CRANE PRUNING HOOK
Fr. Carl Kabat entered the construction site of the new nuclear bomb factory in Kansas City, Missouri at approximately 10:00 p.m. on July 3. At dawn on July 4 he had broken the cab windows of a couple of large pieces of construction equipment present there, and hung a small hand-made sign declaring “Nuclear Weapons are a Crime Against God and Humanity”. After looking about the empty construction site for someone to “make confession to,” Kabat crawled under a fence near the gate and approached a security shack outside the gate. Guards noticed him and Kabat was taken into custody and police were summoned to the site. Kabat was arrested and taken to the downtown Kansas City, Missouri jail. He was charged with trespass and released at 4 a.m. on July 5, then took a bus home to St. Louis. He is due in court again August 16. Carl’s statement is below.
I, Fr. Carl Kabat, omi, have been pondering an appropriate way to celebrate the fourth of July, commonly called Independence Day. Today it would be more appropriate to call it Interdependence Day since all of us live on this small planet Earth. To show my patriotism and love for my country and the good of my country, I have decided on a pruning hook action in Kansas City, Missouri.
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