Nuns Sentenced to Prison for Anti-War Protest

Calling them "dangerously irresponsible," a federal judge sentenced three nuns to at least 21/2 years in prison Friday for vandalizing a nuclear missile silo during an anti-war protest last fall.

Hudson, 68, Gilbert, 55, and Platte, 66, were convicted in April of obstructing the national defense and damaging government property.

The Roman Catholic nuns cut a fence and walked onto a Minuteman III silo site in northeastern Colorado last October, pounding the silo with hammers and painting a cross on it with their blood. Officials said they caused at least $1,000 in damage.

On Friday, the defense asked the judge for leniency, saying even prosecution witnesses agreed the nuns did not harm the national defense.

Of course, this was big, big, news on Fox. Take that, you commie-nuns - EL