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11-11-2005, 09:37 AM
You couldn't make this stuff up.
Fathers4Justice accused of plot to black out televisions
By Paul Kelbie
Published: 11 November 2005
They regard themselves as a new civil rights movement campaigning for a child's right to see both parents and grandparents, launching high-profile stunts to draw attention to their cause.
Now the pressure group Fathers4Justice has been accused of mounting a sinister plot to black out British television screens.
The allegations, made the by the ITV programme Tonight, suggest that the group was set to abandon its high profile campaign of non-violent direct action. The team of reporters working undercover for the programme secretly filmed members of the organisation discussing ways of disrupting broadcast signals to the UK's major channels.
One reporter claimed that a leading figure within the protest movement justified the plan as a way of letting the rest of the country know how they felt.
"Let's blank out the country out of TV altogether. Let's blank it all out like we've been blanked out of our children's lives," he said.
The alleged action follows earlier stunts by the group including throwing purple flour at Tony Blair in the House of Commons and handcuffing a minister to one of their members.
They have also climbed on ledges of Buckingham Palace and clambered up York Minster, Tower Bridge and the London Eye to capture headlines while dressed as fictional superheroes.
Full story here. (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article326336.ece)
Fathers4Justice accused of plot to black out televisions
By Paul Kelbie
Published: 11 November 2005
They regard themselves as a new civil rights movement campaigning for a child's right to see both parents and grandparents, launching high-profile stunts to draw attention to their cause.
Now the pressure group Fathers4Justice has been accused of mounting a sinister plot to black out British television screens.
The allegations, made the by the ITV programme Tonight, suggest that the group was set to abandon its high profile campaign of non-violent direct action. The team of reporters working undercover for the programme secretly filmed members of the organisation discussing ways of disrupting broadcast signals to the UK's major channels.
One reporter claimed that a leading figure within the protest movement justified the plan as a way of letting the rest of the country know how they felt.
"Let's blank out the country out of TV altogether. Let's blank it all out like we've been blanked out of our children's lives," he said.
The alleged action follows earlier stunts by the group including throwing purple flour at Tony Blair in the House of Commons and handcuffing a minister to one of their members.
They have also climbed on ledges of Buckingham Palace and clambered up York Minster, Tower Bridge and the London Eye to capture headlines while dressed as fictional superheroes.
Full story here. (http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article326336.ece)