POST-TRIAL STATEMENT

WHITE ROSE DISARMAMENT ACTION

June 30, 1987

I certainly hope that I'm not sentenced to the full twenty years. I'll consider my efforts at disarmament worthwhile, however much time I spend in prison — but I'd just as soon it were less rather than more. The longer I spend behind bars, the longer it will be 'til I can become a mother. I want so much to have a baby -- more than anything else in my life -- and I didn't feel I could legitimately become a parent unless I made a serious attempt at making the world safer for my child. When I talk with my mother about being a parent, she tells me how important it is to prepare: to have health insurance, a comfortable home, a safe neighborhood, a good school. Yet what good are all these nice things, if my child will perish in a nuclear fire-storm? To raise a child is a great responsibility; I had to take what responsibility I could to protect my baby's future, before I could bring that baby into the world.

In a lighter vein, I've been considering the matter of security at Vandenberg A.F.B. I imagine there were some very red faces among the security personnel, in the wake of my activities at the Navstar complex. Naturally, I was inspired to verse:

Regarding those who guard the base

And thus have suffered loss of face:

I'm sure they're honest, true and staunch —

But just a trifle out to launch.

KATYA KOMSARIK