Posted on 04/10/2018 6:42:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Seven Catholic peace activists were denied bail during a court appearance April 6, a day after they were detained after entering Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in Georgia to protest nuclear weapons.
Calling themselves the Kings Bay Plowshares, the seven faced charges of possession of tools for the commission of a crime and interference with government property, both felonies, and criminal trespass, a misdemeanor.
Chief Magistrate Jennifer E. Lewis of the Camden County Magistrate Court said in court she was denying bond, claiming that they posed a threat to the community because she believed they could return to the base.
The Navy’s fleet of Trident submarines carries about half of the U.S. active strategic nuclear warheads, according to military observers.
The activists said they chose the date of April 4 to undertake their action to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and to “repent of the sin of white supremacy that oppresses and take the lives of people of color here in the United States and throughout the world.”
The seven people detained include longtime peace activists and several Catholic Workers.
They are Elizabeth McAlister, 78, of Jonah House in Baltimore and Jesuit Father Steve Kelly, 69, of the Bay Area in California; and Catholic Workers Carmen Trotta, 55, of New York City; Clare Grady, 50, of Ithaca, New York; Martha Hennessy, 62, of New York, granddaughter of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day; Mark Colville, 55, of New Haven, Connecticut; and Patrick O’Neill, 61 of Garner, North Carolina.
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Good they were lucky that they did not get shot. They need to learn a lesson.
Not this commie bull**** again. I thought we grew out of this bull**** back in the 60s.
Why don’t they go to Iran, or North Korea, or Syria, or Saudi Arabia, territory still held by ISIS, or any countries of the old Soviet Union, and pull this crap, and see what happens to them.
It never went away. It just got, in the case of Bill Ayers and a few of those bastards, degrees and went into the business of teaching teachers.
I would suggest reading Bella Dodd’s Scool of Darkness available in PDF form online.
They misspelled Communist
I was in the mix in the 60s in New London.
These A-holes should be charged with treason.
Lock ‘em up. Let them cool off in a 6x6.
They are about as “Catholic” as Bergoglio.
These “Catholics” wouldn’t be in favor of open borders,pervert marriage and the impeachment of President Trump,would they?
” charges of possession of tools for the commission of a crime and interference with government property, both felonies, and criminal trespass, a misdemeanor. “
Lock them up!
I noticed none are from Georgia, damn Yankees. ( snickering)
We now they can enjoy some southern hospitality.
It think they’re going to stand out a little bit.
Total jerks and they’re all about 80 years old...and yes, they do think it’s 1968 again.
Now we’re cooking, a couple of years in jail should sober these folks up.
Can their asses....forever!
The same worthless creeps who were demonstrating against us who served in Vietnam. Let ‘em rot!
Jail them all. They are smug phonies who mistake Catholic teaching for a suicide pact. Even Jesus used physical violence against the money changers at the temple.
I drilled at NAS South Weymouth in the late 80’s and early 90’s, They came on Base and beat on aircraft there.
They been doing the his for decades.
Sounds like they may be about to meet some south Georgia justice instead of the west coast/northeast judges that they are used to.
They probably thought they’d get some federal judge instead of one down at the county courthouse.
Of course, this is just the arraignment. They’ll get a trial in Superior Court, with a large chunk of the jurors likely either Baptist or perhaps less theologically liberal.
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2018/4/5/plowshares-action-at-kings-bay-naval-base-ga.html
Talk about “white supremacy”...
Submarines (often selected by Jesuits for protests, of whom there is one here) are of course phallic symbols... does that mean anything?
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