Mary Kelly Case Adjourned

by jeff Wed Jun 16, 2004 17:10

Axe wielding nurses sound scary, but Mary Kelly is no ordinary axe wielding nurse. So, if she keeps getting adjourned, the likelyhood is that she will get a suspended sentence, that will cause a right wing journalist from the Sindo/star/irish sun/ to start frothing at the mouth and get a heart attack.

It is a win/win situation.

by redjade Wed Jun 16, 2004 20:04

Good news! sort of, it also means that Mary has more time to bring others in for her defense - so everyone needs to donate money to her effort to help her case.

It also allows Mary to continue you good cause to expose the Irish Gov't complicity in the US/K War In Iraq.

Mary deserves all our support!

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Definition of adjourned.
ad·journ ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-jûrn)
v. ad·journed, ad·journ·ing, ad·journs
v. tr.
To suspend until a later stated time.

v. intr.
To suspend proceedings to another time or place.

by Denial Thu Jun 17, 2004 00:38

The first comment that MK is likely to get a suspended sentence if convicted is way off mark. Would the state expend all this money on a retrial and let her walk. methinks not.

Sounds like a peace movement full of denial.

by Eoin Dubsky Thu Jun 17, 2004 11:07

The prosecution doesn't need the pilot to attend, for the court to believe that Mary isn't the owner of the aircraft and didn't have the owner's permission to damage it. And yet they're wasting everyone's time now saying "oh our friend the US Navy pilot missed his flight, can we come back tomorrow?"... One of Mary Kelly's expert witnesses has to return home to the States in a few days time, so its likely that the prosecution are using their pilot friend to drag on their "case" against her...
Basically, they don't have a case against her though, and they know that. The issue is whether or not damaging the plane was "excusable" or "reasonable" under the circumstances as she understood them to be at the time (i.e. was there a great enough threat to human life or property in Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere being posed by the United States Armed Forces... and was damaging a warplane a reasonable action to do considering that warplanes are an essential tool for modern warfighting and planning... answer: yes). For that defence to work the jury don't even have to hear about the criminality of the planned invasion of Iraq, the embargo on Iraq, and other US foreign policy enforced with the help of such US Navy aircraft. However under S. 18 of the Non-fatal offences against the person act, 1997, (http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/ZZA26Y1997S18.html) there are a couple of defences which she could use to also bring in the important issue of America's criminal conduct in international affairs.

She acted in good faith. She tried to stop a warplane for good. I wish I had her courage when I spray-painted that USAF warplane in Shannon five months earlier.

by redjade Thu Jun 17, 2004 17:04

Ireland's most political dog.

Dylan

by Dr Raeder Anderson - Independent Sat Jun 26, 2004 18:09 raeder1a at yahoo dot com

Let this woman go; she obviously has more courage than most men and women in the USA, or Ireland. Reprimand her for vandalism, perhaps, but let this good woman go in peace... and axe no more!.