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from: Steve Asher
date: 2005-10-21 00:07:00
subject: Terror on the Bike Path

Lucky for her she wasn't shot on sight.

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The Times     October 17, 2005

Two wheels: good. Two legs: terrorist suspect
By David Lister, Scotland Correspondent

WITH her year-round tan, long blonde hair and designer clothes, 
Sally Cameron does not look like a threat to national security.

But the 34-year-old property developer has joined the ranks of
Britain's most unlikely terrorist suspects after being held for 
hours for trespassing on a cycle path.

Ms Cameron was being hailed yesterday as Scotland's answer to Walter
Wolfgang, the 82-year-old heckler manhandled out of the Labour Party
conference last month. She was arrested under the Terrorism Act for
walking along a cycle path in the harbour area of Dundee.

Yesterday, after receiving a letter from the Tayside procurator
fiscal's office informing her that she would not be prosecuted, 
Ms Cameron said: "It is utterly ridiculous that such an inoffensive
person as myself should be subject to such heavy-handed treatment."

She was walking from her office in Dundee to her home in the suburb 
of Broughty Ferry when she was arrested under new anti-terrorist
legislation and held for four hours.

She said: "I've been walking to work every morning for months and
months to keep fit. One day, I was told by a guard on the gate that 
I couldn't use the route any more because it was solely a cycle path 
and he said, if I was caught doing it again, I'd be arrested.

"The next thing I knew, the harbour master had driven up behind me
with a megaphone, saying, "You're trespassing, please turn back". 
It was totally ridiculous. I started laughing and kept on walking.
Cyclists going past were also laughing.

"But then two police cars roared up beside me and cut me off, like 
a scene from Starsky and Hutch, and officers told me I was being
arrested under the Terrorism Act. The harbour master was waffling 
on and (saying that), because of September 11, I would be arrested 
and charged."

[...]

A spokesman for Forth Ports said: "We will robustly prosecute anyone
who breaches these new security measures because they have been
introduced by the Government and we are obliged to enforce them."

Full article at "The Times Online"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1829289,00.html


Cheers, Steve..

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