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Brian Haw and the right to protest
It's sad that well-known peace campaigners should drop below the radar not just of the politicians who hate them but of the peace campaigners who used to idolised them. One such man, who dedicated the last 10 years of his life to confronting Parliament over the outrages of British foreign policy, was Brian Haw.
As a committed Christian and a father, Haw was appalled by the sanctions the West had imposed on Iraq which resulted in the tragic and avoidable deaths of so many Iraqi children.
Brian left his home and arrived in London's Parliament Square, where he camped at the side of the road facing the Houses of Parliament.
Always, for those of us who continued to protest about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the awful damage our actions were doing to that nation, Haw was a figurehead, an inspiration. Few of us could claim his courage, his determination or his perseverance.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/130923