Thursday - December 22, 2005

Twisted Sister

I would like to address the sisters directly:

Dear Sister Platte, what you did was incredibly stupid. At your age you really should know better. Puh-leeze, sister! You knew you’d be arrested for trespassing on sensitive military property, so why did you do it? What did you hope to acomplish with your “symbolic disarmament”? Did you guys dream this up one evening after indulging in too much sacramental wine? Are you aware of how much danger you placed yourself in? Most of the USAF’s Security Police have orders to shoot on sight anyone trespassing near missile silos.

Let me explain it to you so that even your feeble mind can grasp the situation - (1) yes, the US has a stockpile of nukes but there are much fewer than there were twenty years ago thanks to the end of the Cold War and (2) yes, the US has never renounced the use of nuclear weapons because that is what keeps the bad guys honest and (3) the US has not used nuclear weapons since 1945 simply because the bad guys know they exist and most importantly (4) we are getting closer to a day when nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction are no longer a threat to anybody but that day is still a long way off due to the idiots in other countries who want to impose their will on everyone, but until that fine day, we have to keep a big stick handy in case the mad dogs get silly. Now go to your room and say three thousand Hail Marys and try to be patient ...

Nun Who Defaced Silo Released From Prison
December 22, 2005
DANBURY, Conn. (AP)

A pacifist nun convicted of defacing a Colorado missile silo in 2002 was released Thursday from federal prison.  Ardeth Platte, 69, was not due to be released until May 31, but a judge gave her credit for time already served, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Platte, along with sisters Jackie Hudson and Carol Gilbert, were arrested in October 2002 after they allegedly cut a chain link fence surrounding a Minuteman III missile silo in northern Colorado. The nuns then used baby bottles to dispense their own blood in the shape of a cross on the silo.

Air Force security quickly left training exercises to respond, arriving at the site in several armored vehicles. The three nuns, who appeared to be praying and singing, announced they were peaceful and surrendered, according to court documents.

Hudson, Gilbert and Platte were convicted on charges of obstructing national defense and damaging government property. They received prison sentences of 30 months, 33 months and 41 months respectively. Hudson and Gilbert have been released.

The nuns are members of the Dominican Sisters order in Grand Rapids, Mich. They said their protest was a symbolic disarmament, prompted by an imminent war with Iraq because the United States has never disavowed nuclear weapons.

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