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Underground showdown (Register)

Posted May 28, 2005 11:04 UTC (Sat) by fergal (subscriber, #602)
In reply to: Underground showdown (Register) by copsewood
Parent article: Underground showdown (Register)

There's a great example in John Pilger's book Hidden Agendas. He has a chapter on the women who broke into a British Aerospace hanger and beat the crap out of several multi-million dollar Hawk fighter jets. The same jets had been sold to Indonesia for "training" purposes and then used against civilians, this was the next shipment. The case went to trial and they were found not guilty because they were committing a lesser crime to prevent a much greater one.

It's a great book but I have no idea whether that defence would in this case.

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Underground showdown (Register)

Posted May 28, 2005 14:04 UTC (Sat) by copsewood (subscriber, #199) [Link]

This is a very good example. I followed news of this at the time. It is also a very good reason why the right to trial by a jury of one's peers has to be defended against clever lawyers who would take this away from us on technical grounds.