A Malicious Nun? Are you kidding me?????

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http://disarmnowplowshares.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/a-malicious-nun/

A Malicious Nun? Are you kidding me?????
Posted on May 31, 2012 by Disarm Now Plowshares

The following article about Sr. Anne Montgomery and the Disarm Now Plowshares was written by Documentary filmmaker and Emmy award winning writer and producer Helen Young, and published in The Huffington Post today.

A Malicious Nun?

There are many words that come to mind to describe Sister Anne Montgomery, and her work but “malicious” is certainly not one of them. Sister Anne, an 85-year-old Roman Catholic nun from the Society of the Sacred Heart who once taught students in Spanish Harlem and high school dropouts in Albany, also spent years working for Christian Peacemakers, an ecumenical anti-war group. She has put her life on the line in some of the world’s most war-torn regions, including the Balkans in the 1990′s, the Middle East, and more recently in Iraq. Her life has been devoted to working for peace and on nuclear disarmament.

It’s not work for the fainthearted. This diminutive woman, who is still razor sharp in her thinking, and who barely weighs 90 pounds soaking wet, has spent more than three years in prison because of her non- violent protests against nuclear weapons. Her first federal incarceration came more than 30 years ago when she, along with Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan and five others, trespassed onto a GE missile manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania. The group, known as the Plowshares 8, hammered on the missile nosecones of Mark 12A warheads with carpenter hammers to symbolically disarm them. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark defended the group, whose sentences were eventually overturned.

Fast forward to 2012, and Sister Anne’s moral commitment to raising awareness on the global threat posed by nuclear weapons has not waned. In fact, it has intensified. Just last year she was thrown in prison once again, this time for trespassing along with four others, onto the Kitsap-Bangor U.S. Navy nuclear submarine base near Seattle. The base is homeport for eight of the nation’s 14 Trident nuclear submarines and reportedly has one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear warheads in the country. The five successfully cut through three chain link fences and penetrated a “shoot to kill” zone where nuclear weapons are said to be stored in concrete bunkers.Sister Anne and her co-defendants, whom prosecutors called the Bangor 5, say they broke into the base as a symbolic wakeup call to the world which, they believe, is sleepwalking toward nuclear annihilation with the United States leading the way. The Bangor 5, who are all over the age of 60, say that as the United States continues to upgrade and modernize its nuclear weaponry, spending $60 billion a year on its arsenal, more than any other country in the world, it’s sending a message to other nations that the mark of a powerful nation is a nuclear one, thereby contributing to proliferation, global insecurity, and an eventual holocaust.

“People are not going to disarm unless we make a move and do it responsibly, you know, step by step. We don’t need these weapons, says Sister Anne. “They’re not helping us. They’re endangering us,” she adds.

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“malicious” nun on her release from prison

[life long demo]

1. God Bless you Sister Anne

I hope the Pope doesn't hear about Sister Anne, but then I don't think that he could stop her good works for God.

[MADem]

2. She's a civil-disobedience nun.

The church probably loves her--heck, they don't have to pay for a room in a convent if she's in jail! She's saving them money so they can respond to lawsuits and make settlements.

Malicious nuns? The Magdalenes: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-3445_162-567365.html

...From the front, the former Good Shepherd Convent in Cork looks like an exclusive private school, with a hidden history too heavy to tell. At the back of the convent, you can still see the skeleton of the washhouse, one of dozens of Magdalene institutions scattered across the countryside.

It was there that Mary Norris and Josephine McCarthy each spent three years of hard labor, enforced silence and prayer, after it was decided that they were in moral danger and unfit to live in Irish society.

Both had come from troubled homes, spent time in Catholic orphanages, and were sent out as servant girls, where they ran into trouble with their employers for staying out late. They were turned over to the nuns because it was suspected they either were, or were about to become, sexually active. Josephine says she was accused of having sex in the backseat of a car.

"And then the next thing I knew, I was with this woman on a train to Cork. And I was just brought up here. I was just told my name was Phyllis, and I'd work in the laundry," said McCarthy, walking down the laundry during her revisit to the convent.

But that little nun? She's not malicious--she's just POLITICAL. She knows what the deal is, and she's ready to do her time. That's why she engages in civil disobedience, to call attention to the issues she is protesting against.