Som peaceniks are merely misguided. These people are, at best, nuts.
If nobody else has googled Ardeth's nutso "I cleaned up Michigan" comments by the time i get back, I'll find them. Gotta go back to class now.
Sister Ardeth Platte, OP, originally from Michigan, ran through her extensive biography of working for justice. She told of her years on the City of Council of Saginaw, the legal process of citizens working to keep Project ELF out of the state, the state wide referendum in which the populus overwhelmingly opposed the Navy facility's construction, only to be ignored by the Pentagon. Project ELF was built. Ardeth turned to nonviolent resistance and had much better results. First Wirtsmith Air Force Base closed, a campaign to which she and Sr. Carol Gilbert dedicated their time, then K. I. Sawyer, in the upper peninsula of Michigan closed once the two women moved there.
Like I said, Ardeth and Carol really believe they are the sole reason the United States Congress closed down two heavy bombardment wings whose core mission had disappeared. These women are not just spiritually stunted, they have delusions of grandeur.
Also, I know I'm not bringing a whole bunch of shocking info here, but the paxchristi and ploughshare crowd like to talk about B-52s and other "WMDs" but in the early '90s they screwed with USS Gettysburg at Bath Iron Works and took ball peens to an A-10 at a Guard base near Phillie.
Lastly, a friend of a friend who was stationed at Wurtsmith with me has a very amusing photo of himself arresting Ardeth. Wish I had a copy...