“The Dougherty case began in 1969 when nine pacifist Catholic priests and nuns broke into the D.C. offices of Dow Chemical Corporation to protest the company’s production of Napalm for the Vietnam War. There were similar antiwar protests being staged elsewhere during the period, including the cases of ‘the Catonsville Nine’ (who burned draft board files), the ‘Baltimore Four’ (ditto), the ‘Harrisburg Seven’ (tried for mentioning the possible kidnapping of Henry Kissinger in intercepted letters), the ‘Milwaukee 14’ (tried for burning draft records), and the ‘Harrisburg Seven’ (tried for planning to arrest Henry Kissinger for waging an illegal war [..]).”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/08/roger-roots/must-convict/
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