Rocky Tiger Ploughshares Media Statement 24 May 2012 Bryan Law, the peace activist who disabled an Australian Army Tiger helicopter with a blow from a garden mattock during the Talisman Sabre war games last June, will appear in Rockhampton Court at 9 am today.
Mr Law is defending himself. He expects the outcome of the appearance will be a "hand up committal" to stand trial in the District Court at some future date.on two Commonwealth charges: “willful damage” and “threatening an aircraft”.
His accomplice, Graeme Dunstan, was committed to trial on a charge of willful damage on 10 May.
Mr Law did the damage in the spirit of the biblical prophesy (Isaiah 26) to "turn swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks" and is unrepentant.
“I’m glad I did it, your Honour," he intends to tell Magistrate Cameron Press.
“I’m glad that for however brief a moment that infernal helicopter death machine couldn’t fly. Couldn’t be used as a weapon."
"In a time of depraved warfare in Afghanistan and of military slavery to the US empire, I’m glad I made this witness to the prophecy of Isaiah and the promise of our saviour Jesus Christ.
"We must disarm.”