Ground the Drones...Lest We Reap the Whirlwind

In Facebook updates, Terrell wrote of authorities pelting their car with tear gas canisters, as well as the hospitality of Bahraini citizens.

But despite the violence he said he witnessed against protesters and U.S. citizens in Bahrain, Terrell said he returned with hope.

“[I’m left with] just a real hope to be in a population of all these people acting courageously,” he said. “…Even though I was very frightened, I saw people doing things that were heroic.”

Warfare is not a video game. Educate yourself and your community about the dangers of drone warfare. Check out the new publication DRONE- Resisting Sanitized Remote-Control Death written by Dennis Duvall and members of the Creech 14.

By John Dear

On Thursday, thirteen of us stood in a Las Vegas courtroom to hear the verdict from Judge Jansen regarding our September trial for trespassing on April 9, 2009, at Creech Air Force Base, headquarters of the U.S. drone operations. Last September, the judge had dramatically announced that he would need at least three months to “think” about the case.

July 27, 2010

Sentencing statements: Creech 14 verdict in the Las Vegas courtroom of Judge Jansen

Brian Terrell

Thank you for your listening, the time you took to study and your thoughtful response.

I spent three weeks in Afghanistan where I saw and witnessed the harm drones cause. I met a nine year old child who lost an arm in a drone attack

An airman at Creech wrote, “I am 7,000 miles away from the killing….I am 18 inches away from the killing.” He was referring to his proximity to seeing human beings dismembered on the video screen.

This is precisely what the drones are doing…giving an illusion of distance. We are very close to the destruction. The harm is imminent. The harm is real

The analogy is so close to the reality, it is the reality.

For Immediate Release
January 27, 2011

Contact: Jim Haber Coordinator, Nevada Desert Experience and 415-828-2506 Kathy Kelly 773-619-2418

Creech 14 Anti-drone protesters vow to continue activism following guilty verdict in Las Vegas courtroom

Las Vegas—On Thursday, January 27th, activists charged with trespass, along with their supporters, filled Judge Jansen’s courtroom to hear his verdict regarding their April, 2009 protest at Creech Air Force Base Crews at Creech control the drones used in these expanding wars, killing civilians in remote controlled assassination attacks.

In a 20-page written decision, Judge William Jansen found the fourteen guilty of trespass as charged, ruling that their defense did not meet the legal requirement of immanence for acquittal based on necessity.

By Dave Toplikar
Las Vegas Sun
Jan. 27, 2011, Creech Air Force Base

A Las Vegas judge on Thursday handed down a decision that got a mixed reaction from protesters of drone warfare who were arrested for trespassing nearly two years ago at Creech Air Force Base in Southern Nevada.

Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence spoke in Des Moines Friday July 31st about the use of drone warfare in Pakistan and Afghanistan. KELLY is one of the “ Creech 14” who will stand trial for protesting the use of drones April 9, 2009 at Creech air force base.

Peace protesters arrested at drone warfare center now face trespass charges

by JASON WHITED : JWHITED@LVCITYLIFE.COM
LasVegas City Life

An upcoming trial for activists who illegally entered Creech Air Force Base to protest the government’s use of unmanned aerial vehicles has caught the attention of United Nations officials and could have serious implications for the future of remote-controlled warfare.

In April 2009, 14 activists who had gathered here from across the country illegally entered the base’s gates and refused to leave in protest of Creech’s role as the little-known headquarters for U.S. military operations involving unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, over Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan.