Discovery of 21 Buried Nukes in Germany

Amidst heightened nuclear tension between NATO and Russia in Europe, an American (John LaForge) is the first to be jailed in Germany for revealing at least 21 U.S. B61 thermonuclear gravity bombs stationed there. KPFK’s Cary Harrison’s guest: Jack Cohen-Joppa, co-coordinator at NuclearResister.org The Cary Harrison Files is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Cary Harrison: Cary Harrison, show Cary Harrison and it is 34 minutes past the hour. We're gonna talk about what's going on in Germany today. Let's not forget World War ii. Let's not forget we were one of the occupiers along with the Brits, along with the French, along with the Soviets. Who ran Germany for decades and decades, which is one of the famous moments where JFK showed up and said he was not a, or that he was a Berliner, but mispronounced it. And the particular way of saying, Lina, which is I am from, I am a upper line, is a Lina, said Lina, which is a jelly donut and that caused a lot of Republicans at the time to laugh and giggle. Nonetheless, the wall was up and there are tunnels underneath, and I'll tell you about those some other time. But right now, let me introduce to you Jack Cohen jpa. I'm assuming it's jpa or jpa, but we're gonna find out. Is it? You're nodding. So it's one of the two . Jack-Cohen Joppa Have you got my audio? I do have your audio. And he is since 1980 with nuclear resistor.org. He and his wife Fise have edited and published 200 issues of the nuclear resistor. An international newsletter of peace prisoner support, chronicling anti-nuclear and anti-war civil disobedience in 2020. Jack and Fise received the International Nuclear Free Future Award. In the category of education, and let's bring each other up to what is going on today in Germany. This is a first ever event, right at the edge of a war zone with nuclear weapons involved. Welcome, Jack Cohen. Japa. Thank Jack-Cohen-Joppa: you. Cary Harrison: Your audio is broken up, my friend. I think that's the issue. So let's try again. We're trying. Okay, that's digital soup. What I'm gonna have you do is log out and log back in and it should clear your cash, if you don't mind. Terribly. Okay, cool. So I'll just give you the backstory on what we're gonna talk about here. Amidst heightened nuclear tension between NATO and Russia in Europe, US Peace activist John laforge, entered a German prison today. If you're listening to this as a podcast several days from now, let's just say it. More or less today happens to be January 10th, 2023. Today he entered a German prison to serve jail time there for protests against the US nuclear weapons unit stockpiled at Germany's Busia Air Force Pace, 80 miles southeast of Cologne. The forge entered. In Hamburg as the first ever American imprisoned for a nuclear weapons protest in Germany. This is a big deal. The 66 year old guy from Minnesota, he's a native there, co-director of NU Watch, the Wisconsin based advocacy and action group was convicted of trespass for joining two goin actions. We would call that a, I guess it's a breaking and enter but it's going on to a military base. This is a US military base in. Not a German military base, a US military base. So he joined two go in actions at the it's a German air base. Technically, let's just say it's dressed up as a German one, but it's ours. Back in 20 18, 1 of the actions involved entering the base and climbing at top a bunker that likely housed some of the approximately 20 US B 61 thermo nuclear gravity bombs stationed. 20 B 61 thermo nuclear gravity bomb station there. Imagine if even one went off what would be left of Germany and what would happen to the entire food supply of Europe. We have to remember what a nuclear bomb does. Germany's regional court in Kountz affirmed his conviction, lowered the penalty from 1500 bucks to 600 or 50 daily rates. He said he would not pay it instead in his appeal. He, his defense was crime prevention. In other words, using the nu or by exposing the fact that there were nukes there, he was preventing a crime. And it hasn't gone to their version of Supreme Court yet. So that's gonna be very interesting to see how they rule on that. They being an ally, they being part of nato. So we'll see what that is. Both courts ruled against a hearing from an expert witness. Who had volunteered to explain the international treaties that prohibit any planning for mass destruction? Oh, let me say that again. We're talking about X Nazis here. So there is a treaty says that there is a prohibition against any planning for mass destruction, including our own worst signatories of that. Going back to what, 1980 and 1970? 1990. Under George Bush, the first. We are signatories to all sorts of things, so you really can't have something for mass destruction if you're a treaty signatory, so you hide it. In addition, the appeal urges Germany stationing o...