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Ploughshares 3 get bail!

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Adrian Leason, Peter Murnane and Sam Land were bailed from the Blenheim District Court this morning after almost one week in jail. They have non-association orders, are not to go within 100m of a defence facility, not to go to Marlborough except for court or lawyer and report to a Police station twice a week. They will appear in court for a pre-deposition hearing on 9th June.

On Wednesday the three entered the Waihopai spy base and used sickles to cut one of the two 30-metre white domes. Damage is estimated at $1 million. "We are responding to the Bush administration’s admission that intelligence gathering is the most important tool in the so-called War on Terror. This war will have no end until citizens of the world refuse to let it continue. The ECHELON spy network including Waihopai, is an important part of the US government’s global spy network and we have come in the name of the Prince of Peace to close it down. The base is funded by New Zealand tax payers and located on New Zealand soil which makes New Zealand a target through our association with the UKUSA intelligence cooperation agreement."

About 60 people attended a demonstration of solidarity and support for the three men arrested for deflating the protective balloon covering the satellite at the Waihopai spy base last week in Wellington on Saturday.

Links: http://ploughshares.org.nz/ | Ploughshares Penetrate Waihopai Base Deflate Satellite Dome | Make tea, not war!
 
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Re: Ploughshares 3 get bail!

What was that other Judge on?

100M from a defence facility?

That means you can't fly out of Blenheim or into Christchurch. Was that intended?

And what is a 'facility'? Can they walk down Lampton Quay? As there are a few offices around there of interest.
 

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Lol, funniest thing was that there was no fog at the time of their action.
 

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I heard they weren't going to replace the dome since really its only job is to stop the public seeing that there is in fact a fucking sat dish inside, and which direction its pointing.

million dollars in damage my arse! that works out to about $1 million dollars in red faces more than anything.
 

Re: Ploughshares 3 get bail!

$200million tax payer funded maintenance of this US base? How many rail tracks can be restored with this funding of US war? But seing Fr. Pete in there makes me feel not so bad ay man!
 

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Glad to see that they have not thrown out habeaous corpus and due process, as Bushco has done in the Imperialist U.S.A. At least they are not lingering for six years in a concentration camp such as Guantanamo Bay like the Al Jazeera journalist just realeased and still without charges. The trouble with the right wingers throughout the world is they do not yet fully recognize that the U.S.A. under the drive to eliminate communism have with lies and deception put a fascist ruling cleptocracy into the whitehouse and throughout the law making non-elected judicary and the appointing of reactionary extremist generals in the Pentagon, to say nothing of their manipulation and theft of the public treasury to the Pentagon and mercenaries, of the monies for social programmes that make the living and working conditions happy and enjoyable, leaving the infastructure of the core cites in ruin and bridges etc. Corporation heads rule with extravagant salaries and the commonwealth people are left with a slashed medicare and law making as the U.S. constitution has been ignored and violated, (45,000,000) poor and working Americans are there. They hide the fact that the top five percent own 80% of Americas wealth, and the majority of the resources and wealth of the rest of the world. The gulf between the classes is widening with the sub-prime housing crisis, deliberately created by Bush (note. last year he passed an executive order to confiscate the property and freeze the assets of all who oppose his illegal unjust wars. This executive order was not passed in the govt. houses but by Bush and hsi neo-con co. alone as he president, with no one to answer to. This is a return to the divine right of kings on the part of Bushco, as he is deliberately waring on the working class of America and the rest of the world. He is lying and using weapons of mass destruction and wars of aggression of foreign policy. All of which is illegal by the anti-fascist covenants to which the U.S., and the majority in the worlds' countries and peoples are signed on to. When he talks peace he really means war till pacification. It is the same double speak that Nazis Germany used, such as calling the resistence to his illegal invasions and occupatgions as terrorism, just as the German illegal Invaders and occupyers, did to France by naming the French Resistence as terrorists, and using the three core nazis military principles as 1) might makes right, 2) Unilateralism, 3) Pre-emptive strikes. He lies consistenly by using the double speak also of the anti-fascist side that he is for liberation and not conquest. He is a guilty war criminal, and those who fight to defeat his war machine and its manufactury are in fact the legitimate liberation fighters of this millenium and century. Free the three anzac fighters and condemn the spying apparatus of the U.S. Imperialists as re-conquest for wrong unjust purposes.
 

Re: Ploughshares 3 get bail!

lol there was no fog, sure.

But the dudes from Pine Gap have an open book polict in OZ & told them in Jan08 Ploughshares would conduct an action around ANZAC day.

I say Waihopai are running an insurance scam, like leaving your car unlocked & keys in the ignition.
 

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Waihopai is funded by the USA, anyway, isn't it?

Pretty sure CAFCA have published that already, never mind what Nicky Hagar has published.

Clarkie is doing yet another beat-up to make "mainstream NZ" think that nasty peace activists are costing the country tax dollars to clean up after them. Silly cow!
 

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