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Press Releases & Updates 1998
15th November 1998
Scottish church leader says Trident is sinful
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At 4.m. today, Sunday 15th November, at the North Gate of the Faslane Naval Base, home to Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons system, about 50 people, including a number of Trident Ploughshares 2000 activists, gathered for
a religious service conducted by leading Scottish churchmen. After the service one disarmer was arrested while attempting to damage the security fence.
Maxwell Craig, General Secretary of ACTS (Action for Churches Together in
Scotland) was accompanied by Norman Shanks, Leader of the Iona Community.
Maxwell said:
"Everyone talks about the cost of the Millennium Dome. It will cost 700
million but that will be a one-off cost. We spend 900 million on these bases
every year and that’s just the MOD figure - the CND estimate, a more likely
figure, is one and a half billion! Let’s be clear, to waste resources on
such a scale for such an obscenity is sinful - all the churches recognise
that."
He went on to thank the Permanent Peace Camp at Faslane for the welcome they
had given. He thanked the Trident Ploughshares 2000 movement for heightening
the campaign against the UK’s illegal weapons.
Retired teacher and SNP activist Brian Quail, from Glasgow, then began to
batter on the security fence with a large hammer. He then lay down in the
gateway and was lifted away by 5 officers. His arrest is the 19th in the current phase of the TP2000 campaign.
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