IF YOU THINK THE VOLUNTARY ‘HUMAN SHIELDS’ ARE NUTS, PLEASE READ THIS

(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

The LA Times today tells the story of 68-year-old Godfrey Meynell , MBE, a British aristocrat who has lived and worked in Yemen and has a lifetime of experience as an activist. Part of the first red double-decker bus full of voluntary human shields to arrive in Iraq, Meynell has taken up residence in a South Baghdad power plant that was bombed during the 1991 Gulf War. Meynell is no fan of Saddam.

Meynell to me represents what the voluntary human shield movement is really about. Please read his story and what he has to say. I wish I had his courage.