[Beckwith]

Kathy Kelly, founder of Voices in the Wilderness and an international activist, is a professional pain in the butt.  She served eight months in jail for protesting at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia in 2004.  In 1988 she spent a year in prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites.

Any enemy of the United States is a friend of Kathy Kelly’s.  She is a supporter of Marxists in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile and Cuba.  She will be a speaker at Cuba Action Day, April 27th.  The goal of Cuba Action Day is the lifting of the U.S. embargo.  Kelly has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 25 years.  She has said that the United States has become the most dangerous warlike culture in human history, conveniently forgetting Alexander’s Greece, Caesar’s Rome, the Huns, the Mongols, Napoleon’s France, Hitler’s Germany and Imperial Japan.

Kelly is a member of the "blame the victim" crowd, writing, "we ask ourselves why individuals, some of them young, rational people with their whole lives ahead of them, would hate the US and its allies so much that they would commit acts of massive destruction and end their own lives as well."

Kelly has vigorously supported Saddam Hussein since 1991.  She has campaigned to end economic and military warfare against the Saddam Hussein regime.  Kelly and her organization are also active in military counter recruitment, providing information about war tax resistance and supporting anti-ROTC/JROTC, conscientious objection, GI rights, the poverty draft, and alternatives to military service programs.

[mnehring]

..Yet these neo-hippies never once read the names of the million or so killed under Saddam...

These are the type of people who would have thought leaving Hitler in power would be better than being involved in WWII...

[blackie]

Hang 'em High!

[brooklyn dave]

I personally know Kelly and other members of Voices in the Wilderness. Their group has been going to Iraq for years. Saddam welcomed them warmly. Why do Christian pacifists (if they are such), also need to wrap themselves in a Marxist-Socialist ideology. They would be more believable if they would stay a-political. I respect a Christian pacifist if they simply stick to the opinion that they believe that this was Christ's intent and the belief of the early Christian community. The early Christian community pretty much stayed out of the political affairs of the Roman Empire. Some individuals in this group have done good individual "works of mercy"---helping out individuals in need while they were in Iraq, but the larger rational of the group is definitely leftist.

[zip]

Kelly has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 25 years

Can't believe that comment.

[randog]

Kelly has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 25 years.

Then why is she not in jail?

[eyespysomething]

Kelly has refused payment of all Federal income tax for 25 years.

Any other American citizen would be in jail. Why is she not?

[King Prout]

reckon ol' Mr. "Ummm Like Y'know" knows this bird?

[Dahoser]

Not for nothing, but I'm 100% behind her if she's going to aggravate the crap out of that Clymer, Dick Durbin. :)

[toddlintown]

The Chicago Tribune Sunday magazine did a puff-piece on this nutjob a few months back. Almost had her up for sainthood.

[harpo11]

Oh well, she is probably going to be pardoned by the co-president who is manically hoping and scheming to be a real president someday, although it depends on Mrs. Bill Clinton getting enough felons and illegal immigrants to vote for her.