A news report on the recovery efforts at the World Trade Centers cautioned people to prepare for the "ghastly possibility that their loved ones were simply vaporized." The U.S. government knows all about that, having pioneered the mass vaporization of civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Another report discussed the plans recently discovered in Afghanistan to target American farmland with biological agents. The U.S. government knows all about that, its Army having developed that technology in the 1950s to cause mass famine in the Soviet Union and China.

As experienced by its victims, all war is terrorism, and accordingly, the U.S. government is the foremost terrorist organization in the world. And it is a leader in domestic terrorism as well through abortion, capital punishment and environmental destruction.

The U.S. government is at war. I am not, and I cannot stand by and have this terrorism waged in my name. My life and conscience belong to God and not to Caesar. Therefore as a matter of religious faith, I cannot abide by any terms of supervised release. Furthermore, as long as war, environmental destruction, abortion, and capital punishment are legal, I must, as a matter of conscience, act again outside the law whenever I am released.

"They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks." -Isaiah 2:4

"I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse: therefore choose life so that you and your children may live." -Deuteronomy 30:19

[Helen Woodson is serving an 18 year sentence for her part in the November, 1984 Silo Pruning Hooks disarmament action.]