It always makes me feel good to know that a bunch of AARP Peacenick commandos can breach security at one of our nuclear facilities.
The Kitsap Sun reports they carried a banner that said, “Disarm Now Plowshares: Trident: Illegal and Immoral.”
Navy spokesman Chris Haley says an alarm went off when the group entered at 6:30 a.m. today, and they were arrested on suspicion of trespass and destruction of government property, cited and released.
The five are identified as 81-year-old Catholic priest Bill Bischel of Tacoma, 83-year-old nun Anne Montgomery of New York City, 65-year-old Susan Crane of Baltimore, 60-year-old Lynne Greenwald of Bremerton and 60-year-old Steve Kelly of Oakland.
And from another article…
“So it was with hammers like this and our own blood that had been drawn by a medical professional that we went into the base in the hope of beginning that disarmament process, symbolically,” Crane said.
The hammers were to bang on the bunkers holding the weapons. And the blood?
The protesters, who range in age from 60 to 83, cut their way through a perimeter fence. They said they walked 4 hours and cut their way through two more fences before they got caught.
So considering they were bringing in hammers and blood in baby bottles, is this simply a trespassing charge or can they be charged with something much more serious? Let’s hope it’s the latter.
Tags: Bangor, hippies, Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Nuclear facility, Nuclear Weapons, old folks, peace protestors, Washington
Unfortunately Cranial Rectal Inversion is not illegal, and clearly they suffer greatly form this infliction.
Long long ago, in a galaxy far far away, with Reagan as my CinC, when I was on active duty on an attack sub and we trained for “Nuclear Hostage Response” the ORDERS were to “Shoot through the Hostage”. Regardless if it was your best friend, your wife, or child. If there was a nutjob threatening our nuke weapons (which we could never confirm we had on board), under no circumstances were they to be allowed to succeed.
I think we shold have let them thraten the nukes, and let the emergency reponse squad take care of business.
Hmmm… My Tolerance seems to be low today… I wonder why?
No kidding! When I worked security at an installation with nuclear weapons, our orders were to shoot intruders. Don’t bother with questions. Why are these F***s still alive?