Nuns With Hammers Convicted For Sabotaging National Defense

[Champ]

Lawyers for three pacifist nuns sent to prison for causing minor damage at a Weld County missile silo told an appeals court in Denver today that the women should not have been convicted of sabotage because they did not impair national defense.

The three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals asked several questions indicating doubt about whether the damage the nuns caused could have stopped a missile from launching.

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In a pouring rain outside the courthouse, a group of supporters held a banner reading, "They shalt beat their swords into plowshares. Nations shall learn no more war."

The nuns were convicted by a federal jury in April sabotaging the national defense and damaging government property. The nuns cut a fence and walked onto a Minuteman III silo site in October, swinging hammers and using their blood to paint a cross on the structure.


http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2439927,00.html

[Book Lover]

1. The good part of the Catholic Church

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[cornermouse]

2. One of Ashcroft's more ludicrous and ridiculous

mistakes. The whole thing only made him look dumb.

[JohnKleeb]

3. Is the Polish one who impreganted me still at large?

[name not needed]

4. Yes.

[JohnKleeb]

7. that sucks

[Jade Fox]

5. Nuns With Hammers--I remember that band from the 80's! n/t

[Senior citizen]

6. They could be giving ideas to terrorists.

Really. We've seen what terrorists can do with box cutters. If they graduate to hammers, who knows what they could do?

I love it. The big swinging dicks are afraid of nuns with small swinging hammers.

Well, if they defaced a shiny missile, that's damage to property, and in this country it carries a heavier penalty than killing thousands of innocent foreigners.

The war profiteers have the justice system on their side, and the nuns only have God. I wonder who'll win?

I think when this regime refers to national defense, they mean the defense arguments the chimp would use if tried for war crimes. And the nuns certainly seem to have impaired those a bit.

[carols]

8. If Christianity was a crime...

there wouldn't be nough evidence to convict George W. Bush. Can't take credit for it, but it is a great line and bravo to those nuns! National defense, my ass...maybe if we quit pissing people off, we wouldn't need missiles.
Carol