"acting in order to prevent a greater crime."Like shooting down a jacked jet.Two people who demonstrated against Britain's biggest arms fair are on trial next week (11-13) charged with "obstruction of the railway" an offence which carries a maximum penalty of two years' imprisonment. The two were nicked after handcuffing themselves to the doors of a Docklands Light Railway carriage. They were trying to prevent delegates from Angola, Turkey and various other renowned supporters of human rights, arriving at the conference which in 1999 was found to be selling anti-personal mines in clear breach of the UK Anti-Landmines Act. The pair will be defending themselves on the grounds that they were acting in order to prevent a greater crime. Show your support outside Snaresbrook Crown Court, 75 Hollybush Hill at 9:30am Monday. Campaign Against Arms Trade 0207 2810297 www.caat.org.uk ALSO Australia's Tabloid TV stations lost face big-time last Tuesday when they fell for a story about a gang of jobless sewer-dwellers plotting and getting militant in Melbourne. Gutter journalism sank to a new low when the country's biggest stations both paid for an expose on a fictional group of bin-raiding drain-dwellers called the Dole Army. The unemployment activists behind the hoax are happy with the attention - their www.dolearmy.org website received thousands of hits after the TV 'exposes' - "They lapped it up like dogs," said one Dole Army rep. I larfed till I stopped,professor rat.
