Dear Relatives, Friends and Supporters,
Jean [and all others] will face a possible sentence of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine when she is sentenced on September 12, 2011.
Her crime, a misdemeanor charge of trespass at Y-12, Oak Ridge, TN with twelve others on July 5, 2010.
Her motive, to protest the continued and soon to be expanded production of Hydrogen Bomb materials at that location.
This plant produced the Uranium used to make the Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan sixty years ago. Such production is prohibited by International Law and various treaties which our government has signed.
The Nuremberg Principles established at the end of WWII were used to prosecute German citizens for failing to do what Jean is now being punished for, namely objecting to the criminal activities of their country.
I write you who
have known Jean and of her nonviolent resistance to nuclear
weapons for the past forty years to write a letter on her behalf which her
attorney believes might help the judge give a lenient sentence.
The letter should be addressed to:
The Honorable H. Bruce Guyton
U.S. District Court
800 Market Street
Knoxville, TN 37902
On July 3, 2010, Kathy Kelly spoke at the celebration of 30 years of The Nuke Resister and Nukewatch, in front of the Funeral Banner made from the cloth cut from the clothes of PLOWSHARES 8 , Father Philip Francis Berrigan as he lay dying in his bed.
Father Berrigan also said: "If enough Christians followed the gospel, they could bring any state to its knees."
In 1987, Mordechai Vanunu wrote from his windowless tomb sized jail cell that held him captive for 18 years for "objecting to the criminal activities of his country":
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