CANdLE (Cumbria AND Lancashire Etc) at Faslane
anarchoteapot | 02.11.2006 14:38 | Faslane | Anti-militarism
Highlights? The police officer who made a point of sitting in both vans of arrestees, and ranted about capitalism, BAe, Eurofighter, Iraq, land ownership and more, in a personal capacity, whilst also asking about theism as part of pacifism in Quakerism. The swapping of police roles as they discovered there was no officer old enough to drive the hire vans we were held in. The WPC allowing us cigarettes before processing, hissing at us to hide them when her superior walked past. The chats about music, drink, drugs, clubbing, anything really. The three hot meals in the cells (quantity not quality, vegan and hal-al options available). Finding graffitti by other blockaders in the cells. The knowledge that we were going to be released without charge (so far the only response). Of the 9 arrested, I think only 3 had been arrested before, and this was certainly the nicest introduction to a first arrest.
If you were wondering about going to Faslane, do so, get arrested, add to the numbers that will be thrown at the Government as the year rolls on. This is civil disobediance at its simplest and truest.
And, make sure your arm-tubes are the right length, and take enough wrist chains, so that you can stretch the blockade beyond the symbolic to the truly effective (this requires enough numbers to do all gates, too)!
As a group, we were relieved by the arrival of a bloc of mostly Catholic priests in warm wooly cloaks, who announced they were not intending to camp for the night! I wish I could have witnessed those arrests too!
Keep up the pressure!
[any chance of an action topic for faslane 365?]
anarchoteapot
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4kin hey!!
03.11.2006 22:24
Im a bit suprised that the fire and rescue service were there to remove the lock on's - is that right? It's usualy specialist cops with F&R not wanting to be seen siding with cops.
long ago F& R used to do this cutting chain stuff but there was a very successful campaign with their union and they have not done it since in england, so I guess the point is that if the F&R are helping the old bill then perhaps try getting them to change their minds through dialogue or appealing to the unions.
Once the weather gets better I'll look forward to getting up there.
Love 'n' rage
Croltbopper
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Nice One!
02.11.2006 22:46
Last time I got nicked up there, I ended up sharing a cell in Greenock with, among others, a Minister of the cloth in all his finery. We were released together in the wee small hours, and shared a taxi back towards where we both lived. On the way back I told him that most of my family would be distraught that I had been arrested, and had spent time in the cells. I worried what my gran would say. The Minister/Priest said to me, "Tell your Grandmother from me, that you fell in with a bad crowd." lol
Keep up the good work
Peace
John
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