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I Am SOOOOOOOOOO ASHAMED TO BE AN AMERICAN! (OR A HUMAN)

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Monday, 13 May 2013 01:02
An 83-year-old nun and 2 others are facing a 20 year sentence for a ‘symbolic’ nuclear facility break-in, done to point out the lack of site security, and the morally bankrupt and environmentally toxic Nuclear industry. Meanwhile, WE the entitled consumers, which demand the "energy," leave the lights on, in over heated over cooled, and over large homes, drive everywhere, and buy lifeless disposable garbage, while allowing the endless wars, and other nonsense to continue. We really do not need Nuclear Power, or weapons, and they will be causing ill health and deaths for hundreds of thousands of years. With very minimal conservation, the need for nuclear power, vanishes. Is this too much trouble for a healthy future?

The charging of An 83-year-old nun, Sister Megan Rice, for civil disobedience when we are too lazy to question the sanity of Nuclear anything, ourselves, is criminal.

SHAME on U.S.

These people ARE ARE ARE Hero's. We are the criminals to allow any of it on our watch, during our lives.

Look around folks. Ain't it grand? Between Nuclear insanity (Fukushima IS still teetering and spewing,) Fracking, GMO's, Keystone/Tarsands, Endless Wars, Legitimate Rapist Bankers, we sure know how to preserve and protect the commons, for any life which comes after us, eh? CO2 is now above 400PPM for the first time in millions of years, and the ice caps are melted already. Profits are obviously so much more important than healthy sustainable life. We The Sheeple, are allowing thugs and criminally psychopathic "Leaders" to rape, pillage, and plunder the commons of Nature, at the peril of everything's future.

Now, do we go back to driving to oblivion and working for mere $ money? OR, perhaps, it IS time to get off the couch, and get busy and get vocal, and get involved? Perhaps it is time to become CONSERVERS of this earth, rather than propheteering consumers? Shame on us. We ARE a corrupt Nation, with little resemblance to a sane or sustainable system. We appear to be a Nation more interested in appearances, than substance, and willing to jail whistleblowers, and silence anyone bringing up the real issues.

Too many of us profess, with hot air, and little action beyond flicking the credit card for the latest purchase, and I wonder, what would that Jesus dude do? Perhaps give some GMO foods, and slave labor made clothing to the homeless? I quite doubt it.



Below By Stephen Webster, with a link to the original, at the bottom
83-year-old nun facing 20 year sentence for ‘symbolic’ nuclear facility break-in.
An 83-year-old nun who broke into a Tennessee depleted uranium storage facility in 2012 and splashed human blood on several surfaces, exposing a massive security hole at the nation’s only facility used to store radioactive conventional munitions, was convicted Wednesday and faces a term of up to 20 years in prison.

The only regret Sister Megan Rice shared with members of her jury on Wednesday was that she wished 70 years hadn’t passed before she took direct action, according to the BBC. She and two other peace activists, 64-year-old Michael Walli and 56-year-old Greg Boertje-Obed, were convicted of “invasion of a nuclear facility” in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, even though investigators admitted they did not get close to any actual nuclear material.

The three activists are part of a group called “Transform Now Plowshares,” a reference to the book of Isaiah, which says, “They shall beat their swords into plowshares. They shall learn war no more.” All three face individual sentences of up to 20 years, along with a litany of fines.

As they invaded the Y-12 National Security Complex at Oak Ridge, a perimeter fence was cut, several surfaces were spray-painted, banners were hung and activists read from the Bible. They also spread human blood on several surfaces, saying its use was symbolic, meant to remind people “of the horrific spilling of blood by nuclear weapons.”

“The shortcomings in security at one of the most dangerous places on the planet have embarrassed a lot of people,” the activists’ attorney, Francis Lloyd, told members of the jury according to the BBC. “You’re looking at three scapegoats behind me.”

Sister Rice has been arrested between 40 or 50 times committing acts of civil disobedience, according to The New York Times, including once in Nevada after she physically blocked a truck at a nuclear test site.

Depleted uranium munitions like the kind stored at the facility Sister Rice targeted are blamed for some of the worst birth defects and soaring cancer rates seen in post-war Iraq, particularly in the city of Fallujah following the siege of 2004, in which U.S. soldiers killed thousands of civilians.

The city has never recovered, particularly from the use of depleted uranium munitions, and to this day residents suffer from health effects “worse” than those seen following the nuclear detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, according to a study by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

“I believe we are all equally responsible to stop a known crime,” Sister Rice said from the witness stand, according to quotes published by her group. She called herself a “citizen of the world” and reportedly smiled as the verdict was read.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/09/83-year-old-nun-gets-20-year-sentence-for-symbolic-nuclear-facility-break-in/
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