AP is reporting: “A judge says protesters’ moral opposition to drone warfare overseas didn’t absolve them of guilt for trespassing at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada in April 2009. Las Vegas Justice of the Peace William Jansen delivered a 20-page ruling Thursday finding a group dubbing themselves the ‘Creech 14′ guilty of trespassing at the base about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The judge sentenced each to credit 
for time already served in jail and sent them on their way.
“‘Go in peace,’ he said.”
KATHY KELLY, JOHN DEAR, JIM HABER
Haber is co-coordinator of the Nevada Desert Experience. John Dear is a Jesuit priest. He said today: “Creech Air Force Base is home to the latest high-tech weapons that use unmanned aerial systems to carry out surveillance and increasingly lethal attack missions in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen.”
Kelly, co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, said today: “It’s criminal for the U.S. people to spend $2 billion per week for war in Afghanistan that maims, kills and displaces innocent civilians who’ve meant us no harm. … [Read more...]
