U.S Indicts Two Octogenarians And Three Sexagenarians For Protesting In Washington State

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unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

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(This space reserved for a legally correct snark dump.) It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: In all honesty they did cut through some security fences, but the depredation charge seems a bit much.



Those indicted were are 81-year-old Catholic priest Bill Bichsel 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 Stephen Kelly of Oakland, Calif.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2010/09/ap-navy-kitsap-five-indicted-for-trespassing-090310/

[Mnemosyne]

1. KnR... n/t

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2. they carried a banner that said, "Disarm Now Plowshares: Trident: Illegal and Immoral."

The Kitsap Sun reports they carried a banner that said, "Disarm Now Plowshares: Trident: Illegal and Immoral."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010193862_apwabangorbreakin.html

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3. Anne Montgomery is a well-known outside agitator ;-)

http://www.rscj.org/node/228

It was April 23, 2002. Sr. Anne Montgomery RSCJ was hunkered down with other Christian Peacemakers in an apartment in Bethlehem during the standoff at the Church of the Nativity, where some 200 armed Palestinians had taken refuge against advancing Israeli troops.

The 75-year-old nun’s passion for peace had taken her again to the Middle East, where she’s spent a good part of her life for the past seven years. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where the Brooklyn-based Montgomery spends most of her overseas months, her ministry has been one of presence, serving as an international observer in the interest of justice and peace.


http://vitw.org/archives/972

In a place where everything seems broken, she has been a fixer. At a time when most other American civilians were leaving the country, she was just arriving.

Sister Anne Montgomery, a 78-year-old nun, avoided the United States-patrolled Green Zone when she moved to Baghdad, opting instead to live in Karada, a mixed Shiite-Sunni neighborhood across the Tigris River from the American Embassy.

“You can’t possibly do the type of work we sought to do with Iraqi civilians unless you live with them,” she said in a recent interview from her home in East Harlem.


http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=3158

December 6, 2005

Twenty-five Christians in the nonviolent tradition of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker arrived in Cuba last evening and plan to set out from Santiago today on a solemn fifty-mile march to the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They seek to “defend human dignity” by visiting with the hundreds of detainees who have been held for more than three years under horrific conditions by the U.S. government. . . .

Participants in the group include a Jesuit Priest, Steve Kelly, a Catholic Nun, Sr. Anne Montgomery, Frida Berrigan, daughter of the late antiwar activist Phil Berrigan, and representatives of a number of Catholic Worker Communities. The marchers plan to arrive outside the gates of the U.S. naval base and prison complex on Guantanamo Bay on December 10, International Human Rights Day.

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4. They were indicted for cutting a fence and trespassing