Protest advice led to US activist's detention

[WearyOne]

Protest advice led to US activist's detention
By Andra Jackson, Michelle Grattan and Brendan Nicholson
September 14, 2005


AMERICAN political activist Scott Parkin is to be deported tomorrow morning, after being detained on Saturday as a security threat for allegedly encouraging "spirited protest".

His consent to be deported followed new legal advice on what measures would get him out of the country the quickest while preserving his appeal rights. Mr Parkin's lawyer, Keren Adams, said "his main focus has just been to get out of the custody and to get home".

"But he didn't want to do that in circumstances where he couldn't challenge the whole basis of them revoking his visa."

A spokesman for Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock said yesterday that while Mr Parkin insisted that he was engaged only in peaceful protests against the US company Halliburton, he had encouraged "spirited" action by protesters.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/protest-advice-led-to-us-activists-detention/2005/09/13/1126377315072.html

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## peacefully ptotest against Haliburton and you are considered a 'terrorist' threat.

[struggle4progress]

1. Whoa! "Spirited protest." Can't have none a that now, can we? eom