There was little peace, love and understanding as a federal judge castigated a nationally known activist and Roman Catholic priest for an Iraq war protest that blocked a Santa Fe elevator in 2006.

“I’m not interested in making a martyr out of you,” U.S. District Judge Don Svet said Thursday in Albuquerque before sentencing the Rev. John Dear to 40 hours of community service and $510 in fines and fees, to be paid immediately.

Dear was the last of the group known as the Elevator Nine to be sentenced.

Six of the nine eventually went to trial on federal charges after they occupied the elevator of Sen. Pete Domenici’s Santa Fe office for more than five hours. Two others took plea deals, and one was a minor whose charges were dropped.

Dear’s attorney, Penni Adrian, had asked the court for mercy, saying Dear had a “lifelong commitment to peace and human decency.” His action that day was “but a legal misstep,” she said.

“This war is unjust, morally sinful and just downright impractical,” he said.