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Irish minister for Justice Alan Shatter: Free Margaretta D'Arcy
Declan O.
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Irish minister for Justice Alan Shatter
Ms D’Arcy, who is 79 and undergoing treatment for cancer, was jailed for refusing to sign a bond to uphold the law and keep away from unauthorised zones at Shannon airport.
D’Arcy received a three-month suspended sentence last month for illegal incursion of the runway at Shannon airport on October 7th, 2012 during a protest over US military use. The sentence was activated when she refused to sign the bond and she was escorted from her Galway home to Limerick.
She argues that "Criminal acts are being committed at Shannon on a daily basis through the presence of a US military hub there, which is deeply involved in waging war in foreign countries that continues to result in the deaths of many innocent people.
To sign such a document not to break the ‘law’ that refers to Shannon Airport, where acts of unfathomable criminality are being perpetrated, would be an absurd contradiction."
D’Arcy’s refusal to sign the bond is is based on her belief in the Nurnberg Principle of 1945 whereby “individual citizens of any country have international duties and responsibilities that transcend national domestic obligations of obedience to local law.
D’Arcy received a three-month suspended sentence last month for illegal incursion of the runway at Shannon airport on October 7th, 2012 during a protest over US military use. The sentence was activated when she refused to sign the bond and she was escorted from her Galway home to Limerick.
She argues that "Criminal acts are being committed at Shannon on a daily basis through the presence of a US military hub there, which is deeply involved in waging war in foreign countries that continues to result in the deaths of many innocent people.
To sign such a document not to break the ‘law’ that refers to Shannon Airport, where acts of unfathomable criminality are being perpetrated, would be an absurd contradiction."
D’Arcy’s refusal to sign the bond is is based on her belief in the Nurnberg Principle of 1945 whereby “individual citizens of any country have international duties and responsibilities that transcend national domestic obligations of obedience to local law.
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