Published: December 6th, 2012 at 6:36 pm ET
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Title: Nuke Protesters Jailed
Source: Huffington Post
Date: December 6, 2012
h/t Anonymous tip
Three anti-nuclear activists, including a nun, are charged under the Federal Sabotage Act for vandalizing the walls of a uranium facility with blood and peace messages.
[...] As part of an updated indictment announced on Wednesday, Greg Boertje-Obed, Michael Walli and Sister Megan Rice could spend 20 years in prison for the felony crime of injuring national-defense premises under the Sabotage Act.
“They are innocent of all these charges and feel that everything they did was legal and moral, and I think they believe that this (new charge) is ridiculous,” said Bill Quigley, a law professor at Loyola University New Orleans and one of the attorneys representing the three. [...]
Rice said she was unmoved by the additional years in federal prison she and her fellow demonstrators now face. “We have considered all of that long before we went in,” she said. “We feel this is something to give our lives for.”
[...] As the case proceeds it will likely remain an embarrassment for the federal government, which failed to secure the enrichment facility against three aging peace protesters. But it will also provide a public platform for the three to make their anti-nuclear views known to a public that has largely ignored the movement since the end of the Cold War. [...]
In response to a question about whether the protesters did “willfully injure, destroy and contaminate, and attempt to injure, destroy and contaminate national-defense premises,” as the indictment charges, Rice said, “Each of the verbs you have repeated would apply to what the government would do in the nuclear weapons industry alone.”
The case, she said, is “a very good opportunity to point that out to those who live in a state of denial.”
Published: December 6th, 2012 at 6:36 pm ET
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Sister Megan Rice and friends are heroes.
Her words ring loudly with truth.
I believe it was done out of 'necessity'.
It's the government's failing to keep a site secure as promised.
(as required)
A couple of points:
1. How else do you prove it's not secure?
2. Now they will try to punish her for making them look bad.
3. She caught them with their pants down.(+1)
4. Good thing they weren't real terrorists.
They really should get a medal!
They have my thanks and best wishes.
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Agreed , 82 years old wow humanity thanks you.
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Heroes, all three! They got this issue into the media. Now, it will be our job to keep it there.
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HP's coverage is a bit disheartening, but, at least they're making mention of it and gave it some air time with a vid, however, bland the 8 mins is. They could have at least mentioned what the facility does and what makes it dangerous enough that 3 people just chucked away their freedom to draw attention to it. Gonna have to wait for the New Yorker or Atlantic Monthly for actual coverage maybe, though the fellow with the nicely dyed hair did provide an eensie weensie bit of history. Btw, they all looked smarvalous, darling. As far as these young reporters are concerned, the issue is about how secure the gate was, and not what was behind the gate worth giving up these 3 people's futures for. It's scary to think that they may actually be the ones reporting on the developments when this goes to trial. In that case, the news blackout will remain so safe and secure that not even a geriatric uppity nun with her cronies could penetrate it. But, again, that's what HP pays them for.
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Concise and apt description of HP.
Well said!
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USA RADIATION, INDIVIDUAL RADIOACTIVE ELEMENTS/ISOTOPES/MUSIC
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/p/individual-radioactive-elementsisotopes.html
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GREEN ROAD: Are you are pimp for a pay to use site???…
The SUBSCRIBER ONLY links you keep listing are annoying
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Dr. Ernest Sternglass PhD; Childhood Cancers/Deaths Caused By Nuclear Power Plants; via A Green Road
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/dr-ernest-sternglass-childhood-cancer.html
Quite a legacy that these pro nuclear apologists are leaving to future generations…
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1984
Exposing the crimes of the State is a crime itself.
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Even thinking the State is criminal…is criminal.
"Possible 20 Years For Graffiti!" should be a national news story every night until the gov't is laughed out of office.
The horrifying absurdity that reveals the truth is why it will probably be no more than a news footnote at best.
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I've always said…
… Nuclear is NOT safe.
A gate, a gun, a nun…
… It could have been bin Laden.
However those charged in ensuring that nuclear IS safe will never get charged for their incompetence. Ironic, NO?
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Ironic, yes.
Worse, I can picture news talking heads spinning the "Laws for your protection" theme, promoting "Be afraid", "Nuclear security" and increasing the scope of laws and severity of penalties for anything even like these nuns' actions.
Eyes down. Move along.
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Amazing no one is knowledgeable of who the PLOUGHSHARES are.
http://www.ploughshares.org
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Relating to HP, that is.
No backstory on the who, what, and where.
NO journalistic integrity or amateurs lose at HP?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_Movement
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Max1: I am certainly very, very aware of the Plowshares. Some of my early activism was done with Catholic Worker groups. I'm sure there are many more than I here who know of them.
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If anyone should be charged with sabotage, its Pres. Obama (*Who I voted for in 2008 & worked for at the DOE) for turning off the Civil Defense Early Warning System "4" times, when Fukushima fallout NUKED Seattle, San Francisco, Anaheim, LA, San Diego, and all parts of the USA! Check out the fallout Swedish Defense Forces Research Center graph, UC Berkley & So. Cal University studies on the main, NEWS, and sitemap pages at: http://www.radiationhealthnews.com
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A DROP TEARS FOLLOWED BY A DROP OF BLOOD, WILL BE FOLLOWED BY A RIVER OF TEARS, AND AN OCEAN BLOOD IF…
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