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We must ensure that terrorists

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never acquire a nuclear weapon.

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This is the most immediate

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and extreme threat
to global security.

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One terrorist with
one nuclear weapon

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could unleash
massive destruction.

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And we know that
there is unsecured

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nuclear material
across the globe.

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To protect our people,

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we must act with a sense
of purpose without delay.

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There's been a security breach
at a U.S. nuclear facility

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which is supposed to
be one of the most

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secure sights in the world.

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They managed to break
into the grounds

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surrounding the Y-12 National
Security Complex in Tennessee,

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triggering the highest security
alert there since 9/11.

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The country's largest stockpile

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of uranium for nuclear bombs
in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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Take a look at this picture.

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Authorities say she

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an 82-year-old nun who they
say cut through fences,

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got past high-tech security.

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I am Megan from Nevada.

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Sister Megan Rice and two others

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did what no one
should be able to do.

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In the middle of the
night using bolt cutters,

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the three breached
the perimeter fence

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and then three more fences
and motion detectors,

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reaching the building
holding all that uranium.

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You have to be
a little concerned

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when it's an octogenarian
nun who helps you

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understand your nuclear
weaknesses and security.

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The complex
holds enough uranium

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to make 10,000 nuclear bombs.

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The place that
is supposed to be

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one of the most secure
places on the planet is not!

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They walked right in.

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They walked right
up to the interior

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storage facilities
holding the uranium.

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They got so far
inside the complex

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that they were able to lay hands

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on the nuclear materials
storage facility inside there.

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And once they were inside,
they prayed, they sang songs.

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They were just
waiting for somebody

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to notice them in the
shoot-to-kill zone.

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They were there for an hour

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before anybody came
to arrest them.

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We're talking about
what the New York Times

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described as the
biggest security breach

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in the history of the
nation's atomic complex.

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The three are all senior
citizens, upper 50s,

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one in his 60s, and Megan
Rice, a nun in her 80s.

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They didn't have any
special knowledge,

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any special highly
advanced tools to break in.

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Luckily, of course,
they had no bad intent.

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In fact, here'

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I wouldn't have
gone with the blood,

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but I'm not a peace
activist, right?

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What do you think will happen?

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I mean, we're talking
about an 83-year-old nun

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who says, "Look, I'm
against nuclear weapons."

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This was a way for
her to protest.

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What do you think the
punishment should be for her?

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Rap on the hand with a ruler!

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Come on, old school Catholic.

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The trio now
face the possibility

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of lengthy sentences
in federal prison.

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Sister Megan,
you've not disputed

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the fact that you breached
security at Oak Ridge.

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We don't consider
it a breach of security.

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I spoke
to Sister Megan Rice

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a few weeks following
the Y-12 break-in.

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She was free awaiting trial

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after a judge released
her from jail.

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I don't think anyone was
more surprised to hear

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about the security breach
at Y-12 than I was.

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I'd been working on a film

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about nuclear
disarmament activists,

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some of them Catholic nuns
and priests who engage

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in Plowshares protests
involving hammers and blood.

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But I never met
Sister Megan before,

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though I would soon learn
there were far fewer

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than six degrees of
separation between us.

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What does it say?

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I mean, I think the fact
that an 82-year-old woman

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and two other people basically
unarmed could get into

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the most top secret allegedly
high security atomic plant

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that stockpiles highly
enriched uranium.

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What does it say?

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This is the Y-12
National Security Complex.

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We are
absolutely essential

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to the nation's security.

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Y-12 inspects,
refurbishes, dismantles

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and non-destructively tests
the nation's nuclear arsenal.

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As the nation's Fort Knox
for highly enriched uranium,

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Y-12 uses more than
60 years of safety

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and security experience to
store special materials,

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further reducing
global nuclear threats.

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Was it
easier to get on the property

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than what you
thought it would be?

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Far, we were led miraculously.

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But it was difficult.

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But not as difficult
as officials had believed.

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This is the Highly Enriched
Uranium Materials Facility.

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This is a brand new
facility at Y-12

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which was created
for the safe, secure

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and efficient storage of
highly enriched uranium.

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This facility is
unique as it stores

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12,000 drums of material
and 12,000 cans of material.

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Y-12 houses the nation's

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main supply of highly
enriched uranium.

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Overall do you
think the Y-12 plant

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is safe against terrorists?

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Absolutely.

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Our people are well trained.

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They're well equipped.

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The American people can
rest assured that this is

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one of the most well protected
facilities in the world.

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How secure
is this new facility?

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Very secure.

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Will it
withstand an airplane crash?

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It'll withstand everything that DOE has
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to be an appropriate
credible threat.

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The three
activists used bolt cutters

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to cut through four
chain link fences

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to reach the outside walls
of this very building.

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Please rise and
raise your right hand.

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Do you swear the
testimony that you

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are about to give
is the whole truth

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and nothing but the
truth so help you God?

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This is one of those hearings

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that we occasionally
have in Congress

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where we say together,

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We're shocked.

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We're shocked that something
like this could happen.

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When an 82-year-old
pacifist nun

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gets to the inner sanctum
of our weapons complex,

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you cannot say job well done.

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She's in the audience.

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Would you please
stand up, ma'am?

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We want to thank
you for pointing out

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some of the problems
in our security.

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While I don't totally agree

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with your platform that
you were espousing,

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I do thank you for bringing out

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the inadequacies of
our security system

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and thank you for
being here today.

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All they were worried
about was the fact

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that somebody could
get in so easily.

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And that could be anybody.

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That's not what we
wanted to be thanked for.

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It's for exposing and opposing

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the existence of
nuclear weapons.

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A stunned
universe now swiftly learned

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that man had a new weapon
of shocking destructiveness.

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This bomb, exploding over
the north factory district,

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took the lives of 42,000
persons and injured 40,000 more.

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It destroyed 39% of
all the buildings

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standing in Nagasaki
before the calamity.

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We had an uncle,
my mother's baby brother,

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was in the Marines and sent
into Nagasaki in September 1945

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and stayed there for
the next four months.

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So he witnessed the effects
of the Nagasaki bomb

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Flash burns
from primary heat waves

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caused most of the
casualties to inhabitants.

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Many persons lingered
from two to six weeks

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before the onset of death.

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And he would explain to
us the terrible effects

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and was totally convinced
of how evil it was.

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Blood would not coagulate

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and oozed through unbroken skin

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or seeped into many of the
interior body cavities.

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Before she
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Sister Megan devoted
her life to education.

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She taught science to girls
and trained other teachers

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in West Africa, in Nigeria
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My conviction has
grown over the decades

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of the sacredness of all of
life and all of creation.

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In the 70 years since 1943,

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10 trillion dollars has been
spent on this industry alone

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and we just can't
imagine what could

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have been done with
10 trillion dollars.

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And there it goes,

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Polaris on the way
with a nuclear warhead.

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It's got to stop.

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We have to use these resources
for life enhancement.

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They're sabotaging the planet.

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The entire planet
is being sabotaged

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by the existence of weapons
of mass destruction.

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By the purpose for
which they were made,

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each one is meant to be
exploded and to kill.

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Mr. Chairman,
that young lady there

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brought a Holy Bible.

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If she had been a terrorist,

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the Lord only knows what
could have happened.

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- Thank you, ma'am.
- The gentle lady

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can sit down if she likes.

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The gentle lady from Tennessee

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is recognized for five minutes.

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The ineptness and the
negligence is mind-boggling.

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We are appalled.

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It's inexcusable,
it's appalling.

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The language the
committee has used here,

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I would agree with.

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We had a breakdown
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including a sense of complacency

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that something like
this could not happen.

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Were the cameras new or old?

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Some of the equipment
was fairly new.

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Many of the cameras

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or some of the cameras
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How long were these cameras,

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these critical
cameras, not operable?

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Could you tell that?

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There were elements of
the security apparatus

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that were inoperable
for at least six months

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and probably beyond that.

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And the
contractors were responsible?

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Correct

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And we pay
them significant fees

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to do this.
We do.

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And then the onsite
government employees

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who are overseeing
the contractors also have responsibility,

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'cause they failed to catch
this, is that correct?

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They do.

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Camera maintenance was not
prioritized as to be fixed.

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Our federal oversight
should have caught that.

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What was wrong
with the cameras?

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Those two particular
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one was an inner
workings of the camera.

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It took 24 hours to fix that.

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The other one was a trip switch

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that had to be just flipped on.

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So all they had
to do was look at it

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and go like that and that
camera would have worked again?

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That's what my inspectors

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are telling me.
But it was down

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for six months.

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Underlying it all
is profiteering.

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The people who make the money

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are the contractors
who do this work.

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BandW Y-12 responsible
for delaying

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the repair of cameras for months

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and failing to do the
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that would have reduced the rate

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of false alarms received
as a rating of excellent

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for its safeguards
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contributing to BandW Y-12
receiving $51 million

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in incentive fee for
fiscal year 2011.

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We have to do something.

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We can't just
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into the pockets
of the profiteers.

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I don't understand
why these individuals

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are free to be here in
the hearing room today.

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Why are they not incarcerated?

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My understanding is
they've been charged

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with both criminal trespass,
which is a misdemeanor,

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and destruction of federal
property, which is a felony.

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What is to prevent them from
doing the very same thing

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tomorrow night or
the night after?

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As Sister
Megan was facing fire,

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what I wanted to know
was how did a nun

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who spent half
her life in Africa

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find herself in this situation?

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I want to thank Sister Rice

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and the other people
for coming today.

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I apologize you won't
be allowed to testify.

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If lawmakers had
invited Sister Megan to testify,

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they might have heard about
the incident 2,000 miles away

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that actually inspired
her to break into Y-12.

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Tell me about your connection
to the people out in Tacoma.

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How did that all come about?

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And so they, these five
people, I could name them.

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Father Bill Bichsel, Sister
Anne Montgomery was then 84,

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Father Bichsel was maybe 82.

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And then...

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We have
to take a stand.

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The people have to take a stand

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to force governments into
doing what is humanely correct,

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to eliminate these things.

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They're killing people already

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because of the
diversion of resources

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going into weapons
of destruction

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rather than
healthcare, education,

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employment, housing, food.

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Things that people need
to live a human life.

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Hey, tell me, how are you?

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If you spend any time

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among Tacoma's poor
or marginalized,

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you're more than likely to
run into Father Bill Bichsel.

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He's known as Father
Bix or just plain Bix.

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He's an 82-year-old
Catholic priest, a Jesuit,

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and for more than 40 years,

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he's devoted his life to
helping those in need.

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We have about
five houses here.

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We take in people for
varying lengths of time,

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so depending on what
their needs might be.

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Those who have been homeless,

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to help them to transition
to something better.

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We live by what
people give to us.

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During the Depression,

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nobody had anything or a
window to throw it out of,

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as my mother used to say,
but there was a cohesiveness.

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I think it's worse now.

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I think people are
more separated.

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He's helped our
family a long time ago

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when we were homeless.

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We were in the streets
and he gave us shelter.

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By being with the
poor, you receive direction.

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It is a kind of
a call to action.

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Together we can do something.

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We don't have to live
in this deep deprivation

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when God's creation is bountiful

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and intended for all people.

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While Father Bix
may have lots of admirers.

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Very good to see you.

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Good to see you.

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He's also
been a headache

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for government authorities

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because of his persistent
nonviolent protests

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against war funding

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and specifically
nuclear weapons funding.

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About 40 miles north
of where he lives,

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the Kitsap Bangor Naval Base
sprawls over 6,000 acres.

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It's the home port for eight

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of America's 14 Trident
nuclear submarines.

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That pool of eight
ballistic missile submarines

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that operates out of Bangor,

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that is the most powerful
military force on the planet.

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Hans Kristensen
is one of the country's

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leading experts on
nuclear weapons.

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He says the Bangor Naval Base

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also houses the
largest stockpile

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of operational nuclear
warheads in the U.S.

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Well, we estimate
that there is

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about 1,300 nuclear warheads
at the storage facility

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and on board the
submarines combined.

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It's an estimate.

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There are no official numbers.

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You can't go to a
government website

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or say exactly what's there,
because it's a secret.

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And just building 12 submarines

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is gonna cost over $100 billion.

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The B stands for
ballistic missile,

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the N stands for nuclear,
meaning it's nuclear powered,

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and the SS is what we
use to denote submarines.

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The SSBNs feature the
Trident II D-5 missile system.

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It's the most incredible
strategic deterrent

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ever fielded in the
history of the world.

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It is the most powerful weapon

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in the possession of
human beings today.

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There is no comparison.

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Request permission to
authenticate message one.

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The launch is authorized.

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Once we're underway,

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the submarine in and of
itself would rate probably

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about the fifth most powerful
nuclear nation in the world.

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One submarine has
enough capability

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to end modern countries
as we know them.

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I'm horrified.

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Is living with these things
that are indiscriminate killers

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where we've seen the
proliferation of weapons

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continue throughout our globe,

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are these things really
bringing security?

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More and more nations
are arming themselves

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or have the ability
to arm themselves.

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So we're much worse off now
than we were 20 years ago

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as far as the nuclear exchange.

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I think when people talk about

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that the world is more
dangerous, it's perhaps that

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you can get into a
conventional shootout

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that is a limited war
that quickly escalates

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into nuclear threats and
potential nuclear use.

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Launcher
closure door open.

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And so at
some point the public

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might just wake up
to a real surprise

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that suddenly a crisis
has gotten a lot hotter

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and a lot more dangerous
than they expected.

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And are all
the nuclear armed states

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preparing to modernize
their arsenals?

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Every single one
of them is busy

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modernizing their
nuclear arsenal.

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I'm trying to
be a part of what

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would bring about
a peaceful world.

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If I would die today,
I would feel okay

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00:19:59,439 --> 00:20:01,407
about what I've
been trying to do.

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00:20:01,476 --> 00:20:04,548
He has, on occasion,
chained himself to doors,

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00:20:04,617 --> 00:20:07,965
he's climbed trees,
he's cut fences,

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knowing full well that
there are some consequences

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and always willing
to pay that price.

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I've asked him, "Is this
the best use of your time?"

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His response was, "Yes, it
is the best use of my time

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"and there's plenty of people
in jail who need ministering."

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Since the late 1970s,

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00:20:30,470 --> 00:20:34,543
Father Bix, along with thousands
of other peace activists,

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00:20:34,612 --> 00:20:38,306
have waged a campaign to
raise public awareness

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00:20:38,375 --> 00:20:40,169
on the catastrophic capabilities

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of the nuclear weapons system
aboard the Trident submarine.

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The nerve center
for the activists' campaign

402
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,772
is the Ground Zero Center
For Nonviolent Action,

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00:20:56,841 --> 00:20:58,222
known as Ground Zero.

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Its backyard borders the
naval base's property,

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00:21:02,295 --> 00:21:05,022
with a chain link fence
separating the two.

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00:21:08,922 --> 00:21:11,339
What's right here is
the largest concentration,

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00:21:11,408 --> 00:21:14,445
so far as we know, of
deployed nuclear weapons

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00:21:14,514 --> 00:21:18,173
anywhere outside of Russia and
maybe anywhere in the world.

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00:21:18,242 --> 00:21:19,692
Anyone who
walks in the door

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00:21:19,761 --> 00:21:23,316
receives an education from
Dr. David Hall about the base

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00:21:23,385 --> 00:21:26,906
and the nuclear weapons stored,
literally, in the backyard.

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00:21:26,975 --> 00:21:30,358
Hall is a medical doctor
and longtime activist.

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00:21:30,427 --> 00:21:32,808
He's also the former
national president

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00:21:32,877 --> 00:21:35,639
of Physicians for
Social Responsibility.

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00:21:35,708 --> 00:21:38,193
There is no cure for the use

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00:21:38,262 --> 00:21:40,609
of a nuclear weapon,
only prevention.

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00:21:40,678 --> 00:21:42,335
That's why we here in
the state of Washington

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00:21:42,404 --> 00:21:45,718
have particular
responsibility to stand

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00:21:45,787 --> 00:21:47,582
and try to make these
weapons visible,

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00:21:47,651 --> 00:21:50,964
try to help the folks on
the base keep them safe.

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00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:54,451
This is the nuclear
weapon bunkers,

422
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,211
right down here at the bottom.

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00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,041
And that shows you how close
this is to downtown Seattle.

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It's about 20 air miles
to downtown Seattle.

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00:22:04,875 --> 00:22:06,808
The Pier, here's
the Delta Pier here,

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00:22:06,877 --> 00:22:09,638
which is where the subs
actually are processed.

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00:22:11,330 --> 00:22:13,849
The warships here
are Trident class

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00:22:13,918 --> 00:22:15,230
and there's eight of them.

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00:22:17,059 --> 00:22:20,062
One of these weapons wipes
out everything I stand for

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00:22:20,131 --> 00:22:22,962
and everything I
do instantaneously.

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00:22:23,031 --> 00:22:27,346
To ignore what I know
about these weapons is to

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00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:31,108
betray my profession.

433
00:22:32,903 --> 00:22:35,181
The peanut bomb that
we dropped on Hiroshima

434
00:22:35,250 --> 00:22:37,079
killed 100,000 people outright

435
00:22:37,148 --> 00:22:41,187
and flattened everything that
wasn't steel and concrete.

436
00:22:41,256 --> 00:22:46,261
One W88 nuclear warhead
carried by the Trident subs

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00:22:47,469 --> 00:22:48,505
is 30 times the
Hiroshima weapon.

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00:22:49,540 --> 00:22:51,300
These are survivor paintings

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00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:52,957
of what it was
like in Hiroshima.

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00:22:58,169 --> 00:23:00,068
So this is the NUKEMAP.

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00:23:00,137 --> 00:23:01,380
As you can see, it uses

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00:23:01,449 --> 00:23:06,039
the Google Earth engine
to render the world.

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00:23:07,455 --> 00:23:11,010
Alex Wellerstein is
a nuclear weapons historian.

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00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:13,771
He created the
interactive NUKEMAP.

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00:23:16,187 --> 00:23:18,258
What we're gonna do first is

446
00:23:18,327 --> 00:23:21,503
target our bomb
here on New York.

447
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:25,369
This is the Hiroshima bomb

448
00:23:25,438 --> 00:23:28,510
and now this is
the Trident bomb.

449
00:23:29,856 --> 00:23:33,273
That's a 455-kiloton
weapon on midtown Manhattan

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00:23:33,342 --> 00:23:36,932
with about 1.6
million fatalities,

451
00:23:37,001 --> 00:23:39,210
about 2.4 million injuries.

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00:23:39,279 --> 00:23:40,419
What it's done is taken

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00:23:40,488 --> 00:23:43,076
a population density
map of the region

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00:23:43,145 --> 00:23:45,320
and then applied various
calculations to it

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00:23:45,389 --> 00:23:47,253
based on the effects
of the nuclear weapons.

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00:23:47,322 --> 00:23:48,979
These calculations are derived

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00:23:49,048 --> 00:23:52,396
from official government
reports during the Cold War.

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00:23:52,465 --> 00:23:54,053
And that's only
from one detonation.

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00:23:54,122 --> 00:23:55,848
If we imagine nuclear war,

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00:23:55,917 --> 00:23:59,092
we're talking about
many more than just one.

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My major motivation
for the NUKEMAP

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00:24:00,922 --> 00:24:03,890
was to help people wrap
their heads around the bomb.

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00:24:03,959 --> 00:24:07,998
The bomb can seem so abstract.

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00:24:08,067 --> 00:24:11,311
The idea of the bomb
can overwhelm people.

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00:24:11,380 --> 00:24:14,176
They have a very hard time
thinking about it concretely.

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00:24:16,351 --> 00:24:18,664
Anything that helps
people understand

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00:24:18,733 --> 00:24:22,668
that these are physical
objects in the world,

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00:24:22,737 --> 00:24:26,568
that they can detonate and
these can have real effects.

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00:24:34,576 --> 00:24:36,164
The commander of the submarine

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00:24:36,233 --> 00:24:39,063
that shoots that
weapon is responsible

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00:24:40,479 --> 00:24:44,241
for observing and complying
with the law of armed conflict.

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00:24:44,310 --> 00:24:45,829
Tom Rogers retired

473
00:24:45,898 --> 00:24:49,453
after serving 31 years
in the U.S. Navy.

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00:24:49,522 --> 00:24:53,008
He used to command submarines
that carried nuclear weapons.

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00:24:53,077 --> 00:24:55,563
Now he's an activist
at Ground Zero.

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00:24:55,632 --> 00:24:59,359
The law of armed conflict
requires belligerents

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00:24:59,428 --> 00:25:04,295
to observe the rules and
principles of humanitarian law.

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00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:08,196
First of all, you
must discriminate

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00:25:08,265 --> 00:25:10,647
between combatants
and noncombatants,

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00:25:11,786 --> 00:25:14,064
and you can't cause
undue suffering

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00:25:15,444 --> 00:25:17,067
and you can't destroy the earth

482
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,897
and you can't commit genocide.

483
00:25:21,865 --> 00:25:26,317
And when I relate that to a
455-kiloton nuclear warhead,

484
00:25:31,426 --> 00:25:33,497
you can't get there from here.

485
00:25:34,878 --> 00:25:39,883
It's by definition
such destructive power

486
00:25:41,574 --> 00:25:43,680
that there's no discrimination.

487
00:25:43,749 --> 00:25:48,512
Everything within
miles is vaporized.

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00:25:48,581 --> 00:25:51,480
And for that reason
I strongly feel

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00:25:51,550 --> 00:25:55,726
that use of a nuclear
weapon is unlawful.

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00:26:06,323 --> 00:26:09,602
A nuclear exchange
would result in the death

491
00:26:09,671 --> 00:26:12,536
of tens of millions of people,

492
00:26:12,605 --> 00:26:16,678
both American and whoever else
we're fighting with today.

493
00:26:16,747 --> 00:26:18,369
It would devastate the earth

494
00:26:18,438 --> 00:26:21,683
and it would end
civilization as we know it.

495
00:26:23,271 --> 00:26:26,930
I don't trust us to have that
capability and not use it.

496
00:26:29,691 --> 00:26:31,382
The citation's
inside there.

497
00:26:31,451 --> 00:26:32,867
So they gave you a court date?

498
00:26:32,936 --> 00:26:34,109
Not
yet, but they will.

499
00:26:34,178 --> 00:26:35,594
Yeah, they will
give you a court date.

500
00:26:35,663 --> 00:26:36,733
Is that
the way it usually works?

501
00:26:36,802 --> 00:26:37,699
Yeah.

502
00:26:37,768 --> 00:26:40,150
Whoa, okay.

503
00:26:40,219 --> 00:26:43,498
The normal means
of influencing

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00:26:43,567 --> 00:26:47,675
public policy have
fallen on deaf ears.

505
00:26:47,744 --> 00:26:50,885
You can write all
the emails you want.

506
00:26:50,954 --> 00:26:53,922
You can vote for the people
you want to vote for,

507
00:26:53,991 --> 00:26:58,271
but the corporate
Congressional complex

508
00:26:58,340 --> 00:26:59,790
is calling the shots.

509
00:26:59,859 --> 00:27:04,726
The only way that the folks
at Ground Zero have found

510
00:27:04,795 --> 00:27:09,800
to bring attention to
what's going on is to engage

511
00:27:11,181 --> 00:27:13,286
in nonviolent direct action
at the base at Bangor,

512
00:27:13,355 --> 00:27:16,255
because that's where we live
and that's where the bombs are.

513
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:18,844
One up the fence line.

514
00:27:18,913 --> 00:27:20,224
One up the fence line
went through the gate!

515
00:27:22,951 --> 00:27:24,332
Three times a year,

516
00:27:24,401 --> 00:27:27,438
on the anniversary of the
Hiroshima bombing, Mother's Day,

517
00:27:27,507 --> 00:27:30,338
and Dr. Martin Luther
King, Junior's birthday,

518
00:27:30,407 --> 00:27:32,374
the activists walk
a few hundred yards

519
00:27:32,443 --> 00:27:35,136
from Ground Zero to the
naval base's front gate,

520
00:27:35,205 --> 00:27:37,276
where they stage their protests.

521
00:27:37,345 --> 00:27:41,176
Some will block traffic and
face arrest by county police.

522
00:27:41,245 --> 00:27:44,283
Others will trespass onto
the naval base property

523
00:27:44,352 --> 00:27:46,181
by crossing this blue line

524
00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:49,391
and face more serious
federal charges.

525
00:28:00,057 --> 00:28:01,956
This is the
fence that keeps us

526
00:28:02,025 --> 00:28:04,544
out of the Bangor
submarine base,

527
00:28:04,613 --> 00:28:09,618
where just probably 100
yards or 150 yards beyond

528
00:28:10,792 --> 00:28:12,449
is where the nuclear
weapons are stored.

529
00:28:13,622 --> 00:28:15,659
We're hanging this
as a sign that peace

530
00:28:15,728 --> 00:28:18,351
is much stronger than
weapons of death.

531
00:28:27,188 --> 00:28:31,848
This is a map of the base,
the Bangor submarine base.

532
00:28:31,917 --> 00:28:33,366
This is from Google.

533
00:28:33,435 --> 00:28:34,747
How did
you use this map?

534
00:28:34,816 --> 00:28:36,542
We didn't carry
the map in with us,

535
00:28:36,611 --> 00:28:37,854
but we had a pretty good idea

536
00:28:37,923 --> 00:28:41,064
once we had studied it
where the roads were.

537
00:28:41,133 --> 00:28:42,824
How did
you get involved?

538
00:28:42,893 --> 00:28:44,377
Holy socks.

539
00:28:44,446 --> 00:28:47,829
I'm not totally sure, but
here is what happened to me.

540
00:28:47,898 --> 00:28:51,695
I had not been involved in
a Plowshares action as such.

541
00:28:51,764 --> 00:28:53,835
So there was this
group with Steve Kelly

542
00:28:53,904 --> 00:28:57,874
and Anne Montgomery and Susan
Crane and Lynne Greenwald.

543
00:28:57,943 --> 00:29:00,842
We met for over a
year at various times

544
00:29:00,911 --> 00:29:03,431
and then spent three
or four days together

545
00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:06,054
reflecting on what is our call.

546
00:29:06,123 --> 00:29:08,332
Lynne Greenwald
is a mother and grandmother

547
00:29:08,401 --> 00:29:11,611
who raised her three
children near the naval base.

548
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:13,682
Hi, thanks for coming.

549
00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:14,614
Is this a grandchild?

550
00:29:14,683 --> 00:29:16,651
- Yeah, Jack.
- Cute.

551
00:29:17,963 --> 00:29:19,792
Lynn is a
former social worker

552
00:29:19,861 --> 00:29:22,622
and hospital
emergency room nurse.

553
00:29:22,691 --> 00:29:24,659
Her consciousness
on nuclear weapons

554
00:29:24,728 --> 00:29:27,489
was raised back
in the late 1970s,

555
00:29:27,558 --> 00:29:32,460
after she met atomic bomb
survivors known as hibakusha.

556
00:29:32,529 --> 00:29:35,808
This is a book that
really got me on the road.

557
00:29:35,877 --> 00:29:38,293
I went to New York,
to one of the first

558
00:29:38,362 --> 00:29:42,850
sessions on disarmament
at the United Nations,

559
00:29:42,919 --> 00:29:46,336
and there were hibakusha there
and they gave me this book.

560
00:29:47,302 --> 00:29:48,131
And...

561
00:29:51,928 --> 00:29:54,931
And that was the first
time I was arrested,

562
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,312
at the United Nations.

563
00:29:58,313 --> 00:30:00,488
And just pictures of images

564
00:30:00,557 --> 00:30:03,732
of what happened when
the bomb dropped.

565
00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:05,079
It just shocked me,

566
00:30:05,148 --> 00:30:07,564
because I never learned
about this in school

567
00:30:07,633 --> 00:30:09,531
and I had a college
degree by then

568
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:11,430
and I never knew about it.

569
00:30:11,499 --> 00:30:12,500
And

570
00:30:13,881 --> 00:30:17,954
it just
changed my life.

571
00:30:19,818 --> 00:30:24,132
It's more of a compelling
feeling that by not doing it,

572
00:30:24,201 --> 00:30:25,996
I'm not following my conscience,

573
00:30:26,065 --> 00:30:28,378
I'm not doing the right thing,

574
00:30:28,447 --> 00:30:30,656
and it's a very personal choice.

575
00:30:30,725 --> 00:30:33,003
It's just something
I feel I have to do.

576
00:30:33,072 --> 00:30:37,111
I can't not protest
nuclear weapons.

577
00:30:38,664 --> 00:30:40,839
Give thanks for the abundance

578
00:30:40,908 --> 00:30:42,426
of what we are about to receive,

579
00:30:42,495 --> 00:30:45,464
which is food for our bodies

580
00:30:45,533 --> 00:30:49,744
and all the love and
dedication for the rest of us.

581
00:30:49,813 --> 00:30:52,367
Sister Anne
Montgomery is an 84-year-old

582
00:30:52,436 --> 00:30:55,646
Catholic nun from the
Society of the Sacred Heart.

583
00:30:55,715 --> 00:30:58,477
She's the daughter of
a U.S. Navy admiral.

584
00:30:58,546 --> 00:31:01,307
She took part in the
first Plowshares action.

585
00:31:03,171 --> 00:31:05,070
What is Plowshares?

586
00:31:05,139 --> 00:31:07,072
Plowshares is a movement.

587
00:31:07,141 --> 00:31:08,625
It's not an organization.

588
00:31:08,694 --> 00:31:10,523
You don't belong.

589
00:31:10,592 --> 00:31:14,907
It's a movement
that began in 1980.

590
00:31:14,976 --> 00:31:18,600
In 1980, the
Plowshares Eight that included

591
00:31:18,669 --> 00:31:22,190
the Catholic priests Fathers
Dan and Phil Berrigan

592
00:31:22,259 --> 00:31:24,710
trespassed onto a
nuclear weapons plant

593
00:31:24,779 --> 00:31:26,954
in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

594
00:31:27,023 --> 00:31:28,403
During that time,

595
00:31:28,472 --> 00:31:30,336
we said we have to bring
in some kind of a statement

596
00:31:30,405 --> 00:31:32,338
of what we're doing
and why we're doing it.

597
00:31:32,407 --> 00:31:34,513
They found
it in the Old Testament

598
00:31:34,582 --> 00:31:37,309
and in the words of
the prophet Isaiah.

599
00:31:37,378 --> 00:31:40,622
He says, they shall beat
their swords into plowshares

600
00:31:40,691 --> 00:31:45,179
and at that point the nations
will come together in peace.

601
00:31:45,248 --> 00:31:47,181
A movie was
made about the case.

602
00:31:47,250 --> 00:31:49,286
The activists played themselves

603
00:31:49,355 --> 00:31:51,323
and Martin Sheen
played the judge.

604
00:31:51,392 --> 00:31:52,289
And would
you describe it

605
00:31:52,358 --> 00:31:53,773
for the members of the jury?

606
00:31:53,842 --> 00:31:55,396
I saw these people, bunch
of people with hammers

607
00:31:55,465 --> 00:31:56,500
beating on the metal there.

608
00:31:56,569 --> 00:31:58,847
We had blood, we had hammers.

609
00:31:58,917 --> 00:32:01,920
We thought, this is
a sign of changing

610
00:32:01,989 --> 00:32:04,267
something evil into
something good.

611
00:32:04,336 --> 00:32:06,338
The defendants maintain
because of their belief,

612
00:32:06,407 --> 00:32:07,926
their actions were justified.

613
00:32:07,995 --> 00:32:11,308
The defense of justification
is not proper in this case.

614
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:14,277
It started a
movement that's gone

615
00:32:14,346 --> 00:32:16,486
to different parts of the world,

616
00:32:16,555 --> 00:32:18,798
over a hundred and
something Plowshares,

617
00:32:18,867 --> 00:32:22,043
so that people themselves

618
00:32:22,112 --> 00:32:26,392
saw this as a way of
exposing what was going on

619
00:32:26,461 --> 00:32:28,705
and doing it in a
spirit of nonviolence.

620
00:32:28,774 --> 00:32:30,431
Non-violence has to be active.

621
00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:33,399
You can't just sit
and talk to people.

622
00:32:33,468 --> 00:32:36,023
When you plan this, the
most important thing

623
00:32:36,092 --> 00:32:37,576
is to get a community together

624
00:32:37,645 --> 00:32:41,062
that's willing to take a risk
and to challenge each other.

625
00:32:42,236 --> 00:32:43,685
How do you
challenge each other?

626
00:32:43,754 --> 00:32:46,550
Could you explain that to
me, what that involves?

627
00:32:46,619 --> 00:32:48,897
Well, say Bix and his health.

628
00:32:49,864 --> 00:32:51,383
I didn't want him to act.

629
00:32:51,452 --> 00:32:56,043
I was really worried and I
was afraid, you know, heart.

630
00:32:56,112 --> 00:32:58,562
What if that had
happened on the base?

631
00:32:58,631 --> 00:32:59,391
What are we gonna do?

632
00:32:59,460 --> 00:33:01,082
How do we get help?

633
00:33:01,151 --> 00:33:05,362
I've had two open heart
surgeries, knee replacement,

634
00:33:05,431 --> 00:33:07,502
pacemaker and things like that,

635
00:33:09,056 --> 00:33:12,645
but other than that, I'm
doing okay, you know?

636
00:33:14,647 --> 00:33:17,443
It's just a matter that
I do get out of breath,

637
00:33:17,512 --> 00:33:19,514
especially if
you're going uphill.

638
00:33:19,583 --> 00:33:20,999
It pulls more out of me now.

639
00:33:22,138 --> 00:33:24,485
We left it up to him
to make his own decision

640
00:33:25,624 --> 00:33:29,628
and his provincial
was wonderful.

641
00:33:29,697 --> 00:33:31,216
So he came and
started talking to me,

642
00:33:31,285 --> 00:33:34,081
'cause it's what we
call a discernment,

643
00:33:34,150 --> 00:33:37,774
where we go back and forth
for a while, he prays, I pray,

644
00:33:37,843 --> 00:33:41,985
we look at what he's asking
to do, to get permission,

645
00:33:42,054 --> 00:33:45,782
because we have the
vow of obedience

646
00:33:45,851 --> 00:33:48,957
and so he would have
to have my sending

647
00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:50,407
in order to do anything.

648
00:33:52,271 --> 00:33:54,860
He asked at
that time if he could go

649
00:33:54,929 --> 00:33:58,898
to do civil disobedience
up at Bangor.

650
00:33:58,967 --> 00:34:01,280
I mean, it is
kind of mind-boggling

651
00:34:01,349 --> 00:34:03,972
that you go to your superior,
your boss, so to speak,

652
00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:07,390
and you say, can I, effectively
can I go and break the law?

653
00:34:07,459 --> 00:34:09,185
You're saying, I mean,

654
00:34:09,254 --> 00:34:11,808
did you think about
that aspect of it?

655
00:34:11,877 --> 00:34:13,396
Yes.

656
00:34:13,465 --> 00:34:14,845
I certainly looked at that.

657
00:34:14,914 --> 00:34:17,434
And in my own head, I
knew that that would mean

658
00:34:17,503 --> 00:34:20,196
I would be eventually
having to send him to jail.

659
00:34:20,265 --> 00:34:25,132
And we talked about that then
and we talked about it again.

660
00:34:25,201 --> 00:34:28,756
Is he ready to go and die
in a federal penitentiary

661
00:34:28,825 --> 00:34:30,309
if that's what happens to him?

662
00:34:31,379 --> 00:34:33,312
Bix has been really our prophet,

663
00:34:33,381 --> 00:34:36,764
an amazing prophet of
justice for many years.

664
00:34:37,868 --> 00:34:40,354
And so in my own
prayer, I came to say,

665
00:34:42,321 --> 00:34:44,289
we need someone to stand up.

666
00:34:44,358 --> 00:34:48,224
We need witnesses for
what God wants done.

667
00:34:52,814 --> 00:34:55,679
It's a
calling to Americans

668
00:34:55,748 --> 00:34:57,957
and to any persons of goodwill

669
00:34:58,026 --> 00:35:01,478
around ending the role of
nuclear weapons on this earth.

670
00:35:15,803 --> 00:35:19,220
For years, we've wanted to
get into this Trident base.

671
00:35:19,289 --> 00:35:20,463
And the news we got,

672
00:35:20,532 --> 00:35:23,086
oh, it's impossible,
security's so tight.

673
00:35:24,708 --> 00:35:27,780
The only thing stopping
us was that we thought

674
00:35:27,849 --> 00:35:30,197
was how hard it was to get in.

675
00:35:30,266 --> 00:35:33,200
Up to the last minute, I
didn't think we'd make it.

676
00:35:33,269 --> 00:35:35,133
Everyone said,
there's cameras,

677
00:35:35,202 --> 00:35:39,999
there's guard dogs,
there's car patrols,

678
00:35:40,068 --> 00:35:42,864
who knows what sort of
surveillance they have?

679
00:35:44,694 --> 00:35:47,214
Susan Crane has taken part

680
00:35:47,283 --> 00:35:49,561
in a number of
Plowshares actions

681
00:35:49,630 --> 00:35:53,047
and spent more than five
years in prison for them.

682
00:35:53,116 --> 00:35:55,946
She's a retired
California school teacher,

683
00:35:56,015 --> 00:35:57,810
a mother and grandmother.

684
00:36:00,019 --> 00:36:02,263
Father Bix had to consult
with his provincial

685
00:36:02,332 --> 00:36:03,851
and so did Sister Anne.

686
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,715
So did you do that with anybody?

687
00:36:07,095 --> 00:36:10,306
Well, we have conspiracy
laws in this country

688
00:36:10,375 --> 00:36:13,826
and if other people know
you're going to do something

689
00:36:13,895 --> 00:36:15,242
and don't say
something about it,

690
00:36:15,311 --> 00:36:17,347
they could be charged
with conspiracy.

691
00:36:19,315 --> 00:36:23,698
God, you are the God of our
life, our breath that we take.

692
00:36:23,767 --> 00:36:26,011
Father Stephen
Kelly is a Jesuit

693
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,910
who served the Catholic
Church as a parish priest

694
00:36:28,979 --> 00:36:32,880
in California and in
Africa and Central America.

695
00:36:32,949 --> 00:36:35,745
He was incarcerated
for more than six years

696
00:36:35,814 --> 00:36:38,196
for his Plowshares protests.

697
00:36:38,265 --> 00:36:42,027
Half the time he was in
solitary confinement.

698
00:36:42,096 --> 00:36:44,823
What is the purpose of
doing something like this?

699
00:36:44,892 --> 00:36:46,238
Why take this action?

700
00:36:46,307 --> 00:36:48,792
We were convinced that
we were saving lives.

701
00:36:48,861 --> 00:36:51,381
I think anyone who, if
they were really convinced

702
00:36:51,450 --> 00:36:53,107
that their next
actions were gonna

703
00:36:53,176 --> 00:36:55,489
be saving the life
of a loved one,

704
00:36:55,558 --> 00:36:57,353
they wouldn't hesitate to do it.

705
00:36:57,422 --> 00:37:00,908
I'm not saying that I'm gonna
change the Pentagon overnight,

706
00:37:00,977 --> 00:37:03,807
all that money that's
made by weaponeers,

707
00:37:03,876 --> 00:37:06,362
but I know there's a
sleeping giant out there,

708
00:37:06,431 --> 00:37:08,571
there's a moral sleeping giant,

709
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:12,954
when woken, will
take all of this on.

710
00:37:14,542 --> 00:37:17,925
We cannot be fully human while
one nuclear weapon exists,

711
00:37:17,994 --> 00:37:19,444
so our humanity is at stake.

712
00:37:20,997 --> 00:37:23,344
We pray especially for
those who have stood guard

713
00:37:23,413 --> 00:37:26,416
over this area
right here and now,

714
00:37:27,831 --> 00:37:32,664
and that they can understand
we mean only harm to the nukes.

715
00:37:41,776 --> 00:37:45,332
So we entered the base at
two o'clock in the morning

716
00:37:45,401 --> 00:37:48,231
by cutting through
the perimeter fence.

717
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:49,612
We had bolt cutters with us

718
00:37:49,681 --> 00:37:52,442
and so we cut it in
the shape of a teepee.

719
00:37:54,375 --> 00:37:56,515
And nothing happened.

720
00:37:56,584 --> 00:37:59,380
There was no alarm,
there were no cameras

721
00:37:59,449 --> 00:38:01,382
that started clicking
that we could hear.

722
00:38:01,451 --> 00:38:02,832
I was the first one through.

723
00:38:02,901 --> 00:38:05,421
I was supposed to be leading
people across the road

724
00:38:05,490 --> 00:38:08,769
and I put my shoe right
in a puddle of water.

725
00:38:08,838 --> 00:38:12,807
We walked through the fence
and into some deep water,

726
00:38:12,876 --> 00:38:15,465
so we started out with wet feet.

727
00:38:15,534 --> 00:38:16,501
We thought we were gonna have

728
00:38:16,570 --> 00:38:18,986
to go through brush all the way.

729
00:38:19,055 --> 00:38:22,161
We didn't think we'd be able
to be on any roads at all.

730
00:38:22,230 --> 00:38:25,095
So we found this road,
it was a utility road,

731
00:38:25,164 --> 00:38:26,787
and we walked for several hours.

732
00:38:28,236 --> 00:38:32,344
And Bill Bichsel, God bless
him, he's got a bad valve

733
00:38:32,413 --> 00:38:33,897
and he was taking nitroglycerin

734
00:38:33,966 --> 00:38:36,141
and we were resting frequently.

735
00:38:38,419 --> 00:38:39,765
They had to go very slow,

736
00:38:39,834 --> 00:38:42,872
because I had to take
nitroglycerin along the way

737
00:38:42,941 --> 00:38:44,391
because of a heart condition.

738
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:47,601
Steve Kelly said we
were going so slow

739
00:38:47,670 --> 00:38:50,397
that we were invisible.

740
00:38:50,466 --> 00:38:52,433
Steve and I were
a little ahead

741
00:38:52,502 --> 00:38:54,262
and suddenly we
saw a car coming.

742
00:38:56,782 --> 00:38:59,716
So Bix and I
jumped in the bushes.

743
00:38:59,785 --> 00:39:01,753
And I looked over my shoulder

744
00:39:01,822 --> 00:39:04,790
and I saw these bodies flying
in the air into the bushes.

745
00:39:06,067 --> 00:39:08,380
And oh my God,
something's wrong.

746
00:39:08,449 --> 00:39:10,106
Steve and I had to keep walking.

747
00:39:10,175 --> 00:39:11,452
There was nothing
else we could do.

748
00:39:11,521 --> 00:39:14,973
We're carrying cloth
bag with some clippers,

749
00:39:15,042 --> 00:39:19,046
wire cutters in them and
maybe a couple of hammers.

750
00:39:19,115 --> 00:39:22,532
Elderly, but I guess we
could resemble workers.

751
00:39:23,671 --> 00:39:26,191
And the car passed
and didn't stop

752
00:39:26,260 --> 00:39:28,124
and so we kept on going,

753
00:39:28,193 --> 00:39:30,091
but we thought,
perhaps we'd really

754
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:31,714
better get off the main road.

755
00:39:35,683 --> 00:39:37,823
How long
were you on the base?

756
00:39:37,892 --> 00:39:39,411
Four hours.

757
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,897
We were walking around on
the base for four hours.

758
00:39:42,966 --> 00:39:45,037
We headed
up with this road

759
00:39:45,106 --> 00:39:48,834
and then eventually made over
this road going eastward.

760
00:39:48,903 --> 00:39:53,598
This is SWFPAC here,
the Strategic Weapons Facility Pacific.

761
00:39:53,667 --> 00:39:55,531
We saw kind of a
light way up ahead,

762
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:57,774
but that was it, just
a indistinct light.

763
00:40:00,190 --> 00:40:01,744
Thought, well, what's up there?

764
00:40:03,539 --> 00:40:04,678
So the closer we came, we says,

765
00:40:04,747 --> 00:40:06,990
we are actually at the bunkers.

766
00:40:08,406 --> 00:40:09,648
It happened.

767
00:40:09,717 --> 00:40:10,822
We got to the bunkers.

768
00:40:12,168 --> 00:40:13,687
All the heavy nuclear
weapons that are used

769
00:40:13,756 --> 00:40:17,069
on the Trident submarine
are stored here.

770
00:40:17,138 --> 00:40:20,383
It looked like a huge prison
yard with fences around it

771
00:40:20,452 --> 00:40:23,041
and guard towers and so forth,

772
00:40:23,110 --> 00:40:24,491
and I'd been in prisons before

773
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:27,079
and I said, "Wow, you
can't get into that thing."

774
00:40:27,148 --> 00:40:29,875
Two strands of barbed wire

775
00:40:29,944 --> 00:40:34,708
with heavy-duty topping
concertina wire on the top,

776
00:40:34,777 --> 00:40:38,366
guard towers, several of them
and just what seemed like

777
00:40:38,436 --> 00:40:43,268
at least a mile and a half
of indications of bunkers.

778
00:40:46,029 --> 00:40:49,343
It was a shoot-to-kill
zone around the bunkers.

779
00:40:49,412 --> 00:40:51,449
We thought, well,
we have to take

780
00:40:51,518 --> 00:40:54,037
our next steps and
go to the fence.

781
00:40:54,106 --> 00:40:55,418
Is it electrified?

782
00:40:55,487 --> 00:40:57,213
And so we walked up

783
00:40:57,282 --> 00:40:59,042
and I think it was
Susan touched the fence.

784
00:40:59,111 --> 00:41:00,734
I had said that I would do it.

785
00:41:05,946 --> 00:41:09,915
But it wasn't electrified
and it was a double fence

786
00:41:09,984 --> 00:41:12,573
and took a little longer to cut,

787
00:41:12,642 --> 00:41:14,817
but we all got through that too.

788
00:41:14,886 --> 00:41:18,165
I honestly had thought
there would be dogs,

789
00:41:18,234 --> 00:41:20,650
helicopters, there
would be something,

790
00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:24,309
but we got to the first fence
and I said, "I'll be darned."

791
00:41:24,378 --> 00:41:25,586
I thought, well, now

792
00:41:26,898 --> 00:41:28,762
we must be setting
off alarms someplace.

793
00:41:28,831 --> 00:41:30,177
They're due to
arrive any moment.

794
00:41:30,246 --> 00:41:31,627
We'd planned what each of us

795
00:41:31,696 --> 00:41:33,214
was going to do if we got there.

796
00:41:33,283 --> 00:41:36,977
And some would pour blood
and hammer right away.

797
00:41:37,046 --> 00:41:39,220
The vision is
one of conversion,

798
00:41:39,289 --> 00:41:42,776
going from a wartime economy
to peacetime production.

799
00:41:42,845 --> 00:41:45,364
They shall beat their
swords into plowshares.

800
00:41:45,433 --> 00:41:46,849
Just like in the old days,

801
00:41:46,918 --> 00:41:49,334
they took swords and took
them to the blacksmith

802
00:41:49,403 --> 00:41:51,992
and the blacksmith pounded
on them to make a plow.

803
00:41:52,061 --> 00:41:54,753
We're not out to
destroy the weapons,

804
00:41:54,822 --> 00:41:58,274
but to take all of those
resources and reshape them,

805
00:41:58,343 --> 00:42:00,759
reconvert them into
something useful

806
00:42:00,828 --> 00:42:03,797
We had some blood that we
had brought, our own blood.

807
00:42:03,866 --> 00:42:04,970
We weren't gonna hammer

808
00:42:05,039 --> 00:42:06,489
on the nuclear
weapons or anything,

809
00:42:06,558 --> 00:42:08,974
but we did hammer on the
fences and things like that

810
00:42:09,043 --> 00:42:13,427
as a sign of our opposition to
these weapons of destruction

811
00:42:13,496 --> 00:42:15,947
and pour our own blood as a sign

812
00:42:16,016 --> 00:42:20,089
of there's enough blood
has been spilled already.

813
00:42:20,158 --> 00:42:21,504
And where did
you place the blood?

814
00:42:21,573 --> 00:42:22,885
In baby bottles.

815
00:42:24,196 --> 00:42:26,129
We poured them on the
fences themselves,

816
00:42:26,198 --> 00:42:28,856
something at least, some
structure that was visible.

817
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:32,204
The blood is sort of scary.

818
00:42:32,273 --> 00:42:33,896
People don't understand that.

819
00:42:35,829 --> 00:42:39,522
And that's saying many things.

820
00:42:42,801 --> 00:42:45,977
It's saying people who
are pushing buttons now,

821
00:42:46,046 --> 00:42:47,634
whether they're on
a Trident submarine

822
00:42:47,703 --> 00:42:50,913
or sitting in a desert
someplace with the drones,

823
00:42:50,982 --> 00:42:55,158
do not see what happens to
human bodies on the other end.

824
00:42:59,266 --> 00:43:00,888
What
happened after that?

825
00:43:00,957 --> 00:43:03,132
Lynne and I were
assigned to go first

826
00:43:03,201 --> 00:43:06,791
and take a banner in to
show we were nonviolent.

827
00:43:07,999 --> 00:43:10,484
Lynne and I walked slowly,

828
00:43:10,553 --> 00:43:12,555
let the others do what
they were doing behind us.

829
00:43:12,624 --> 00:43:15,385
I was afraid even to
turn around and look.

830
00:43:15,454 --> 00:43:19,458
And then a van came
with three marines in it

831
00:43:20,321 --> 00:43:21,806
and one got out.

832
00:43:21,875 --> 00:43:24,394
He said, "Stop," so we stopped
and we knelt down right away

833
00:43:24,463 --> 00:43:27,397
and we held up the banner
and gave the peace sign.

834
00:43:27,466 --> 00:43:30,124
I was standing
next to Father Bix

835
00:43:30,193 --> 00:43:31,954
and he picked up a water bottle

836
00:43:32,023 --> 00:43:35,371
and did an exorcism at the time.

837
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:36,890
I thought if we
were gonna be shot,

838
00:43:36,959 --> 00:43:39,720
it would have been when
he did that, but...

839
00:43:39,789 --> 00:43:43,034
Then they kind of
forcefully turn you around

840
00:43:43,103 --> 00:43:45,036
and then they get your
hand behind your back.

841
00:43:45,105 --> 00:43:46,589
They cuff you.

842
00:43:46,658 --> 00:43:48,246
We didn't look
like ninjas or commandos,

843
00:43:48,315 --> 00:43:50,041
just ordinary people.

844
00:43:50,110 --> 00:43:52,664
At the time we were
laying on the ground,

845
00:43:52,733 --> 00:43:54,217
we were all pretty quiet.

846
00:43:54,286 --> 00:43:57,876
I just had this moment of
elation that we made it.

847
00:43:57,945 --> 00:44:01,880
You know, in my mind still
are the images from Hiroshima

848
00:44:01,949 --> 00:44:04,642
and the skin
falling off children

849
00:44:04,711 --> 00:44:06,989
and the terrible devastation.

850
00:44:07,058 --> 00:44:11,718
And I felt, well, at
least I'm doing what I can

851
00:44:11,787 --> 00:44:13,754
so that that doesn't
happen again.

852
00:44:13,823 --> 00:44:16,550
I tried to stay
focused on some kind

853
00:44:16,619 --> 00:44:20,278
of prayerful presence
there and at that moment,

854
00:44:20,347 --> 00:44:22,418
a bag was put over my head.

855
00:44:22,487 --> 00:44:26,249
They hooded us,
which was a surprise.

856
00:44:26,318 --> 00:44:27,768
Here is one of us.

857
00:44:27,837 --> 00:44:31,945
It's actually Steve Kelly
on the ground with a hood.

858
00:44:32,014 --> 00:44:33,878
And here's his jacket.

859
00:44:33,947 --> 00:44:36,190
And here are the Marines
with their guns on him.

860
00:44:36,259 --> 00:44:38,227
This is Father Bix here

861
00:44:38,296 --> 00:44:42,714
and this part here is the hood.

862
00:44:42,783 --> 00:44:44,612
It's hard to see, but
we know this is him

863
00:44:44,682 --> 00:44:47,477
because he has his
Hiroshima T-shirt on.

864
00:44:47,546 --> 00:44:49,687
We were interrogated by FBI

865
00:44:51,033 --> 00:44:54,519
and Navy Criminal NCIS officials

866
00:44:55,762 --> 00:44:57,729
and we were questioned

867
00:44:59,041 --> 00:45:01,146
or tried to be questioned
for three hours.

868
00:45:01,215 --> 00:45:02,665
To see if our
stories corroborated,

869
00:45:02,734 --> 00:45:05,185
but we didn't answer any
of their direct questions

870
00:45:05,254 --> 00:45:06,427
like I'm answering now

871
00:45:08,257 --> 00:45:10,362
about what we were
about and all that.

872
00:45:10,431 --> 00:45:14,504
We gave our names and
not even addresses.

873
00:45:14,573 --> 00:45:16,748
What were you
expecting at that point?

874
00:45:16,817 --> 00:45:20,683
Well, I was expecting to
maybe be taken to Guantanamo,

875
00:45:20,752 --> 00:45:21,753
I don't know.

876
00:45:21,822 --> 00:45:24,169
No, I wasn't expecting that.

877
00:45:24,238 --> 00:45:26,585
But I was expecting to be held.

878
00:45:26,654 --> 00:45:27,794
We were in shock

879
00:45:27,863 --> 00:45:29,312
that halfway through
the interrogation,

880
00:45:29,381 --> 00:45:31,901
they told us, "We're going
to cite you and release you."

881
00:45:31,970 --> 00:45:34,904
I really expected
to go right to jail,

882
00:45:34,973 --> 00:45:36,423
but I was also happy,

883
00:45:36,492 --> 00:45:40,461
'cause jail's
not my favorite place.

884
00:45:40,530 --> 00:45:41,842
It was amazing.

885
00:45:41,911 --> 00:45:43,499
I mean, we were so
shocked that we were out.

886
00:45:48,055 --> 00:45:50,195
Anti-war protesters
made quite an entrance

887
00:45:50,264 --> 00:45:51,714
at Naval Base Kitsap this week.

888
00:45:51,783 --> 00:45:53,854
They cut through fences,
breached security

889
00:45:53,923 --> 00:45:55,787
and wandered around
for four hours

890
00:45:55,856 --> 00:45:57,755
before naval police caught them.

891
00:45:57,824 --> 00:45:58,756
They made it all the way

892
00:45:58,825 --> 00:46:00,067
to the nuclear weapons bunkers

893
00:46:00,136 --> 00:46:03,622
before being stopped at
gunpoint by base police.

894
00:46:03,691 --> 00:46:05,176
For years,
the Bangor base has been

895
00:46:05,245 --> 00:46:07,109
a flashpoint for protesters,

896
00:46:07,178 --> 00:46:09,870
but never before had
anyone cut through fences

897
00:46:09,939 --> 00:46:12,528
to reach an area where
nuclear warheads are stored.

898
00:46:12,597 --> 00:46:15,358
Two priests, a
nun and two fellow activists

899
00:46:15,427 --> 00:46:18,016
all ranging in
age from 61 to 84.

900
00:46:18,085 --> 00:46:20,398
The Navy told
me sensors in that fence

901
00:46:20,467 --> 00:46:21,951
gave away their position,

902
00:46:22,020 --> 00:46:23,815
but won't say anything
more about their claims

903
00:46:23,884 --> 00:46:25,852
of being on base for four hours.

904
00:46:30,373 --> 00:46:32,513
The U.S. Navy
issued a press release

905
00:46:32,582 --> 00:46:34,205
published in the Kitsap Sun.

906
00:46:53,396 --> 00:46:54,639
Of course, it wasn't a threat

907
00:46:54,708 --> 00:46:56,365
because these were not
people that were armed

908
00:46:56,434 --> 00:46:58,125
and going in to blow things up.

909
00:46:58,194 --> 00:47:00,921
So there wasn't a direct
threat at that point.

910
00:47:00,990 --> 00:47:04,131
You know, from this
particular garage right here,

911
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:08,135
you can see a truck with
a ballistic missile body

912
00:47:08,204 --> 00:47:09,827
coming out from the bunker.

913
00:47:09,896 --> 00:47:11,414
I mean, fortunately
in this case,

914
00:47:11,483 --> 00:47:13,313
they're peaceful demonstrators,

915
00:47:13,382 --> 00:47:17,904
but the nasty surprise would
be if a day comes in the future

916
00:47:17,973 --> 00:47:19,629
where there's
well-organized terrorists

917
00:47:19,698 --> 00:47:21,286
that try to make
their way in there.

918
00:47:21,355 --> 00:47:22,978
I mean, they don't have
to necessarily get into

919
00:47:23,047 --> 00:47:26,015
the weapons and nuclear warheads
storage sites themselves.

920
00:47:26,084 --> 00:47:29,225
These are the 21
bunkers over here.

921
00:47:29,294 --> 00:47:30,848
That's where you
store the warheads.

922
00:47:30,917 --> 00:47:32,194
They could aim at getting in

923
00:47:32,263 --> 00:47:34,472
and trying to blow up
some of those missiles.

924
00:47:35,783 --> 00:47:37,889
These are the
garages, so to speak,

925
00:47:37,958 --> 00:47:40,133
for the ballistic missiles.

926
00:47:40,202 --> 00:47:44,551
Those are huge canisters
full of very volatile fuel.

927
00:47:49,383 --> 00:47:52,835
My big alarm bell is
whenever an official

928
00:47:52,904 --> 00:47:56,183
reassures me that
something is safe.

929
00:47:56,252 --> 00:47:58,013
You know, you can't
reassure that.

930
00:47:59,186 --> 00:48:02,707
You can try, but it's
never entirely safe.

931
00:48:02,776 --> 00:48:04,398
In a way, these people
should get a medal

932
00:48:04,467 --> 00:48:06,711
for waking up the
security people

933
00:48:06,780 --> 00:48:08,920
so that they see where
things don't work.

934
00:48:10,335 --> 00:48:13,062
We didn't do it to bring
to light the insecurity

935
00:48:13,131 --> 00:48:15,893
that's there or the lack of
security guarding these things,

936
00:48:15,962 --> 00:48:18,447
although that was a truth.

937
00:48:18,516 --> 00:48:20,621
We did it in order
to bring to light

938
00:48:20,690 --> 00:48:24,073
the illegality and
immorality of these weapons.

939
00:48:28,457 --> 00:48:29,734
You see people commenting

940
00:48:29,803 --> 00:48:30,977
within the newspapers,

941
00:48:31,046 --> 00:48:33,703
why didn't you try
the democratic means,

942
00:48:33,772 --> 00:48:35,947
going to Washington and/or
lobbying, things like that?

943
00:48:36,016 --> 00:48:37,638
We've done all
of those things.

944
00:48:37,707 --> 00:48:39,295
We've lobbied, we vigiled,

945
00:48:39,364 --> 00:48:43,299
we've visited our Congress
people in their offices.

946
00:48:43,368 --> 00:48:45,681
We've had vigils and marches.

947
00:48:45,750 --> 00:48:49,616
This is going on for about
40 years, but to no avail.

948
00:48:49,685 --> 00:48:52,481
I would like to
add that we are not

949
00:48:52,550 --> 00:48:56,174
against the young men and
women in the military.

950
00:48:56,243 --> 00:48:57,900
They are part of the victims.

951
00:48:58,970 --> 00:49:02,284
I'm a child of a naval officer,

952
00:49:04,079 --> 00:49:07,358
so I loved the Navy growing
up and then I see it

953
00:49:07,427 --> 00:49:11,810
turning into this sort
of technological force

954
00:49:11,879 --> 00:49:14,330
that speaks a
different language.

955
00:49:14,399 --> 00:49:19,404
It's all so compartmentalized
that the soldiers and sailors

956
00:49:20,543 --> 00:49:22,511
don't really connect
with what they're doing

957
00:49:22,580 --> 00:49:24,513
any more than our citizens do

958
00:49:24,582 --> 00:49:27,171
when the weapons are
hidden from them.

959
00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:28,586
Shortly after the break-in,

960
00:49:28,655 --> 00:49:30,588
the U.S. Attorney's
office announced

961
00:49:30,657 --> 00:49:33,522
it was investigating
charges against the five.

962
00:49:33,591 --> 00:49:37,112
Then nine months later,
the indictments came down.

963
00:49:37,181 --> 00:49:40,149
The five were charged
with a host of crimes,

964
00:49:40,218 --> 00:49:42,634
including conspiracy, trespass

965
00:49:42,703 --> 00:49:45,120
and destruction of
government property.

966
00:49:45,189 --> 00:49:49,158
Each was now facing up
to 10 years in prison.

967
00:49:49,227 --> 00:49:50,884
And the trial
itself is open to the public.

968
00:49:50,953 --> 00:49:52,092
- Is that correct?
- Yes,

969
00:49:52,161 --> 00:49:53,576
the trial will be
open to the public.

970
00:49:53,645 --> 00:49:56,165
We like to think that
it's not just us on trial,

971
00:49:56,234 --> 00:49:59,306
that this is a trial
about nuclear weapons.

972
00:49:59,375 --> 00:50:02,171
We'd like to invite any
who might be listening.

973
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,106
It's on the 28th.

974
00:50:06,175 --> 00:50:08,557
It's gonna be at the
Tacoma Federal Courthouse,

975
00:50:08,626 --> 00:50:13,424
which is at 1717 Pacific
Avenue in Tacoma.

976
00:50:14,597 --> 00:50:16,220
Sister Megan Rice told me

977
00:50:16,289 --> 00:50:20,224
that call to action
would send her to Tacoma.

978
00:50:20,293 --> 00:50:23,296
Tell me about your reaction.

979
00:50:23,365 --> 00:50:25,022
Did you come up for their trial?

980
00:50:25,091 --> 00:50:26,230
Yes, we did.

981
00:50:28,611 --> 00:50:33,616
So I heard that the five of
them had done this action.

982
00:50:34,514 --> 00:50:36,067
I did know Father Bill Bichsel.

983
00:50:36,136 --> 00:50:38,311
I had visited him in prison.

984
00:50:38,380 --> 00:50:39,829
We have sisters in Portland

985
00:50:39,898 --> 00:50:42,142
and so I able to visit
him in prison there,

986
00:50:42,211 --> 00:50:43,419
so I knew him well.

987
00:50:44,938 --> 00:50:49,494
Anne Montgomery had done five
or six Plowshares actions

988
00:50:50,702 --> 00:50:53,878
and had spent a lot
of time in prison.

989
00:50:57,847 --> 00:51:01,334
The trial is underway
for five war protesters.

990
00:51:14,692 --> 00:51:16,211
There's a crime at Bangor

991
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,283
with the storage of all
those nuclear weapons.

992
00:51:19,352 --> 00:51:21,354
The future of all
children depends

993
00:51:21,423 --> 00:51:24,081
on people speaking up
against atrocities.

994
00:51:25,703 --> 00:51:29,327
Former U.S. Attorney
General Ramsey Clark flew in

995
00:51:29,396 --> 00:51:33,228
from the east coast to
appear before the court.

996
00:51:33,297 --> 00:51:36,058
Why did you go to
Tacoma to testify?

997
00:51:36,127 --> 00:51:40,027
Well, I've been working
with them for a long time.

998
00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:43,410
The main thing, the
steadfastness of those saintly people

999
00:51:43,479 --> 00:51:45,136
and the pain they've suffered.

1000
00:51:45,205 --> 00:51:49,278
And it is our challenge still
remaining to love the people

1001
00:51:49,347 --> 00:51:52,074
that are accusing
us and judging us,

1002
00:51:52,143 --> 00:51:54,801
and with your help and
support, we're able to do that.

1003
00:51:54,870 --> 00:51:55,767
God bless you.

1004
00:51:55,836 --> 00:51:56,596
Amen.

1005
00:51:56,665 --> 00:51:58,115
Amen.

1006
00:51:58,184 --> 00:52:01,704
They've laid their lives
on the line time after time,

1007
00:52:01,773 --> 00:52:03,948
trying to make our
people understand

1008
00:52:04,017 --> 00:52:09,022
that these nuclear weapons
are a form of madness,

1009
00:52:10,196 --> 00:52:12,646
that they threaten
life on the planet.

1010
00:52:12,715 --> 00:52:14,890
And right here in
this gentle city,

1011
00:52:16,823 --> 00:52:18,825
Tacoma, with all these
beautiful people,

1012
00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:25,107
there's a mass of destructive
power beyond imagination.

1013
00:52:26,833 --> 00:52:28,145
One of those
submarines could hit

1014
00:52:28,214 --> 00:52:31,976
110 or more centers of
population and exterminate them.

1015
00:52:35,566 --> 00:52:40,571
Attention must be paid
and it's not being paid.

1016
00:52:42,020 --> 00:52:44,989
So God bless the Plowshares
and make all of us Plowshares

1017
00:52:45,058 --> 00:52:48,095
and then we shall
overcome, not before.

1018
00:52:48,165 --> 00:52:49,338
Amen.

1019
00:52:49,407 --> 00:52:50,684
Amen.

1020
00:52:50,753 --> 00:52:51,927
Thank you, Ramsey.

1021
00:52:53,342 --> 00:52:56,552
During a pre-trial
hearing, Clark was asked

1022
00:52:56,621 --> 00:53:00,177
if he thought the defendants'
actions were justified.

1023
00:53:24,649 --> 00:53:26,306
Clark told the
court the nuclear missiles

1024
00:53:26,375 --> 00:53:29,620
aboard the Trident submarines
violate international law.

1025
00:54:05,034 --> 00:54:07,692
Blake Kremer
was on the defense team.

1026
00:54:07,761 --> 00:54:08,935
What happened?

1027
00:54:09,004 --> 00:54:11,109
Well, there was
a pre-trial hearing

1028
00:54:11,178 --> 00:54:12,559
several weeks prior to trial.

1029
00:54:12,628 --> 00:54:16,425
Ramsey Clark testified
regarding international law

1030
00:54:16,494 --> 00:54:20,326
and the judge ruled that the
international law defense

1031
00:54:20,395 --> 00:54:22,776
and the necessity defenses
would not be allowed

1032
00:54:22,845 --> 00:54:24,813
to be presented to the jury.

1033
00:54:24,882 --> 00:54:26,401
Before the trial started,

1034
00:54:26,470 --> 00:54:28,748
Judge Benjamin Settle
ruled the defendants

1035
00:54:28,817 --> 00:54:31,509
had not shown that
international law

1036
00:54:31,578 --> 00:54:33,339
or the so-called
Nuremberg defense

1037
00:54:33,408 --> 00:54:35,927
applied to the
charges against them.

1038
00:54:35,996 --> 00:54:38,033
He said the defendants
claimed they were acting

1039
00:54:38,102 --> 00:54:40,346
out of necessity to
point out the dangers

1040
00:54:40,415 --> 00:54:43,452
and criminality of
keeping nuclear weapons.

1041
00:54:43,521 --> 00:54:46,352
But the judge called
the case a political one

1042
00:54:46,421 --> 00:54:49,424
and citing precedent, said
other courts had struck down

1043
00:54:49,493 --> 00:54:52,634
the use of the necessity
defense in similar cases.

1044
00:54:52,703 --> 00:54:55,913
The problem is that
federal courts presume

1045
00:54:55,982 --> 00:54:57,846
that nuclear weapons are legal.

1046
00:54:59,365 --> 00:55:03,990
They say, well, if Congress
funds them, then they're legal

1047
00:55:04,059 --> 00:55:05,992
and if you don't
think they're legal

1048
00:55:06,061 --> 00:55:08,891
then you have to go
do something else

1049
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:13,102
like petition your Congressman
or write letters or whatever.

1050
00:55:13,171 --> 00:55:16,658
But you can't go in and say
you're stopping a crime,

1051
00:55:16,727 --> 00:55:19,316
because there's
no crime going on.

1052
00:55:19,385 --> 00:55:23,285
What we're saying is
that you cannot produce

1053
00:55:23,354 --> 00:55:26,046
and deploy and prepare for use

1054
00:55:26,115 --> 00:55:28,773
or threat of use of
nuclear weapons legally

1055
00:55:28,842 --> 00:55:31,914
because these
weapons are grotesque

1056
00:55:31,983 --> 00:55:33,744
weapons of mass destruction.

1057
00:55:33,813 --> 00:55:36,160
They cannot be controlled
in space and time.

1058
00:55:36,229 --> 00:55:37,886
They're indiscriminate
and therefore,

1059
00:55:37,955 --> 00:55:41,683
they violate every
basic law of war.

1060
00:55:41,752 --> 00:55:45,342
We bless you, as a family,
as a community and as one.

1061
00:55:46,688 --> 00:55:47,516
Amen.

1062
00:55:47,585 --> 00:55:49,207
Amen.

1063
00:55:49,276 --> 00:55:50,416
Look at that sun
on the bridge up there.

1064
00:55:50,485 --> 00:55:52,210
During the four-day trial,

1065
00:55:52,279 --> 00:55:54,972
Lori McPhee sat on the jury.

1066
00:55:55,041 --> 00:55:57,664
To see that they
were all elderly people

1067
00:55:57,733 --> 00:55:59,770
was kind of amazing.

1068
00:56:00,771 --> 00:56:03,394
To have them be of religion,

1069
00:56:03,463 --> 00:56:05,534
that made it even more shocking.

1070
00:56:06,466 --> 00:56:07,950
They broke the law.

1071
00:56:08,019 --> 00:56:11,575
They had their reasons, but
it was still breaking the law.

1072
00:56:13,093 --> 00:56:14,371
The prosecutors
want to keep the focus

1073
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:17,201
on whether these folks
cut a fence or not

1074
00:56:17,270 --> 00:56:19,134
and they're saying,
"Yes, we cut the fence,

1075
00:56:19,203 --> 00:56:20,100
"but let me tell you why,"

1076
00:56:20,169 --> 00:56:21,723
and open all that up.

1077
00:56:21,792 --> 00:56:23,966
And the prosecutors just
wanted to keep it on the fence

1078
00:56:24,035 --> 00:56:25,071
so it was just about

1079
00:56:26,175 --> 00:56:29,524
the damage to government
property that way.

1080
00:56:29,593 --> 00:56:32,112
So in that sense, they
didn't get a fair trial.

1081
00:56:32,181 --> 00:56:34,667
Bill Quigley
was on the defense team,

1082
00:56:34,736 --> 00:56:37,221
which functioned in
an advisory capacity,

1083
00:56:37,290 --> 00:56:40,293
because the defendants
represented themselves.

1084
00:56:40,362 --> 00:56:43,607
He's a law professor
at Loyola University.

1085
00:56:43,676 --> 00:56:46,955
Now did the judge do
anything illegal or unjust?

1086
00:56:47,024 --> 00:56:48,957
Most federal judges
would have done

1087
00:56:49,026 --> 00:56:50,924
the same thing this judge did

1088
00:56:50,993 --> 00:56:54,583
because the law
is really stacked

1089
00:56:54,652 --> 00:56:56,447
to keep these kinds
of things quiet

1090
00:56:56,516 --> 00:56:59,864
and to make sure that
people don't get a chance

1091
00:56:59,933 --> 00:57:01,487
to explain all these
things to a jury

1092
00:57:01,556 --> 00:57:02,971
because they're so powerful.

1093
00:57:04,559 --> 00:57:06,940
Why do we have these weapons?

1094
00:57:07,009 --> 00:57:09,909
What good do they do
the world to have them?

1095
00:57:09,978 --> 00:57:12,187
What's the impact that
they've had already?

1096
00:57:13,775 --> 00:57:16,398
What's the financial consequences?

1097
00:57:16,467 --> 00:57:18,365
What are the medical consequences?

1098
00:57:20,437 --> 00:57:22,404
I don't think that the
defendants in this case

1099
00:57:22,473 --> 00:57:24,682
have any objection to
laws that prevent you

1100
00:57:24,751 --> 00:57:28,203
from cutting through a fence
at a military installation.

1101
00:57:28,272 --> 00:57:29,549
That's not the issue.

1102
00:57:29,618 --> 00:57:30,792
Professor Michael Honey

1103
00:57:30,861 --> 00:57:32,932
is a civil rights historian

1104
00:57:33,001 --> 00:57:35,728
and expert on the life of
Martin Luther King, Junior

1105
00:57:35,797 --> 00:57:38,351
and nonviolent
civil disobedience.

1106
00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:40,767
He testified as
an expert witness.

1107
00:57:41,837 --> 00:57:43,011
Throughout our history,

1108
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:45,323
people have done
this kind of thing.

1109
00:57:45,392 --> 00:57:49,155
King said, in some cases
we're opposing laws

1110
00:57:49,224 --> 00:57:50,501
that are themselves unjust,

1111
00:57:50,570 --> 00:57:52,538
which would be the
segregation laws.

1112
00:57:52,607 --> 00:57:54,229
He said, but there's
another body of laws,

1113
00:57:54,298 --> 00:57:56,507
like if a policeman
tells you to move

1114
00:57:56,576 --> 00:57:59,027
or not sit down in the street.

1115
00:57:59,096 --> 00:58:01,029
He said, we're not
objecting to those laws,

1116
00:58:01,098 --> 00:58:04,204
we're objecting to
the larger moral issue

1117
00:58:04,273 --> 00:58:05,654
and through our demonstration,

1118
00:58:05,723 --> 00:58:07,138
that's the only
way we can do it.

1119
00:58:07,207 --> 00:58:10,107
We haven't found any other
ways to redress these issues

1120
00:58:10,176 --> 00:58:14,732
except for protest and that
seems to be the case here,

1121
00:58:14,801 --> 00:58:16,769
that nothing else
seems to be working.

1122
00:58:16,838 --> 00:58:18,011
In fact, it's getting worse.

1123
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:19,496
They're now talking
about modernizing

1124
00:58:19,565 --> 00:58:20,773
the nuclear weapons system

1125
00:58:20,842 --> 00:58:22,775
and spending billions
more dollars.

1126
00:58:22,844 --> 00:58:26,364
They're trying to find a
way to raise the issue.

1127
00:58:26,433 --> 00:58:28,677
Why did the U.S. go
after Saddam Hussein?

1128
00:58:28,746 --> 00:58:30,852
He wasn't using weapons
of mass destruction.

1129
00:58:30,921 --> 00:58:33,026
They said that he had
them and he might use them

1130
00:58:33,095 --> 00:58:36,927
and that this was illegal
and unacceptable and immoral,

1131
00:58:36,996 --> 00:58:38,445
and what's the U.S. doing,

1132
00:58:38,515 --> 00:58:41,621
but the very same thing
with nuclear weapons?

1133
00:58:42,967 --> 00:58:45,280
Michael Baur sat on the jury

1134
00:58:45,349 --> 00:58:48,007
and for him the case
presented a dilemma.

1135
00:58:48,076 --> 00:58:49,284
You know, it is not every day

1136
00:58:49,353 --> 00:58:51,666
you are asked to sit
judgment on people

1137
00:58:51,735 --> 00:58:53,840
who I think are probably are,

1138
00:58:56,118 --> 00:58:58,535
it's a tough one, but maybe
morally superior in a way,

1139
00:58:58,604 --> 00:59:01,020
because they've living
their lives for God

1140
00:59:01,089 --> 00:59:02,987
and the service of man.

1141
00:59:03,056 --> 00:59:05,507
So for me, to put
someone like that away

1142
00:59:05,576 --> 00:59:07,958
or put 'em in jail possibly

1143
00:59:08,027 --> 00:59:09,925
was a little bit
hard for me to do.

1144
00:59:11,375 --> 00:59:14,205
What was it that you
were really wrestling with?

1145
00:59:16,414 --> 00:59:18,555
Well, just the fact that

1146
00:59:22,766 --> 00:59:24,595
it was really hard for
'em to defend themselves.

1147
00:59:24,664 --> 00:59:26,217
They were guilty and I knew it,

1148
00:59:27,667 --> 00:59:32,603
but in my mind if I decide, if
I go with what the law says,

1149
00:59:34,087 --> 00:59:37,746
which a good citizen will do,
then it should be no big deal,

1150
00:59:37,815 --> 00:59:39,403
but at the same
time, like I said,

1151
00:59:39,472 --> 00:59:40,853
these are some of the good ones

1152
00:59:40,922 --> 00:59:42,889
and I'm gonna possibly
put them away for a while.

1153
00:59:42,958 --> 00:59:46,583
And this is what I feel like
we need more in society,

1154
00:59:46,652 --> 00:59:48,412
is some more of them.

1155
00:59:51,346 --> 00:59:53,106
The people who
were the real victims

1156
00:59:53,175 --> 00:59:54,936
are those marines and sailors

1157
00:59:55,005 --> 00:59:57,421
who were on that reaction force.

1158
00:59:57,490 --> 00:59:59,734
I've been on a reaction
force and you are pumped up

1159
00:59:59,803 --> 01:00:02,840
and you are ready and when
you go charging in there,

1160
01:00:02,909 --> 01:00:04,980
it speaks very well
of the training

1161
01:00:05,049 --> 01:00:06,395
of the marines and the sailors,

1162
01:00:06,464 --> 01:00:08,328
that they didn't shoot
some of those people.

1163
01:00:08,397 --> 01:00:10,952
They have the
order to shoot to kill.

1164
01:00:11,021 --> 01:00:12,816
You put them in a tough spot.

1165
01:00:12,885 --> 01:00:13,817
How do you react to that?

1166
01:00:13,886 --> 01:00:15,681
Well, how I react to that,

1167
01:00:15,750 --> 01:00:17,268
first of all, we
thought about that too.

1168
01:00:17,337 --> 01:00:18,615
We don't want to put anyone

1169
01:00:18,684 --> 01:00:21,410
in that position of
having to kill us.

1170
01:00:21,479 --> 01:00:23,896
We prayed that that not happen.

1171
01:00:23,965 --> 01:00:26,553
We went in with all the
precautions that we could,

1172
01:00:26,623 --> 01:00:29,729
with our peace symbols,
with our banners.

1173
01:00:30,937 --> 01:00:32,421
However, evidence at trial

1174
01:00:32,490 --> 01:00:35,459
revealed Father Bix and
several of the other defendants

1175
01:00:35,528 --> 01:00:39,187
also carried living wills
with them into the base.

1176
01:00:39,256 --> 01:00:40,947
Father Bichsel

1177
01:00:41,016 --> 01:00:42,984
"I went in there
with my medicines."

1178
01:00:43,053 --> 01:00:44,433
You know, had a bag
full of medicines.

1179
01:00:44,502 --> 01:00:45,814
He needs medicines to survive.

1180
01:00:45,883 --> 01:00:47,782
It wasn't a suicide mission.

1181
01:00:47,851 --> 01:00:51,924
They did risk being shot
and as he pointed out,

1182
01:00:51,993 --> 01:00:53,960
they've done a hundred of
these Plowshares actions

1183
01:00:54,029 --> 01:00:55,375
and no one has ever been hurt,

1184
01:00:55,444 --> 01:00:57,377
none of the
Plowshares activists,

1185
01:00:57,446 --> 01:00:59,138
none of the military
people involved.

1186
01:00:59,207 --> 01:01:01,623
And I think the defendants
answered that themselves

1187
01:01:01,692 --> 01:01:04,833
by saying, people are
taking risks for war

1188
01:01:04,902 --> 01:01:07,215
all day, every day,
all over the world.

1189
01:01:07,284 --> 01:01:09,182
And when you take
risks for peace,

1190
01:01:09,251 --> 01:01:11,081
you have to take a
few risks as well.

1191
01:01:11,150 --> 01:01:12,427
Today a
federal jury convicted

1192
01:01:12,496 --> 01:01:14,429
five anti-war protesters.

1193
01:01:14,498 --> 01:01:16,949
They were found guilty of
conspiracy, trespassing

1194
01:01:17,018 --> 01:01:18,985
and destruction of
government property.

1195
01:01:19,054 --> 01:01:22,264
Each person faces up
to 10 years in prison.

1196
01:01:22,333 --> 01:01:24,784
These people committed
a serious offense.

1197
01:01:24,853 --> 01:01:27,856
They trespassed onto Bangor,
they got into an area

1198
01:01:27,925 --> 01:01:31,480
that was a lethal
force authorized area.

1199
01:01:31,549 --> 01:01:34,345
If something had gone wrong,

1200
01:01:34,414 --> 01:01:37,555
both they and the guards
guarding that area

1201
01:01:37,624 --> 01:01:41,387
would have felt tremendous
consequences from that.

1202
01:01:41,456 --> 01:01:42,457
The judge described

1203
01:01:42,526 --> 01:01:44,217
the defendants as extraordinary

1204
01:01:44,286 --> 01:01:47,082
because of the sacrificial
lives they've led,

1205
01:01:47,151 --> 01:01:50,016
but he called their
action a form of anarchy,

1206
01:01:50,085 --> 01:01:52,018
which would lead to
the complete breakdown

1207
01:01:52,087 --> 01:01:54,918
of the social order
if left unchecked.

1208
01:01:54,987 --> 01:01:57,368
He sentenced Father
Steve and Susan Crane

1209
01:01:57,437 --> 01:01:59,716
each to 15 months in prison,

1210
01:02:02,339 --> 01:02:06,826
Lynne Greenwald six months,

1211
01:02:06,895 --> 01:02:08,690
Father Bix three months

1212
01:02:10,899 --> 01:02:14,075
and Sister Anne
Montgomery two months.

1213
01:02:23,084 --> 01:02:24,292
What are your
thoughts about the outcome?

1214
01:02:24,361 --> 01:02:25,742
We're pleased that
the court recognized

1215
01:02:25,811 --> 01:02:27,571
the seriousness of the offense.

1216
01:02:27,640 --> 01:02:30,332
He found, the judge found
that if everyone behaved

1217
01:02:30,401 --> 01:02:32,921
in this manner, society
could not function.

1218
01:02:32,990 --> 01:02:34,233
Did it trouble you

1219
01:02:34,302 --> 01:02:35,786
that you had to send a
nun to prison though?

1220
01:02:35,855 --> 01:02:38,927
Those choices were made by
the individuals who made them.

1221
01:02:38,996 --> 01:02:40,515
That's not what
we are looking at.

1222
01:02:40,584 --> 01:02:42,793
We are looking at what was the
crime that was committed here

1223
01:02:42,862 --> 01:02:44,968
and it was a serious offense.

1224
01:02:45,037 --> 01:02:46,970
The judge ordered
Father Stephen Kelly

1225
01:02:47,039 --> 01:02:48,523
into custody right away,

1226
01:02:48,592 --> 01:02:50,836
saying that he was too much
of a risk to re-offend.

1227
01:02:50,905 --> 01:02:52,803
Well, the other four say
that they couldn't guarantee

1228
01:02:52,872 --> 01:02:54,771
that they wouldn't go out
and re-offend right away too,

1229
01:02:54,840 --> 01:02:56,945
so the judge says,
okay, everybody goes

1230
01:02:57,014 --> 01:02:59,154
into this federal
detention center right now.

1231
01:03:18,933 --> 01:03:20,935
If you want to come
in, it would be good.

1232
01:03:23,351 --> 01:03:26,699
I know that the defendants
were ready for today.

1233
01:03:26,768 --> 01:03:29,944
And the judge said,
true words, right?

1234
01:03:30,013 --> 01:03:33,533
Jail is no deterrent to
the spirit of the people

1235
01:03:33,602 --> 01:03:34,880
who were in the courtroom today.

1236
01:03:34,949 --> 01:03:35,846
Is that right?

1237
01:03:35,915 --> 01:03:36,985
That's right.

1238
01:03:39,643 --> 01:03:44,648
We must act again, was my
feeling when we ended that trial

1239
01:03:45,787 --> 01:03:49,066
and they stood up
and were handcuffed

1240
01:03:49,135 --> 01:03:52,690
and taken out to go to prison

1241
01:03:52,759 --> 01:03:57,834
and the jury had failed to
see the truth, in my view.

1242
01:03:58,973 --> 01:04:03,011
Another action had to
take place soon to show

1243
01:04:03,080 --> 01:04:07,602
that just going to prison is
not enough to deter people

1244
01:04:07,671 --> 01:04:10,881
from speaking the
truth about this.

1245
01:04:10,950 --> 01:04:13,573
I felt that I
needed time to think

1246
01:04:13,642 --> 01:04:16,231
about how we could act again.

1247
01:04:17,854 --> 01:04:21,996
I was able to be there for
Anne's release after two months.

1248
01:04:22,065 --> 01:04:24,895
It sends signals all the time.

1249
01:04:24,964 --> 01:04:27,277
That's a GPS monitoring system,

1250
01:04:27,346 --> 01:04:29,900
so they know exactly
where I am now.

1251
01:04:29,969 --> 01:04:34,663
They use this for people
they feel can, I guess,

1252
01:04:35,837 --> 01:04:38,253
not commit murder while
they're out of prison.

1253
01:04:40,221 --> 01:04:43,362
I had Bix's car, actually,

1254
01:04:43,431 --> 01:04:46,261
and I was able to drive
her to mass once a week.

1255
01:04:46,330 --> 01:04:48,677
She had permission
to go to church

1256
01:04:48,746 --> 01:04:53,441
and so we would
have time together.

1257
01:04:57,376 --> 01:05:00,379
I was fired up and
energized to do

1258
01:05:00,448 --> 01:05:02,760
whatever I could to
support the movement

1259
01:05:02,829 --> 01:05:07,006
to end the nuclear
industrial complex.

1260
01:05:07,075 --> 01:05:10,976
I'm coming to ask
for a future action

1261
01:05:11,045 --> 01:05:12,874
Yes!

1262
01:05:12,943 --> 01:05:17,741
Expose this horrendous
plan to modernize

1263
01:05:17,810 --> 01:05:22,815
and to expand and to
proliferate nuclear weapons.

1264
01:05:23,643 --> 01:05:24,817
It almost seems to me

1265
01:05:24,886 --> 01:05:27,061
that the baton had
been passed on to you.

1266
01:05:27,130 --> 01:05:29,339
Oh absolutely, absolutely,

1267
01:05:29,408 --> 01:05:33,274
especially when she was
84 and I was only 82

1268
01:05:33,343 --> 01:05:36,553
and I had nothing
to complain of.

1269
01:05:36,622 --> 01:05:40,798
I mean, I had no reason to
say I can't do this, really.

1270
01:05:40,867 --> 01:05:43,560
There's been a security breach
at a U.S. nuclear facility

1271
01:05:43,629 --> 01:05:45,734
which is supposed to
be one of the most

1272
01:05:45,803 --> 01:05:48,082
secure sites in the world.

1273
01:05:48,151 --> 01:05:49,531
Take a look at this picture.

1274
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:53,052
Authorities say she is the
an 82-year-old nun.

1275
01:05:53,121 --> 01:05:58,126
I telephoned to her
and she was very pleased,

1276
01:06:00,059 --> 01:06:04,305
cheered up by the fact that
another action did evolve.

1277
01:06:15,247 --> 01:06:17,697
Our Sister Anne
has gone to her rest

1278
01:06:17,766 --> 01:06:19,596
in the peace of Christ.

1279
01:06:21,287 --> 01:06:24,601
May the Lord now
welcome her to paradise.

1280
01:06:24,670 --> 01:06:28,156
Holy is this earth that
beholds in gentle embrace

1281
01:06:28,225 --> 01:06:32,643
those buried here and receives
our Sister Anne this day.

1282
01:06:35,646 --> 01:06:36,509
We love you, Anne.

1283
01:06:36,578 --> 01:06:38,580
Thank you for loving us.

1284
01:06:50,144 --> 01:06:51,524
For following her conscience

1285
01:06:51,593 --> 01:06:54,044
with integrity and perseverance.

1286
01:06:54,113 --> 01:06:55,494
We remember her.

1287
01:06:55,563 --> 01:06:57,358
For her belief
in the necessity

1288
01:06:57,427 --> 01:06:59,187
and strength of community.

1289
01:06:59,256 --> 01:07:00,878
We remember her.

1290
01:07:00,947 --> 01:07:02,156
For her insights

1291
01:07:02,225 --> 01:07:04,675
into the interconnectedness
of all things.

1292
01:07:04,744 --> 01:07:06,263
We remember her.

1293
01:07:06,332 --> 01:07:07,920
We know different,

1294
01:07:07,989 --> 01:07:10,233
for somehow with this
extradition you're a violation of.

1295
01:07:10,302 --> 01:07:12,476
All of us were in our
20s, it was pretty scary,

1296
01:07:12,545 --> 01:07:15,824
but Anne was a very
centering presence to us.

1297
01:07:15,893 --> 01:07:18,413
There were eight of us in
the Pershing Plowshares,

1298
01:07:18,482 --> 01:07:22,107
Anne Montgomery sort of being
the maternal presence there

1299
01:07:22,176 --> 01:07:26,559
because she was 58 and
just this very calm,

1300
01:07:26,628 --> 01:07:28,423
determined, strong woman.

1301
01:07:28,492 --> 01:07:30,667
Jury selection
has been difficult,

1302
01:07:30,736 --> 01:07:33,083
at least it's going very slowly.

1303
01:07:33,152 --> 01:07:36,086
Well, we went to trial, got
convicted in federal court,

1304
01:07:36,155 --> 01:07:38,882
but a couple of years
after we did our action,

1305
01:07:38,951 --> 01:07:41,367
we had the superpowers negotiating

1306
01:07:41,436 --> 01:07:43,197
away the Pershing missiles

1307
01:07:43,266 --> 01:07:44,784
and signing a treaty that talked

1308
01:07:44,853 --> 01:07:47,960
about crushing them, cutting
them, shredding them.

1309
01:07:50,480 --> 01:07:52,171
Gorbachev got a
Nobel Prize for that

1310
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,725
and I thought the prize
shoulda gone to Anne Montgomery

1311
01:07:54,794 --> 01:07:58,453
for leading us through a really
profound disarmament action.

1312
01:07:59,903 --> 01:08:02,457
And the world lost an
extraordinary peacemaker.

1313
01:08:08,118 --> 01:08:09,430
The gentleman
from Massachusetts,

1314
01:08:09,499 --> 01:08:11,259
Mr. Markey, is recognized
for five minutes.

1315
01:08:11,328 --> 01:08:14,090
Thank you, Sister Megan
Rice, for being here.

1316
01:08:14,159 --> 01:08:15,781
Thank you for your actions.

1317
01:08:15,850 --> 01:08:20,441
Thank you for your
willingness to focus attention

1318
01:08:20,510 --> 01:08:24,583
on this nuclear weapons buildup

1319
01:08:24,652 --> 01:08:29,450
that still exists in our world

1320
01:08:29,519 --> 01:08:32,832
and how much we need to
do something to reduce it.

1321
01:08:32,901 --> 01:08:35,214
We don't need more
nuclear weapons,

1322
01:08:35,283 --> 01:08:36,871
we need fewer nuclear weapons.

1323
01:08:36,940 --> 01:08:39,425
What you have done is you
have shown the laxness

1324
01:08:39,494 --> 01:08:44,050
of the security at our
nuclear weapons facilities,

1325
01:08:45,604 --> 01:08:47,502
but you've also pointed
out that we still have

1326
01:08:47,571 --> 01:08:50,402
an out-of-control
nuclear arms race

1327
01:08:50,471 --> 01:08:51,886
with an out-of-control budget,

1328
01:08:51,955 --> 01:08:54,509
and for that you
should be praised.

1329
01:09:01,999 --> 01:09:03,829
Three nuclear weapons protesters

1330
01:09:03,898 --> 01:09:07,384
who pulled off an
unprecedented break-in at Y-12

1331
01:09:07,453 --> 01:09:09,800
now face more charges
and tougher penalties.

1332
01:09:09,869 --> 01:09:13,735
63-year-old Michael Walli,
57-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed

1333
01:09:13,804 --> 01:09:16,082
and 82-year-old nun Megan Rice.

1334
01:09:16,152 --> 01:09:17,463
Now the trio are charged

1335
01:09:17,532 --> 01:09:18,982
with one count of sabotage

1336
01:09:19,051 --> 01:09:22,813
and one count of damage of
property in excess of $1,000.

1337
01:09:22,882 --> 01:09:24,332
Now if convicted,

1338
01:09:24,401 --> 01:09:27,197
the three could each face
up to 30 years in prison.

1339
01:09:27,266 --> 01:09:28,923
Nations will not lift

1340
01:09:28,992 --> 01:09:31,960
swords against nations.

1341
01:09:32,029 --> 01:09:33,307
Hi!

1342
01:09:33,376 --> 01:09:34,825
As the
three awaited trial,

1343
01:09:34,894 --> 01:09:37,138
they met with graduate
students and faculty

1344
01:09:37,207 --> 01:09:38,898
at the University of Tennessee.

1345
01:09:38,967 --> 01:09:41,073
I went into the military

1346
01:09:41,142 --> 01:09:43,420
and they trained us to
use nuclear weapons.

1347
01:09:43,489 --> 01:09:48,149
And they taught us
about radiation, how radiation can kill,

1348
01:09:48,218 --> 01:09:50,013
gamma radiation in particular.

1349
01:09:50,082 --> 01:09:51,739
My conscience said no.

1350
01:09:51,808 --> 01:09:55,191
Nuclear weapons are
gonna kill many people,

1351
01:09:55,260 --> 01:09:56,882
not just the soldiers.

1352
01:09:56,951 --> 01:09:59,091
Greg joined ROTC to pay

1353
01:09:59,160 --> 01:10:01,300
his college tuition at Tulane.

1354
01:10:01,369 --> 01:10:03,509
He is a husband and father.

1355
01:10:03,578 --> 01:10:06,409
Michael grew up on a
farm in northern Michigan

1356
01:10:06,478 --> 01:10:09,101
and enlisted in the
army at the age of 18.

1357
01:10:09,170 --> 01:10:11,793
He served two tours
of duty in Vietnam.

1358
01:10:11,862 --> 01:10:14,934
The two have acted before
in Plowshares protests

1359
01:10:15,003 --> 01:10:17,868
and spent a combined
eight years in prison.

1360
01:10:17,937 --> 01:10:20,077
So what do you think's
gonna happen to you?

1361
01:10:20,146 --> 01:10:21,907
They offered us
a plea bargain.

1362
01:10:21,976 --> 01:10:23,943
We said, "No, we feel
we're not guilty."

1363
01:10:24,012 --> 01:10:27,361
"We believe we were
following international law."

1364
01:10:27,430 --> 01:10:29,190
They said, "Plead guilty to this

1365
01:10:29,259 --> 01:10:31,192
"or we're gonna
add more charges."

1366
01:10:31,261 --> 01:10:33,677
We still stayed
with our not guilty.

1367
01:10:33,746 --> 01:10:36,508
They said, "Okay, we're
gonna add sabotage."

1368
01:10:36,577 --> 01:10:38,682
Which is a 20-year charge.

1369
01:10:38,751 --> 01:10:40,753
And could you go
through the litany of things

1370
01:10:40,822 --> 01:10:42,410
that the government is motioning

1371
01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:45,171
to preclude you from presenting?

1372
01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:47,139
Michael, do you wanna try it?

1373
01:10:47,208 --> 01:10:49,555
God is irrelevant, we
can't talk about that.

1374
01:10:49,624 --> 01:10:54,008
Our legal right to practice
religion is irrelevant.

1375
01:10:54,077 --> 01:10:56,044
The U.S. Constitution
is irrelevant.

1376
01:10:56,113 --> 01:10:58,530
International law,
which connects up

1377
01:10:58,599 --> 01:11:01,981
with the Constitutional
law, that's irrelevant.

1378
01:11:02,050 --> 01:11:04,052
The common good is irrelevant.

1379
01:11:04,121 --> 01:11:07,090
Human rights are irrelevant.

1380
01:11:07,159 --> 01:11:08,540
Intention.

1381
01:11:08,609 --> 01:11:12,302
Our intentions, why we did
what we did, that's irrelevant.

1382
01:11:14,718 --> 01:11:16,168
I'm here
at the courthouse

1383
01:11:16,237 --> 01:11:17,721
in downtown Knoxville, where
this trial's been going on

1384
01:11:17,790 --> 01:11:19,827
since about nine
o'clock this morning.

1385
01:11:21,518 --> 01:11:22,968
I know that they meant well,

1386
01:11:23,037 --> 01:11:26,143
but they really hurt a lot
of people, individual lives,

1387
01:11:26,212 --> 01:11:29,112
and I'm an economics teacher,
so I think of it that way,

1388
01:11:29,181 --> 01:11:31,079
of whose lives did
they really impact?

1389
01:11:32,218 --> 01:11:33,565
And the people that
lost their jobs

1390
01:11:33,634 --> 01:11:35,360
that were guarding the facility

1391
01:11:35,429 --> 01:11:37,293
and the managers
and things like that

1392
01:11:38,432 --> 01:11:40,675
were very hurt by their actions.

1393
01:11:43,851 --> 01:11:46,543
It should be within
our scope to be able

1394
01:11:46,612 --> 01:11:50,996
to transform Y-12
into a place of peace

1395
01:11:51,065 --> 01:11:52,549
rather than a place
that generates

1396
01:11:52,618 --> 01:11:54,379
weapons of mass destruction.

1397
01:11:54,448 --> 01:11:56,829
Transform now!

1398
01:11:56,898 --> 01:11:58,072
Transform now!

1399
01:11:59,625 --> 01:12:01,351
The prosecutor's
gonna put on their case.

1400
01:12:01,420 --> 01:12:03,180
It might prove that a few
things have been broken,

1401
01:12:03,249 --> 01:12:06,460
but we can't believe that
they're gonna show any sabotage.

1402
01:12:06,529 --> 01:12:07,806
It's really been a battle

1403
01:12:07,875 --> 01:12:09,842
between the prosecution
and the defense

1404
01:12:09,911 --> 01:12:14,916
as to whether the trio presented
any actual threat to Y-12.

1405
01:12:16,297 --> 01:12:17,712
One of the first witnesses
called to the stand

1406
01:12:17,781 --> 01:12:20,474
was Steve Erhart, the highest
ranking officer at Y-12.

1407
01:12:20,543 --> 01:12:23,684
Early on, the prosecution
asked what harm had been done.

1408
01:12:23,753 --> 01:12:27,412
Erhart responded it
delayed a secret convoy

1409
01:12:27,481 --> 01:12:29,345
that was supposed to bring
in a shipment that night

1410
01:12:29,414 --> 01:12:31,588
and it also hurt the
U.S.'s credibility

1411
01:12:31,657 --> 01:12:34,833
with other countries when
it came to nuclear weapons.

1412
01:12:34,902 --> 01:12:38,457
To make God's dream for
the human family a reality.

1413
01:12:38,526 --> 01:12:41,529
I think this trial
points to a major problem

1414
01:12:41,598 --> 01:12:46,431
in the U.S. justice
motions in limine

1415
01:12:46,500 --> 01:12:48,260
which don't allow the defense

1416
01:12:48,329 --> 01:12:51,228
to actually present
their defense.

1417
01:12:51,297 --> 01:12:55,957
Should be condemned
by judges and lawyers

1418
01:12:56,026 --> 01:12:57,890
on both sides of the aisle,

1419
01:12:57,959 --> 01:13:01,100
as it really
undermines the truth

1420
01:13:01,169 --> 01:13:04,690
of justice process
in this country.

1421
01:13:04,759 --> 01:13:07,037
As the prosecution
walked out the gates,

1422
01:13:07,106 --> 01:13:09,385
supporters of the
activists circled

1423
01:13:09,454 --> 01:13:10,972
in front of the courthouse.

1424
01:13:11,041 --> 01:13:14,251
Transform now,
transform now, transform now.

1425
01:13:14,320 --> 01:13:15,874
A saying that we
have in the movement

1426
01:13:15,943 --> 01:13:18,152
is you can jail the resisters,

1427
01:13:18,221 --> 01:13:19,878
but you can't jail
the resistance.

1428
01:13:19,947 --> 01:13:23,709
The spirit has been
released here on it.

1429
01:13:25,297 --> 01:13:27,333
Y-12 will never be
the same anymore.

1430
01:13:28,369 --> 01:13:29,266
They were convicted.

1431
01:13:29,335 --> 01:13:30,475
They were convicted of sabotage

1432
01:13:30,544 --> 01:13:33,305
and of depredation of
government property.

1433
01:13:37,516 --> 01:13:39,000
Guilty as charged,

1434
01:13:39,069 --> 01:13:42,901
the three Y-12 protesters now
wait to hear their sentence.

1435
01:13:44,040 --> 01:13:45,144
What would be
fair in this case?

1436
01:13:45,213 --> 01:13:47,077
A sentencing
that's appropriate.

1437
01:13:47,146 --> 01:13:48,872
We don't really think
that she belongs,

1438
01:13:48,941 --> 01:13:51,427
as a nonviolent
offender, in jail.

1439
01:13:54,257 --> 01:13:56,604
Their sentencing
came down late this afternoon.

1440
01:13:56,673 --> 01:13:58,192
The two men, they were sentenced

1441
01:13:58,261 --> 01:14:00,850
to just over five
years in prison.

1442
01:14:00,919 --> 01:14:03,439
Sister Megan Rice, 84 years old,

1443
01:14:03,508 --> 01:14:07,028
was sentenced to one month
shy of three years in prison.

1444
01:14:07,097 --> 01:14:09,168
He did not think the
ends justified the means,

1445
01:14:09,237 --> 01:14:12,240
so you can't go breaking
into a federal facility

1446
01:14:12,309 --> 01:14:13,863
because you believe
you're protecting

1447
01:14:13,932 --> 01:14:15,174
the future of the planet.

1448
01:14:15,243 --> 01:14:16,452
Any of
the attorneys, are you?

1449
01:14:16,521 --> 01:14:17,901
Yeah, I can speak,
I just found out.

1450
01:14:17,970 --> 01:14:19,455
I've had to keep my
mouth shut up to now

1451
01:14:19,524 --> 01:14:20,904
because of the local rule.

1452
01:14:20,973 --> 01:14:22,388
My name is Chris Irwin.

1453
01:14:22,458 --> 01:14:23,942
My family has been in
this town for, I believe,

1454
01:14:24,011 --> 01:14:26,427
five generations, according
to my uncle Buford.

1455
01:14:26,496 --> 01:14:28,394
I've always lived in
the shadow of the heart

1456
01:14:28,464 --> 01:14:30,914
of the American nuclear
weapons production complex,

1457
01:14:30,983 --> 01:14:33,158
where they make
mobile death camps.

1458
01:14:33,227 --> 01:14:36,230
In World War II, they brought
the people to the death camps.

1459
01:14:36,299 --> 01:14:37,990
In some obscenity,
we've now figured out

1460
01:14:38,059 --> 01:14:40,027
how to bring the death
camps to the people.

1461
01:14:40,096 --> 01:14:42,098
I've been proud every minute
I've been in the crowd

1462
01:14:42,167 --> 01:14:44,376
with these people and
everyone who is here.

1463
01:14:53,627 --> 01:14:56,802
Once again, in this
sort of criminal case,

1464
01:14:56,871 --> 01:15:00,944
the court has ruled
that the necessity

1465
01:15:01,013 --> 01:15:06,018
or justification defense
could not be put to the jury.

1466
01:15:07,226 --> 01:15:08,745
In my opinion, that's
part of a larger trend

1467
01:15:08,814 --> 01:15:11,265
to take more issues
away from juries.

1468
01:15:22,276 --> 01:15:23,933
Sister Megan was incarcerated

1469
01:15:24,002 --> 01:15:27,177
at the federal detention
center in Brooklyn, New York.

1470
01:15:27,246 --> 01:15:29,594
Meanwhile, her
lawyers moved forward

1471
01:15:29,663 --> 01:15:31,941
to appeal the
sabotage conviction.

1472
01:15:33,252 --> 01:15:34,460
She's is in prison now

1473
01:15:34,530 --> 01:15:37,636
and here you are less
than 10 miles away.

1474
01:15:37,705 --> 01:15:40,294
She's being held in
a holding facility,

1475
01:15:40,363 --> 01:15:41,744
which is not where a person

1476
01:15:41,813 --> 01:15:43,677
is supposed to be
held for very long,

1477
01:15:43,746 --> 01:15:45,230
and she's there for a long time,

1478
01:15:45,299 --> 01:15:47,888
because the prisons in this
country are so overcrowded.

1479
01:15:47,957 --> 01:15:51,098
So her conditions, she does
not get fresh air very often.

1480
01:15:51,167 --> 01:15:54,239
She's in a very confined
space and it's really not,

1481
01:15:54,308 --> 01:15:56,379
not that prisons
are much better,

1482
01:15:56,448 --> 01:15:57,932
but for a long length of time,

1483
01:15:58,001 --> 01:16:01,695
it would be a better place
than this place in Brooklyn.

1484
01:16:01,764 --> 01:16:05,215
I'm here in the name
of Sister Megan Rice,

1485
01:16:05,284 --> 01:16:08,529
Greg Boertje-Obed
and Michael Walli,

1486
01:16:08,598 --> 01:16:11,739
who have written to us and
asked that we be on the streets,

1487
01:16:11,808 --> 01:16:15,156
because at the United
Nations at this time,

1488
01:16:15,225 --> 01:16:16,986
the Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty

1489
01:16:17,055 --> 01:16:20,576
signed by the United
States in 1970 stated

1490
01:16:20,645 --> 01:16:23,786
that the United States and
the nuclear weapon powers

1491
01:16:23,855 --> 01:16:25,684
would abolish all
nuclear weapons.

1492
01:16:25,753 --> 01:16:28,722
We have neglected our
duty for 45 years.

1493
01:16:28,791 --> 01:16:31,656
It is a great honor
for me to declare open

1494
01:16:31,725 --> 01:16:34,969
the 2015 Review
Conference of the Parties

1495
01:16:35,038 --> 01:16:38,145
to the Treaty on the
Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

1496
01:16:39,767 --> 01:16:43,668
The treaty, which entered
into force 45 years ago,

1497
01:16:43,737 --> 01:16:47,257
has played a crucial role in
nuclear non-proliferation,

1498
01:16:47,326 --> 01:16:50,847
nuclear disarmament and the
peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

1499
01:16:52,055 --> 01:16:54,368
I would like to extend
a very warm welcome

1500
01:16:54,437 --> 01:16:57,474
to all states party to the NPT.

1501
01:16:57,543 --> 01:17:02,100
As they're discussing it, we
are here to teach, to preach.

1502
01:17:02,169 --> 01:17:03,826
No more Hiroshimas!

1503
01:17:03,895 --> 01:17:05,793
No more Hiroshimas!

1504
01:17:05,862 --> 01:17:08,209
No more Nagasakis!

1505
01:17:08,278 --> 01:17:11,109
The president of
the conference and the UN

1506
01:17:11,178 --> 01:17:13,214
have received petitions calling

1507
01:17:13,283 --> 01:17:15,561
for the elimination
of nuclear weapons.

1508
01:17:16,908 --> 01:17:19,013
These petitions have
millions of signatures

1509
01:17:19,082 --> 01:17:21,567
from concerned citizens
across the world.

1510
01:17:22,707 --> 01:17:25,606
This is a powerful
reminder of the hopes

1511
01:17:25,675 --> 01:17:29,472
and the expectations of the
peoples we are here to serve.

1512
01:17:31,163 --> 01:17:32,578
There was no
intention, I believe,

1513
01:17:32,648 --> 01:17:35,616
at any year of any
American administration

1514
01:17:35,685 --> 01:17:37,756
to fulfill its
international obligations

1515
01:17:37,825 --> 01:17:40,207
under that treaty of Article VI,

1516
01:17:40,276 --> 01:17:43,555
which calls for the prompt
initiation of negotiations

1517
01:17:43,624 --> 01:17:46,731
toward a prompt elimination
of nuclear weapons.

1518
01:17:46,800 --> 01:17:48,664
And it's not only
the United States.

1519
01:17:48,733 --> 01:17:50,389
The other nuclear weapon states,

1520
01:17:50,458 --> 01:17:52,115
of which there are now nine,

1521
01:17:52,184 --> 01:17:54,531
at that time, by the
way, there weren't nine,

1522
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:58,363
none of the states have made
any progress to speak of.

1523
01:18:09,685 --> 01:18:14,690
Daniel Ellsberg was a
Pentagon nuclear war planner,

1524
01:18:16,001 --> 01:18:18,348
best known perhaps for
releasing the Pentagon Papers

1525
01:18:18,417 --> 01:18:21,766
and being sentenced to
109 years in prison.

1526
01:18:21,835 --> 01:18:24,009
My friend Daniel Ellsberg.

1527
01:18:28,013 --> 01:18:29,187
Thank you very much.

1528
01:18:29,256 --> 01:18:31,914
It is outrageous that
these numbers of weapons

1529
01:18:31,983 --> 01:18:34,813
and their targeting remain on
alert or exist in the world.

1530
01:18:34,882 --> 01:18:37,195
The number of
weapons has decreased

1531
01:18:37,264 --> 01:18:38,817
between the U.S. and Russia,

1532
01:18:38,886 --> 01:18:42,648
but not to a level that
precludes nuclear winter.

1533
01:18:42,718 --> 01:18:44,927
We're far above the
level that would cause

1534
01:18:44,996 --> 01:18:48,033
nuclear winter and
worldwide famine,

1535
01:18:48,102 --> 01:18:50,311
near extinction of
the human species

1536
01:18:50,380 --> 01:18:53,418
if we carried out our
existing war plans.

1537
01:18:56,904 --> 01:18:59,804
U.S. nuclear weapons,
get 'em while they're hot.

1538
01:18:59,873 --> 01:19:02,910
Each red dot is a nuclear
weapon on U.S. soil.

1539
01:19:02,979 --> 01:19:07,984
We have 450 land-based ICBMs
still in the United States,

1540
01:19:08,882 --> 01:19:10,331
each one on high trigger alert.

1541
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:13,369
They're at the beck and
call of the president.

1542
01:19:16,855 --> 01:19:18,754
So many people
are feeling disheartened

1543
01:19:18,823 --> 01:19:20,376
that they've been
waiting for so long

1544
01:19:20,445 --> 01:19:23,275
for Article VI to
actually be realized.

1545
01:19:23,344 --> 01:19:25,553
Well, I think what the
non-nuclear weapon states

1546
01:19:25,622 --> 01:19:28,246
are waiting for and the people
of the world are waiting for

1547
01:19:28,315 --> 01:19:31,767
is really an action plan
that actually has steps

1548
01:19:31,836 --> 01:19:34,873
for implementing and a timetable
that is attached to it.

1549
01:19:34,942 --> 01:19:37,600
This year is the
45th anniversary

1550
01:19:37,669 --> 01:19:39,291
of the existence of the NPT,

1551
01:19:39,360 --> 01:19:41,673
and that's a long time
to be waiting for this.

1552
01:19:45,021 --> 01:19:48,473
I am ordering you to leave
this restricted area now.

1553
01:19:48,542 --> 01:19:50,095
If you do so voluntarily,

1554
01:19:50,164 --> 01:19:51,683
no charges will be
placed against you.

1555
01:19:54,617 --> 01:19:55,860
If you
do not wish to be arrested,

1556
01:19:55,929 --> 01:19:58,000
you must leave this
restricted area.

1557
01:20:03,108 --> 01:20:05,352
Young people haven't
lived in a world

1558
01:20:05,421 --> 01:20:08,424
of the Cuban Missile Crisis
or the Berlin Crisis,

1559
01:20:08,493 --> 01:20:12,048
which I participated in, both
of those in the Pentagon.

1560
01:20:12,117 --> 01:20:13,981
And they really
haven't been made aware

1561
01:20:14,050 --> 01:20:16,087
of the danger that
actually still exists.

1562
01:20:16,156 --> 01:20:18,054
I don't think they
have much awareness

1563
01:20:18,123 --> 01:20:20,056
that there is a nuclear threat.

1564
01:20:20,125 --> 01:20:22,265
We're out here to try
to wake people up.

1565
01:20:22,334 --> 01:20:25,993
No nukes,
no nukes, no nukes!

1566
01:20:27,270 --> 01:20:29,203
Disarm now, disarm now!

1567
01:20:33,414 --> 01:20:35,831
- Wage love.
- Against the wall right now!

1568
01:20:35,900 --> 01:20:37,902
Wage love, not hatred.

1569
01:20:40,145 --> 01:20:41,940
Wage love, not hatred.

1570
01:20:44,218 --> 01:20:45,806
Love, not hatred.

1571
01:20:45,875 --> 01:20:47,773
Wage love, not hatred.

1572
01:20:47,843 --> 01:20:49,637
Wage love, not hatred.

1573
01:20:54,504 --> 01:20:56,852
Arrest those who wage war,

1574
01:20:56,921 --> 01:20:59,509
not those who wage peace.

1575
01:20:59,578 --> 01:21:04,583
Arrest those who wage war,
not those who wage peace.

1576
01:21:06,033 --> 01:21:09,692
Arrest those who wage war,
not those who wage peace.

1577
01:21:10,555 --> 01:21:12,522
Arrest those who wage war.

1578
01:21:12,591 --> 01:21:14,662
Free
the peacemakers!

1579
01:21:14,731 --> 01:21:18,287
Arrest
the warmakers!

1580
01:21:23,809 --> 01:21:24,672
Thank you.

1581
01:21:24,741 --> 01:21:25,984
The meeting is adjourned.

1582
01:21:30,609 --> 01:21:31,852
Sister Megan was sentenced

1583
01:21:31,921 --> 01:21:34,130
to almost three years
in prison, 35 months.

1584
01:21:34,199 --> 01:21:37,168
Her co-conspirators got
five years in prison.

1585
01:21:37,237 --> 01:21:39,825
But now, having served
just two years in prison,

1586
01:21:39,895 --> 01:21:42,967
they are all free suddenly.

1587
01:21:43,036 --> 01:21:45,762
A federal appeals court
last week decided to uphold

1588
01:21:45,831 --> 01:21:48,006
their convictions for
destruction of property,

1589
01:21:48,075 --> 01:21:49,318
but the court overturned

1590
01:21:49,387 --> 01:21:51,665
the more serious
conviction of sabotage.

1591
01:21:51,734 --> 01:21:54,737
The court of appeals
essentially said this is a protest.

1592
01:21:54,806 --> 01:21:57,567
These folks are engaged
in peaceful protest

1593
01:21:57,636 --> 01:21:59,776
and that they were prayerful

1594
01:21:59,845 --> 01:22:02,434
and that the security
of the United States

1595
01:22:02,503 --> 01:22:04,712
was never at risk from this.

1596
01:22:04,781 --> 01:22:06,197
And according
to the New Yorker,

1597
01:22:06,266 --> 01:22:08,785
this was the first time in
30 years that the conviction

1598
01:22:08,854 --> 01:22:12,237
of an anti-nuclear
protester had been vacated.

1599
01:22:12,306 --> 01:22:14,860
So we're still
in the struggle.

1600
01:22:14,930 --> 01:22:18,036
We're still on the
journey and we sisters

1601
01:22:18,105 --> 01:22:21,315
who have this life to
give will give our lives

1602
01:22:21,384 --> 01:22:23,524
for the abolition of
all nuclear weapons.

1603
01:22:31,049 --> 01:22:33,914
This is a historic moment for
the international community.

1604
01:22:41,646 --> 01:22:43,303
The United Nations
formally adopted

1605
01:22:43,372 --> 01:22:45,891
the Treaty on the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons.

1606
01:22:50,379 --> 01:22:52,070
Are you hopeful
things can change?

1607
01:22:52,139 --> 01:22:54,417
Of course I am, of course.

1608
01:22:54,486 --> 01:22:57,041
That's the pattern of evolution.

1609
01:22:57,110 --> 01:23:00,906
Change is always happening
and it always comes out

1610
01:23:00,976 --> 01:23:03,219
better in the end, in my view.

1611
01:23:03,288 --> 01:23:06,188
And in many other
people's views.

1612
01:23:11,572 --> 01:23:14,506
And the Nuclear-Free
Future Award

1613
01:23:14,575 --> 01:23:18,717
is going to Megan Rice, Michael
Walli, and Greg Boertje-Obed

1614
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:21,582
of the United States of America

1615
01:23:21,651 --> 01:23:25,000
for their act of courageous
civil disobedience

1616
01:23:25,069 --> 01:23:30,039
symbolically pounding nuclear
weapons into plowshares.