least 700 homes and a local school will be flattened to make way for BAA's planned new runway. Others will have their noise and air pollution levels dramatically increased.
So our march the following day united long term campaigners against this expansion with overall protest against climate change. I feel this protest could have been much bigger if organised and publicised well in advance. Perhaps wider access to journalists than was allowed at the camp would have helped. But it was a powerful, peaceful and optimistic protest nevertheless.
There are currently over a dozen planned airport expansions in the pipeline in Britain. These are being driven by the Blair/Brown agenda of Jan Smith Way back in October 2006 I was in London, standing on the pavement minding my own business when along came a policeman who started to read out to me a Section of the Serious Organised Crime & Police Act 2005.
" don't understand' I said. All the policeman did was to read it out again!
Then things got nasty He dragged me away and said that he was arresting me. If I hadn't given my name and address, I would have been taken to the local police station in a van, kept in overnight and brought before the court the following morning.
What was my offence? I was standing in Parliament Square holding a piece of sheeting on which were written the numbers of those who had died in lraq.. L certainly hadn't caused the death of any individual unlike Blair whose 'illegal' action in going along with the moron from the USA has resulted in many deaths.
Almost six months later, I received a summons to appear before Horseferry Magistrates Court. I pleaded guilty and was fined £100 plus £60 costs and now have a criminal record.
Could someone explain to me what REAL offence have commited?
What is the concern about protesting in Parliament Square. Are acts of terrorism going to be perpetrated by demonstrators holding up an old bed sheet or the side of an old cardboard box."
Was the real objective behind Blair's legislation the desire to save him embarrassment? Did he really want to see a group of people outside Parliament telling him, on a regular basis, that he is a liar, a murderer, a fool and a knave?
The war in Iraq is, and always has been an illegal war.
I now have a conviction under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. Blair on the other hand, will probably never be brought to trial. Instead he has been given the post of Middle East Envoy.
That is the equivalent of asking Caligula to chair a debate on moral values.