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Fifth Column
Six geezers arrested in protest
2006-03-21
Six anti-Americanwar protesters were arrested Monday on suspicion of blocking an entrance to Raytheon Missile Systems.
Yours truly works in the first building inside the gate.

Protesters billed the event as a "citizens' weapons blockade" timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war. Defense contractor Raytheon makes the Tomahawk cruise missile. About 15 protesters blocked the company entrance at 1115 E. Hermans Road, off the Nogales Highway, during the noon hour, said Dawn Barkman of the Pima County Sheriff's Department.
Played merry hell with our lunch plans. Grrrrr. We had to use the company cafeteria. Death is too good for them.

In a news release distributed before the protest, organizers said they wanted to stop shipments of bombs and missiles.
"We are here today to say no to weapons and no to murder except of Americans or Jooooos," retired teacher and protester Nancy Gallen was quoted as saying in the news release. The demonstrators said their actions were part of a larger anti-war effort called the National Campaign for Sedition Nonviolent Resistance Against the War in Iraq.

Gallen, 69, and other protesters were arrested and released at the scene. They face five charges apiece: obstructing a highway, unlawful assembly, disorderly conduct, public nuisance and violating a state law that requires that pedestrians stay on sidewalks or near roadsides. Considering the snowbirds haven't left yet, they were taking their lives in their hands. I stay far from roadways when walking. The other Tucsonans who were arrested were identified by the Sheriff's Department as Patricia Birnie, 76; Gretchen Nielsen, 73; William Moeller, 52; Scott Kerr, 30; and Lawrence McPherson, 61.
With one exception, all aging hippies caught in a 40-year time-warp. Oh, well, the terrorists thank them for their support.
Posted by:Jackal

#3   arrested Monday on suspicion of blocking an entrance

So there is some question about what they were doing?

/someone please teach journalism students how to write!!
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-03-21 15:08  

#2  LOL Jackal, I have never know anybody who likes their cafeteria. But thatÂ’s what you get for working for the evil military-industrial complex. Ever so often I see some of aged hippies on the State Capital with signs: “Impeach Bush” “Bush=Hitler” “Free Mumia” “Taste Great” “Less Filling”. I just shake my head and wonder what synaptic in their brain stopped working. FYI their “crowd” never number more than ten and I always mange to make eye contact and flip them the bird as I drive by.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2006-03-21 10:48  

#1  Is this the actual OVER THE HILL GANG??????
Posted by: ARMYGUY   2006-03-21 08:55  

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