U.S Air Force War Games over Ireland’s Air Space, Disrupts Major Sport Event

Afri Condemns U.S Air Force War Games At Croke Park

By Global Research News
Global Research, September 02, 2014
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Croke Park is the central stadium of the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association / Cumann Lúthchleas Gael) which is Ireland’s largest sporting organisation and is celebrated as one of the great amateur sporting associations in the world today.

The event which was grossly disturbed by the US Air Force was the football match between Penn State  v/s UCF played on the 30th of  August.

by AFRI (Action from Ireland)

 Photo: 2 F 16s flying over peaceful Dublin on a quiet Saturday afternoon, source

The justice and peace group Afri have expressed outrage at the “fly past” by 2 U.S. jet fighters as part of the U.S. football match in Croke Park yesterday.

 

“Many people in the surrounding areas were shocked and frightened when the silence of a quiet Saturday afternoon was shattered by the thunder of 2 F16 fighter jets which, without warning or explanation, flew overhead in a “lap of honour” for the participating teams.What would it be like if, as in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, they were firing the missiles which are their stock in trade? ”

 

 

Who gave consent for this invasion of Irish air space by elements of the U.S. war machine”? Is it appropriate that the Headquarters of Ireland’s National Games, built over many years by the pence and shillings, cents and euros, of loyal supporters should be used as a backdrop for U.S. war propaganda?

 

 

If official permission was given, Afri condemns the authorities in Croke Park and the Irish Government for their collusion with this disgraceful display. As with Shannon Airport, this shows a typically supine attitude by the Irish Government to U.S. power. Is there no limit to our willingness to prostrate ourselves before the alter of U.S. militarism?  Sport should be a means of bringing people together and promoting peace, not a vehicle for promoting war and militarism” said Dr. Iain Atack of Afri.

 

Should there be a recurrence of this event in future years, Afri stated that it will mobilise people to protest against such obscene conflation of war and sport.

 

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