perfidy

Clowns are creepy, as all thinking people agree. They wear bizarre makeup. They act strangely. They hang around retarded people and midgets. They bother sick people. Some are even fundamentalists. They represent all that is unholy - so much so that Stephen King used one in a horror story with virtually no exaggeration. I myself bought an "I Hate Clowns" tshirt to openly display my contempt and disdain for clowns. But now, on DefenseTech, we find that clowns are also anti-nuclear protestors. These clowns, in both common uses of the word, broke into and vandalized a nuclear facility.

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 three nukewatch clowns were charged with Class A misdemeanors for criminal trespass and criminal mischief, though I have to agree with commenter Defiant Infidel that those charges seem a bit light, considering they were hammering on a nuclear missile silo hatch. With a fully loaded, nuclear armed Minuteman III missile inside.