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08/04/2008
Shannon Anti-War Protestor Deported From US
An anti-war protestor who allegedly attacked a US military plane at Shannon Airport five years ago has been prevented from entering the United States.
Offaly man Damien Moran says his identity was flagged in a database as soon as he arrived in the country over the weekend and he was subsequently deported by homeland security.
According to an American Newspaper, Mr Moran had been invited to attend and speak at a conference against the US Government's missile defence plans
He told the paper: "I was immediately detained and questioned by Homeland Security officers about our nonviolent and legal action at Shannon in February 2003. The information the border authorities claimed to have was that I was arrested for damaging a US fighter jet at Shannon. I let them know that their database was out of date and that it should also read acquitted as we had a lawful excuse."
He added: "My mobile phone was seized and I was interrogated about the purpose of my trip and why I had damaged US military property. I had been invited to speak at a university in Colorado Springs and at a conference in Omaha on US militarism in Poland and Ireland.
"I also had tickets to visit my brother and his family in Virginia. Homeland Security's unjustified refusal to allow me enter the US is just another example of how quasi-fascist the US State apparatus has become."
Mr Moran was one of five members of the Catholic Worker organisation who cut through the fence at Shannon Airport in February 2003 before damaging a US military plane.
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court later acquitted all five of criminal damage charges.
(DW/JM)
Offaly man Damien Moran says his identity was flagged in a database as soon as he arrived in the country over the weekend and he was subsequently deported by homeland security.
According to an American Newspaper, Mr Moran had been invited to attend and speak at a conference against the US Government's missile defence plans
He told the paper: "I was immediately detained and questioned by Homeland Security officers about our nonviolent and legal action at Shannon in February 2003. The information the border authorities claimed to have was that I was arrested for damaging a US fighter jet at Shannon. I let them know that their database was out of date and that it should also read acquitted as we had a lawful excuse."
He added: "My mobile phone was seized and I was interrogated about the purpose of my trip and why I had damaged US military property. I had been invited to speak at a university in Colorado Springs and at a conference in Omaha on US militarism in Poland and Ireland.
"I also had tickets to visit my brother and his family in Virginia. Homeland Security's unjustified refusal to allow me enter the US is just another example of how quasi-fascist the US State apparatus has become."
Mr Moran was one of five members of the Catholic Worker organisation who cut through the fence at Shannon Airport in February 2003 before damaging a US military plane.
A jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court later acquitted all five of criminal damage charges.
(DW/JM)
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