Plowshares Nuns Hear From Colorado US Attorney's Office

The US Attorney for the District of Colorado's Response (1/30/07) to the probation department's motion regarding supervised release for Dominican Sisters Ardeth Platte, Carol Gilbert, and Jackie Hudson.

"On January 3, 2007, Senior Probation Officer Gary Phillips submitted a
Proposed Petition on Supervised Release asking the Court to order the unsuccessful
termination of the defendants’ supervised release for reasons outlined in an attachment
to the petitions. The Probation Department has described the defendants’ provocative,
blatant violations of supervised release utilized as a forum to espouse their political
beliefs and asks the termination of the defendants’ supervised release in order to better
allocate the probation department’s resources. ".....

" The defendants, here, have no intention of being rehabilitated as they never have, and
never will, acknowledge the criminality of their conduct."....

The question remains: who are the criminals here? Those who threaten to use and use nuclear weapons? Those who defend them? Or those who defend life? In Mark's Gospel, Jesus asks: Is it right to do good, or to do evil..? To save life or destroy it?