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 Tuesday August 31, 2004 14:50 by Adam - Trident Ploughshares
 A group of four peace protesters were arrested shortly before midnight on Monday, after spray painting anti-nuclear slogans on the walls of the Faslane Naval Base “Media Reception Centre”. The slogans refer to the presence of British nuclear weapons of mass destruction on board Trident nuclear submarines based at Faslane. All four are members of the Trident Ploughshares disarmament campaign, which is currently holding its annual disarmament camp outside the nearby Coulport nuclear weapons depot. The activists painted the slogans “Evil Illegal WMD”, “NO WMD”, “Trident Illegal”, “Peace” and “No nukes in the world” on the walls of the reception centre, in letters several feet high. They also painted the phrase “WMD Murder” on the road leading into the reception centre. After finishing their painting, three of the activists sat in the road to block the entrance to the site. It is thought that all four have been arrested for malicious mischief. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2WE all kno taht they are there!
Were it not for the Trident Plougshares, the Faslane Peace Camp and CND campaigns many people wouldn't know about the continued presence of nuclear weapons in Scotland. I never thought about nukes much a few years ago, and expected the UK to have disarmed after the Cold War.
But "to highlight" doesn't mean to expose for the first time ever. Even if you already know, or kinda know, about the presence of WMD in the UK, a little nudge every so often can bring it closer to your attention perhaps. In a sense that's what actions like this one can do. They're also valuable in that they can directly cause disruption at the WMD facilities themselves.