Started getting blurry vision? Are you sterile? Hair falling out?<br />
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Will the left EVER stop using bullshit propaganda that is simply not true? You guys really need to get real and get a life -- and get a haircut, as long as I'm giving you advice. This old 70s Vietnam-era hooey is really too much. <br />
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Just out of curiosity, do any of you have real jobs? I don't mean "academia" or "the dole," but real honest-to-God jobs where you actually have to show up for work on a regular basis and produce? Just curious -- I don't see how a motley crowd like this could ever fit into an office or factory work floor!<br />
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You're all really just embarrassing to the rest of the civilized world.<br />
Oh deary me, Michael love,http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1443482006-03-31T17:43:57+00:00Elaine... what a fit of pique! Why the temper tantrum? Baby got a pain in his fang? To...... what a fit of pique! Why the temper tantrum? Baby got a pain in his fang? Too many head x-rays? Did the nasty dentisty wentisty put a big heave DU lined apron on your little chesty westy? There there pet, you go and lie down til it passes.<br />
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And when you are feeling a little more civilised go and check out the links at <a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74962" title="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74962">http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74962</a>michaelhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1443522006-03-31T18:16:36+00:00pat ci think you have too much trust in what scientists tell you about uranium. i rem...i think you have too much trust in what scientists tell you about uranium. i remember years ago when arthur scargill was debating a representative of british nuclear fuels on whether coal or uranium was the cleaner fuel. the bnf guy had a uranium sample in a lead tube and was going on about how safe & clean it was. scargill produced a piece of coal and popped it in his mouth. he then invited the bnf guy to do the same with his piece of uranium. naturally he declined.<br />
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well mickey, if you like DU so much why not put your DU where mouth is?Why would you have an apron of DU on your chest at the dentists?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1443752006-03-31T22:48:02+00:00Phuq HeddDon't you clowns know that every time you get a dental x-ray in your local denti...<em>Don't you clowns know that every time you get a dental x-ray in your local dentist's office that you probably have an apron lined with DU laying on your chest?</em><br />
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It's more likely to be lead actually. And the health problems that occur from DU exposure seem to be as a result from when it is particulate dust, not when it's in a solid lump (like the keel of a ship). But unless there is a mandatory and plausible mechanism to make sure that any DU that is incorporated into "civilian" uses is recycled and not subjected to procedures which release ingestible DU then it's a good idea to keep it safely stored. DU seems to be just waste from the nuclear power industry (the unsuccesful, dangerous, white elephant foisted on us so that the UK, US, France, Pakistan can have WMDs) which they can't afford to store so they're trying to fool us into accepting as a product.<br />
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You might want to educate yourself about <em>why</em> DU is considered to be a hazard before exposing your ignorance. Read the link below and don't post anything until you've assimilated everything that you can from Google searches. How we get exposed, some exampleshttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1443782006-03-31T22:55:50+00:00Phuq HeddDepleted uranium from radiation shields melted in French foundry
Three or four r...Depleted uranium from radiation shields melted in French foundry<br />
Three or four radiation protection shields made from depleted uranium have inadvertently been melted in a foundry of Budin company at Aubervillers (Seine-Saint-Denis). Assuming they were made from lead, the shields were melted to recover lead. On May 19, 2003, the recovered metal was further trucked to the Metal-Blanc company at Bourg-Fidèle, where its radioactivity was discovered upon arrival.<br />
The shields had originally been used with cobalt-60 high-activity radiation sources. At least six such radiation shields had been provided to Budin in January 2003 by the metal recycling company Debus at Villejuif (Val-de-Marne).<br />
As a result, the Budin workers had unknowingly been working in a contaminated working place for more than six months.<br />
(Le Figaro Feb. 25, 2004; CRIIRAD Feb. 24, 2004)Dear Michael,http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1444142006-04-01T17:26:34+00:00Northern Lightyou raise a number of points which portray a very limited view of the type of so...you raise a number of points which portray a very limited view of the type of society we should all live in. For a start your equating academia with "non productivity" is particularily dubious given the research time spent by academics in devoloping new ideas in the world of engineering, science, business, computing and sociology. Was Albert Einstein a waster? Would you have "put him to work"? I guess he would have been a prime canditate for "getting ones haircut" too? <br />
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About "dolers", many musicians, who I have no doubt you hum and bop to, have spent time on the dole devoloping their talents. Tax and productivity are not the only ways to contribute to society. You sould research the concept of social capital.<br />
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As for work, it has to be said that if you work for someone else you are a subordinate. Yes there are a lot of subordinates out there. If you follow conventional Christian docterine about us all being God's subordinates then you should have no problem justifying this situation to yourself. If you take the traditional anarchist viewpoint of "No Gods, No Masters" then such a situation does not equate with personal devolopment and empowerment. Of course entrepeneurs, the self employed and musicians have greater degrees of personal freedom than the employed though all are essentaially "wage slaves". <br />
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As for productivity one has to ask "producing what"? Consumer goods? Alcohol? Arms? Do you think people should question the type of products they are involved in producing? I would infer from your piece that you want a world with people<br />
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+ working in jobs without questioning the impact of their work <br />
+ paying tax to a government that facilitates the use of Shannon by the US Army and has no problem ploughing up Tara.<br />
+ all having the same clothes and hair fashion<br />
+ not engaging in research in third level institutes<br />
+ not quetioning the type of society (Ireland) that has more golf courses than playgrounds<br />
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The reality of the situation Michael, is that people with your attitude have never chaged the World for the better. There would be shades of fascism in your ideas. Is that what you really want? You can always change your mind though. We are not bigots. You are welcome to join the revolution anytime. We won't ask you to grow your hair. All you have to do is break free!Any thoughts of civil proceedings against those who so grievously assaulted you at the airport?http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1445002006-04-03T11:43:05+00:00CoilínBTW, have we now established that we all have a constitutional right to engage i...BTW, have we now established that we all have a constitutional right to engage in peaceful protest at Shannon Airport? More details of the court's rulings on this and related points, please? <br />
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Thanks for the detailed coverage! Great pics from CCTV! Any chance of some moving pictures from that source on here? <br />
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Your big fan. <br />
Coilín. Coilínhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1447112006-04-05T00:00:39+00:00Niallinfo at cosantoiri dot orgCourt rulings were minimal and irrelevant if anything Coilín.
If you have any t...Court rulings were minimal and irrelevant if anything Coilín.<br />
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If you have any thoughts or advice on civil proceedings and methods yourself, please email them to above address, FAO myself.<br />
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To us, our constitutional rights to protest at Shannon have never been in doubt. It's just that the State will get away with acting illegally, immorally and unconstitutionally etc if we let them and don't stand up to them.<br />
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This Government is the enemy of the people of Ireland.<br />
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See Sean Ryan's most recent piece below called 'A Right to Protest'.Invitation to Garda Dave Condren ...http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75171#comment1447172006-04-05T00:44:47+00:00Nialland APO's Brian Casey and Tom Burke to confirm, refute or argue against anything...and APO's Brian Casey and Tom Burke to confirm, refute or argue against anything I've said in the article. <br />
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I welcome your comments.