Calling themselves Transform Now Plowshares, they hammered on the cornerstone of the newly built Highly-Enriched Uranium Manufacturing Facility (HEUMF), splashed human blood and left four spray painted tags on the recent construction which read: Woe to the empire of blood; The fruit of justice is peace; Work for peace not for war; and Plowshares please Isaiah.
DESCRIPTION OF ACTION CONTINUED HERE.....
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Government drops one count against Transform Now Plowshares activists.

[April 25, 2013 • Knoxville, TN] Since entering the Y12 Nuclear
Weapons Complex in July of 2012, Greg Boertje-Obed, Megan Rice and
Michael Walli have faced four charges ranging from trespass to
sabotage. In November, the government dropped the trespass charge.
Today, April 25, the government dismissed a second charge:


COUNT TWO

The Grand Jury further charges that, on or about July 28,2012, within
the Eastern District of Tennessee, the defendants, MICHAEL R. WALLI,
MEGAN RICE, and GREG BOERTJEOBED, aiding and abetting each other, at a
place within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the
United States, namely, the United States Department of Energy,
National Nuclear Security Administration, Y-12 National Security
Complex, did willfully and maliciously destroy, injure, and attempt to
destroy and injure, a structure, and other real and personal property
within the Y-12 National Security Complex, in violation of Title 18,
United States Code,ı Sections 1363 and 2.

The charge carried a possible sentence of 5-10 years.

With this dismissal, two charges remain:

• one count charging damage to federal property in excess
of $1,000 which carries a maximum ten year sentence

• one count under what is commonly known as the sabotage
act charging intent to injure the national defense of the United
States which carries a maximum 25 year sentence.

Jury selection for the Transform Now Plowshares case is
scheduled for 1:00pm on Monday, May 6 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The
trial is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, May 7, 2013 before Judge Amul
Thapar.

The defendants are awaiting a ruling, due within a week,
from Judge Thapar on what testimony, if any, will be withheld from the
jury during the trial. Judge Thapar heard testimony from former
Attorney General Ramsey Clark on Tuesday, April 23, and received
written testimony from several other experts, including Col. Ann
Wright (USAF, ret) Dr. Ira Helfland (past president of Physicians for
Social Responsibility) and Bishop Thomas Gumbleton of the Archdiocese
of Detroit.

Transform Plowshares website
 http://transformnowplowshares.wordpress.com/

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