[PAA-Discuss] FW: Interviews Available -- Anti-Drone War Protesters Given Time Served HPN?

[Lee Loe]

 FYI. Lee

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        Thursday, January 27, 2011

        Anti-Drone War Protesters Given Time Served

        Interviews Available

AP is reporting: "A judge says protesters' moral opposition to drone warfare
overseas didn't absolve them of guilt for trespassing at Creech Air Force
Base in Nevada in April 2009. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace William Jansen
delivered a 20-page ruling Thursday finding a group dubbing themselves the
'Creech 14' guilty of trespassing at the base about 45 miles northwest of
Las Vegas. The judge sentenced each to credit for time already served in
jail and sent them on their way.

"'Go in peace,' he said." 

See Las Vegas Sun report:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/27/creech-14-found-guilty-trespassi
ng-judge-says-go-p

KATHY KELLY, mobile: (773) 619-2418, kathy.vcnv at gmail.com, http://vcnv.org
JOHN DEAR, (505) 629-2029, johndearsj at msn.com JIM HABER, mobile: (415)
828-2506, jim at nevadadesertexperience.org, http://nevadadesertexperience.org
    Haber is co-coordinator of the Nevada Desert Experience. John Dear is a
Jesuit priest. He said today: "Creech Air Force Base is home to the latest
high-tech weapons that use unmanned aerial systems to carry out surveillance
and increasingly lethal attack missions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and
Yemen." 

    Kelly, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, said today: "It's
criminal for the U.S. people to spend $2 billion per week for war in
Afghanistan that maims, kills and displaces innocent civilians who've meant
us no harm. ...

    "Judge Jansen said we were guilty because drone operations at Creech Air
Force Base don't pose an imminent danger. An airman at Creech wrote, 'I am
7,000 miles away from the killing . I am 18 inches away from the killing.'
He was referring to his proximity to seeing human beings dismembered on the
video screen.

    "In Afghanistan, I met a family displaced by a drone attack in the
Helmand Province. One man showed me the photos of his children's bloodied
corpses. The drone attack killed his spouse and his five children. In the
Charahi Qambar refugee camp, I sat next to Juma Gul, a nine-year-old girl
whose arm was amputated by the same drone attack. She was punished horribly
even though she committed no crime. We want to be in solidarity with her."

The Creech 14 are: Fr. John Dear; Dennis Duvall; Renee Espeland; Judy
Homanich; Kathy Kelly; Fr. Steve Kelly; Mariah Klusmire; Brad Lyttle; Libby
Pappalardo; Sr. Megan Rice; Brian Terrell; Eve Tetaz; Fr. Louie Vitale; and
Fr. Jerry Zawada.

For more: http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/01/27-13

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy:
Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
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