Nun, 84, sentenced to 35 months for nuclear break-in
updated 10:13 PM EST, Tue February 18, 2014
Sister Megan Rice, 84, was found guilty of damaging and destroying government property.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Sister Megan Rice, 84, was found guilty of damaging and destroying government property
- She and two other peace activists were arrested in 2012 for breaking into nuclear facility
- The uranium processing and storage complex was supposed to have been tightly secured
In May, a federal jury in
Knoxville, Tennessee, found Sister Megan Rice; Greg Boertje-Obed, 57;
and Michael Walli, 63, guilty of destroying U.S. government property and
causing more than $1,000 in damage to federal property.
It was not immediately clear what the sentences were for the two other peace activists.
The incident began before
dawn on July 28, 2012, when the three cut through a chain-link fence
surrounding the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
They then walked nearly a
mile, cutting through three more fences and breaching what was supposed
to be the most tightly secured uranium processing and storage facility
in the country.
Elderly nun sabotages nuclear weapons lab
It was not until hours
later that a guard finally confronted the activists who, by then, had
hoisted banners, spray-painted messages and splattered human blood on a
building that houses highly enriched uranium.
"They're at peace about
this. They're peacemakers, and they knew that they risked this," Joe
Quigley, attorney for Walli, told CNN affiliate WATE in May after their
trial. "Nobody is happy to go jail, but they understand."
In response to the
incident, Congress has held a series of hearings and issued security
recommendations to the Department of Energy and its National Nuclear
Security Administration, which runs Y-12 and seven other nuclear weapons
sites.
In March, Deputy Energy
Secretary Daniel Poneman testified before the House Energy and Commerce
Committee that the Department of Energy had taken "several major actions
... to improve security" since the breach, including management changes
and independent security reviews.
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| Fat Bastardo |
FAT BASTARDO's OP ED:
A couple things come to mind. First off how did these rank amateurs breach such a sensitive facility so easily? With that questions asked, Is it possible that that the Federal Gestapo wants terrorists to easily be able to get their hands on nuclear material so that they can kill Americans to justify more killing and conquest in the Middle East? Do they know that the terrorist threat is really a bunch of bullshit and that is why there was no security there in the first place?
This Nun, Sister Megan Rice should be getting the Congressional Medal of Honor for exposing the bullshit fucking security and after that she should get the Noble peace prize and the federal judge you sentenced her to 35 months in prison which may be a life sentence needs to get rectal cancer before he spends eternity in hell.
