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Priest, Quaker arrested at border

by Associated Press (August 7th, 2009 @ 6:28am)

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TUCSON, Ariz. - Arizona authorities say they've arrested a Franciscan priest and a Quaker near the U.S.-Mexico border after they refused to stop praying at a construction site for a virtual border fence.

Pima County Sheriff's spokeswoman Dawn Barkman says a private security guard called authorities Thursday morning after 54-year-old John Heid and the 72-year-old priest, Jerome Zawada, wouldn't leave the site after being asked to.

She says the two Tucson men were arrested on suspicion of trespassing on government property. The site about 12 miles north of Sasabe will house a grid of towers monitoring the border electronically.

The Rev. Bob Carney of Tucson says it was part of a peaceful protest on the 64th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.


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    Maybe they were blessing
    Bic
    the virtual fence. Brings up an ironic point though - how can the government own property that we're not allowed on? They're not a private corporation and, in fact, we paid for the land and it's upkeep. Noticed a sign on a freeway entrance island "No Trespassing-State Property". Really???? Whose property??? The state gov't owns absolutely nothing that doesn't belong to it's citizens. Just another sign that it's time to take our country back.
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    Bizarre...
    Jeff J
    No trespassing means means no trespassing! Go away!
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