Say No! No! NO! to Drone War Command Center in Horsham, PA
Sat., August 29 , Noon – 2p.m. -Protest Demonstration at the Horsham Air Guard Station. Route 611/Easton Road and County Line Road, in Horsham, PA.
See directions and map below. Recommended parking in the Regal Cinemas Warrington Crossing on Rout 611 just beyond County Line Road.
Citizens of PA Commonwealth: You need to be heard! *Weekly Phone-in Wave to Gov. Wolf, Wednesdays, Summer 2015 (see below at end listing of listing)
Since April 2013, and the announcement that a drone war command center was planned for the Horsham PA Air Guard Station, there have been focused protests at the base (last Saturday of the month, Noon – 2p.m.) as well as other events throughout the region.
Join the campaign to stop the drone war command center in Horsham which is due to be fully operation this year, 2015. Make an appeal to computer drone war operators training for the Horsham command center to guide armed drones and launch missiles against people thousands of miles away.
Dear Drone Operators: Just Walk Away…Stop the killing. Peace, Your Neighbors
(See appeal below)
(See appeal below)
…We know that drone operators –are being trained for remote-controlled attack missions from Horsham. Human beings, with consciences, families, friends, and hearts, will fly, by remote control, drone aircraft and launch Hellfire missiles against people thousands of miles away.
The drone war command center in Horsham is imminent. The campaign to stop the drone command center will, as part of the demonstrations in the coming months, be making direct and open public appeal to drone operators to take their hands from the computer ‘killing sticks’, to listen to their consciences, and to consider their responsibility for stopping the killing and establishing peace. Therein lies hope!
We all share a responsibility to stop drone warfare and spying, to stop the wars, violence, and poverty, that grip our world, to stop the corporations that build the missiles, bombs, and drones, and profit from the world’s suffering. Stop the drone war command center in Horsham, PA.
Peace will happen when people make it so.We thank and join with our sisters and brothers at Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, Catholic Workers, KnowDrones, all our campaign’s endorsing groups, and resisters at other domestic drone related bases around the country in our appeal to drone operators.
Veterans for Peace have appealed to drone operators earlier at the Creech Air Force drone command base in Nevada, as part of an act of nonviolent civil resistance.
We make the same appeal here in Horsham at the drone war command center.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2015/03/04/message-us-veterans-drone-operat ors-and-support-personnel-cr
Nonviolence Discipline for Demonstration Participants
To assist in the unity of demonstration participants, and to project justice, our humanity, and moral message:
1. We will not carry weapons.
2. We will not vandalize or destroy property.
3. We will not use or carry alcohol or illegal drugs.
4. We will not run or make threatening motions.
5. We will not insult, swear at, or attack anyone, refraining, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from “the violence of fist, tongue, or heart.”
6. We will not assault, verbally or physically, those who oppose or disagree with us.
7. Our attitude, conveyed through our words, symbols and actions, will be one of peace, openness, and respect toward everyone.
8. We will remain focused on the message of the demonstration, cooperate with the planning of the demonstration, and help maintain its nonviolent discipline.
9. If an individual has a serious disagreement with the organizers of the action that cannot be resolved, the individual will withdraw from the action.
10. We will maintain — in word and deed — our nonviolent resolve for peace and justice.
Initiated by the Brandywine Peace Community and the American Friends Service Committee, the nonviolent campaign to stop the drone war command center has the endorsement of a growing list of groups and activists: Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition; BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action; Catholic Peace Fellowship; Coalition for Peace Action (Princeton, NJ); Death Walk Against Drones; LEPOCO (Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern); Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); Global Women’s Strike/Phila.; Granny Peace Brigade—Philadelphia; Green Party of Philadelphia; Greens of Montgomery and Bucks County; Main Line Peace Action; Pacem in Terris (Wilmington, DE); Payday men’s network/Phila.; Peace & Justice Ministry of St. Vincent’s Roman Catholic Church in Germantown; Philly Against War; Peace Center of Delaware County; Philadelphia Catholic Worker; Shalom House/Circle of Hope; Veterans for Peace; Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF), Phila-Delco.
Background
The U.S. Air Force in March 2013 announced, along with local, state, and federal officials, plans to establish a drone war command center at the 111th Fighter Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, at Horsham Air National Guard Station.
The objective of the drone war command center in Horsham is remote-controlled killing. From Horsham, computer piloted “Reaper” drones would be directed to targets thousands of miles away.
These attack drones carry deadly Hellfire missiles and laser-guided bombs that are fired by computer “pilot” command from the U.S. against people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria, and Somalia. Drone strikes have killed thousands of people, mostly civilians and children whose images and faces may have appeared on the pilot’s computer monitor.
The multimillion-dollar drone command center in Horsham is a central part of the growing network of drone bases, training sites, and command centers, crisscrossing the U.S, funded by billions of U.S. tax dollars, and enabling remote-controlled drone strikes around the world. Millions in federal dollars were appropriated in October 2013 for the PA drone command center, which is now slated to be fully operational in 2015 to conduct drone killing ‘missions’ from Horsham, PA.
More on drone warfare and spying: www.knowdrones.com
PA Gov. Tom Wolf (and head of the PA Guard/Air National Guard), take responsibility. Initiate hearings on the drone command center.
While funded by the U.S. Air Force, the drone command center is located at the Horsham Air Guard station on commonwealth property. There has, as yet, not been a single citizens hearing by state authorities. Governor Wolf can initiate these badly needed hearings.
Call and write the Governor’s office now: 508 E-floor Main Capitol Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, tel: (717) 787-2500.
While funded by the U.S. Air Force, the drone command center is located at the Horsham Air Guard station on commonwealth property. There has, as yet, not been a single citizens hearing by state authorities. Governor Wolf can initiate these badly needed hearings.
Call and write the Governor’s office now: 508 E-floor Main Capitol Building, Harrisburg, PA 17120, tel: (717) 787-2500.
Weekly Phone-in Wave to Gov. Wolf, Wednesdays, Summer 2015
Citizens of PA Commonwealth: You need to be heard!
*Weekly Phone-in Wave to Gov Wolf, Wednesdays, Summer 2015
Register your demand at 717-787-2500, Mon.- Fri., 8 a.m.- 6 p.m. Tell Governor Wolf, who heads the PA Guard/Air National Guard: “Initiate public hearings on the drone war command center at the Horsham Air Guard Station and on other drone war activity in our state.”
Call your senators: Bob Casey, (215) 405-9660; Pat Toomey, (215) 241-1090, and your U.S. Representatives at 1-855-686-6927. Find your U.S. representative at www.house.gov/representatives/find.
Write these two…
Patrick Meehan (R-PA-CD#7), 610-690-7323, http://meehan.house.gov), chief congressional booster of the Drone War Command Center in Horsham. His district, mostly Delaware County, includes a part of Montgomery County and Horsham Township.
Brendon Boyle (D-PA-13th District, 215-517-6572, https://boyle.house.gov/contact/offices). His district includes Northeast Philadelphia and part of Montgomery County and Horsham Township
Brendon Boyle (D-PA-13th District, 215-517-6572, https://boyle.house.gov/contact/offices). His district includes Northeast Philadelphia and part of Montgomery County and Horsham Township
‘Meet the Reaper’, the MQ-9 Reaper Drone
Unmanned, remote-controlled, 66 foot wingspan, 4,900 lbs., 230 mph cruise speed
1,150-mile range, 50,000 max. altitude, $53.5 million (FY 2006 dollars)=cost of four aircraft with sensors, (not counting weaponry and remote-control technology)
Unmanned, remote-controlled, 66 foot wingspan, 4,900 lbs., 230 mph cruise speed
1,150-mile range, 50,000 max. altitude, $53.5 million (FY 2006 dollars)=cost of four aircraft with sensors, (not counting weaponry and remote-control technology)
Reaper Weaponry: Hellfire Missiles (Lockheed Martin); Paveway/GBU-38 Laser-Guilded Bombs (Raytheon)