The U.S. government’s only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has been temporarily shut after anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, breached security fences…
Officials said the facility was shut down on Wednesday at least until next week after three activists cut through perimeter fences to reach the outer wall of a building where highly enriched uranium, a key nuclear bomb component, is stored.
The activists painted slogans and threw human blood on the wall of the facility, one of numerous buildings in the facility known by the code name Y-12…
Ellen Barfield, a spokeswoman for the activists who called themselves “Transform Now Plowshares,” said three were arrested and charged with vandalism and criminal trespass.
She said the three, identified as Megan Rice, 82, Michael Walli, 63 and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, were being held in custody and appeared for a hearing before a U.S. magistrate judge in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Thursday…
Barfield forwarded a statement from the group in which it said the activists had passed through four fences and walked for “over two hours” before reaching the uranium storage building, on which they hung banners and strung crime-scene tape.
Ralph Hutchinson, coordinator for the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, said the group’s intention was not to demonstrate the lack of security at the plant, but to take a stance against the making of nuclear weapons.
No wonder the Pope is scared shitless by American nuns.
They were allowed to get that close. Obviously there will be new emergency spending and laws restricting freedoms passed from this staged event.
For a minute there, i thought this was another Shit-Fil-A ad.
So someone on charge decided not to shoot a bunch of protestors.
(You know, swords make really lousy plowshares and spears to pruning hooks – wha??? Heck, there’s probably a Tractor Supply within 10 miles…. 😀 )
Naturally, we’re so concerned with security that we’re patting down 80-yr. old and toddler airline passengers, but we allow open access to a facitlity for weapons-grade uranium. Oh yeah, we’re secure!
it wasn’t actually unlocked, they had just left the gate ajar because they were expecting some mossad agents to come by to pick up their monthly allotment.
Peter Stockton, a former congressional investigator and security consultant to the Energy Department, expressed skepticism at government assertions the nuclear material was not at risk.
“It is unbelievable this could happen,” Stockton said. “The significance is outrageous. If they were terrorists, they could have blown open the door and got inside.”
Thanks for telling all the terrorists in the world what they could have done if they were dressed as a nun.
Now we must watch out for nuns, people with body cavities, women that appear to be pregnant, people that wear shoes or underwear, women with big tits, babies in strollers, people that fly model airplanes, people that drive cars, people that carry backpacks, and people that look weird.
If you see something, say something.
Well, we should always watch out for women with big tits. Even us fags do that!
Budget cuts. They’ll be the death of us all.
The Bible verse the activists reference is taken out of context, which is not unusual for religious fanatics.
A complete reading of Isaiah chapter 2 reveals that The Lord dwells in the mountains, and the prophet Isaiah laments the pride of men and the worship of silver and gold idols, among other things.
It is interesting to note that Catholics worship many idols, icons, and graven images of silver an gold.
Also, the prophet Isaiah was speaking of Judah and Jerusalem in the last days, and he seems to be rather upset at the success of the Philistines.
Isaiah 2
1 The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.
2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
4 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
5 O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.
6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots:
8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.
10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.
11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.
19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
21 To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
This concludes our Bible study today.
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I’m sorry. You lost me at How fucking long is this post?
How fucking boring can you be?
I am competing with bobbo.
Actually I found it appropriate and interesting.
I’m going to mention this incident and laugh right in the TSA slaves’ faces when I go through security at an airport.
What a waste of time and money…
I don’t follow your logic in laughing at the TSA employees at the airport. A private security company was responsible for security at the facility.
“WSI Oak Ridge, the contractor responsible for protecting the facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is owned by the international security firm G4S…”
Thou shall not kill is pretty clear.
It’s never okay to kill if you believe in the Christian tradition. Sorry, but don’t call yourself christian if you take another’s life.
My mother was a Nun for four years. She said, “Jesus would not fight or kill anyone for any reason.” That included war, self defense, family defense. She said killing the abortion doctor was a sin. PERIOD.
What if you kill somebody accidentally in a car wreck or you drop a banana peel on the sidewalk and an old lady slips and falls and cracks her skull open and you didn’t even know you killed somebody?
My Bible says, “Thou shall not murder.” Self defense is not murder. Going to war for your country is not murder.
Besides, Jesus fought in the Bible. He made whips and drove out the money changers from the Bible. When He comes back, He will return with a sword in his hand.
Where did you get your definition of murder?
Just askin’. Cause I don’t think mirriam-websters cuts much ice with Gwad.
All sane people would fully support the doubling of megatonnage available to America. Nukes are ust another weapon, noting to be feared and fully necessary to protect America’s supremacy. (Without America’s supremacy, the human race has no reason to exist, so everyone on the planet should support America having more nukes.)
America is no longer supreme. Look around.
I can’t tell you how much safer I feel knowing that Obama is in the WH and his highly trained and extremely skilled staff are looking out for the safety of the nation. They are doing such a wonderful job of keeping us safe as long as nobody tries to comment a terrorist act. If somebody does then the public and the local police had better be up to handling the mess after which our heroes will show up and strut their stuff.
Chicago is a war zone and these clowns sold over 2000 guns to the drug cartels. Sure it was all the ATFs fault. Holder’s staff never actually read the reports they signed off on or something like that.