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Attorney-General Throws Christians To The LiarsThe protesters who broke into Pine Gap are about to be treated as "examples" This is going to be a major warning to protesters that contravention of law will not be tolerated. Here's tomorrow's Daily Telegraph story.
A GROUP of anti-war
Donna Mulhearn, 37, Jim Dowling, 50, Adele Goldie, 29, and Bryan Law,
The four were charged under the Defence Special Undertakings Act with
The group, which styles itself Christians Against All Terrorism,
Mulhearn, a well-known Catholic pacifist from Maitland, is a former
Members of the group claimed to the court that US military action in
They said they would rely on the defence "of necessity", which says
Representing themselves, the members claimed that the fact they had
Among those quizzed by the four about the role of Pine Gap in the However, the defendants were told the base was an intelligence collection facility and that operations there were classified. In court, the group tried to extract information about buildings at Pine Gap, 20km from Alice Springs, and what they were for.
"We needed to inspect Pine Gap for terrorist activity," group member Mr Negroponte inspected the base just three days before the group broke in.
But the protesters were told repeatedly that most things about the All four protesters are charged with criminal damage and entering a prohibited area. Goldie, Dowling and Mulhearn are further charged with using a camera in a prohibited area. The charges carry jail terms of up to seven years and their use had to be decided by Attorney General Phillip Ruddock. The group face separate charges of criminal damage under the NT criminal code.
Law said the group was the first to ever be charged under the Defence "It has certainly raised the stakes," he said.
Law, a father of one, and Dowling, a father of seven, said they
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