Nativity donkey arrested at Faslane North Gate

2.12.2006

A small group of pro­test­ers at Faslane Naval base were arrest­ed at around 18:30 for hold­ing a nativ­i­ty-themed block­ade at the North Gate to the base. The group of rad­i­cal Chris­tians are cur­rent­ly being tak­en to Clyde­bank Police Office to be held, pre­sum­ably until Sun­day after­noon or Mon­day morn­ing.

Faslane 365 Nativity scene (donkey, mary & joseph)2.12.2006

A small group of pro­test­ers at Faslane Naval base were arrest­ed at around 18:30 for hold­ing a nativ­i­ty-themed block­ade at the North Gate to the base. The group of rad­i­cal Chris­tians are cur­rent­ly being tak­en to Clyde­bank Police Office to be held, pre­sum­ably until Sun­day after­noon or Mon­day morn­ing.

Yet anoth­er day of the Faslane 365 block­ade end­ed as the police broke anoth­er weird and won­der­ful lock-on device. And tomor­row being advent Sun­day, and thus, the begin­ning of advent, it seemed only appro­pri­ate that Mary, Joseph and the (lock-on-device-aka-) Don­key should arrive at the gate, only to be sent away again. Bet­ter put, it would be appro­pri­ate if you’re part of Prayer-i58, the rad­i­cal Chris­t­ian-based anti-author­i­tar­i­an net­work.

Not get­ting what they want­ed, they sat down and police moved in to arrest them, dis­cov­er­ing over £50 worth of locks and chains hold­ing the pair in place. After some time spent cut­ting them out, the police took them to the hold­ing area just beyond the base, before begin­ning their jour­ney to cells for the night.

Hav­ing phoned around, legal sup­port can con­firm that the pair are en route to Clyde­bank Police Office, where many oth­er 365’ers have been held over the recent weeks. The total arrests num­ber cur­rent­ly stands at 327 arrests (as shown on the F365 web­site). As today is a Sat­ur­day, it is pos­si­ble those arrest­ed might be inside until as late as Mon­day after­noon.