ruthbrarian’s avatarruthbrarian’s Twitter Archive—№ 4,259

          1. Plowshares stories continue to delight: June 2, 1987 in the early morning, Katya Komisaruk walked through an unlocked gate leaving cookies and a bouquet of flowers for security guards and entered a satellite control facility named "NAVSTAR" at Vandenberg AFB, CA. 1/?
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          These systems will be able to provide navigational and guidance systems for the Trident II and other nuclear missiles. Once inside, she used a hammer, crowbar and cordless electric drill to damage panels of an IBM mainframe computer and a satellite dish on top of the building. 2/
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        Using a crowbar she removed the computer's chipboards and danced on them. On the walls she spray- painted "Nuremberg," "International Law," and statements for disarmament. 3/
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      After being undetected for two hours, she left the base and hitchhiked to San Francisco. 4/ (!!!!!)
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    The next morning she held a press conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco to explain her action whereupon she was taken into custody by the FBI. 5/5 ... like... the chutzpah
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      I should note this person was not necessarily affiliated with Plowshares but her actions were similar
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        "Jerry was able to sing two songs to the jury which he first sang at the silo." bless, Jerry <3