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Nun, 84, sentenced to 35 months for nuclear break-in

why should anyone feel sympathy for a woman breaking the law in a dangerious security zone? it's not like they beat her or did anything but arrest her for her actions... it's good that she did them they NEED to tighten up security. But still I don't see the sympathy aspect, just comedy ;)

Fair enough, that doesn't change the fact that of all the folks arrested and convicted, she's headline news to elicit sympathy about her sentence for those not like you and me.
 
I'm not saying that they should get a medal, but as Top Cat said those people did everyone in the USA a favor by showing how lax security is at these nuclear installations.

If they could do this, some real terrorists could do the same thing.

I wish I had the guts to do what she did. I hope the sentence gets reduced.

Nothing is stopping you from breaking the law.

I hope they prosecute her.
 
Fair enough, that doesn't change the fact that of all the folks arrested and convicted, she's headline news to elicit sympathy about her sentence for those not like you and me.

I just think of an old nun in her uniform with a cane slowly walking into a military base, breaking gates and nobody noticing was funny not sad XD
 
Nothing is stopping you from breaking the law.

I hope they prosecute her.

LOL. Obviously you didn't read the headline, let alone the article.
 
If she'd wore a turban instead of a ...nun...hat, she'd have gotten 35 decades in gitmo.
 
The nun in question is from one of the ubber progressive catholic groups. These groups have been orgainizing "smear blood on the bomb" type protests since the 1980s (or even 1970s).

Though the symbol of "blood on the bomb" may seeem strange today, it was the rage amongst 1980s peace groups and the nun's group has never really never left the 1980s.
If they had, I bet they could think of alot more effective symbolic protests than trespassing to smear blood on what ever.




What would you suggest that they do next (After they get out of prison.)?
 
why should anyone feel sympathy for a woman breaking the law in a dangerious security zone? it's not like they beat her or did anything but arrest her for her actions... it's good that she did them they NEED to tighten up security.
But still I don't see the sympathy aspect, just comedy ;)




I don't see any comedy in this story whatsoever.

All that I see is proof that U.S. nuclear facilities are not adequately protected.

And that isn't funny.
 
The nun in question is from one of the ubber progressive catholic groups. These groups have been orgainizing "smear blood on the bomb" type protests since the 1980s (or even 1970s).

Though the symbol of "blood on the bomb" may seeem strange today, it was the rage amongst 1980s peace groups and the nun's group has never really never left the 1980s. If they had, I bet they could think of alot more effective symbolic protests than trespassing to smear blood on what ever.

That's what it takes to get in the news media these days (and for a long time).
 
spud_meister;1062944774[B said:
]Yeah, but not the nuns of popular stereotype. Those are wimples,
[/B]which form a part of the habit, so either way I was still right.




A cornette is one form of wimple, eh?
 
An 84-year-old nun was sentenced to 35 months in prison Tuesday for breaking into a nuclear facility, her lawyer said.
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.
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.

Nun, 84, sentenced to 35 months for nuclear break-in - CNN.com


Sounds like she did them a favor. Hard to imagine that 3 years in the click will "cure" her.

I have to wonder if any heads will roll over the lapse in security?

Yeah Uranium out of a reactor........You're talking bout 5-30+ years of shelf life..... More like 1000.

WTF...
 
She's already been sentenced to 35 months in prison.

What more do you want? This is an 84-year old lady.

Why do you Libs always assume that everyone is as susceptible to demagoguery as you people are ?

Her age is irrelevant.

She was spry enough to break the law.
 
I have two thoughts about this issue:

1. If you do the crime, be prepared to do the time. From the article, I get the impression that she has no problem doing the time. So be it.

2. Her being a nun really doesn't enter into the issue or absolve her of guilt, but I have to say that I'm surprised a nun would do such a thing. I was raised Catholic...went to a Catholic grade school for a number of years...and I really can't imagine any of the nuns I ever knew doing this kind of stuff. I don't know...maybe the nuns I knew were more into God than the one in this story.
 
The facility manager and security manager need 35 months in the clink for being so ****ing incompetent. The nun just needs community service...which she sort of already performed.
 
So if a 12 year old did this age wouldn't be a consideration?

Lol !!!

Wow ! If she was "12" then she woukd be processed as a juvenile.

But...she's NOT a juvenile, in fact she's far from it therefore her age is irrelevant
 
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