Law can be broken to prevent ‘greater evil’

I FOUND your editorial (‘Shell disruption — no support for protests’, September 11) amazingly one-sided for a paper that purports to be objective.

Reasonable excuse allows people to break the law to prevent a greater evil, in this case a blatant disregard for the wishes of the communities who would have to live alongside the proposed pipeline and refinery.

The justification of reasonable excuse has led Irish juries to find anti-war protesters not guilty of criminal damage, most recently the Raytheon Nine anti-war activists in Derry.