We had an interesting time bannering
on Tuesday August 11 for
the ceremony to display a Minuteman III missile at Peterson Air
Force Base. The ceremony was
supposedly "open," but not for protesters!
When we arrived some kind of civilian honor guard was waiting to
accompany a hearse of some sort that has a parade through the base
on a regular basis apparently.
The Air Force officer who came to meet us had an interesting
explanation of how that was allowed because the participants were
retired military.
He said that made them different from civilians.
We were monitored from the parking lot and we were met by three
plain clothes security folks as we got ready to leave. They
tried to dance around the fact that a public ceremony was only open
to selected guests.
They also seemed to think that retired military are not the same as
civilians in the eyes of the law. I will pursue this with a
call to the base and see what kind of mumbo jumbo I get from the PR
flacks.
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