White House Witness: Faith and Resistance Retreat
Holy Innocents, December 29, 2005

The Massacre Continues, Our Hands are Full of Blood, There are no Innocent Bystanders.  We gather at the White House to say No to Torture and say no to warmaking.
We remember the prisoners...and try to make the human consequences of torture visible.
Attorney General Gonzales has said that "torture is whatever we define it to be."
We have with one of the banners that was carried in the march to Guantanamo.
Art Laffin, from the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker
Torture
The Park Police come over to tell us that we can't be tied to the fence.

Jerry Berrigan was reading our statement.
Jerry Berrigan, Steve Wolford, Bill Frankel-Streit, Steve Kelly, S.J., Alice Gerrard, Liz McAlister, Susan Crane, Steve Baggerly, and Art Laffin were all arrested for standing in front of the White House. (Fred Daley joined us after the photo was taken.)
The police have cleared the area, and have used yellow tape to secure the crime scene.
Closing circle in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House.