Nuns say prison won't kill their spirit of protest

Grand Rapids Press ^ | July 24, 2003 | Charles Honey

[wideawake]

Lock these heretical, terrorist traitors up.

[francisr]

bye, sisters -
I love it -

[Incorrigible]

Looks like they need to spend more time on "Liberation Theology"!

[maestro]

Right!

Nuns say prison won't kill their spirit of protest

But,.....they sure will miss "Happy Hour".

/sarcasm

[francisr]

and by the by - since they have 1000 letters of support, is there a way to get several thosand letters of condemnation sent the courts way?

[ThomasMore]

Lock these heretical, terrorist traitors up.

My sentiments, exactly!

[Longshanks]

They should dust off thier habits and wear them to court to get a lighter sentence. :-)

[Neanderthal]

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

[FourPeas]

It sounds like that what they have planned. Now, will it work?

[thegreatbeast]

I am a Catholic and think these women must pay the price for their actions. They are luky that they are not considered eligible under a Three Strikes provision.
The good sisters will be able to do much good work in the prisons they inhabit. Like they say, one prison door slams shut, and another one opens.
The nuns must learn to fight the sin of Pride. They thought that just because they are penguins that they were going to get a Free Pass. No one rides for Free!

[Shermy]

"...say the sentences are baseless for what they insist was a lawful act of civil disobedience under international law."

Which is?

[RockChucker]

"The sisters were convicted in April of obstructing national defense and damaging government property. On Oct. 6, they cut through a chain-link fence to reach a Minuteman III missile silo. They painted crosses with their blood on the 110-ton concrete silo lid and hammered on tracks that would carry the lid to firing position."

They got off easy. These are nukes we are talking about after all.

[aBootes]

Yeah, that caught my eye, too. I wish these reporters were quick enough on the uptake to ask those sort of questions. Perhaps some lucky FReeper will stumble across their argument and post it for our edification.

[Straight Vermonter]

These folks want to include ANY action they do as part of their first amendment right to protest. They want to make it seem that they are being punished for their intent rather than their actions. That is simply not the case.

In the weeks leading up to the war my bishop held a mass where he excpriated those who would make war on Iraq. This from a man who lost a brother on 9/11. I wrote a strongly worded letter to the diocesean newspaper and had nice feedback from other Catholics.

It is obvious to me that the laity is far more conservative than the clergy.

[isthisnickcool]

We didn't have nuns like this when I was in catholic school. They were too busy beating the crud out of us (deservedly so in my case) or playing "licket-D-split" with each other in the convent.

[FourPeas]

They got off easy.

That's what I thought. Five to eight sounds quite lenient. Considering that the most either one had previously served was 8 months, I guess they thought they'd continue just getting a slap on the wrist.

[fishtank]

Lesbo Marxist Catholic nun bump.

[FourPeas]

It is obvious to me that the laity is far more conservative than the clergy.

I think it's the same deal with colleges and universities. The ivory tower is just too isolating.