Ploughshare Activist, Special Branch, Irish Army & Garda Assemble at Shannon as Condi Takes Off!

clare | anti-war / imperialism | news report

Wednesday August 16, 2006 13:56

by DCW

Would You Believe i?t - Only at The U.S. Military Base that is Shannon Airport!

Acquitted Pit Stop Ploughshares Damien Moran was questioned briefly by a Garda at Shannon Airport as Condi Rice took of this afternoon. Condi touched down in Shannon during her busy schedule of organisning U.S. wars around the planet. Ms. rice is considered a war criminal at large by many people she has had bombed recently.

Damien was in the company of an RTE "Would You Believe" crew completing a documentary on his journey form the seminary to the ploughshares action at Shannon. Before Condi took to the airways, U.S. soldiers were seen boarding a North American airlines flight.

Garda remarked that he was stationed there because Ploughshares "had threatened to close down the airport". The Irish Army & 40 extra Garda have been deployed since Catholic Worker activists stated at their post-acquittal press conference that they would give the government a certain time frame to demilitarise the airport. failing that they plan to close the entire airport with nonviolent resistance in the traditions of Gandhi and Martin Luther King.

Special Branch officers, Airport police and an Army jeep with 3 soldiers have assembled where Damien and RTE crew are stationed. Another ata American Trans Air troop carrier just left Shannnon during this period.