[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Three Nuns Arrested At N-8 Missile Silo

[Margaret E. Kosal]

>-------Original Message-------
>
>From: <mailto:globalnet at mindspring.com>Global Network Against Weapons & 
>Nuclear Power in Space
>Date: Tuesday, 8 October 2002 12:19:57 p.
>Subject: NUNS ARRESTED AT COLORADO MISSILE SILO
>
>THREE SISTERS FROM SACRED EARTH AND SPACE PLOWSHARES ARRESTED AT N-8 
>MISSILE SILO NEAR GREELEY
>October 7, 2002
>
>PRESS RELEASE---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
>Contact: Jonah House, 410-233-6238
>
>Greeley, Colo. - Three Dominican sisters involved in the Sacred Earth
>and Space Plowshares action at Peterson Air Force Base two years ago -
>Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert, and Jackie Hudson - were arrested Sunday,
>Oct. 6 after entering the N-8 missile silo in northern Colorado. They were
>charged with state felonies for trespass and criminal mischief, but are
>expecting additional federal felony charges. Sr. Ardeth Platte said that the
>group took documents with them, detailing the merger of Space Command and
>Strategic Command. In the new Air Force, she said, the intercontinental
>weapons of death have direct connections to the pre-emptive warfare plans
>enacted at Peterson, Schriever, Cheyenne Mountain, Buckley, and Offut Air
>Force Bases. Platte, Gilbert, and Hudson were transferred from the
>sheriff's office to a local jail in Greeley Sunday afternoon.
>
>Two of the sisters - Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte - are part of
>the Jonah House Community in Baltimore, Maryland; Jackie Hudson, is a
>member of Ground Zero in Poulsbo, WA. All three were on the site for several
>hours, and, in an act of disarmament, hammered on the tracks that carry the
>lid of the silo to its firing position. They then poured their own blood on
>the tracks and the silo, and took down a section of the fence surrounding
>the site. Jonah House received a phone call about 5:00 p.m. Sunday, October
>6, from Sr. Gilbert. She reported that they were awaiting transport to the
>local jail in Greeley, CO.
>
>The substance of that telephone call follows below, as reported by friends
>at the Jonah House Community:
>
>We got a phone call about 5:00 p.m. today from Carol. She reported that she,
>Ardeth, and Jackie were en route to the Women's Detention Center in Greeley
>CO. They were indicted by the state of CO (to date) for felony destruction
>(of, it seems, a farmer's fence); further charges are anticipated when they
>appear in court in the a.m.
>
>THE SACRED EARTH AND SPACE PLOWSHARES II has been born!
>
>The story Carol Gilbert shared went something like this:
>
>At 7:30 this morning (Sunday, October 6, 2002) they cut through a gate and
>entered a missile silo site N-8 near Greeley CO. They walked a bit further
>and cut through a second gate and entered the silo area. Upon arriving
>inside the silo, they used their hammers to hammer on the tracks (on which
>the lid of the silo is pulled to the side to allow the missile to be
>released); they also hammered on the silo itself. They used their blood to
>make the sign of the cross on the tracks and on the silo. They then began
>defencing - cutting through the fence in 3 places.
>
>Upon completing the action, they began their liturgy. They were able to
>complete the liturgy and sing many songs and hymns before they saw air force
>personnel in the distance. By 8:30 they were ringed with humvees and machine
>guns pointed at them by military personnel.
>
>They were placed under arrest; at some time in the process they were
>questioned by the FBI; they gave those important persons only their names
>(but maybe their addresses) and that was all. Never being very fast, it was
>5:00 p.m. before they were ready to be shipped to the local jail.
>
>The only other piece of information that we got from Carol was that the 3
>were dressed in white mop up suits - as used by crews doing toxic clean up.
>On the back of their suits they had stenciled: CWIT (Citizen Weapons
>Inspection Team); on the front they had stenciled: Disarmament Specialists.
>
>All three are well, in good health, grateful, ready, interested in all their
>friends. Attached are their statement and a photo of the 3 Dominican
>sisters.
>
>Love to you.
>Liz et al at Jonah House
>
>
>Bruce K. Gagnon
>Coordinator
>Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
>PO Box 90083
>Gainesville, FL. 32607
>(352) 337-9274
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