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AUSTRALIA DEPORTS U.S. PEACE ACTIVIST FOR ENCOURAGING " SPIRITED "

PROTEST

 

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/parkin-deported-to-us-fbi-says-hes-welcome/2\

005/09/15/1126377402578.html

While the Australian government has successfully deported U.S.

peace activist Scott Parkin, the public backlash grows. A friend of

Parkin's, Iain Murray, told journalists, " There's about as much

evidence of Scott representing a threat as there's been evidence

found of weapons of mass destruction [in Iraq]. " After citing

" national security " grounds for the decision, a spokesman for

Attorney General Phillip Ruddock told a journalist that while

Parkin had peacefully protested the U.S. military contracting

company Halliburton, he encouraged " spirited " protest action. The

Age cited sources who said Parkin was being deported because he

taught " techniques for preventing police from taking protesters away

for arrest. " Former Australian Office of National Assessments

analyst Andrew Wilkie said " if he was genuinely any sort of

security threat, well they wouldn't just send him out of the

country, ... he'd be charged. "

 

SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald, September 15, 2005

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