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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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Ploughshares Action in Aotearoa/New Zealand on NSA ECHELON System

category international | anti-war / imperialism | press release author Wednesday April 30, 2008 06:34author by Ploughsharesauthor address Aotearoa/New Zealand Report this post to the editors

STATEMENT OF THE WAIHOPAI ANZAC PLOUGHSHARES

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift sword against nation; and there shall be no more training for war. Isaiah 2/4

Waihopai Spy Base Penetrated
This morning, 30 April 2008, we entered the Waihopai Spy Base near Blenheim.

Our group, including a Dominican Priest, temporarily closed the base by padlocking the gates and proceeded to deflate one of the large domes covering two satellite dishes.

At 6am we cut through three security fences surrounding the domes - these are armed with razor wire, infrared motion sensors and a high voltage electrified fence. Once inside we used sickles to cut one of the two 30-metre white domes, built a shrine and knelt in prayer to remember the people killed by United States military activity.

We have financed our activities through personal savings, additional part-time employment and a small interest-free loan from one of our supporters.

We are responding to the Bush administration’s admission that intelligence gathering is the most important tool in the so-called War on Terror. This war will have no end until citizens of the world refuse to let it continue. The ECHELON spy network including Waihopai, is an important part of the US government’s global spy network and we have come in the name of the Prince of Peace to close it down.

The base is funded by New Zealand tax payers and located on New Zealand soil which makes New Zealand a target through our association with the UKUSA intelligence cooperation agreement.

Five years ago the Clark government opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq. Yet at the same time the Bush administration was using the National Security Agency’s ECHELON system, of which Waihopai is an integral component, to spy on UN Security Council members so it could more easily swing them in favour of an invasion.

There have been over 100 Ploughshares actions over the last twenty years around the world. Ploughshares direct actions are linked through the common factors of: entry to locations connected to military activity, Christian prayers and most involve some form of property destruction.
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About Waihopai & ECHELON
Green MP Keith Locke is quoted as saying that the base has cost New Zealand up to NZ$500million since 1989. The base intercepts electronic communications throughout the Pacific region including New Zealand and is often staffed by personnel from US agencies.

In 1996 researcher Nicky Hager published an expose on Waihopai and New Zealand’s strong links to the USA-led ECHELON network of six similar spy stations around the world. The United Nations launched an investigation in 2003 to claims that ECHELON had been used by the US government to eavesdrop on UN diplomats and Security Council members. A report published in 2000 showed that ECHELON had also been used by the US to gain commercial advantage for US corporations.

Information gathered at Waihopai is transferred to the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) in Wellington and fed unseen directly to Washington DC.

Related Link: http://www.ploughshares.org.nz
author by Links Aotearoa/NZpublication date Fri May 02, 2008 06:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors


The three ploughshares prisoners are on hunger strike. Their action has created an enormous stir in Aoteaoa/ New Zealand. See links..

http://news.google.com/news?q=anzac+ploughshares&rls=co...osoft

Related Link: http://news.google.com/news?q=anzac+ploughshares&rls=com.microsoft
author by 3 Jailedpublication date Sat May 03, 2008 08:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The three ploughshares prisoners remain in jail on hungr strike. New Zealand government contemplating sabotage charges. For more background and updates check Aotearoa indy

http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/71808/index.php...mment

Related Link: http://indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/71808/index.php#quickcomment
author by Updatepublication date Tue May 06, 2008 07:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sam, Adi and Peter have been granted bail on the condition that they do not associate with one another and stay away from military bases.

author by readerpublication date Sun May 11, 2008 22:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ireland: In 2003, five people were acquitted in Dublin after disarming a US military C40A logistics supply plane at Shannon Airport which they said was a pitstop for American troops. They beat on the plane with hammers, poured their own blood over it then prayed for the dead in Iraq. Their defence invoked the Irish Constitution, which guarantees the neutrality of Ireland.

See?
blood rituals.

Meanwhile, the head of the Dominican Order in Australasia has confirmed that though the priest at the centre of this story a right to his own actions it is probable his continued position in the order is "up for debate". Making cups of soup for poor folk is cool. Proactively fighting war is very cool. Linking the use of human blood in rituals to Catholic lithurgy is not cool. It's very uncool. it is in fact listed as an example of Satanism.

author by Daltun O'Donovanpublication date Tue May 13, 2008 14:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ireland is a proud member of this key organization of the Anglosphere: we are all Anglo-Saxons now.
http://cryptome.org/echelon-ie.htm

author by Liam Seoighepublication date Tue May 13, 2008 14:58author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Quote from above linked Phoenix article:

"Precisely why the Anglo-American intelligence alliance wants Ireland as a partner is a mystery. It may be that they hope to secretly use the Eircom satellite communications station at Middleton, Co. Cork, to extend the capability of the British spy facility at Morwenstow, Cornwall, further west. New Zealand was included in the Pact for geographical reasons - extending coverage in the Southern Ocean - just as Ireland may be needed to give a wider "footprint" in the eastern Atlantic. Or it could be that the NSA believes US or multinational software or other high technology companies are doing things in Ireland behind the backs of the defense establishment in Washington. The military interests of Uncle Sam and the economic interests of fast buck high tech firms have clashed many times in recent year"

Is Ireland still neutral? Perhaps Sean Sherlock, the Labour T.D. for North East Cork might raise this question in the Dail?

Is Eircom part of the U.S. military/industrial complex?

author by Plowsharespublication date Wed May 14, 2008 20:49author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Frank Cordaro B52 Plowshares/Des Moines Catholic Worker (5 minutes 30 sec)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv8WgJT4XsM&feature=Play...dex=0

Liz McAlister Griffis Plowshares/Jonah House (6 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wGrhfw9qSc&feature=Play...dex=1

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