Protesters cut fence, walk unchallenged through Stuttgart's Patch Barracks

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30892

Three anti-war protesters, including a 70-year-old woman, turned themselves in to police on Tuesday after they cut a large hole in the fence at Patch Barracks, walked onto the base, hung a banner, and weren’t challenged by anyone.

The three Germans, the woman and two men ages 51 and 22, were apparently surprised they weren’t arrested after breaking onto the base at about 11:30 a.m. So they walked through the base and out the main gate, where they turned themselves in to German police, according to Hermann Karpf, a spokesman for the Stutt- gart police department.

Patch Barracks, located in the Stuttgart suburb of Vaihingen, is home to the headquarters of the U.S. European Command, European Plans and Operations Center and Defense Information Systems Agency. The base also has houses and apartments where U.S. personnel live, along with schools, stores, a medical clinic and other facilities.

The three protesters, who Karpf said are well-known to German police from past anti-war protests, have not yet been charged with a crime but will be prosecuted after German prosecutors determine which charges should be filed. He did not release the names of the suspects.

[Richard Steele]

1. Lovely security they have there, eh?

More proof that no one "in the know" is actually
taking the "war on terror" very seriously.

That base houses some of our HIGHEST-PROFILE "potential targets"
in all of Germany, and these folks actually had to
TURN THEMSELVES IN to get caught!

I bet they feel foolish for wasting time cutting that hole!

[mom cat]

2. Great Job!