Posted on 04/06/2018 8:47:24 PM PDT by BBell
Kings Bay Plowshares protested nuclear weapons on submarine base
ST. MARYS, Ga. - Seven members of a group called Kings Bay Plowshares were arrested Thursday after they slipped onto the Kings Bay Submarine Base and vandalized some signs, according to a base spokesman.
A news release on the Kings Bay Plowshares Facebook page said the seven Catholic activists got onto the St. Marys base Wednesday night, carrying hammers and "baby bottles of their own blood."
More Headlines 2 sailors die 4 days apart in same Kingsland home Retirement ceremony held for Coast Guard K-9 Navy sailor charged with sexual exploitation of children The base's gates are staffed with security at all times, so it’s uncertain how the protesters gained access to the base, but Kings Bay public affairs office spokesman Scott Bassett said no personnel or facilities were ever threatened.
It's possible the seven activists were there for hours before they were caught, and Bassett confirmed security measures at the base are being reviewed.
"I believe they walked on," Plowshares supporter Jessica Stewart said. "They went through a fence and walked on. Surprisingly, considering it’s a nuclear installation, I don’t think it was difficult for them to gain access."
The group, which is opposed to nuclear weapons and advocates active resistance to war, tried to "convert weapons of mass destruction," the release said.
"They were seeking through their actions to disarm those weapons symbolically and move us toward a world where we have economic justice, where racism has been dismantled and where we can live in peace," Stewart said. "I don’t think they feel they were breaking the law. I think they feel they were following international law, which calls on citizens to prevent unjust war and the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crimes against humanity."
King's Bay is the Navy's Atlantic Ocean Trident port with six ballistic missile subs and two guided missile subs.
The activists said they chose to enter the base on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The group's Facebook post said the men and women divided up and went to the administration building, the D5 Missile monument installation and the nuclear weapons storage bunkers with crime scene tape, hammers and banners reading:
"The ultimate logic of racism is genocide" -- Dr. Martin Luther King (Jr.)
"The ultimate logic of Trident is omnicide"
"Nuclear weapons: illegal -- immoral."
The activists, who are being held without bond in the Camden County Jail on charges of trespassing and defacing government property, are:
Clare Grady, 59, Ithaca, New York
Martha Hennessey, 62, Perkinsville, Vermont
Carmen Trotta, 55, New York City
Elizabeth McAlister, 78, Baltimore Patrick O’Neil, 61, Garner, North Carolina
Mark Corville, 55, New Haven, Connecticut
Stephen Kelly, 69, Los Gatos, California
The seven will appear Friday morning at a bond hearing.
Well they certainly are very “white”; as good “Christians” they shouldn’t be stealing the spotlight from the aggrieved melanin-rich victims.../s
The activists are being held at a local senior center...
The base commander is up the sh*t creek...
They have the look of Bernie Bros.
“Beat the sh*t out of these libtards”
Better yet...shoot, shovel and shutup. I’m sure the base is large enough to provide space for anonymous, unmarked graves. These folks are enemies.
The first prosecutions should be courts martial for the folks who didn’t maintain security at a facility with nuclear weapons.
Then execute the terrorists and deliver the bodies to the pope.
Looking at the names, it looks like an IRA attack. Nothing dumber than misguided Irish socialists.
Some Marines are going to be in deep doodoo for failing to detect the intrusion in a timely manner.
That’s how you know where the nukes are, Marines for security instead of rent-a-cops.
post 9
Seven emotional children going around in aged adult bodies. What a disgrace.
Then do you doubt the pope is? Neither are Christian for sure, but anti-Christ as regards the Christ of Scripture. .
Well...
A news release on the Kings Bay Plowshares Facebook page said the seven Catholic activists...
Have you any evidence other than a vague gut feeling?
And their names sound IRISH Catholic!!
https://www.ncronline.org/news/justice/plowshares-activists-arrested-action-georgia-naval-base
Golly!
I'd like to read the little handbook that explains just HOW all these nice things are going to be implemented!
We train our future leaders of the Army at West Point.
Fags can get married in the chapel there.
Nope; for it is OBVIOUSLY Trump’s fault!
Can't say exactly how many PP has though...
LOUT???
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Unfortunately a precedent of slaps on the wrist for such deeds was set in 2012 in Oak Ridge, Tn DOE/DOD facility. The Plowers {one being a Nun} basically pulled the same stunt. http://archive.knoxnews.com/news/local/catholic-nun-jailed-in-y-12-protest-is-freed-ep-403021558-357517521.html
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