On Sat, 17
Nov 2001 19:11:56 +0000, Trident Ploughshares Media
davidmc@enterprise.net
> wrote:
TRIDENT
PLOUGHSHARES
Press
Release: 17th November 2001
Campaigners Close Downing Street to
"Secure Terrorist Suspects"
Today fifty
Trident Ploughshares campaigners closed down Downing
Street for an
hour in order to draw attention to their claim that the deployment
Of Trident
nuclear missiles means that UK government leaders are
Terrorist suspects.
At 5 p.m.
this afternoon the campaigners handed in a letter for Prime
Minister
Tony Blair. They then locked themselves with padlocks and
Chains to
the gate that protects the street. One activist, Dave
Rolstone(54),a
boatbuilder from Faslane Peace Camp in Scotland, climbed up the gate
And perched
on one of the ornamental lamp-posts. The banner hung on the
Gateway read:
"CLOSED. Nuclear Terrorists Under Investigation. UK's Trident
Missiles
Could Kill Millions."
When police
cut through most of the locks and chains the activists sat
Down against
the gate and it was an hour before they were dragged or led
away.
There were
no arrests.
The letter
says:
"Your
present "war on terrorism" has yet again highlighted to us and
to the campaign,
the terrorism which is implicit in our very possession of
nuclear weapons.
How can you argue that one Trident warhead of 100 kilotons
can be used
without killing thousands and terrorising thousands more? . . .
We ask that
the UK practises the same civilised values that we expect from
Other countries
in the world."
Trident
Ploughshares member David Mackenzie said: "The Prime Minister
Who talks
about the sanctity of human life is the same Prime Minister who
Has said he
is willing to press the Trident button and let loose an
Unspeakable
terror on millions of innocent people. We are determined to go on
Exposing the
failure of the UK to practise what it so loudly preaches."
The Downing
Street demonstration is part of a long weekend of action
In London
by the Trident Ploughshares campaign which is committed to
nonviolent,
open and accountable direct action against the Trident
nuclear weapon
system.
*Full Text
of Letter available
London
Contacts: 07876593016 or
07752378993
Or Jane
Tallents on 08454588367
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