Clowns Sabotage Nuke Missile

Noah Shachtman reports in Defense Tech that three people, one a retired Catholic priest, broke into a Minuteman missle site in North Dakota and then hammered the entry hatch and silo lid with sledge hammers.

The trio -- members of the Luck, Wisconsin group NukeWatch. -- said the break-in was part of "a call for national repentance" for the Hiroshima and Nagaski A-bombings in 1945.

They explained their outfits in their press release.

"We dress as clowns to show that humor and laughter are key elements in the struggle to transform the structures of destruction and death," the statement said.

(via McBride Media Matters)

P.S. The priest, Fr. Carl Kabat, has a history of clown-suited civil disobedience going back to at least 1994. Or maybe he just likes disobedience generally.