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Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile

On Tuesday morning, a retired Catholic priest and two veterans put on clown suits, busted into a nuclear missile launch facility, and began beating the silo cover with hammers, in an attempt to take the Minuteman III missile off-line. Seriously.

silo-E8-gate.jpgThe trio -- members of the Luck, Wisconsin group Nukewatch -- said the break-in was part of "a call for national repentance" for the Hiroshima and Nagaski A-bombings in 1945.

The activists used bolt-cutters to get into the E-9 Minuteman III facility, located just northwest of the White Shield, North Dakota. "Using a sledgehammer and household hammers, they disabled the lock on the personnel entry hatch that provides access to the warhead and they hammered on the silo lid that covers the 300 kiloton nuclear warhead," the group said in a statement. "The activists painted 'It's a sin to build a nuclear weapon' on the face of the 110-ton hardened silo cover and the peace activists poured their blood on the missile lid."

This was all done while wearing face paint, dunce caps, misfitting overalls, and bright yellow wigs.

We dress as clowns to show that humor and laughter are key elements in the struggle to transform the structures of destruction and death. Saint Paul said that we are “fools for God's sake,” and we say that we are “fools for God and humanity.” Clowns as court jesters were sometimes the only ones able to survive after speaking truth to authorities in power.

Guards responded within minutes. And when they arrived, the protesters "ate a lot of gravel," I'm told.

"The individuals were taken from the area and brought to the McLean County Jail," the AP notes. "The three are being charged with criminal trespass and criminal mischief, both Class A misdemeanors, and bond was set at $500 each.... The FBI is involved in the case and federal charges are pending."

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Posted by: wowpowerleveling at April 15, 2008 01:45 AM


The title of the article is rather stupid. They did nothing to the missile nor the warheads. This groups has played these assinine games over the years performing the same moronic acts.

Back in the 80's Danny Boy Rather was there with his 60 Minutes cameras rolling and made every effort to distort and to demean the security teams.

Posted by: توبيكات at April 8, 2008 07:37 AM


Oh stop it... for a fractional example - the japs committed such abhorant acts against the Chinese at Nangking and the American POW's from Wake etc... I have no, zero, sympathy for the jap culture from that time. In fact I truly regret that we only had two bombs ready to go in late summer of '45. While I think it wonderful that we can be allies today I would have been fine backing Nimitz words in Dec of 41.. that the only place Japanese would be spoken would be hell.

Posted by: harman at October 21, 2007 10:58 PM


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Posted by: matt pyers at December 23, 2006 04:18 PM


Ahhh..I missed this one the first time around. Good 'ol Echo-9 LF. This brings back memories from when I was a maintenance officer at Minot. Anthony Quickle, a few posts back, is entirely correct about the entry procedures for Minutemen LFs. Even when my team had the correct authentication codes to gain entry to the site, it takes us minimum of about an hour to make it down to the inside of the silo. All these "clowns" did was to trigger both the outer zone and inner zone security alarms but first getting to the topside of the facility and then banging on the launcher closure door. I hope they have fun in the federal pen, as they'll probably spend the next decade there contemplating their actions. There are much better ways to get your point across.

Posted by: DC Loser at December 22, 2006 07:43 AM


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was a cool bar there "Denuchis" (sp) got druk there after 9 happy hour. they tore it down..very sad.

Posted by: The D at December 21, 2006 08:34 AM


Meatheads- I dont live far from Luck WI Typical small WI town of like 500 ppl. 6 bars. Meth use is apparently abundant....

was a cool bar there "Denuchis" (sp) got druk there after 9 happy hour. they tore it down..very sad.

Posted by: The D at December 21, 2006 08:28 AM


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I DON'T CARE IF THEY REPECT US
I WANT THEM TO FEAR US

Posted by: Joseph F Catlin at December 2, 2006 06:40 PM


Having been in the Air Force myself, I fully understand the last line on the warning signs that are plastered on all Air Force bases - "Use of deadly force authorized" – in red letters no less. What is the sense of having that line of text if it's not going to be enforced?!?! The simple and final policy for ANYONE that is obviously trying to break into a silo, or even take one offline should be to SHOOT THEM DEAD! If you or anyone else has a problem with nukes, then feel free to vote in a few bleeding-heart, anti-war, anti-defense liberals. Enough said!

Posted by: Don Shoebridge at November 23, 2006 06:45 PM


Guin,

Please page back and read all he previous comments for a better understanding of the security procedures at nuclear missile sites. What these "clowns" got access to was basically a large flat concrete area, very simiar in appearance to a parking lot. The missile is located under more than 6 feet of reinforced concrete and steel that is fully secure and capable of withstanding anything short of a direct-hit nuclear explosion. The secrity system as designed worked perfectly. The clowns presence on the site triggered an alarm that brought out a security response team armed with the latest in military automatic weapons and with the authority to shoot (to kill - no warning shots authorized) anyone found on the site. (although, the usual outcome is the foolish intruder is arrested and winds up facing Fedral charges and a jail sentence). An authorized missile maintenance team with the knowledge, required equipment, and the complicity of the controlling missile crew would take almost a full working day to gain access to the actual missile. A security team makes it to the site in a matter of minutes, much less than a half hour. Missile secure. System works well - no need to change anything. Thanks for being concerned though.

Posted by: Anthony Quickle at August 4, 2006 02:44 PM


i know i'm a little behind the times, but i just stumbled upon this clown story. come on now, it's hilarious. the story behind it isn't hilarious, but the fact that these clowns dressed up as...well, you know, is so completely fitting and wonderful. i think that the treason comment is a little over the top, but, hey, whatever. no, people shouldn't be able to use a bolt cutter to get to where the (yes i know it's necessary, but still...) evil nuclear (please stop putting a second "u" in the word "nuclear" it makes you sound dumb, Mr. President) weapons are. now that these guys have done it, are we going to step up security now?

Posted by: guinevere at August 4, 2006 02:01 PM


Perhaps we need a primer on the concept of War. When at War with a declared or undeclared enemy, your objective is to eliminate that enemy as a threat. We go to War against nations or identifiable cultural / ethnic / racial / religious / economic groups (CERRE) that bear us ill will, or in some capacity have evidenced that they may be a danger to our obviously superior CEERE. We, of course, out of a sense of compassion, decency, and a suspicion that the enemies government may have duped their citizens...they really aren't as bad as the guys in uniform shooting at us... we try to limit the violence done to only those soldiers and men at arms that walk upon the battlefield. If that is not sufficient to eliminate the threat, then the "civilian" population is also at risk. Eliminate the threat > escalation of violence until it is eliminatd > superior CERRE wins = War. Not a game for crybabys.

Don't want to have your CERRE possibly destroyed? Then don't go to War against a superior culture. Don't pee in my sandbox and I'll leave you alone.

Posted by: Anthony Quickle at August 3, 2006 11:18 AM


Repent for the atomic bombings, ha! While technologically amazing the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn’t cause near the civilian casualties nor the destruction of U.S. carpet firebombing. If America should repent, it should be for burning alive over one hundred thousand people.

Posted by: Blah at July 31, 2006 12:01 AM


Norm, as stated before in this thread (please page back and read...), these missle silos can withstand everything but a DIRECT hit from a nuclear bomb.... A "shaped charge", of the largest size you could drag in, would not even begin to crack that door or silo. Trust me...you can't damage the missle, the warhead, or the silo it's in. Not to blame you for your lack of knowledge, this is not exactly dinner conversation. I do find amusing the folks that have asked about these clowns accidentally setting off the warhead if they did actually get access to the missle. Nuclear bombs are precision electronic mechanisms...practically delicate, and require a precise series of electronic and mechanical actions to take place, exactly as designed, and in exactly the proper sequence and timing in order for the nuclear portion of the bomb to work. At best, someone that managed to trigger the small conventional explosive charge contained in a nuclear device would only effect a small non-nuclear explosion (killing them, but probably not anyone else...). One of my favorite Hollywood nail-biter moments is found in several movies...the intrepid hero is faced with an armed and "counting down" nuclear weapon...oh my gosh...what to do...maybe he and his swiss army knife can successfully disarm the bomb...tick, tick, tick...what to do.... When the actual solution is as simple as shooting as many rifle or pistol rounds as you've got , or sledge hammer blows if thats all you've got, to the access panels, or the center of mass of the weapon.....Disrupt the electronics, or the nuclear material mass, and you have no nuclear explosion.... As above, you probably would have a small non-nuclear blast, but hey...you don't get to be a hero without some risk....

Posted by: Anthony Quickle at July 8, 2006 07:02 PM


What if they'd had just one shaped charge?

Posted by: NORM at July 8, 2006 01:31 PM


That's right Bill...you have exposed the fatal flaw in our national security....every four years, on Feb 29th, no one shows up for work, no one is there walking their post, protecting all the sleeping citizens from the truly bad things out there in the dark....

"Truth? you can't handle the truth!"

Posted by: A Quickle at July 6, 2006 08:23 AM


"All alarms and security are remotely situated and monitored 24/7/365."

God help us all on February 29th.

Posted by: Bill at July 5, 2006 08:48 PM


Clowns and Screw Ups have always changed history take the 2 Columbine kids, Lee Harvey, John Hinkley, Jr., the first WTC raghead bombers who wanted the $400 truck deposit back, the 9-11 raghead morons with 6 months pilot training, Tim Mcvey, now these dipshits in a warehouse in Fla. OR maybe they were all just patsies of the NWO! scary ain't it?

Posted by: Jaye at July 5, 2006 05:09 PM


AQuickie, Geek who is not fat; They used Bio warfare (Blood), Psychological warfare (Clown suits), Unconventional warfare (Vandalism) to accomplish their mission. Their mission was to damage Government property, discredit the security forces guarding Nukes and make a big antiwar statement. Unfortunately for us good Americans.
"Mission accomplished"!

Posted by: Jaye at July 5, 2006 04:31 PM


I went back and reread the entire comment log...and there appears to be a mis-conception as to just what these clowns "entered" and vandalized. Minuteman Missle silos are not located on any military base. They are widely seperated (miles and miles apart) & located out in the middle of some North Dakota farmer's wheat field. All alarms and security are remotely situated and monitored 24/7/365. You could drive past any number of silos and never see them. 99.999% of everything on the site is located far underground under and enclosed in enough concrete and steel to build a huge bridge on any multi-lane interstate. The "personnel hatch" that they "disabled" the lock on is a seperate underground building that contains no access to the missle silo...just basically the monitor lights (and absolutely no operational controls or wiring) for stuff like the A/C...makes it easier for the maintenance crews to checkthe staus of the basic housekeeping stuff without having to open up the actual silo. Opening the silo; even when you have all the Top Secret Codes, the cooperation of the operational personnel, and the actual correct multi-million dollar equipment; takes almost a full day. If you step inside the fence an alarm goes out in milliseconds and the armed military response is on-site in minutes. If they run into problems, a full scale military response is there in another handful of minutes. NO ONE is getting unauthorized access to a US Nuclear missle. The security system worked just fine. Clowns walked on site, played stupid protest games for a couple minutes and wound up face down in the dirt... Total cost to the overnment for repair of their protest actions....a little clorox for the blood they poured on the door, a little graffiti remover for the paint, a little concrete patch to smooth out the dings, two new padlocks for the non-access outer areas, and a litle lysol for the 3 puddles of urine in the gravel....

So for all y'all worried about "how close they got", or "where was the security" etc... Everything was and is under control....feel free to relax.

Posted by: A Quickle at July 5, 2006 11:45 AM


Well bud, if their intent was to conduct "warfare" of any kind...then they are guilty of treason and should face such charges in Federal court. I believe we still hang traitors...are you sure you wish to pursue that line of fairy BS?. As far as showing up the security forces...all such sites are intensely, multi-system, & multi-redundantly alarmed and remotely monitored. As stated before...these facilities (or at least anything important) is secure against anything up to and including a near-miss nuclear blast. So, any "Clown" that goes through the work of cutting a simple chain & lock at the gate and wandering onto the site with the intent of damaging government property will be detected and in due course arrested. In the interval they will succeed in nothing more than chipping a little surface concrete and providing some much appreciated amusement for the responding USAF Security team (been there, done that...). They also probably irritated the US Marshal that had to interrupt his lunch & drive out to place them under arrest. It is most appropriate that they dressed like clowns, since intelligent, reasonable, thinking people see actions such as this as amusing little distractions from our daily working lives. They mean nothing in the grand scheme, but cause a chuckle every now and again. Kind of how my 85 pound boxer regards the neighbor's miniature poodle that trots up and down the street, yapping his little head off...a mild interest in the general activities, but not worth stirring from the nice warm spot on the front hall rug. However, if it was a REAL threat, an intruder or something of the like...someone loses body parts. So, lets all have a nice day, and say Thank You to the USAF Security Forces that have to put up with the W.O.B. antics of non-productive idiots like these "clowns"

Posted by: A. Quickle at July 5, 2006 09:29 AM


Stop the double posts..... it's annoying.

Posted by: Ex_SAC at July 4, 2006 04:19 PM


Quickie, Gay who is not fat; They used Bio warfare (Blood), Psychological warfare (Clown suits), Unconventional warfare (Vandalism) to accomplish their mission. Their mission was to damage Government property, discredit the security forces guarding Nukes and make a big antiwar statement. Unfortunately for us good Americans.
"Mission accomplished"!

Posted by: Jaye at July 4, 2006 08:30 AM


And Clowns they are... Some folks have nothing better to do with their time. Obviously just a symbolic action, anything critical for the functioning of that nuclear weapon is safely inside the silo under the blast door. The previous comment about the ability of a hardened silo to withstand a "truck bomb" is actually understated. These silos were designed to still function even if the area was subjected to a first-strike nuclear attack. How do I know? Been there, done that, got the T-shirt...

Posted by: A. Quickle at July 3, 2006 09:51 PM


Next time try using logic to responed to an argument, eh Jaye?

Posted by: Some Guy Who Isn't Fat at July 1, 2006 08:06 PM


Capt Scuttle: Facts are often inconvenient, and may very well serve to sink your ship (which, judging by your screen name, has already foundered).

As reported in the San Francisco Examiner, 11/18/02:

US ambassador April Gillespie to Saddam Hussein, in a meeting called by Hussein: "We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait." She went on to say: "James Baker has directed our official spokesmen to emphasize this instruction."

That such a discussion would even come before the US ambassador clearly shows how much Hussein was under our control - he wouldn't act without tacit US approval.

Whether the border disagreement was initiated by the US, encouraging Kuwait to slant drill Iraqi oil, remains open to interpretation.

Those who endorse the concept of 'total war' (such as Jeff) have no reason to be outraged at the events of 9/11.

Posted by: Noah at July 1, 2006 08:06 PM


Jaye Debunked; "They could have detonated a truck bomb on the thing and it wouldn't have prevented the door from clearing the silo for a launch." And you would know this, because you are; A) a Fat guy sitting at a computer. B) a Fat Government Agent or C) a Fat Bad guy? Please pick one of the above. Thank you and please teach us more, I could spend hours listening to you debunk. Do you debunk UFOs too? Thanks and keep on rocking in the free world!

Posted by: Jaye at July 1, 2006 08:09 AM


Habla English S.A. (Mr. Ben Deyo) AKA Jaye debunked? "Using a sledgehammer and household hammers, they disabled the lock on the personnel...
Now my quote; "and damage some equipment" Watch this movie
http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/films/6114
"Twilight's Last Gleaming" Was the blood contaminated? NBC is not just a TV Network, there Ace! I guess the NSA was monitoring the Playboy Channel again and not the Terror Clowns! Government Workers are so Cool!

Posted by: Jaye at July 1, 2006 06:38 AM


Hate to bust your bubble Jaye, but it's going to take a lot more than three people with sledgehammers to prevent that blast door from opening properly. They could have detonated a truck bomb on the thing and it wouldn't have prevented the door from clearing the silo for a launch.

Posted by: Jaye Debunked at June 30, 2006 08:35 PM


So, normal, nonmilitary people break into a secure USAF nuclear site and damage some equipment. Now really who are the real clowns? Sleep tight America, your USAF Security and Intel people are sleeping too, but on the job! Thank God they did not watch this movie http://www.moviemail-online.co.uk/films/6114
"Twilight's Last Gleaming" cause we would all be glowing!

Posted by: Jaye at June 30, 2006 05:27 PM


"As for 9/11, that was simply a response to US actions. Bin Laden was funded, armed and trained by the US to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. We left that country a smoking ruin, completely without aid or assistance after 10 years of a war that we sponsored. When we repeated the action in Iraq with sanctions, weekly bombings and so on for ten years while millions of Iraqis including an estimated 500,000 children died of disease, maluntrition and contamination from depleted uranium munitions, we gave Bin Laden (and many others as well) justification for their actions."

Just to correct the MASSIVE pant load..(I'd debunk more of it...but it's been a long day).

Let's see.. The sanctions where done by the U.N. Who figured out that Iraq needed food and medical supplies for it's people. So they allowed Saddam to sell some of his oil for food. Remember that scandle? He was bribing the snot out of quite a few people in order to 'get in good' with the UN..so they would lift the sanctions fully. Here's the neat part that was ommited- Saddam was skimming off the top MILLIONS of dollars intended for food/medical/etc... He built up several "residences" with such wonderful things as gold plated "Flush" handles on his toilets...He lived his life like King Dookey...while his people starved.

Why someone would blame the US for that? I honestly do not know? Saddam had the funding...he had the food and medical supplies... Prehaps someone should ask that walking pantload why he let his own people down? Because as he was stealing millions intended for the care of his people? He seemed to have more interest in having a golden flush knob on his crapper...

As for the rest? Such really interesting ideas and concepts? However not much truth to it...In fact I loved the part where you said the US government gave him the green light for the first war. It must be interesting living in such a fantasy land....

Posted by: Capt Scuttle at June 28, 2006 09:17 PM


"The wordl's superpower is? USA
The country with the most nuclear weapons? USA
With the most chemical weapons? USA
etc., etc.

Who poses the greatest threat to humanity?
DO THE MATH.

Go clowns go!"

I read the above and just about fell over from the total lack of education from this person. (or commen sense...)

Yes the U.S.A. is the worlds last remaining superpower at this stage of time "God Bless America" We are also the first ones that get called upon for any disaster that happens in the world. And we do so (and give millions and millions in relief efforts) Without a second thought.

Yes currently the U.S.A. has a good sized closet full of WMD's. GET OVER IT!! The last time we used one? Was back in WW2 for crying in the sink! Granted we could have turned large sections of the middle east into a walmart parking lot...but we choose to have more restrint, and currently do our best to avoid innocent's getting in the crossfire. Yes it does and will happen! But we've got 2,500 dead soldiers..and we could have had ZERO if we just nucked the area.

As for Chem Warfare? Give me a break.. While we search for the garbage that our enemys could use against us? We prepare shots...medical planning..vacinate soldiers.. All using research we've garnered from chem weapons. It's research! Not Weapons! There is not an ounce of chem weapon's in the US's bag of tricks...and there will never be. Research Research Research..and not using AirHead America or some commie that mananged to get in print.

I did the math..The current world threat? It's not from the US by a long shot..Unless you are a terrorist...then just stay put..we'll get to you in good time.

Currently the biggest threat is the Islamic Terror groups that have a pure lust for death and destruction. Canada just broke up a cell that had tons more material for a 'home made' bomb that would have made the Federal building in OK look like a fire cracker.

These looneys can be anywhere...living in YOUR community! And they can be ordered to set off bombs in a heartbeat.

So give it a rest with the "Gee look how bad the USA is..." When it's crunch time? Look at who comes to the rescue!

Good lord'n butter....what I would'ent give to have a mass meeting with teachers and tell 'em not to re-write history in their own demented fashion.

As Foamy the great would say?

I'm DONE

Posted by: Capt Scuttle at June 28, 2006 09:03 PM


In response to a number of comments:

KUWAIT was invaded by Iraq AFTER Hussein was given the green light by US ambassador April Gillespie. Old Saddam didn't do much of anything without US approval (if you need to know just how quickly the US can turn on its 'allies', just ask former CIA stooge Manuel Noreiga). Gulf War I was necessary to provide the congressional military industrial complex with justification for continued military build-ups, which were threatened by the collapse of the Soviet Union - the so-called 'peace dividend'.

Hussein was only able to use CHEMICAL WEAPONS on the Kurds because the US supplied him with them. He used them against Iran, too, but you never hear a peep about it because Iran is our mortal enemy. Why? Because we installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran after democratically elected Prime Minister Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh and the Iranian parliment voted to nationalize oil.

Under the Shah, oil money was siphoned off by the elite and the people suffered horribly under a brutal dicatator and the SAVAK, the CIA backed Iranian secret police. The rein of terror was such that the Iranian people overthrew the government, with the Ayatollah rising to power as a backlash against western intervention. When the Shah, hiding in Egypt, was admitted to the US for medical treatment, Iran demanded his extradition for trial for crimes against humanity. When the US refused, Iranian students following direction from religious leaders seized the US embassy and took hostages. The Iran-Iraq War was our 'revenge' for this act, and we supplied Hussein with all kinds of nasties in order to perform these duties (see http://www.freace.de/pix/Rumsfeld-Hussein.jpg).

MEXICO has little oil infrastructre and is securely in our sphere of influence. The middle east is up for grabs and the real adversary is China. If we control the oil, we can throttle China, or so the thinking goes ...

As for 9/11, that was simply a response to US actions. Bin Laden was funded, armed and trained by the US to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. We left that country a smoking ruin, completely without aid or assistance after 10 years of a war that we sponsored. When we repeated the action in Iraq with sanctions, weekly bombings and so on for ten years while millions of Iraqis including an estimated 500,000 children died of disease, maluntrition and contamination from depleted uranium munitions, we gave Bin Laden (and many others as well) justification for their actions.

As for TOTAL WAR, it is against the Geneva Conventin and the ideals that we as Americans are supposed to hold dear. The convention is clear, no targeting of civilians, civilian infrastructure, etc. Yet this hasn't prevented the US from specifically targeting population centers, water treatment facilities, power plants, etc. at any time since 1941. Doolittle's Tokyo Raid was a clear violation of international law. The only reason the US hasn't been held accountable for such actions is that so far, we have been the winner in these conflicts.

As for NAZI GERMANY, I suggest you consider Dr. Lawrence Britt's 14 Characteristics of Fascism at http://www.veteransforpeace.org/The_14_characteristics_030303.htm and decide for yourself how many of them apply to the US today.

Posted by: Noah at June 28, 2006 08:21 PM


And I thought it was just your puppet admninistration that was nuts.

Listen to yourselves: hate, anger, insecurity, bombs, death war. What a sad, fearful world you must live in. It must be terrible thinking your neighbour is either a 'commie' a 'facist', a 'terrorist' or a 'homo'.

Such a blinkered, ignorant view of the world.

Like a petulant child.

So predictable and frankly... boring.

Like I said - make an effort to actually read some history - not the garbage that is shovelled down your necks by your own government and the fundys on the box.

Revisionist? Umm.... I don't think so. Read some Euro history... Oh.... and the US government knew that Japan were about to surrender fool.

Finally... Why is it if the US is sooo good - that you always get caught with your pants down? Easy: You are too predictable. Always have been always will be.

You wouldn't know good strategy if it bit you on the butt.

I feel sorry for the good people in your country.

You don't even treat your own vets with respect.

Posted by: Vel Mori at June 28, 2006 07:52 PM


You people are truly psychotic. And I thought it was just your puppet admninistration.

Listen to yourselves: hate, anger, insecurity, bombs, death war. What a sad, fearful world you must live in. It must be terrible thinking your neighbour is either a 'commie' a 'facist', a 'terrorist' or a 'homo'.

Such a blinkered, ignorant view of the world.

Like a petulant child.

So predictable and frankly... boring.

Like I said - make an effort to actually read some history - not the shit that is shovelled down your necks by your own government.

Revisionist? Umm.... I don't think so. You maybe.

Oh and finally? Why is it if the US is sooo good - that you always get caught with your pants down? Easy: You are too predicatable.

Wouldn't know good styrategy if it bit you on the ass.

I feel sorry for the good people in your country.

You don't even treat your own vets with respect.

Posted by: Vel Mori at June 28, 2006 07:49 PM


Wow, if I wasn't an apathetic Gen X'er I would be really upset by this.

I guess since I live in Los Angeles I don't really care if the Dakotas get blown up.

Gee.... I sure wish I cared more... if I did I'd probably even vote.

Posted by: TVWife at June 28, 2006 06:11 PM


No, really, how come the OSI does not have their own TV show? CSI, JAG, NCIS have their own TV shows. Oops my bad, the raped female Academy cadets, the UFOs, missing the 9-11 terror plan all together and now the Terror Clowns. Like Avis they try harder but it still does not help. Please pray for them America!

Posted by: Jaye at June 28, 2006 06:07 PM


I chased these jerks around the Oscar flight at MAFB back in 1985. They claimed they were verifing the location...like we would move them LOL

Posted by: Chris Loomis at June 28, 2006 11:45 AM


The title of the article is rather stupid. They did nothing to the missile nor the warheads. This groups has played these assinine games over the years performing the same moronic acts.

Back in the 80's Danny Boy Rather was there with his 60 Minutes cameras rolling and made every effort to distort and to demean the security teams.

Posted by: AF SP at June 28, 2006 10:19 AM


Where is Barbra Streisand? She a fucking Clown!

Posted by: Tommyboy-Killroy at June 28, 2006 10:04 AM


Class A Misdemeanors??? For breaking into and damaging our NUCLEAR SITE???

Posted by: Defiant Infidel at June 28, 2006 08:12 AM


Where are the clowns...send in the clowns

Posted by: Andrew Thøgersen at June 28, 2006 07:37 AM


Talk about phoning in your protest. Unmanned Minuteman missiles (once totaling 1000, now like 500-550) have protected the US (since '60's) during the Cold War, preventing an in your face Hot War with USSR or China. In a way, protecting the rights of these nitwits to comment/protest things in our society they don't like. But, break the law, pay the piper. Hope they get a $1000 fine and a 30 day timeout. I repaired electro-mech systems on on similar missiles in South Dakota '76-80.

Posted by: Bill Barker at June 28, 2006 07:03 AM


Quote: It only makes sense: there was no carpet bombing, urban warfare, biological or chemical warfare until the 20th century.

In addition to the comments made earlier. You might want to check out the Sack of Magdeburg during the 30 Years War (in the 17th Century). An estimated 20,000 people were killed and only 400 inhabitants survived.

Just because the Armies had to do it the old fashioned, muscle powered way doesn't mean that they couldn't wipe out entire cities.

Alos as these armies tended to "Live of the Land" they might not have killed the opposing countires farmers(unlikely but, you never know). They did make sure that they had no food...

Posted by: Brit at June 28, 2006 02:41 AM


If somebody hurts you,you naturaly expect the police to do something about it(right)!Nuclear weapons are the United States of America's international police force.Unless the clown's/nuts don't mind getting killed!

Posted by: Torrey at June 28, 2006 12:21 AM


Thus saith the Lord who is not a pacifist liberal: "24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the desert where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it. 25 Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai. 26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed all who lived in Ai. 27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the LORD had instructed Joshua.

Does this sound like a pacifist? I think not. And how about this from the New Testament: 34"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. "

Jesus comes with a sword and destroys the liberal visions of him coming with a daisy, speaking with a lisp like an effiminate pacifist. Jesus had no time for liberalism. I have done extensive studying on this topic. Jesus is more and more portrayed as the leader of a group of homosexual wimps.

Jesus was not a wimp and he had only condemnation for sodomites. This is his words: "26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

There it is, in the Bible, homosexuality is a perversion.

May God keep our soldiers safe and keep our nation from making marriage a perversion between men and men or women and women.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. Jon Mark Vermilion at June 27, 2006 11:57 PM


Canadian Beer Sucks!

Posted by: Boris at June 27, 2006 11:49 PM


The Air Force is getting soft. I've met Navy officers that personally had to eat pavement just for stepping over the white line painted on the tarmac of an Air Force Base. "On the ground NOW, sir."

It takes a total idiot to believe we were wrong to ever use atomic bombs against Japan in WW2. There was an arms race, with the operative word being "race".

German Jewish scientists were working on it for Hitler. They had to convince Einstein to convince U.S. leadership that this was a threat. (We have the letter.) It's arrogant to think the U.S. did the whole science in 2 years. These scientists merely came to the U.S. and continued their work. They came here and Germany's nuclear materials were sent to Japan by submarine as the Allied forces closed in on Berlin.

YES. Japan was investigating high-tech weapons, including focused microwave transmissions (primitive death ray) and nuclear fission.

We chose to win. If Germany or Japan developed the bomb first, history would read differently.

Study some historical facts before repeating what the idiot standing next to you says. It's like listening to Al Gore or an ex-wife. If you don't know what you are talking about, please STFU and go read a book.

Posted by: Johnboy at June 27, 2006 11:48 PM


I thought the anti-nuke crowd disappeared with Bush I's presidency. Never heard from them in the 90s. I guess making a fool of yourself is the best they can do at this point. Come a long way from "Hell No, We Won't Go." Still, realistically, if the 100+ ton silo door can stop a Soviet warhead, then I'm sure it can stand up to a couple dorks trying to get attention. Your best bet is to ignore them completely.

As for the "We're at war!" comment-drop that nonsense right now. No one seems to understand this, but the truth is we're not at war. At best, this is a Police Action. Sound familiar? To be a real war you would need a declaration of war from Congress, but they haven't done that in nearly 65 years. If a real war were to be declared then the government would be able to pretty much do whatever they wish. Civil rights go by the wayside and the machinery of the nation is geared to the war. But we're not at war, so that argument collapses.

Enjoy-Polarbear

Posted by: Polarbear at June 27, 2006 11:41 PM


US media may indicate that Russia has more 'nukes' but the truth shall set a few of you free. Russia has no money for weapons or anything else. They're broke. Their previous stock of weapons are very dated. The US is the only country that has been able to afford weopons development on any grand scale, and believe me, they have put their money to work, intimidating the rest of the world - particularly countries with the almighty OIL.

Posted by: Canadiana at June 27, 2006 11:37 PM


I can only laugh these bozo's break into a nuke silo. They probably got exposed to a lot of nuetrons, alphas and electrons... Hopefully when they get cancer for the exposure they won't come crying to the taxpayer for therapy. Hopefully they allow them to wear their costumes in jail, I'm sure that will keep up morale.

Posted by: rick in missouri at June 27, 2006 11:36 PM


BE ACCURATE RUSSIA HAS THE MOST NUKES. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT CHEMICALS.

Posted by: Ed Petts at June 27, 2006 11:28 PM


GO AARON GO

Posted by: Ed Petts at June 27, 2006 11:26 PM


The wordl's superpower is? USA
The country with the most nuclear weapons? USA
With the most chemical weapons? USA
etc., etc.

Who poses the greatest threat to humanity?
DO THE MATH.

Go clowns go!

Posted by: Canadiana at June 27, 2006 11:26 PM


Hey, I read this thing and couldn't help but wonder where the guards were in the first place. Kinda ridiculous that freaks have this kind of access to nukes. And as for the idiot who said that "America is a war crime", let me tell you this. Many of my family members were in WW2 and believe me,the ones who fought against the Japanese lost thier best friends while they were fighting on Guadalcanal and Okinowa and were more than willing to use those A-bombs to prevent the million plus casualties it would have taken to invade Japan. So if you think that you got your freedoms (speech impaticular) for free, then just keep yapping. I may only be 17 years old but I know what freedom costs. I am also proud to say that I will be enlisting in the Marines soon to continue supporting this great country. Hoorah!

Posted by: Aaron Newman at June 27, 2006 11:24 PM


I totally agree with you Jim. And your right. They will no doubt blame President Bush.

Posted by: Ed Petts at June 27, 2006 11:24 PM


Clowns is the correct name ... the punishment is not enough ... are we not at "war"? This should be seen as a "war" offense and the punishment should see them in a FEDERAL facility ...

However, with the weakness of the American public towards its emenies - no doubt the local media of that area will blame it all on Bush ...

Jim

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2006 11:22 PM


You should be very proud of your dad Dave. I know I am.

Posted by: Ed Petts at June 27, 2006 11:22 PM


Is anyone else concerned that a bunch of schmucks with a pair of bolt cutters can get access to a nuclear missile silo?

Posted by: Mr Burns at June 27, 2006 11:22 PM


They may have just been clowning around, but they did break the access lock.

Posted by: Ed Petts at June 27, 2006 11:20 PM


My dad flew B-29s over Japan. Made 28 bombing runs. The majority of the crews were shot down. Dad was lucky. His crew survived.
The brass had a very hard time deciding how to invade the Japanese mainland. After Okinawa, the U.S. casualty estimates were set to over a million for the invasion. The Japanese casualty toll would be five to ten times higher. The concept of a blockade, bombing and starvation was also considered. It is quite likely that the use of the atomic bomb greatly reduced Japanese casualties by forcing an early end to the conflict.

Posted by: Dave at June 27, 2006 11:19 PM


These guys were just "clowning" around. Go easy on them. Besides, the nuke blast door weighs around ten tons, so they didn't do any harm. Besides, it keeps those Air Force SP's on their toes.

Posted by: Lock & Load at June 27, 2006 11:18 PM


themayos@cmaaccess.com Couldn't have said it better.

Posted by: Ed Petts at June 27, 2006 11:16 PM


All protestors are stupid. These guys are just the cream of the crop.

Voting matters. Killing people matters. Protesting does not matter. It is as simple as that.

Before anyone jumps on me, btw, I think guys like ProtestWarriors, the pro-life picketers, etc., are idiots too.

Posted by: Jon Thompson at June 27, 2006 11:15 PM


I think they should go hard on the clowns. They damaged access to the missle which requires constant care. Not only to keep it ready but keep it from deterating and maby going critical. They could have put all the people in the area at risk. What a stupid thing to do. Nukes are here to stay. They are not going anywhere. It's not realistic. Like it or not, this is just the way it is.

Posted by: Ed Petts at June 27, 2006 11:13 PM


You stupid sonzabeaches just don't get it do you? Was developing nukes wrong? It's no different than developing any other weapon that kills people and breaks things. It's just more bang for the buck which means less of our boys dead. Is that wrong? Even if you believe it was, would you rather that Germany or Japan developed it first? They were trying like hell, you know. Would you want N. Korea or Iran to get the bomb? Then move there you bast*rds.

Posted by: themayos@cmaaccess.com at June 27, 2006 11:05 PM


Proves it: I always thought clowns were bastards. They should die horrible deaths, along with mimes and Amway dealers.

Posted by: Klaus Wosuna at June 27, 2006 10:56 PM


The clowns should have been shot on the spot.Their activites threaten all of us and will encourage more of it with possible far worse results (if certain weapons are in the possession of the clowns).

Posted by: Cal Chisholm at June 27, 2006 10:54 PM


As I sit back and read some of the really (have to find the right words) Lame (that covers it) comments in support of this trash? Like below:

"America is not a nation, it is a war crime, since James Town... no, since Columbus...

The USA is an ecocidal and genocidal entity, a collective psychopathy. Protesting plans and tactics for nuking people is the lords work.

Blessed are the peacemakers...\"

Here's someone that has such a seathing hate for the U.S. that I'm frankly surprised his/her head does not explode! I've seen maps of the countries that are the worst "spew spitting" greenhouse gases...and it's NOT the U.S. (quite easy to research...provided you use a link not provided by air-head america).

And the remark about us commiting genocide? Where in the world do you get such highly stupid ideas? If it was not for the U.S. and its allies in WW2 it's a safe bet we would all be speaking German!

I'm not sure what history book you've been reading.. but it's clearly distorted reality. Japan's history in WW2 used to be very well known. Thankfully in todays world we get along quite well and are 'friends' as countries go. genocide....sure...... Keep on smoking that peace pipe.... Thankfully nut jobs who think that crap will never get power in the U.S. Very slim...VERY slim minority of people have been totally brainwashed into this "re-writing" of history.. Kinda like Circus Freaks on display. When they speak thier foolish nonsense? The sane ones that have a full understanding of history get a good laugh out of how amazing ignorance can be...Also how great the U.S. is for allowing freedom of speach.

That way when you make stupid comments? Go For It. Just proves how demented and out of touch from reality ya really are.

As Foamy would say? I'm done! (if ya don't know who Foamy is? yahoo search it)

Posted by: Capt Scuttle at June 27, 2006 10:54 PM


The clowns should have been shot on the spot.Their activites threaten all of us and will encourage more of it with possible far worse results (if certain weapons are in the possession of the clowns).

Posted by: Cal Chisholm at June 27, 2006 10:53 PM


Clowns scare me remember poltergist?

Posted by: bill at June 27, 2006 10:51 PM


they left their blood on the missile lid? what perfect evidence for the prosecution! of course guess the defense attorneys can always claim that vampires stole their clients' blood and planted it at the scene of the crime..........

Posted by: donna joyce at June 27, 2006 10:49 PM


Who took the picture, I wonder?

Posted by: Norm at June 27, 2006 10:46 PM


"Only the trailer park people suffer the sacrifice of this war while the rest of us drink a beer and cheer them on from afar."

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2006 07:36 PM

Jim you are the kind of people that I can do with out! You talk down about something you will never know about. Duty, Honor, Country, how many flags have you burned today? This nations armed forces are not to defined by where they live or how they live, but how they serve ungratefull morons like you. My father who was in germany was being transfered to the pacific for the invasion of Japan. After fighting all the way across europe, going to the pacific for yet another invasion. He was very happy for the nukes dropped on Japan.
Not all of us the protect your ass "Jim" live in trailer parks, and some of us have been making sure you can drink your beer and watch ESPN in peace for several years now.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can read this in English, thank a veteran

SGT Red

Posted by: Red at June 27, 2006 10:46 PM


to Robert, who was confused:

"you have made My Father's house into a den of thieves."

oh. and then He smote them. that's right. righteous anger has it's place.

Posted by: purelytorobert... at June 27, 2006 10:45 PM


It's easy to be a radical activist as they react on unstable emotions versus using some intellectual discernment.How soon do we forget the 911 attacks and how that was the turning point to begin a world clean up of terrorist cells.One can only imagine how out of hand it would have been had Sadam and Bin Laden remained the forces they once were. God Bless America Scott Redding, California

Posted by: scott at June 27, 2006 10:36 PM


Great protest...

America is not a nation, it is a war crime, since James Town... no, since Columbus...

The USA is an ecocidal and genocidal entity, a collective psychopathy. Protesting plans and tactics for nuking people is the lords work.

Blessed are the peacemakers...

Posted by: PieceNik at June 27, 2006 10:33 PM


Surely heads will roll for allowing such a breach of security....this needs to be, hopefully, a wake-up call across the country for beefing up security at all our missile sites....but,and as I recall out in CA, if you are driving close to a military base there are signs posted to Keep out or be Shot, so are the missile sites less important,...hmmm?

Posted by: Carolyn at June 27, 2006 10:32 PM


Mr. Vermillion's comment confuses me. What in the Bible suggests that Jesus was anything but a pacifist who advocated poverty and non-violence?

Posted by: Robert at June 27, 2006 10:29 PM


These Clintonista -global-Gore- warming commie clowns are America's fundamentalist liberal facsists acting out their own subversive jihad against America. Just like their radical Islamic terrorist counterparts in the Moslem world. The day will come when they will be dealt with by the true patriots who see them for the ememy they are.

Posted by: Wake Up America at June 27, 2006 10:23 PM


The scary part of this prank is that they were not instantly killed and hung out like hunting trophies. The security really sucks. Minds like their's will cause us to loose our country.

Posted by: Jerry H. at June 27, 2006 10:23 PM


Why weren't they Shot?

Posted by: Mike at June 27, 2006 10:06 PM


While the scripture may have been misquoted I fully agree that the portrait painted of Jesus Christ as a weak pacifist is a product of liberal imaginations. I have no doubt that Jesus would want the united states to continue to keep the world safe from godless islamists and communists.

We need to pray for our military and not undermine its efforts. In a time of war liberals need to reign in their natural tendencie to hate America and the things of God.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. Jon Mark Vermilion at June 27, 2006 09:59 PM


I suggest they visit North Korea and try their routine on the Taepo Dong 2 missile and see how far they get.

Then they can bend over and kiss the ground here and be grateful they live here and not there.

Posted by: Bob Stackhouse at June 27, 2006 09:56 PM


wow 1st off how the hell did these commie bastards get that close to a minute man anyway? but yea damn hippies, sure they ate some gravel lol

Posted by: LT Johnson at June 27, 2006 09:56 PM


What a Joke. There should have been absolutely no reason those fools were able ot infiltrate an american nuclear missle area. National security should have had them silenced before they were able to execute their mission. This was ment as an example for others to follow, showing weakness and making a mockery out of our entire national defence ability. As an act of treason these jokers must face the complete penality. not only should they be tried, but the defence forces should take this obscene infiltration as a complete failure to defend america

- A concerned american,
Colt Wright

Posted by: Colt Wright at June 27, 2006 09:53 PM


How the hell could a bunch of "clowns" get that close to a nuke in the first place. Maybe a review of security is necessary.

Posted by: j. glynn at June 27, 2006 09:43 PM


Mark's stunning ignorance re Japanese industry in WW2 is almost stunning--but ignorance is so endemic that it is regarded as "normal", now, isn't it?

The Japanese war effort included home shops where their weapons of war were made. That is why cities were targeted.

The world is a mystery when you don't know sweet fanny about history.

Posted by: jd at June 27, 2006 09:41 PM


While I can smile at this effort at 'civil disobedience' I have to marvel just how far off base people have gone with the concept of protesting.

you alienate more people than you educate with idiotic stunts like this.

Posted by: Gnome^ at June 27, 2006 09:40 PM


Japan was an innocent foal, and the U.S.A. was an angry and mean spirited Godzilla, huh?

I bet you read that in a history book right next to Heather Has Two Mommies, in the open-minded part of the library.

I can appreciate the clowns' work, at least they payed the statutory price for civil disobedience. You won't ever see the world other than lacking the perfect peace you think it needs.

I can point you over to some welcoming islamo-fascists who will happily agree with you and others about how evil Bush is. They will just love your peaceful entreaties.

When they giggle, that is their custom for expressing their love for you. Please, we do not deserve their love. You go on without us.

Posted by: Craigicus at June 27, 2006 09:36 PM


just a few words here.......ok enough words....they are idiots....

Posted by: matt at June 27, 2006 09:33 PM


It would have been justified to nuke Japanese military facilities in WWII, but to nuke a strictly civilian population is no more justified than killing innocent civilians in the USA just to teach Bush a lesson for being a blood thirsty, evil, unpatriotic, liar, hypocrite who kills in the name of Jesus.

Posted by: Mark at June 27, 2006 09:24 PM


Bet, You said "The World used to be called the garden of eden before George W. Bush became President."? Bet, pass the pipe. I think you've had enough! The Garden of Eden was 10,000 years ago. Have you ever heard of Joseph Stalin, Hitler, Popot & The Ho Chi minh trail, Totalitarianism, Terrorism, Nazisiam, Fascism, Asian Tsunami, Katrina and Darfur. That's just off the top of my head. Please don't get me started. If cancer were cured today Morons like you would blame Bush for putting Doctors out of work. Please, I'm begging you, Stop being an Idiot. Unless you really believe the planet (Earth) was The Garden of Eden before G.W. Bush became President. I'm an American first. Politics come a very far 2nd place to me.

Posted by: Tommyboy-Killroy at June 27, 2006 09:24 PM


I guess these morons thought the only Japanese civilians killed during WWII were killed by atomic bombs. Maybe it isn't their fault they don't know about the intensive firebombing campaign waged against the cities of Japan. Maybe they think those killed in a nuclear detonation are somehow deader or more tragic than those killed in a firestorm.
They didn't realize how appropriate the clown suits were.

Posted by: Dan Roll at June 27, 2006 09:18 PM


Charity begins at home, so perhaps those priests should try to keep their hands off little children and stop protecting predators within the clergy. Regarding WWII, its seems to me that the Pope did not do much to prevent any of the atrocities of the Axis powers. Currently the church barely spends any money in developing places like Africa and South America where War, Famine, AIDS and Marlaria kill FAR more than nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Kevin Schooler at June 27, 2006 09:14 PM


Can we ship these clowns to Iran or North Korea?
I'm sure their views on ALL nuclear weapons and attempts to disable them all will be well received. Does anyone remember the "peace activists" who went to Iraq to prevent the U.S. from Desert Storm (also known as the human shields)? Notice they haven't gone back to Iraq since. Instead of protesting in the U.S. why don't they protest in Tikrit, Baghdad, Tehran, or North Korea? Especially if the U.S. were to pull military support against the aggressors, peace activists would be the ideal replacements to "keep the peace".

Posted by: Calvin Hobbes at June 27, 2006 09:12 PM


I did believe at one time that "liberals" who wanted to save the world might have a legitimate reason. Recently it has dawned on me that most people in this country dont have enough sense to locate their right cheek with both hands. It shows in their thoughts and speech. As for the comment on Japan being ready for peace, I say crap. If they had any idea of peace they would have said so after the first bomb. You read your history from another "liberal", it is not true. The Japanese people were fanatical like the muslems in Iran/Iraq. Whether you know it or not we have been at war for many years with the muslem brotherhood. It started when a muslem group tied to the former PLA front man killed innocent olympic athletes. Since then they have taken over sovern property of the U.S.A. (embassy), blown up our ships and killed innocent americans, tried to gas our people, tried to blow up the twin towers, etc etc etc. The only difference between then and now is that we have someone in office that has a pair. You cannot let an individual, or an individual country cause you the type of grief that has happened to our brothers and sisters at the hands of Muslem thugs. I have read the Koran and I know what it says about the infidels ( christians, buddasts, any religion that is not islam)There is an old Chineese proverb that says "do not speak and you will be thought of as a fool, speak and you will remove all doubt". This advice should be followed by many of my fellow americans. This country was built by men and women who had grit and understood that sometimes you have to kill the bear that is about to eat you. Our country is full of cry baby, sissies, and wimps who cry at every broken fingernail. That is why we are in the trouble we are in right now. Not from enemies from without but from the enemies within. I will still fight and die for you because you are my brothers and sisters but I really wish you would shut up that ignorant crap. Thank you. Gnaw Bone

Posted by: Gnaw bone at June 27, 2006 09:09 PM


To Desert Coastie at June 27, 2006 08:46 PM:
Did you know anyone that served in WII? I knew several. One in particular, my dad, was a decorated Marine in the Pacific Theater. (That means he kicked a lot of ass for all you pussies out there). In spite of what you may think asshole, we did not start the war, no matter who we did business (Japs, Germans, el atal) with prior to WWII. The Japs civilians got what they deserved. (Remember what Sherman did to the Southern civilians) War is hell motherfucker. However, I digress. Back to the point of my dad. They were moving very close to the invasion on the Japanese mainland. The Japs were dragging their feet on a surrender because of "terms". More Marines were going to die. So, NUKE THE FUCKERS. Peace through SUPERIOR FIREPOWER! One American Marine is worth 500K Jap civilians under the circumstances. The discrace is they have to die for ungrateful fucks like you.

Posted by: Bonedaddy at June 27, 2006 09:06 PM


Idoit is spelled Idiot, Idiot.
Anyway, these three clowns should have been shot.

Posted by: Russ at June 27, 2006 09:05 PM


In the good old days, when I was guarding America's stock of nuclear guardians of all our freedoms, I helped to bury more than a few "peace-loving" "protester's" in the areas near the silos. Most are probably dead by now. They got more than the good old government issue size 13's up their asses.

And for those of you quoting those "peace-loving" "thinkers" and "philosophers" I want to let you know that none of that crap is any use in a foxhole. In a foxhole you will be crying for a nuke and some real men in our military's proud uniform. You will then be quoting the God who made America famous, Jesus Christ, when he said "You wilt take and eye for an eye and killeth the heathen thateth killeth thee".

E Pluribus Uno! Sci Fi!

Posted by: A Patriot Guardian at June 27, 2006 09:05 PM


Speaking as a liberal, please stop saying that liberalism is equivalent to communism (or, for that matter, homosexuality). In most democracies, the liberal party is the right-leaning one, in contrast to a socialist one (see: Britain, Germany, Italy, France, et al.). Most of my liberal friends agree that the army is necessary, that Western Europe survived the Soviets because of our military strength, that defeating Japan and Germany was a good thing, that one should stand up against fascism, and that the bill of rights (even the second amendment) should be protected.

Don't confuse the actions of a couple of jokers (in this case, literally) with the attitudes of the vast majority of your countrymen.

I read through the comments posted thus far, and didn't see anyone saying in a restrained tone that perhaps the country should re-eveluate the size of the nuclear deterrence force necessary. Which seems to be the only question. Perhaps we should follow through on the SALT treaties, now that the Russians are merely kinda nervous about us, and not even pretending that history will see us buried.

I'd like to keep the battlecruisers betweem myself and the Chinese, thanks very much.

Posted by: Bill at June 27, 2006 09:00 PM


There would've been no Hiroshima and Nagasaki if there wasn't a Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: bob avert at June 27, 2006 08:59 PM


While communism couldn't defeat capitalism through arms, it has damn near defeated us through the subversion of our educational systems and news media. The self-hating, brainwashed Americans who are spouting regurgitated leftist propaganda on this issue are enough to make a grown man weep for his country.

Posted by: Doug at June 27, 2006 08:55 PM


I don't understand why there are so many idoits out there - vel mori being the biggest one. Hindsight 20/20 maybe Japan was about to surrender, how the hell was the US supposed to know that. Yes - the atomic bombs saved thousands of American and Japanese lives, if we had invaded the island. A decision was made in the midst of a long, hard, and tiresome war. It was the right decision for the world.

I hate the fact that the world is inhabited with idoits.

Posted by: am dallas at June 27, 2006 08:53 PM


Historical revisionism lives. The Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings were absolutely the only way to forstall an invasion of the Japanese mainland. Such an invasion would have killed millions. Forced with the choice between the lesser of two evils, the US ended the war in an expeditious, even if horrific, manner. Necessary? Sadly, yes.

Posted by: Rick S. at June 27, 2006 08:53 PM


If you break the security zone of a MMIII you will be laying face down in the mud/snow/dirt by two 18 year olds with automatic weapons. This is not a osition I'd recommend for anyone. If they are been rejected my a girlfriend you may be in for a bad time.

Posted by: Nuclear Warrior at June 27, 2006 08:48 PM


The bombs that obliterated Nagasaki and Hiroshima were entirely necessary. The Japanese were NOT on the verge of surrender. Even after the first bomb fell, the Japanese did NOT surrender because they thought we only had one. After the second bomb fell, the Japanese FINALLY surrendered because they knew not how many we had.
Fortunately for us, it did not require three, or the door to door fighting you see in Baghdad today would've been hte door to door fighting in Tokyo back then. No one knows how many US soldiers and US allies would have died in a ground-based war on Tokyo.

Desert Coastie
been there done that ask me for the pics

Posted by: Desert Coastie at June 27, 2006 08:46 PM


Don't these fools watch Bugs Bunny?

What if they had set it off?

Now THAT would be comedy! (and they'd get to meet their maker)

Posted by: Infosaur at June 27, 2006 08:35 PM


As I spin in my grave ... the ignorance of the masses astounds me! In the next century, when the U.S. has fallen from within, who will shed tears for the great American experiment in Democracy. Islamists? Facists? Neo-Nazis? Drug Lords? Tin-pot Dictators? Communists?

It was a great 300 year run ...

All empires eventually fall ... pity the Iranians launched their nukes at Israel to start World War V. If only I could ride a BUFF over Teheran today ... cut out the cancer before it spreads.

Posted by: Curt LeMay at June 27, 2006 08:35 PM


The comments on this page once again highlight why the rest of the world is packing themselves about a country that lives under the lie of freedom, truth, justice and liberty for all.

The sooner the US grows up and stops playing in the sandpit, gets enough of a grip on reality to understand that life does not reflect a hollywood movie and accepts the fact that it is singularly the most aggressive nation on this earth - the quicker it can start healing the cancer that permeates it.

Two things to be clarified here:

1) It is not your role to be the world police. The rest of the world did not ask you to be.

2) The hiroshima and the nagasaki bobmbs were totally unneccessary. If you actually knew anything about history other than the sanitised versions you get taught in your schools - you'd know that the Japanese were on the verge of surrender anyway. They knew they had lost and they had the peace treaty ready to sign.

You didn't save 'millions' of lives - you tested a bomb on innocent civilians.

I suggest that you read a little more history - maybe have a look at who General Motors was supplying in the 1930's, who most newspapers on the East coast (particularly New York) were supporting in the latter 30's and early 40's - in their editorials.

And look up 1812. In 1812 the US tried and failed to invade Canada. They were roundly routed by the cannoniers and run back to the Whitehouse (which was subsequently sacked and BURNT to the ground).

Bet you aren't taught that in your schools.

Posted by: vel mori at June 27, 2006 08:33 PM


Did anyone blame George Bush for not stopping the clowns in the first place. The World used to be called the garden of eden before GWB became President.

Posted by: Bet at June 27, 2006 08:32 PM


There is something more destructive than any device anyone can conceive. Whether you choose to believe or not, it will not prevent you from coming under the wrath of God when Christ returns, which may be sooner than anyone thinks. Don't fear the ones that can destroy your body, rather fear he who can destroy body, and soul in hell for all eternity.

Posted by: Jimmy at June 27, 2006 08:22 PM


Protests, no matter how revisionist or misguided are one thing. Attacking a nuke MM3 hatch cover is an act of sabotage. There are signs all around those fences that state quite plainly "NO TRESPASSING" and "USE OF DEADLY FORCE is AUTHORIZED" I'm afraid that if I'd been sent out to see who had tripped perimter alarms and found a couple of fruitloops sledge-hammering the silo covers they would have been shot on sight. Then they could eat as much gravel as they wanted.

Posted by: MR. G at June 27, 2006 08:19 PM


Nuclear weapons are beautiful things. They are technically elegant in their design, and the closest thing to the destructive power of God we humans possess. I would like one for myself.

Posted by: Dirac_Delta at June 27, 2006 08:05 PM


Everybody knows that the use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and nagasaki caused Japan to surrender without an invasion of the Home Islands. Thus nukes saved millions of US and Japanese lives.

So these clowns are obviously warmongers who are still to this day disappointed at the lost opportunity for carnage.

Posted by: AndrewWalden at June 27, 2006 08:03 PM


"War, and especially nuclear weapons, are atrocious, and are such under all administrations."

Well, it certainly was a touch and go proposition until you pointed out the hidden truth that nuclear weapons remain the same under different administrations... As for wars, unfortunately there is no such thing as a universal state of human innocence and perfection where people aren't willing to use force to infringe upon the rights of others, and where use of force isn't justifiable to stop them.


"As a child I never understood why the nuclear bomb existed! And wished that it didn't! Can't we appreciate our own innocence as human beings and give up this righteous bully attitude?"

At some point as a child I bet you didn't understand why governments, police, military forces, societies, or even clothes existed. Your blissful immensely ignorant childhood and state of mind as a child really has no relevance to reality though. Go off and play naked in some fields while the rational thoughtful folks defend your freedoms with *gasp* use of force.

Posted by: cicero at June 27, 2006 07:55 PM


If I was on guard duty and there was a "deadly force authorized" on the fence - and I believe that is the case around nuclear weapons sites - they would have left a lot more of their blood on the silo door.

Posted by: Tom at June 27, 2006 07:54 PM


All soldiers are from trailer parks?

I went to a highschool that costs $18,000 a year to attend. We had several people from my graduating class join the Navy, Airforce, and Coast Guard out of patriotism. They certainly didn't need the cash, or live in trailer parks (they might have owned a few in their generation-skipping trusts, though).

Posted by: :) at June 27, 2006 07:52 PM


Now if we could just get the "Clowns" to do this sort of comedy in North Korea and Iran, It may just help disarm the "Axis of Evil" quicker than the Clowns at the U.N, or Hans Blix.

Posted by: Bobby Hooley at June 27, 2006 07:51 PM


Clowns banging on our nuclear weapons with hammers.

This sounds like a bad plot from an Elmer Fudd movie.

Unfortunately, this really happened.

Posted by: Lee Rudnicki at June 27, 2006 07:45 PM


I think the real clowns in this case was base security - my God, what would have happened if those guys were trained terrorists?! Now everyone in the world knows you can just walk up and muck around with our nuclear weapons stockpile.

Homeland security my &*#

Posted by: jojo@jojo.com at June 27, 2006 07:43 PM


Sonce 1945; with the 'mushroomings'of Hiroshima/Nagasaki - nuclear deterrence has worked. Despite the 'off-key' assanine shouts and hysterical rantings of the LEFT/COMMUNISTS/DEMOCRATS - more people were killed in the fire-bombings of Dresden, Hamburg, Tokyo, and Yokohama! More people were killed by the Nazis at Stalingrad and at Leningrad! An epic and futile act - beating on the doors of a missile silo with hammers! Where will these 'clowns' run and who will they hope protects them - when and if NKOREA/CHINA launches missiles at us? They should pray that our silos duscharge our weapons promptly and efficiently!
Zyskandar A. Jaimot, Orlando, Fl.

Posted by: Zyskandar A. Jaimot at June 27, 2006 07:41 PM


I heard that the clowns were only called in after the mimes failed to get through the fence.

Posted by: Mr. Neurotic at June 27, 2006 07:41 PM


There's another clown out there trying to stop nuclear proliferation by using the same silly ineffective methods as these guys. The only difference is that these guys are fake and Bush is the real clown. Who else but a real-life clown would invade a country with no WMD's but let dangerously wacky countries who openly admit having WMD's get a free ride? I openly wonder what were the real reasons for the Iraq war?

The other evening I saw a TV program about 3 returning US Army Iraq veterans. Everyone of them, bless their hearts, lived in different trailer parks with their wives and kids. Two soldiers were physically unhurt but had adjustment problems and one was severely wounded and no longer had a handsome face. These guys are typical of the American citizen soldiers who are fighting in Iraq.

If the Iraq war was necessary in order to fight the war on terror, as the supporters claim, then why aren’t there masses of flag waving young men from America’s middle and upper classes lining up at military recruiting offices?

Currently the only way to meet recruitment quotas is for the military to lower the recruit’s education requirements and increase the age level. My heart goes out to the person who risks his personal mental and physical well being to fight in Iraq for the money and benefits that he cannot possibly hope to earn in the civilian workplace.

Only the trailer park people suffer the sacrifice of this war while the rest of us drink a beer and cheer them on from afar.

Posted by: Jim at June 27, 2006 07:36 PM


This clown act is very symbolic of the anti American media driven liberals who have aborted 40 million babies and they are actively trying to abort America with their acts of sedition and treason. Their collective Karma will get them and it wont be pretty.

Posted by: Christian at June 27, 2006 07:34 PM


These morons got no where near the "personnel access hatch". Once they broke open the outer fence they went to the hatch that's secured by a padlock,which secures the generator room. The PAH is very securly locked and even if they used explosives to open the 1st hatch,(and would set off the inner zone security alarm)which they would need if they didn't have the combination,there is still multiple layers of security to get thru to gain access to the missile itself.Like previous posters said,these facilities are designed to take a megaton detonation within a mile,you can't just show up with bolt cutters.They are lucky they didn't get shot. The AF doesn't play games around these sites. The SP's at missile bases are among the best in the AF and are very serious.

Posted by: Ex-SAC at June 27, 2006 07:34 PM


War, and especially nuclear weapons, are atrocious, and are such under all administrations. As a child I never understood why the nuclear bomb existed! And wished that it didn't! Can't we appreciate our own innocence as human beings and give up this righteous bully attitude?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 27, 2006 07:26 PM


To those who posted messages that say the military should fire whoever is in charge of "keeping clowns out of there," these sites are dispersed in rural areas throughout the plains states on private (farms and ranches) and public land. There are no armed guards needed! They have geophones that detect the footsteps of anyone stupid enough to think that encroachment is not monitored.

The silos have a fence around them which are there not to protect the damn silo, but to warn encroachers with signs, which say that if you enter the fenced area without permission, the "use of deadly force is authorized" by the U.S. govt.

The silos are are quite literally "inpenetrable" from the outside. If they are built to withstand all but a direct hit from a nuke themselves, it is difficult to think that "clowns," much less terrorist operatives can get in them. The silo doors are 10 foot thick, steel-reinforced concrete for christssake!

Posted by: Matt at June 27, 2006 07:21 PM


For those of you wondering why the nuke security was poor enough to allow 3 clowns to get so close? I say why should the government worry about the security of a 300 kT nuke when it's got domestic wiretaps, your bank records, and a competent and qualified TSA agent patting down every uniformed serviceman and grandmother in every airport across the land? In fact - the very notion that you're concerned about nuke security probably means YOU are the threat. Better get your new passport and National ID card ready...Mach Schnell!

Chuck - Former Navy Subs, Current Patriot.
San Diego

Posted by: Chuck at June 27, 2006 07:15 PM


anytime an attorney calls, it must be bad....who 'dis?...hi fred!

Posted by: Alice at June 27, 2006 07:14 PM


For all the uninformed out there, the silos are
clown proof and also terrorist proof. You can get through a fence anytime you want but a hardened steel silo structure is impossible. The Air Force Security Forces know that something theses stupid clowns obviously don't.

Posted by: dave at June 27, 2006 07:12 PM


American history shows that we cannot be defeated in a fight unless we lose our nerve or we lose our will. We have only lost those conflicts where we have withdrawn from the field of battle before we prevail, and that perseverance and that resoluteness is the one critical key to our winning this war on terror -- which, as we all know, is not going to be resolved by coming up with some politically motivated withdrawal schedule who's only real reason for being brought up by the left is so we will lose in Iraq and the left can say "See, we told you so". Nukes exist and therefore are necessary for use as, if for nothing else, a credible deterrent. I don't like war and I despise MAD but it's the world we live in - accept it.

Posted by: Greg at June 27, 2006 07:11 PM


"National Day of Apology?" Someone should tell these "clowns" (no pun intended) that had it not been for Trumans decision they won't be tolerated now, just shot. How time makes the memory and lessons of history grow dim!

Posted by: Tim at June 27, 2006 07:07 PM


If you would research your history I beleive you would find most of the commentary is regarding the totalitarian states in the 20th century.
Only a VERY ignorant person compares the current administration's military policies to the Nazi's, Soviets, and the very aggressive PRC.
Get a grip, look paste your blind hatred of GWB and see the world as it is...
We are the good guys, flawed, biased, fallible, and yet very good at what we do and how we do it.
Perfect? Hell no as we are people...
But WE are the best hope on the planet...bar none.
We put our money and our lives up front like NOBODY else ever has or ever will.

Posted by: Russ at June 27, 2006 07:06 PM


Ok, maybe it is normal to see a car or truck full of Clowns going toward a super secure Minuteman silo in ND. I really don't know, I don't live there! Thank God, they are not the "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"!

Posted by: Jaye at June 27, 2006 07:00 PM


The real crime was not the "Clowns" but the fact that they could even get that close to a 300 kiloton warhead. Open Borders, spies and traitors in every institution, unguarded nuclear warheads- Is there any security left in this Country and have we really become this stupid?

Posted by: Steve D. at June 27, 2006 06:59 PM


It's just amazing to me that this type of idiot really thing they have a clue. Thank God we dropped those bombs. My father along with millions more were waiting to be shipped from europe to participate in the invasion of japan after hanving spent three years in the service most of which was in North Africa, Italy and Germany. Who do these fools thik guard their rights but our people in the service. At what point would these idiots fight? What morons. Too bad they weren't shot, but our service people are better than that.

Posted by: Jim McDonald at June 27, 2006 06:58 PM


I doesn't matter that they could not do anything to the missile. That is not the point. The point is if three morons dressed like clowns can get near a silo, then WTF happens when someone who knows what the hell they're doing gets near one. That base commander should be demoted as well any guard on duty near the silo. Thats a disgrace and embarassment.

Posted by: Justy at June 27, 2006 06:52 PM


It would have been a lot better had Security just blown them away. Lot to be said about gene pool removal.

Posted by: Phrg34 at June 27, 2006 06:49 PM


Obviously, god pimping, pants pooping "Patriots" should be calling for Hammer Control. And the FBI should thoroly- and completely- investigate ANYONE who buys Clown Makeup. (Except whoever does the Clown in Chief before the photo ops.
Yup, the biggest threat to my liberty & life is a bunch of symbolic, self absorbed peaceniks whacking on 110 ton silo lids, as theyve been doing for- what, 30 years?
Yeah! shoot em. Beat em up.....ANYTHING but pay attention to the real threat: the hyjacking of the US by a class of professional incompetants, be they dimbulbcrat or republithug..........yes, stop the clowns! By any means nesscessary........bwaaaaahhhhh.
WHAT a bunch of sorry assed nitwits. Not THEM- the silo clowns, but YOU- you chickenhawk professional know nothings.
Mutt, RA, ca 1967, RVN 68-9.

Posted by: MUTT at June 27, 2006 06:48 PM


Mike is right, Mark is a bloviating anus.

Posted by: geraldo totobien at June 27, 2006 06:47 PM


I fail to see how this helps the anti-war crowd at all. At best, blatantly stupid acts like this, only further erode already thin credibility. Come on folks, pouring blood on a slightly dented bunker does what exactly? Fact is, most American Citizens want to protect this country, up to and including the use of 'nukular' weapons if necassary. Sorry, you silly hippies, it's just true. I hear Cuba is 'nice', feel free to renounce your citizenship and leave before you beat up any more innocent cylos.

thegrinch

Posted by: thegrinch at June 27, 2006 06:46 PM


The nukes are very well protected. There is no way that they could access the silo. The control site is far from the actual nuke. And the clowns accomplished their mission - publicity.

Posted by: No One at June 27, 2006 06:46 PM


Well, those who would have fun will pay the piper.

Posted by: Sixseven check at June 27, 2006 06:45 PM


Priests should stick to what they know best, molesting children...

Posted by: Mike at June 27, 2006 06:39 PM


The headline to this article is extremely misleading. It isn't even possible for these clowns to "sabotage" anything on that site. They defaced a blast door with grafitti, at worst, but nothing was sabotaged.

Posted by: Jon at June 27, 2006 06:37 PM


HA HA HA - Oh I haven't laughed so hard in a while. And less at the clowns and more at the Big As A Silo Ego self-identified Military Experts who seem to have, as usual, missed the point of the whole thing.

Ah well... Irony must be one of those things those durn lib-ur-als learn themselves in those there colleges they go to.

It TRULY frightens me the lack of intelligence and global/human perspective the people in the military and government (and their blind supporters) seem to have on the whole. And that the rest of the free (reference Europe) world is simply either laughing or scratching their heads at the US "We're thing biggest dumbest kids in the school yard and we make the rules" attitude.

Posted by: Lola at June 27, 2006 06:37 PM


People who spell nuke "nuc" like to felate Tom Clancy - a hack writer who's Red Rabbit sucked worm shit.

Posted by: BOB GOATSE at June 27, 2006 06:36 PM


I think the fact that these three clowns can garner so much discussion on the subject of the morality of nuclear weapons is the real point. By any measure, their protests have succeeded.

The decision to use overwhelming force, be it nukes, firebombs, shooting a trespasser always involves tough moral and ethical tradeoffs. All the hot heads and neocons (e.g., see the poster claiming that the decision to drop bomb was worth it if even one American life was saved) appear to revel in the claim that the decision to use overwhelming force is simple, forget the fact that liberal and conservative leaders (much smarter, accomplished and experienced then they) have anguished over whether their decisions were correct.

In fact, simple calculus rarely provides one with the answer as to when overwhelming force should be used. And we all know it. The guards did not shoot the clowns on site, because very few of us (with the exception of psycopaths) would shoot them, as it violates our collective thought as to what it right.

For those posters who always express their bravado, toughness or callousness by proclaiming that they know when overwhelming force is not just acceptable, but required, I cannot help but laugh. Even in clear cut situations, such as the solider on a battle field, there exists tremendous doubts. I doubt if many of you have ever been presented with such decisions. And, if you ever were to face such a situation, I doubt you would be able to take the positons, which you so flippantly post.

Posted by: Mark at June 27, 2006 06:34 PM