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Go ahead and call her up!
Posted on 07/25/2005 9:34:28 PM PDT by SmithL
TUCSON, Ariz. - Five older women known as the "Tucson Raging Grannies" pleaded innocent Monday to misdemeanor trespassing charges lodged when they tried to enlist at a military recruitment center.
A judge set an Aug. 19 pretrial hearing for the women, who range from 55 to 81 years old - decades older than the maximum allowable age for recruits.
The women are "pretty thoroughly anti-war; we're concerned about the environment and what's happening to civil liberties," said Patricia Birnie, a spokeswoman for the group.
Birnie was with the women when they entered a recruiting center on July 13, but was not cited.
She said two recruiters told the group not to enter, but the women said they had come to enlist, read a statement and sang two protest songs. By the time they returned to the sidewalk outside, police had arrived.
The Raging Grannies have protested outside the recruitment center on Wednesdays for the past three years, and contend that recruits have been lied to, Birnie said.
The women were serious about enlisting, she added. "We feel that our lives are pretty well used up and that the young people so many times are killed in battle or come home traumatized," she said.
Sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
Sign em up. We can turn them into MOAMs--Mother Of All Mothers--and drop them on terrorist strongholds. The explosion of dust when these dried up old prunes land will act as a teargas-like fog which will drive the terrorists into the open.
P.S. Correct the title, remove that "R". ;)
Oh. I am SO confused.
D'oh!
"Sounds like a Monty Python sketch."
Truly it does. The ones where the ladies club recreates great battles of military history in the mud field, or whatever they call mud fields in England. Sloughs?
In all seriousness, let them sign up. The process for haphazard signatures and misusing govenment forms is truly punishing.
"Sign em up."
SPOILER ALERT FOR CSI MIAMI...
LOL! We watched CSI - Miami tonight, the most confused show, with evil IRS agents as murder victims. I think many Freepers would have enjoyed it. One was killed by an 8 year old. The kid just plugged the guy in the heart. Hubby and I were saying, sign him up, send him over. Send an army-full over! We'll see your 22 year old suicide bomber and raise you an 8 year old sniper!
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Go ahead and call her up!
moams! too funny
No way, I'm not going to add "being flirted with by lonely old bags" to the deprivations our troops have to endure.
BUMP! for a "hell's grannies" reference!
Good grief!
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