Pitstop Ploughshares found not-guilty
by Paul Wednesday July 26, 2006 at 12:41 AM

Ciaron O'Reilly and the four other Pitstop Ploughshares have just been acquitted by a jury in Ireland of the charges against them for putting a US war plane out of action.

The jury agreed with their defence that they had a lawful excuse to damage the plane in order to stop it from being part of a system that was directly involved in killing civilians in Iraq.

They have put out the following statement:
The jury is the conscience of the community chosen randomly from Irish society. The conscience of the community has spoken. The government has no popular mandate in providing the civilian Shannon airport to service the US war machine in it's illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.

In 1996 in Liverpool the Jury acquittal of the four 'ploughshares' women contributed to the end of arms exports to the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia and the independence of East Timor.

The decision of this jury should be a message to London, Washington DC and the Dail that Ireland wants no part in waging war on the people of Iraq. Refuelling of US warplanes at Shannon Airport should cease immediately.

Ciaron, Damien, Karen, Deirdre, Nuin



For more information see Irish Indymedia:
http://indymedia.ie/article/77465

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