Anti War Activist places US soldiers under citizens arrest in Co. Clare
I love Indymedia. We all heard the story about some US troops who got stranded in Co. Clare on Friday because their troop transport plane had technical problems. Conor Cregan, peace activist and Indymedia contributor takes up the story:
Many of these stranded soldiers were billeted at the West County Hotel in Ennis near where peace activist Conor Cregan encountered six young US servicemen on the main Ennis to Limerick road.
Cregan immediately called for the six to stop. “I am placing you all under citizen’s arrest. Do not move” he shouted as the stunned men came to a halt. After assuring the men that they were not in jeopardy the peace activist made an emergency call to Ennis Garda Station. Cregan called for the Member in charge to send a van to pick up these awol soldiers but Garda O’Sullivan’s response was less than helpful. The deskbound officer was more interested to know if they were armed or their commander in chief George W Bush was among them. Mind you he wasn’t so funny when reminded that that all emergency calls were recorded.
You can read the rest of the story here. As ever, some of the comments are priceless.
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Is American opinion and culture crowding out all others?
What a fucking twat.
Comment by Twenty Major — June 26, 2006 @ 9:52 am
Spot on TM … he’s a f**king tool. Can I make a citizens arrest? Maybe I can arrest him for being a knob and embarassing us all!
Comment by maca — June 26, 2006 @ 10:06 am
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As usual spot-on twenty!
Comment by Simon — June 26, 2006 @ 10:10 am
“Do you honestly believe that they want to fight Bushes war.
Add to this the poor spelling and grammer. I mean come on use spell check that is what its for.”
oh lol.
What’s more illegal though. Soldiers walking about, or people stalking those soldiers and taking a picture of them, through venetian blinds. Classic stalker behaviour.
Comment by Stranger — June 26, 2006 @ 1:59 pm
“Classic stalker behaviour.”
Speaking from experience?
Comment by maca — June 26, 2006 @ 2:05 pm
Do citizen’s arrests actually count for anything?
I love the “after assuring the men were not in jeopardy” line - like what was he, as a peace activist, going to do? Knock them out with a ploughshare?
Comment by auds — June 26, 2006 @ 10:36 pm
I think some town in the midlands is looking for its idiot back.
Still, your wan in the photo on the left’s cute enough.
Comment by Keith — June 27, 2006 @ 4:36 am
sorry love, couldn’t resist:
“Do you honestly believe that they want to fight Bushes war.
Add to this the poor spelling and grammer. I mean come on use spell check that is what its for.”
should be Bush’s and grammar.
;)
Comment by pbbbthhh — June 27, 2006 @ 2:02 pm
Exactly what I was getting at =P
Comment by Stranger — June 27, 2006 @ 2:08 pm
Maco are really embarrased? your a tool for talking shit and i bet your a redneck
Comment by johnny — June 27, 2006 @ 9:15 pm
[…] …and it’s only Tuesday. Check out this post on TCAL for background but basically what happened is some American troops were stranded in County Clare because of problems with their plane. […]
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