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Sink the Greenpeace boat.
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GREENPEACE BLOCKS PORT
International pressure group Greenpeace has stepped up its campaign against war with Iraq by blocking a major UK military port.
Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior dropped anchor at Marchwood, Southampton on Monday.
They could endanger the lives of soldiers by delaying deployment.
Reminder, Al Qaeda came up to the Cole in Yemen, saluted and acted friendly to the US Servicemen before they murdered them with a homicide bomb. By allowing Green Peace their freedom of expression, they endangered the British troops...they could have been terrorists dressed like Green Peace.
International pressure group Greenpeace has stepped up its campaign against war with Iraq by blocking a major UK military port.
Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior dropped anchor at Marchwood, Southampton on Monday.
They could endanger the lives of soldiers by delaying deployment.
Reminder, Al Qaeda came up to the Cole in Yemen, saluted and acted friendly to the US Servicemen before they murdered them with a homicide bomb. By allowing Green Peace their freedom of expression, they endangered the British troops...they could have been terrorists dressed like Green Peace.
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for once pot i agree with you. from past experience that you quote and the present circumstances we are living in, that boat should not have been alowed anywhere near.
Point 1: Greenpeace's point of view:
They have the right to express their views in their own way. They are not directly endangering lives, and killing innocent civilians is pointless anyway.
Point 2: The MOD's point of view:
Blowing up the Greenpeace ship would be exceedingly bad press, and would cause large amounts of trouble from the public. Exactly what happened when the French police blew up a Greenpeace ship in the Channel.
Point 3: My point of view:
Why kill people who have done no wrong? Also, the war with Iraq has nothing to do with Al Qaeda, it's just the press mixing the issues and confusing everyone, therefore your reasoning is faulted. Anyway, the ships being deployed weren't on their way to a war with Iraq, they were on their way to 'war games' (according to the MOD). If the MOD want to complain that the Greenpeace ship is endangering lives, then they should admit that the ship is on it's way to a possible war, not just some practice.
All I'm saying that the government should make sure the area around military boats is secure. Or what happened to the USS Cole could happen in the UK.
And I think a fine and a serious warning would be enough eh? Although I admit people like Greenpeace keep bringing up subjects such as CO2 emissions, Bush's intention of drilling for oil in Alaska, nuclear power and other issues that just stand in the way of every businessman's right to make as much money as possible without a care for the environment.
Who do these hippies think they are anyway? Yeah, let's blow their boat up- it wouldn't be the first time.
OH big YAWN!!!
I am a member of Greanpeace and I agree with their stand and thank them for all they have done in the past to highlight ecological disasters in the world.
There are other ways of doing things, stopping people from doing their job isn't the right way to go about it.
When did they become and anti-Conservative organisation - or in any way affiliated with Labour?
I think they are fighting for causes not for parties!!!
I dont think that stopping people doing their jobs is wrong if their job is to do with war and the coming mass bombing of the Iraqi people!
Agree with Hornblower, byny...
As Hornblower said, whilst Greenpeace don't screen their members, very few people are allowed to be activly involved in their activities. The problem with rules about coming too close to a military ship is that ships can drift, outside teratorial (sp?) waters there can be no laws governing where ships are allowed to go, and even in the teratorial waters there is no organisation designed to control where ships are allowed to go, like there is for planes (air traffic control).
I would assume that the supplies are monitored en route from the supplier to the ship to ensure that no one gets a chance to slip a bomb in.
It's just a scary time. They picked up 4 more people they think are connected to the London cell that had ricin...and the one member had come from Iraq. He had been treated in Baghdad.
America by the way has sponsored terrorism in latin America in the 1980s when it trained, armed and funded the Contras in Nicaragua and right wing militias in El Salavador and Guatamala!
GREENPEACE IN COURT BAN
A High Court judge has extended an injunction to the Ministry of Defence banning anti-war protesters from boarding or attaching themselves to British military supply ships.
glad to see this. They should be protecting the lives of the military.