D Tuesday, September 29, 2009 METRO from the fact that Lisbon would not create jobs or help recovery. Its stunning that Brian Lenihan, who has chickened out of a debate with me... will roll out this nonsense rather than talk about the disaster that the Lisbon Treaty would be for the Irish economy, he said. We can choose one more week of Lenihan and his fellow performers in the circus, or three years. The only people betting against the Irish econ- omy were the economists and busi- nessmen who could see this disaster coming. This is a stupid, laughable smear, especially coming from a party that took hundreds of thousands from the developers, bankers, and crooks who got us into this mess. Hypocrisy is not a strong enough word, he said. Minister for ForeignAffairs Michel Martin said Europe would be in crisis on the back of a No vote, saying: There are no contingency plans. The former Defence Forces chief of staff Lt Gen Colm Mangan also hit out at Lisbon No campaigners, accusing them of spreading false propaganda. There has been an awful lot of mis- leading information and some of the posters annoy me, he said. They im- ply that there is some form of military elite within this country, something akin to a Latin American dictatorship thats about to take over. Thats non- sense. Pro-Lisbon group Generation Yes said it is staging a Facebook takeo- ver, with its 4,500 fans posting a rea- son to vote Yes as their status update every hour from 7am until 10pm on Thursday, October 1. Meanwhile, former MEP Patricia McKenna has threatened the Europe- an Commission with legal action after it took out a supplement in the nation- al press. She accused it of funding a propaganda campaign for a Yes vote. Arrested: Director Roman Polanski DIRECTOR Roman Polanski will battle against US attempts to have him extradited from Switzerland to California to face justice for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977, his lawyer said yesterday. The 76- year-old was arrested by Swiss police as he arrived in Zurich on Saturday to receive a lifetime achievement award from a film festival. Mr Polanski had pleaded guilty to having unlawful sexual intercourse and was sent to prison for 42 days. But when the judge tried to renege on the plea bargain, he fled to France, where he has been living for the past three decades. He is married to French actress Emmanuelle Seigner, with whom he has two children. Victim Samantha Geimer has joined Polanskis request for the case to be dismissed. Polanski to resist extradition to US Mirad Rodden: Art stunt in bid to get a job A GRADUATE seeking a career in public relations has turned herself into a public artwork to try to get a job. Mirad Rodden, 26, took part in artist Antony Gormleys One & Other project, which gives 2,400 members of the public one hour each on an empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in London. She wore a sandwich board to advertise for a PR job and played Dolly Partons 9 To 5 song when she posed on the plinth. Ms Rodden, who graduated from the University of Ulster two years ago, has applied for more than 500 jobs and agreed to take part in the art project for economic, not artistic reasons. Im going to find that job and its going to work out for me because it has to, she said. Graduate turns to plinth bid for work BY ROSS McDONAGH War of words heats up as decision day nears THE WAR of words between the Yes and No camps in the Lisbon debate intensified yesterday as the final run- up to the crucial referendum began. Finance Minister Brian Lenihan called on anti-Lisbon group Libertas and its leader Declan Ganley to come clean about its backing. Mr Lenihan said he found it curious that a Lon- don-based hedge-fund backer would have a direct interest in goings-on in Ireland, and said Mr Ganley should confirm his backer does not have a vested interest in a No vote. But Mr Ganley said the minister, who was born with a silver foot in his mouth, was merely distracting No contest: A woman walks past posters urging a No vote to LisbonPositive: Campaigners for a Yes vote in the forthcoming Referendum index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html