Texas peace activist hurt in car accident in Iraq - member of Christian ecumenical peace deleg. dies

The Dallas Morning News ^ | January 8, 2003 | By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News

[MeekOneGOP]

Texas peace activist hurt in car accident in Iraq

01/08/2003

By DAVID McLEMORE / The Dallas Morning News

A longtime Texas peace activist remained hospitalized in Baghdad after a one-car accident in southern Iraq that killed another member of a Christian ecumenical peace delegation.

San Antonio businessman Charlie Jackson, founder of Austin-based Texans for Peace, was traveling with a 17-member Christian Peacekeeper Teams delegation to Iraq when the car in which he was riding crashed Monday after a tire blew out near Basra.

Fellow delegate George Weber, 73, of Chesley, Ontario, Canada, died in the one-car accident. Another member, Michele Naar-Obed of Duluth, Minn., was treated for a broken nose, while Mr. Jackson suffered a broken rib.

The group had planned to leave Iraq on Thursday after a fact-finding mission that began in October, said Claire Evans, delegate coordinator with the Chicago-based Christian Peacekeeper Teams.

"Charlie is still in quite a bit of pain. After getting out of the hospital in Basra for travel to Baghdad, he required further hospitalization," Ms. Evans said.

"He should be returning to North America within the next week, depending on his recovery," Ms. Evans said.

According to the organization's mission statement, Christian Peacemaker Teams provide support to people committed to faith-based, nonviolent alternatives in situations where lethal conflict is an immediate reality.

Mr. Jackson, 43, who had moved his technology services consulting firm, Acceleros, from Austin to San Antonio in July, had joined the delegation Dec. 26.

The Iraq trip is consistent with Mr. Jackson's commitment to pacifist goals, associates said.

Mr. Jackson founded Texans for Peace in 1993 and conducted peace vigils in Guatemala and the former Yugoslavia. This was his first trip to Iraq.

"Working for peace in the world is as patriotic a thing as any American can do," Mr. Jackson said in a Dec. 31 story in the Austin American-Statesman. "I honestly believe in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, where we declare that all people are created equal - not just Americans."

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[AppyPappy]

Damn shame. He goes to get killed and all he gets is a broken rib.

Dr Kevorkian, white courtesy phone

[Fiddlstix]

Hmmmmm......
Well
After all.....
Hospitals are usually peaceful places
(Looks like he got what he went there for, peace)

[ppaul]

Texas peace appeasement activist hurt in car accident in Iraq

[ward_of_the_state]

You are soooo bad! LOL! Calling in Jack the Dripper of all people!

[xJones]

This guy is a .......Texan?

Oh, the shame of it all! And his home is in San Antonio, sacred location of the Alamo!

[ward_of_the_state]

By the way, a peace-nik in Texas, where they walk tall with really big spurs on their boots? That guy's a freak of nature, is what he is!

[johniegrad]

Michele Naar-Obed

Michele Naar-Obed holds a graduate degree in Medical Pathology and is a long time activist for peace and social justice. Her political trials include: Jubilee Plowshares East - May, 1996; Good News Plowshares - April, 1993; numerous smaller trials and courtroom appearances for nonviolent resistance related to militarism. Naar-Obed's prison/jail sentences for nonviolent civil disobedience include: June, 1999 - June, 2000 at Alderson FPC; September, 1996 - November, 1997 at Tallahassee FCI; April, 1993 - August, 1993 at Newport News, Va. She has also been incarcerated in numerous short term sentences in various jails including the Institute for Women. She is author of a collection of essays, Maternal Convictions, on community, spirituality, and nonviolent resistance and numerous articles for Year One and various Catholic Worker newsletters. She is married to Greg Boertje-Obed; they and their daughter Rachel (7) live at Jonah House, a nonviolent resistance community in Baltimore, MD.

What is this piece of shit doing claiming to be from Duluth?

[johniegrad]

On August 7 of last year, Rick Sieber, his son Erin, Michele Naar-Obed, and Amy Moose entered the naval shipyard in Newport News, Virginia, disguised as workers and proceeded to symbolically disarm the USS Greenville, first-strike nuclear submarine, by hammering on its missile launch tubes. They poured baby bottles of their own blood on the hatches and spread out pictures of atomic bombing victims, mostly children, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then, instead of escaping, they alerted shipyard personnel. The Greenville has 12 missile tubes designed for Tomahawk cruise missiles. If nuclear-tipped, each is the equivalent, conservatively estimated, of 11 Hiroshima-type bombs. Simultaneously, on the West Coast Fr. Steve Kelly and Susan Crane carried out a similar action on Trident missile components at the Lockheed Martin plant in Sunnyvale, California. Both groups are members of the Plowshares movement

[lewislynn]

squeeky-clean, conservative Texas has peace activists?

[ppaul]

They poured baby bottles of their own blood on the hatches...

These "activists" are some real sickos.
No wonder they love Saddam.
He likes to have his own "activists" write his decrees using his blood.
Cool, huh?

[WorkingClassFilth]

"Working for peace in the world is as patriotic a thing as any American can do,"

Wrong-o, Mr. Jackson. This is a case of your personal delusions interfering with all of America’s national security.

“The Iraq trip is consistent with Mr. Jackson's commitment to pacifist goals, associates said.”

At least the truth comes out about Mr. Jackson from someone else’s mouth. If, as I believe, American patriotism can be defined as reverence and adherence to our Constitution, then Mr. Jackson’s goals include gutting that document in favor of his personal, delusional, philosophy. Clearly, he is a danger to freedom and security. Clearly, Mr. Jackson, and those like him, are a threat to patriots everywhere.

"I honestly believe in the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, where we declare that all people are created equal - not just Americans."

That part is true; the basic truths of the Constitution are universal. The Constitution was written, however, to protect the freedoms of Americans – not the languishing citizens of other tyrannical countries. It is not within the purview of the American Constitution to crusade throughout the world implementing one man’s delusional obsessions.

[richardtavor]

Musta moved in from California..

[WorkingClassFilth]

This says a great deal about security in this installation. I take for granted the agent provocateur role of dedicated communists like these 'activists,' but I am seriously disturbed by these security lapses.

I guess Richard Marchenko's (sp) books about his Seal Team's testing and proving that security sucks at these bases seems to be confirmed by this report.

[happygrl]

What is this piece of shit doing claiming to be from Duluth?

She is living a Catholic Worker house in Duluth. She was kicked out of Jonah House because she couldn't get along with the other peacenicks there. So much for demonstrating how to be a peacemaker.

I note that she wrote about "Maternal Convictions." Interesting, as she has hardly spent time with her daughter since she was born, having spent so much time doing time.

How do I know all this ? Some of these people are my relatives....

[johniegrad]

Sorry to "dis" you relatives but............

[Blue Screen of Death]

squeeky-clean, conservative Texas has peace activists?

Not any more.

[Stultis]

Another checkmark for Chuck's list...