The Irate Nation Est. 2001

Old Hippies Trespass at Nuclear Base (h/t Moonbattery)

From Moonbattery:

In Washington state, a bunch of super-old hippies crashed a nuclear weapons base.

Bill “Bix” Bischel, S.J., 81, of Tacoma, Washington; Susan Crane, 65, of Baltimore MD; Lynne Greenwald, 60, of Bremerton Washington; Steve Kelly, S.J., 60, of Oakland, CA.; Anne Montgomery RSCJ, 83, of New York, New York, were arrested on Naval Base Kitsap- Bangor. They entered the Base in the early morning hours of November 2, 2009, All Souls Day, with the intention calling attention to the illegality and immorality of the existence of the Trident weapons system.As they walked onto the grounds, they held a banner saying…… “Disarm Now Plowshares : Trident: Illegal + Immoral”, left a trail of blood and hammered on the roadway, hammered on the fences around SWFPAC and scattered sunflower seeds throughout the base.

Then comes the cool part:

They were then thrown to the ground face down, handcuffed and hooded and held there for 4 hours on the wet cold ground. They were taken, hooded and carried out thru the very holes in the fence that they had made, for questioning by Base security, FBI and NCIS.

One of the most annoying things about undergrad was dealing with older radicals - sometimes you could see younger Leftists, i.e. campus Democrats or even campus Marxists or greens or an advocacy group like the LGBT alliance be embarrassed by how some of the older radicals were acting toward others (some younger radicals, of course, pick up the habit of acting badly; also, if I told you how things are at right-wing schools, one would wonder whether anyone in the US has any sanity). It's tough as a younger person to say "hey, cool it" to someone older, esp. someone who's supposed to know better. The only thing left as a restraint should they get out of line is the law. - I must admit, I did chuckle when I read this. -

In case you're interested, totally off-topic: Thomas Jefferson to William Ludlow, Sept. 6 1824