Nine anti-war protesters have ‘seized’ control of an ancient castle and barricaded the gates to protest against the ‘illegal occupation’ of Iraq by Britain and America (ah, the coalition of 2 - you know I’d feel really left out if I were Italy, Australia, Thailand, Japan, Poland etc).
This is idiotic beyond all belief. The police say this is a “peaceful protest” - blocking entrances to a tourist attraction in a desperate bid for media attention is laughable and hardly ‘peaceful’. Peaceful would be getting the hell out of the way of people who maybe might be interested in the castle and not particularly interested in reading xeroxed propaganda, there are plenty of public squares in Wales.
If this were Colchester castle I’d barge through, or assemble a group to take the castle back.
Does this merit front page coverage on the BBC News site? 9 people engaged in pseudo-militaristic occupation of public property so they can blast passers by with their opinions on the middle east? Sounds spurious.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at June 27, 2004 09:13 PM | TrackBack