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Ed got 10 days in jail.<br><br>His statement is here. <font style="font-size:10pt" face="Tahoma" size="2"><a href="http://www.wevigil.org/" target="_blank">http://www.wevigil.org/</a><br><br><font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">I've digested <font style="font-size:10pt" size="2">it below:<br><br></font></font></font>
Lockheed Martin is the worldˇ¦s largest arms manufacturer, the
largest <br>manufacturer of nuclear missiles, and last produced a
commercial aircraft <br>thirty years ago. It spends millions in
political contributions, funding ˇ§think <br>tanksˇ¨ and in lobbying
ˇV300 in WashingtonˇVnot just to sell its weapons but <br>to sell war
itself. This brings it annual sales of $40
billion, almost all from <br>taxpayers.<br><br>Lockheed is the lead contractor for the Trident D5 nuclear
missile. The <br>USA's 14 Trident-carrying submarines can each carry 24
D5ˇ¬s, each with <br>up to 8 independently targeted warheads. (The W88ˇ¬s
are over 20 times<br>more powerful than the bomb that destroyed
Nagasaki.) <br><br>
Almost 40 years ago, Richard McSorley, a Jesuit theologian
teaching at <br>Georgetown University, characterized nuclear weapons as
the taproot of <br>evil in our time. Plants send taproots deep into the
ground for water and <br>nourishment. Nuclear militarism draws similarly
upon our emotions, needs, <br>and material resources to feed and be fed
by a self-absorbed culture that <br>is increasingly unable to look at and
beyond itself. Our fears about our <br>economic and physical security, our desire of
power--even our passive <br>hopelessness in this world of video games,
consumer culture, and <br>entertainment masquerading as news--keep us
living in the moment. We <br>quibble about the costs of health care,
education, preserving natural <br>resources; and aid for the poor,
unemployed, and homeless; but we don't <br>question nearly a trillion
dollars spent annually on wars, on weapons that <br>could easily destroy
our planet, on drones that insulate us from the <br>violence we inflict,
on nearly 1000 military bases and the thousands of <br>soldiers and
mercenaries who people them.<br><br>
Lockheed Martin is not solely responsible for all of this. We are.
Lockheed <br>and its cohorts thrive on our passivity. By turning a blind
eye, or fatalistically <br>accepting the situation, we all are complicit.
Only by speaking and <br>actingˇXpeacefullyˇVcan we achieve peace. We
cannot be silenced. We<br>cannot be silent.<br>
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