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Taxloss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 11:26 AM
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BREAKING: Fathers for Justice protest atop parliament
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1197075,00.html

A Fathers 4 Justice campaigner has breached security at the Houses of Parliament and unfurled a banner on the roof.

He confirmed to Sky News that he entered the building as a visitor and made his way onto the roof after conducting a series of dummy runs over past days.

The man, Guy Harrison, said he was making his protest to coincide with Tony Blair's speech to the Labour Party conference in Brighton.

"I'm a businessman, not a terrorist," he told Anna Botting, while armed police officers waited some 40 feet below.

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These idiots don't know when to stop. So De Menezes gets shot for doing precisely nothing, bu these guys can make it onto the roof of parliament? The mind boggles.
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non sociopath skin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 12:44 PM
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1. Security there must be shit-hot. Of course MPs are still on their hols ...
... aren't they?

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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-27-05 02:08 PM
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2. If anyone happens to be walking past Parliament tonight
Yell "Jump!" at them, it'll brighten up your day :evilgrin:
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-05 07:05 AM
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3. Hmmmm, let's see now
Do these people honestly think that scaling the Houses of Parliament in a show of political militancy is going to persuade the authorities that they should be let near children? :eyes:
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-28-05 08:29 AM
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4. A present for his daughter?
"Mr Harrison, who is 38 on Wednesday, said his protest was a present for his seven-year-old daughter, whom he has not seen for four and a half years". I'm sure she's delighted to see her father making an arse of himself in the news. If she knows who he is.

Some of Fathers 4 Justice's actions go beyond stunts like this, and edge into threatening behaviour:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1142044,00.html

I'd like to know how many of their members have been denied access to their kids because of a history of violence.
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