Solidarity in London and all over as Graeme Dunstan’s trial for disarming a helicopter gunship gets underway

Solidarity in London

Former U.S./Australian/Irish plowshares prisoner Ciaron O’Reilly gives it all he’s got (left) at the Australian High Commision on London’s Strand on the first day of Graeme Dunstan’s trial in Rockhampton, Australia on Monday.

One may have been the loneliest number until High Commission bureaucrat & security came to inspect a makeshift shrine to the Afghani dead thumbtacked to a nearby tree.

Ciaron went to introduce himself, but there was no need for such formalities – they knew who he was and failed to introduce themselves. They didn’t know Graeme Dunstan and enquired. They know who Graeme Dunstan is now. They answered in the affirmative that they had viewed the helicopter gunship ploughshares video from Talisman Sabre 2011.

They answered in the negative to the proposition “Pretty funny uh?”

Flyers were distributed to passersby, prayers said and gesticulatory insults exchanged with a passing busload of young Galatasaray SK fans Ciaron mistook as young Australians silently abusing him from behind the bus windows. As the Turkish football sign on the back of the bus betrayed their identity, Ciaron realised that they were indeed abusing the Australian High Commission building and were probably still pissed off over Gallipoli.

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