[AS eleven Greenham Common anti-missiles campaigners were jailed…]
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AS eleven Greenham Common anti-missiles campaigners were jailed for 14 days apiece last week, Tony Benn pointed out that the wrong people had been put in the dock.
'The people who are bringing the missiles to this country are the ones who should be standing in court. It's an amazing reflection on our society that these women should be taken to court and charged with a breach of the peace"
The charges arose when the women invaded the Berkshire air base on August 27, though the Peace Camp has been sustained since September 1981.
Defence witnesses included bistorian E.P.Thompson, who said that the deci. sion to sise the missiles in Bricein bad been taken with • rela so tbe British