From the Minot (ND) Daily News: Air Force security personnel, Mountrail County Sheriff's Department, Three Affiliated Tribes police and the FBI are investigating an incident Thursday in which a man jumped the fence of a Minuteman III launch site near Parshall.
According to the Minot Air Force Base Public Affairs office, 91st Missile Wing security forces personnel responded to an activated alarm at H-8 missile silo, located south of Parshall, and detained a man identified by the Mountrail County Sheriff's Department as James Richard Sauder of San Antonio. The suspect was later handed over to the sheriff's department who transferred him to the Mountrail County Jail in Stanley....In a telephone call to The Minot Daily News from the missile site, the man identified himself as Richard Sauder, of Texas, and said he chose missile site H-8 at random to make his protest. He claimed he was not armed and said that his demonstration was a peaceful one meant to draw attention to the danger nuclear weapons pose to the world and to the general public in the vicinities in which they are kept.
He made reference to being affiliated or in agreement with the "White Rose Movement."
Sauder placed his call around 9:15 a.m. He said he had been at the missile site for about a half-hour and had cut his hand crawling over the fence. Personnel from Minot Air Force Base evidently then arrived at the site and The Minot Daily News ended the conversation, advising the man to put his hands in the air and surrender. http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/538506.html?nav=5010
So, we have another liberal who decided to go out in the middle of now where and plop his butt around a missile silo in Minot, ND, Minot ND? I was stationed in Minot when I was in the Air Force and I drove by the missiles silos all the time. The silos are in the middle of nowhere and this guy wants publicity? And he calls the Minot Daily News?
Then he gets cut getting into the silo area. When I was stationed there, the alarms were constantly going off. Rabbits, deer and other assorted animals set off the alarms and when I talked to the Officers who worked there, they rarely had an injured animal on the grounds.
And so, what did he accomplish? He could never enter the silos, so he walked around in the middle of nowhere, waiting to be arrested. And he gets to talk to the Minot Daily News. Umm, ok. So, what did he accomplish? Not a hell of a lot.
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