Longest imprisoned nuclear resister Helen Woodson released after 27 years

[bananas]

http://www.nukeresister.org/2011/10/03/e-bulletin-september-2011/

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Longest imprisoned nuclear resister Helen Woodson released after 27 years

Silo Pruning Hook activist Helen Woodson was released this month after serving nearly 27 years in prison for that and subsequent actions against war and other assaults on human dignity, peace and the environment.

She walked out of the Administrative Maximum unit of the Federal Medical Center – Carswell in Ft. Worth, Texas on September 9, and took a bus to Kansas City. She is living in the area with sponsors.

In November 1984, Woodson, Larry Cloud Morgan, Fr. Paul Kabat and Fr. Carl Kabat – the Silo Pruning Hooks – used a sledgehammer and pneumatic jackhammer to disarm nuclear missile silo N5 in rural Missouri.

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[LiberalEsto]

1. A brave woman.

[Scuba]

2. Thank you Helen Woodson!

[PamW]

3. Attempted...

In November 1984, Woodson, Larry Cloud Morgan, Fr. Paul Kabat and Fr. Carl Kabat – the Silo Pruning Hooks – used a sledgehammer and pneumatic jackhammer to disarm nuclear missile silo N5 in rural Missouri.
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They attempted to disarm a missile. In point of fact, they only caused cosmetic damage to the silo cover.

They never got to the missile, nor its warhead.

She paid for her crime. It's not up to her to deny what our duly elected officials have sanction on our behalf.

PamW

[Yo_Mama]

4. Call me Ishmael, but I don't want anyone fooling around with nuclear anything

You have to admire her commitment to her ideas, but I think the method she chose of witnessing to them was futile, stupid and potentially dangerous.

[happyslug]

5. Her biography from 1981, Age 41 going in, now 70 years of age

Helen Dery Woodson, 41, Madison, Wisconsin: Helen Woodson is the of 11 children, 7 adopted, 3 foster, 1 natural. Of the 7 children still at home (ages 4 to 25), 6 have mental and physical handicaps. For 18 years, Woodson ran a daycare center, treatment home and private school and was active in her parish in addition to caring for her family. Realizing that the nurturing of children is meaningless if we cannot give them a world safe from the threat of nuclear war, she founded the Gaudete Peace and Justice Center in 1981 and began publishing HARVEST OF JUSTICE, a newsletter of reflection on civil dis­obedience/Divine Obedience. Since September 1982, she has been arrested 5 tunes for peace witnesses at the White House, Air and Space Museum and St. Raphael Cathedral, and has served almost 9 months in prison. She dedicates today's witness to her father and children.

http://www.craftech.com/~dcpledge/brandywine/plow/statements/THE%20SILO%20PRUNING%20HOOKSbios.htm

She was a real danger to society, 70 years old and only now released!!!

Most Murders serve less time.

She has been released before, but continued to protest, which violated her parole and she was returned to Prison. Must have served her entire sentence, which meant the Government had to release her.

She had serve her full sentence, but in 2004 convicted ofa seperate incident, it is from that sentence she is being released from:
http://www.motherearth.org/prisoner/woodson.php

http://www.nukeresister.org/2011/01/

Original sentence was only 18 years:

http://www.real-dream-catchers.com/prophecy-protest-principle/larry_cloud-silo_pruning_hooks.htm

She is being released do to a subsequent (2004) incident to her release,

http://www.motherearth.org/prisoner/woodson.php