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Bomb Convoy Stopped for a third time

Bomb buster | 10.04.2003 16:13

Bomb Convoy stopped by Anti-war activists for a third time

A convoy carrying bombs from RAF Welford in Berkshire to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire has been stopped by anti-war activists for the third time in recent weeks. The convoy was carrying conventional 'dumb' bombs which will be loaded on to B52s at Fairford and used in carpet bombing raids in Iraq.
The activists managed to lock themselves to their own car blocking the path of the convoy. The convoy was stopped for approximately 30 minutes before the police travelling with the convoy managed to cut 4 of the activists free and arrested them. The 4 activists have been taken in a police cell van travelling with the convoy to RAF Fairford.

Bomb buster

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not even worth replying to

10.04.2003 17:28

ignore him.

Well done :)

hmm

Bomb Convoy Abuse

10.04.2003 17:46

In amongst all the abuse that posts on the IndyMedia newswire about stopping bomb convoys attract, at last a funny comment

"These people aren't at all peace protestors, they're carpet fanatics and don't want any more carpets to be bombed"

taken from a US website called little green footballs the place where all this abuse originates

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6209_This_is_Getting_Tiresome#comments

Bomb buster
Homepage: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=6209_This_is_Getting_Tiresome#comments

HEY

10.04.2003 19:45

I happen to be an LGFer and I think the remark was taken out of context a little bit. (Hint: IT'S A JOKE!)

The comment was meant to be amusing, pinpointing how silly this "demonstration" was and how absolutely nothing changed because of it.

Anastasia
mail e-mail: anastasia0330@gci.net

Blockade

10.04.2003 20:12

Try and Blockade HEREFORD.

SIMON

Long live peace & punctuation

10.04.2003 22:13

It's amazing how people on the kill 'em side expose their intellectual failings by completely failing to understand the basic rules of punctuation. Yes, you, "rightonincanada". For your information, when using the second person possessive, the correct version is "you're", NOT "your". Never mind "impressive" words like "pantheon"; get the basics right. Which, of course, you don't, and never will.

someone literate

Punctuation

10.04.2003 22:44

Sorry, bad habit from years of doIng codes, i try to nOt let it happen agaiN.

SIMON

Wow, this is amazing

10.04.2003 23:05

And the anti-war people, through you, have just exposed how little intellectual and moral appeal their side has by having to nit-pick about grammar, instead of arguing any merits of their cause.

Oh well though, not like you guys have ever had any intellectual or moral appeal right?

-MiB

The Man In Black

Well done & respect

11.04.2003 00:02

Well done to the people that took action - you have achieved something amazing / inspiring -you've saved lives - if only by delaying an attack for some hours- you are true heros-

which is why you make the pro-war people so crazy

revolutionary kisses
&
blessed be

everylittlecounts

To: every little counts

11.04.2003 00:40

"Well done to the people that took action - you have achieved something amazing / inspiring -you've saved lives - if only by delaying an attack for some hours- you are true heros-"

Ummmm...no, not really. Do you really think these weapons were going right from the road to the B-52s? Munitions are not shipped with fuses, fins, guidance systems, etc; that would be unsafe. These bombs were on their way to "the bomb dump", where they would have been stored until needed. THEN, and only then, would they be assembled, put back on flatbeds, taken to the aircraft, and loaded. This action didn't delay one sortie by one minute.

Also, by the original article, the delay was 30 minutes (1/2 of an hour) not "hours".

Are we feeling ineffectual yet?

Realist

That headline's wrong

11.04.2003 01:58

I object to the headline to this article. As I understand it, the first two times the convoy didn't actually stop. It just kept rolling with the protesters still chained to the vehicles. Then, the protesters immediately unchained themselves, which is what makes the whole series of events so amusing.

Hey SIMON wake up matey

11.04.2003 02:21

They DID try it in HEREFORD:

PRESS RELEASE: 20th March, 13.45pm

Arrests Made as Traffic Chaos and Mass Protest brings Hereford to a standstill…the demonstration continues…

Peace protesters brought many roads around Herefordshire to a standstill today, as there were scenes of mass protest against the current war on Iraq, in the biggest demonstrations Hereford has ever seen. Approximately 200 demonstrators took peaceful civil disobedience against the war, disrupting “business as usual” and bringing the war home to the public and politicians. 5 arrests were made, for alleged minor public order offences.

On the day of action, over 100 of the campaigners were students from many schools in Herefordshire. However, Hereford VI Form College and Aylestone School, saw the biggest walkouts. The Women’s refuge did a walkout to join the demonstration, and reports suggest barely anyone turned up for college at the sixth from today.

The day included a mass ‘die in’ outside the army recruitment office and another in ‘High Town’, blockage of the busiest road in the city and much noise and colour on a march that still continues around the city. Peace campaigners were shocked and alarmed by police tactics, including police brutality against children. One officer declared, “Don’t be afraid to use force, even if they are children!”

Peace campaigner, Joss Garman, said, “Peaceful, well focused and widespread nuisance, even if it irritates other members of the public, forces the issue to the front of people’s minds, and ensures that no-one can contemplate the war, without also contemplating the opposition to the war”

The day of action was called by Hereford Students Against War and Herefordshire Anarchist group. Many of those present today will attend the huge demos in London and at RAF Fairford this Saturday.

nvda

Well done!

11.04.2003 02:42

I really wish I'd been there.

viv
mail e-mail: viv

Tactics?

11.04.2003 05:45

Does anyone actually believe this had a real effect?

Consider the unintended consequences for a moment. Everyone in that convoy now respects you and your position just a little bit less. People beyond that who support this war respect you just a little bit less. Some people are becoming annoyed.

It may make you feel good to do these things.

Feeling good does not achieve results, though.

Dishman

?

11.04.2003 08:20

I Meant Squadron 22(Plonkers).

SIMON (Order de Gerbode)

the right hehe

11.04.2003 10:00

The right doesn't like people taking action, because it exposes them to their own feelings of inadequacy. It also confuses them, because actually thinking about issues is rather difficult, when they automatically believe everything they see (and maybe read) in the corporate media. Its useful to remember that the enemy is so utterly stupid.

zz. wtf are you talking about?

11.04.2003 10:16

"The right doesn't like people taking action, because it exposes them to their own feelings of inadequacy."

What kind of action is holding up a few bombs, that won't be used for hours and can be replaced by the others in the ammo dump?

And what kind of inadequacy is 130,000 troops in the Gulf?

Jebus, you people! Does anyone really believe that stopping a convoy for thirty minutes will help the "prevent air support, get our troops killed/stop the war" effort?

Colt

...!

11.04.2003 10:17

Colt

A note on tactics

11.04.2003 10:27

We know that the B52s were stationed in Fairford because the US felt that they would meet least resistance here. Stopping the convoy may not stop sorties from Fairford, but it does make it more difficult for them to use the base effectually. What better tactics would you like to suggest than stopping weapons of mass destruction being transported through our countryside to bomb innocent civlians in Iraq? Big respect to the people who did this, and to the people who have made it into the bases to sabotage the war machine.

amy

another day, another bomb convoy

11.04.2003 11:19

I think that there is an additional reason to stop bomb convoys - according to the media the war is now over (just like in Afghanistan, right?)so highlighting the fact that bombs are still going out is very important.

A good tip would not to respond to all the pond life 'responding' to the bomb stopping postings.

Well done, whoever you were - and bad luck on getting nicked!

chris b

Get new material

11.04.2003 12:25

Can't you think of something new to do? Like washing?

Ral

Carpet Bombing, eh?

11.04.2003 21:18

What's the coalition "carpet bombing" in Iraq, exactly?

Certainly doesn't appear to be doing it ot the cities, from the satellite photos and accounts of Iraqi civilians or reporters.

Maybe, just maybe, the writeup isn't strictly factual about the use of the "dumb" bombs in question?

(It's not 1972, guys, and this ain't Linebacker 2.)

Sigivald

"Just a flesh wound" to the Peace movement...

12.04.2003 00:33

http://www.zone5300.nl/?id=321

...yeah, right!

And so, into the trashbin of history to you. Useful idiots, Quislings, and appeasers.

So-called peace advocates, in the lineage of Lindberg and his Nazi ilk.

http://foia.fbi.gov/lindberg/lindberg1a.pdf

Its you who have done deadly harm to the noble aims of liberalism and social reform. Who can trust your judgement, or take you seriously, again?

Dave Brown
mail e-mail: unstableelements@excite.com
Homepage: http://www.zone5300.nl/?id=321

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