Text Ticker: Peaceniks Target Killer Drones
Some leading Catholic voices for nonviolence, John Dear and Louie Vitale, have been protesting the drones the U.S. military has been using in combat zones.
Last Thursday afternoon, however, Vitale and 13 other demonstrators marched into Nevada’s Creech Air Force Base, where the military remotely pilots the unmanned aircraft that fly over Afghanistan and Iraq. They sat down, and began to sing and pray — part of a 10-day vigil dubbed “Ground the Drones.”
About an hour later, they were arrested by the State Police. At the activists’ behest, the cops then drove them to Las Veags for booking. “When we were released on Good Friday morning, we did what any normal Christian would do,” Vitale’s compatriot, John Dear, writes. “We went back to the scene of the crime and continued to pray and speak out for an end to U.S. warmaking.”
via Peaceniks Target Killer Drones | Danger Room from Wired.com.
