I. THE F-35 BASING DECISION PROCESS WHICH SELECTED VERMONT WAS IMMORAL BECAUSE IT WAS BASED ON, AND SOLD TO THE PUBLIC WITH, LIES. The basing selection process started with a lie. Lies, deception, manipulation, and falsification of information permeated the process. • Vermont Air National Guard officials lied to the Air Force by telling them […]
z By Derek Brouwer September 9, 2019 Two leading critics of the F-35 fighter jets tried to lay blame for the noisy aircraft’s imminent arrival at the feet of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) on Monday by staging a sit-in at the senator’s Burlington office. Rosanne Greco and Roger Bourassa, both retired military officers, were eventually […]
Madeline Clark September 12, 2019 Retired Air Force Col. and former South Burlington City Council Chair Rosanne Greco, as well as retired Lt. Col. Roger Bourassa, were arrested by Burlington Police Monday evening following a sit-in at U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Office. Their demonstration joins a movement against the basing of F-35 jets at Burlington […]
By Madeline Clark September 11, 2019 Three South Burlington residents and one Burlington resident were cited with unlawful trespass after refusing to leave U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Burlington office, during a sit-in protest against the F-35 basing at the Burlington International Airport, this evening. The individuals: Roddy O’Neil-Cleary, Carmine Sargent and Kara Paige of South […]
By Stewart Ledbetter September 13, 2019 Stewart Ledbetter sits down with Xander Landen ad Elizabeth Hewitt from VT Digger, and April McCullum from Burlington Free Press to discuss Protesters Rip Leahy With F-35 Arrival II Army Guard Expects 2021 Deployment II Health Regulators Set Hospital Budgets II AG Says Purdue Settlement Insufficient II AG Re-Files […]
By Diana Stancy Correll September 14, 2019 Two retired Air Force officers were arrested this week after a sit-in protest at Sen. Patrick Leahy’s office in Burlington, Vermont. The pair demanded a delay in the arrival of F-35 fighter jets at the Vermont Air National Guard base at Burlington International Airport, according to local media […]
By: Diana Stacy Correll for Millitary Times, Sept. 12, 2019 Two retired Air Force officers were arrested this week after a sit-in protest at Sen. Patrick Leahy’s office in Burlington, Vermont. The pair demanded a delay in the arrival of F-35 fighter jets at the Vermont Air National Guard base at Burlington International Airport, according […]
By: Jacob Dawson for VTDigger, Sept. 13, 2019 BURLINGTON — Two local physicians joined the ranks of Vermonters protesting against the imminent arrival of the F-35 fighter jets Friday, demonstrating outside Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Main Street office. It was the fifth day in a row opponents of the new jets turned up at Vermont’s senior […]
By: Mike Dougherty for VTDigger, Sept. 13, 2019 The first two F-35s in the Vermont Air National Guard’s new fleet of fighter jets are scheduled to arrive in Burlington by next Friday. But a coalition of protesters who have fought the basing for years continues to press the military to change its mind. NBC5 first […]
By: Aidan Quigley for VTDigger, Sept. 12, 2019 BURLINGTON — Four more F-35 protesters were arrested at Sen. Patrick Leahy’s Burlington office Wednesday night, following the arrest of two demonstrators Monday night. Kara Paige, Carmen Sargent, Roddy O’Neil Cleary and Rabbi Joshua Chasan were arrested for unlawful trespass after refusing to leave the senator’s office Wednesday evening. […]