In upstate New York, four pacifists calling themselves the St. Patrick’s Day Four are facing six years in jail for staging a non-violent demonstration two years ago at a military recruiting station. On March 17, 2003, the four activists entered a recruiting station near Ithaca New York, said a prayer and then poured their blood on the station’s windows, walls, the U.S. flag and on the stand-up cut-outs of smiling military recruits. On Friday the four defendants pleaded not guilty in federal court on a number of charges including conspiracy to impede an officer of the United States. One of the defendants Clare Grady, said, “What we do, I don’t consider it as protesting. I consider it as upholding the best of human law that we’ve come up with so far, and upholding God’s law.”