Priest jailed for missile silo stunt

Greeley Tribune ^ | 7 Aug 09 | Sharon Dunn

[driftdiver]

They shoulda shot him

[DCBryan1]

Yep.

[HiTech RedNeck]

As merciful and compassionate as they try to be, why doesn’t the Vatican get that you can’t just unilaterally disarm when your would-be mortal enemy won’t.

[Recovering Hermit]

“May the Holy One have mercy on us for not doing so.”

Obama?

[DCBryan1]

A few years ago a greenpeace tug followed an Ohio Class SSBN out to the ocean. Despite the warnings, the protesters made it onto the sub in open water via a small inflatable boat. IIRC, the Captain of the boat was releaved of command since not because he allowed them on the boat, but because he DIDNT shoot them.

[CASchack]

When I saw it was an Illinois priest, I hoped it was Father Pfleger.

It wasn’t.

This misguided priest should direct his energy toward the abortion mills.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A submarine. Why didn’t he just have it dive?

[cydcharisse]

Nope.

[gridlock]

Just shoot him.

A minigun hooked up to a motion detector ought to do the trick...

[Arthur McGowan]

He misquotes Vatican II. The Council condemned dropping bombs on civilian populations. The USE of the atomic bombs, and the previous bombings of civilians, is what Vatican II condemned.

Who wants to make any wager on how many times this aged hippie cleric has been arrested at an abortion clinic? My guess: ZERO.

[bmwcyle]

A subamrine in port is not ready to dive. It is manned by about 1/4 of the crew. It is run by sometimes Junior officers on duty. Diving the boat is not easy tied up.

[bmwcyle]

I have guarded a fast attack submarine in Norfolk. I drew my gun four times but never had to shoot. It is a hard thing to shoot a Priest but I think I might have shot him if he did not stop on his approach of the sub. I drew on one petty officer, one officer, two rednecks in a john boat and two Italians in a 15 foot boat. All listened to my orders looking at a loaded (round in the chamber) 45.

[driftdiver]

I’ve been on the receiving end of that after a O6 kicked a safe with codes for nukes. After running around 3 stories under ground with grenade launchers they called the all-clear and failed to notify the folks upstairs.

[Mr. Silverback]

Bump!

[DCBryan1]

still in the bay...too shallow

[Alex Murphy]

A Roman Catholic priest from Illinois was jailed Thursday after police said he cut a hole in a fence at a Weld County missile silo and trespassed as a way to protest nuclear arms. It is now his third such arrest in Weld County....

There [a Minuteman III missile silo between Weld County roads 86 and 88 along Weld County Road 113, about 40 miles northeast of Greeley], they found a 75-year-old Carl Kabat, dressed in a clown suit atop his clerical garb, being detained by Air Force guards, who found him inside the perimeter of the fence. It was his second time at that particular missile silo since 2004, and his third such arrest. He had trespassed at another Weld silo in 2000.

Carl Kabat is a member of the religious order "the Oblates of Mary Immaculate". I've read that Cardinal Francis George, the archbishop of Chicago, is also a member of that order. Did you know there's a stage play, "And Carl Laughed", about him?

The only thing I want to know now is what Archbishop Chaput thinks about Kabat's activities in his territory?

[DuncanWaring]

Each of those bombs killed more than 100,000 people.

And saved the lives of 100 times that many.

What an invasion of Japan would likely have entailed.