Two Chinook Copters At Boeing Plant Vandalized

Wanna stop the war? Well then, simply dismantle/decommission the very machinery of death and destruction!

Though officials have offered no motive for the action, we can rest assured that this was either a strike against the war, for the workers, or perhaps both.

Nothing frightens the ruling class more than the potential of the proletariat to understand that it is they, the workers of the world, who keep the war machine running, and that it is they, the workers, who have the direct power to shut it down.

Concluding that damage to two new combat helicopters at the Boeing Co. plant was “a deliberate act,” federal authorities said today they had launched a criminal probe and offered a reward in the hunt for suspects.

U.S. Attorney Patrick L. Meehan said he had assigned a prosecutor to work with criminal investigators from the Defense Department, who now say they believe damage to the Chinook choppers was an act of vandalism.

Agents with the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, which is leading the probe on behalf of the Army, circulated flyers offering employees a $5,000 reward. The helicopters cost $20 million to $30 million apiece and are part of a 458-Chinook contract for Boeing, which shut down operations Tuesday but resumed production today.

“We have determined that this was a deliberate act and not an accident,” said Kenneth S. Maupin, the Defense Department’s lead investigative agent, during a news conference with Meehan outside the battleship-gray facility where authorities toured the Chinook assembly line minutes before addressing the media.

The announcement further intensified suspicion that the potential culprit may be a member of Boeing’s 5,200-member workforce, a combination of unionized and contract employees who work on the sprawling campus south of Philadelphia International Airport in Delaware…

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