Thursday - July 28, 2005
Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day
And here I thought ignorant, anti-war protestors were mostly young smelly hippies from Berkeley. Evidently, I was wrong. It appears insanity reaches out to all ages in this day and age. Now we have the ”Raging Grannies” attempting to enlist in the armed forces and possibly going to jail when they were refused ....
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Five greying anti-war activists from a group dubbed the “Raging Grannies” face possible jail time after demanding to be enlisted in the US Army to fight in Iraq, one of them said. The women, aged between 57 and 92, were charged with criminal trespass after turning up at an Armed Forces Recruiting Center in the western US state of Arizona demanding they be allowed to join the fighting ranks.
“We’re very serious about that, we really want to enlist,” 74-year-old “Raging Granny” Betty Schroeder told AFP. “We think it would be better if old people were killed at war than young ones,” the retired nurse, whose husband and two brothers were killed in battle in other wars, explained.
Eight “grannies,” including Schroeder, are accused of invading military territory by entering a military recruiting office in the city of Tucson on July 13 to sign up. Military officials asked them to leave and called police who issued charges against five of the grannies after they had left the office. They are charged with trespassing, which could see them jailed for up to five months.
The five appeared in court in Tucson on Monday where they pleaded not guilty to the offence and the judge scheduled a preliminary hearing for August 19, according to Schroeder. “Criminal trespass is a misdemeanour,” she said. “I think we might be sentenced to five months in prison or a 500 dollar fine,” she told AFP by telephone from Tucson.
The “Ranging Grannies,” formed by members of the Tucson branch of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, meet every Wednesday and sing songs set to familiar tunes that protest the US military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. The maximum age for enlistment in the US Army is 34, while reservists can join up until the age of 39.
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on 07/28/2005 at 10:48 AM
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