Operations Halted After 3 Seniors Break Into Tennessee Nuke Complex & Splash Blood on Buildings
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, August 2, 2012, 5:30 AM
Three senior “nuke-jobs” were arrested after busting into a top security Tennessee nuclear facility and splashing blood on the buildings.
The breach of a high-security area at the Y-12 National Security Complex by the three anti-nuclear weapons activists pictured above has not changed plans to cut up to 34 security officers. From left to right, the three are Michael R. Walli, Megan Rice, and Greg Boertje-Obed. (Oak Ridge)
The three protesters snuck through fences at the plant and spray-painted slogans and splashed human blood on a high-security uranium storage building. And they left four spray painted tags on the recent construction which read: “Woe to the empire of blood; The fruit of justice is peace; Work for peace not for war; and Plowshares please Isaiah.”
Operations at the Tennessee Y-12 National Security Complex were halted after protesters broke into the high-security area on Saturday.
The AP reported, via Free Republic:
Nuclear operations were temporarily halted Wednesday at a Tennessee complex that stores and processes uranium after three protesters, including a nun, were able to intrude into a high-security area over the weekend. The Y-12 National Security Complex said all nuclear material is safe.
The temporary stand-down was expected to end by next week. Special nuclear material will be moved to vaults on site, and contractor security personnel will undergo training and refresher instruction.
The protesters were found hanging banners in the dark and singing on Saturday and offering to break bread with the security guards at the Oak Ridge complex, officials said. They were arrested.
The nuclear complex regularly gets protesters and activists to the site around the August anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Production Office is responsible for oversight of both B&W and WSI Oak Ridge, which provides the personnel that makes up the Y-12 Protective Force. WSI-Oak Ridge said last month it planned to cut as many as 51 jobs, including about 34 security police officer positions at the complex.
More… The three seniors somehow managed to evade what the U.S. government calls the “most stringent security in the world” to break into a nuclear weapons laboratory often referred to as the “Fort Knox of Uranium.”
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Use Seal Team #6 commented:
I’ve always had a hard time understanding how a southern state could catch that liberal virus. Most southerners I’ve known were very pro-American. Anti-yankee, but pro-American…. I can understand that though – who in their right minds wants to brag about being from NY City, Boston or Philly?
Hank commented:
Hey, dudes and dudette, Woodstock ain’t comin’ back. Grow up. Oh, they did… physically……….
chuck in st paul commented:
” and Plowshares please Isaiah ”
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don’t.
Granny commented:
Sorry guys – have to disagree here. Nuclear waste is a huge issue, one that has contaminated huge swaths of land, subjected millions to excess radiation and STILL, after more than 50 years is little more than a political football. And don’t think for a single second that either the Atomic Energy Commission or the Department of Energy, never mind the Environmental Protection Agency, have anything even vaguely resembling clean hands.
These protesters did us all a HUGE favor! If they could get in through the “security” in place carrying spray paint, just think how easy it would be for a terrorist or two or three to get in carrying something else . . . .
Dave-O commented:
Who’s in charge of security here? TSA?
Remco Kimber commented:
Which Way, America?
Do you see the tin foil / UN “helmet” worn by one of the lefties?
The way of the Founders/Framers, or the way of the EU/USSR/UN model? There’s no middle road. The idea of centralism was always a false premise. Moving toward a “compromising center” always means abandoning your founding principles. And you will note that all “compromise” moves in one direction only, toward that of more government.
Do we want freedom FROM government via limited, constitutional government whereby government itself is bound by law, or do we want total government. There is no middle position. Madison (Fed. 51) put it this way, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.”
Rather than government being dependent on the people, as Madison et alia had hoped, today we witness Obama and his crowd of leftists inverting the Framers’ ideal to the point that the people, and as many as possible, must be made dependent on the government which will then go after the producers (“tax the rich” is one of their many battle cries) with a vengeance, a taste of which has been given to us beginning on 01/20/09.
bobdog commented:
Dave-O raises an interesting point. Just how in the hell did these three whackjobs get close enough to spraypaint the wall of a uranium storage building?
If these girl scouts could get that close, imagine what a group of truly insane jihadists would do.
Who’s in charge of security, anyway? Andy Frain?
Limousine Barry commented:
I hope these people don’t spill the beans on who put them up to this bloody smear job! David Axelrod better have destroyed the chain of evidence leading to him, George Soros or me! Or, he is fired!
I don’t have time to keep American Nuclear Facilities safe I have a campaign to run! I can’t let anything like this get in the way of my fund raising operations! Who cares if this invites copy-cats or terrorists?
I have my huge bunker and my security team. Do you! I didn’t think so. Good day.
David Kramer commented:
Start calling the Democrats what they are, terrorists.
jpmn commented:
We can’t have Nuclear Power due to radiation risks, or coal due to air pollution, and Natural gas is bad because of fracking, no oil air pollution again, hydro electric hurts fish, windmills kill birds, solar in the desert hurts rodents.
Guess we will all have to huddle together in huts like the North Koreans.
Corky Boyd commented:
While the traveling public gets zapped, groped and sniffed by TSA, government ignores its own vulnerabilites. The Y-12 incident is unpardonable. Are these the same folks who keep interlopers from crossing our borders?
Indiana Ray commented:
Sounds like an inside job. Story says they are cutting 34 security jobs. Guards looking the other way / setting this up to keep them from getting cut. Those three couldn’t break into a school playground at night.
burt commented:
Fruit cakes of the ’60s with walkers.
Corky Boyd commented:
Use Seal Team #6
These foks are NOT from the south. They are from Blue State hotbeds. From the arrest papers: Megan Rice, 82 NYC, Michael Walli, 63 Washington DC and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 Duluth MN. Their punishment should be to conduct a protest at a nuclear enrichment plants (Natanz or Fordow) in Iran.
The preferable time would be when thing begin to hot up with the Israelis.
surfin' bird commented:
#15 burt,
Exactly. They should be also signing autographs as hippies from the 60′s. They look pretty original.
snap boy commented:
I would hope that it is a federal crime to break into a nuclear facility in the US. These three need to spend a few years under the close supervision of Uncle Sam.
bigL commented:
Where are the guards, when is the order given to shoot. why is that a problem? If youare gurding
an installation, and there is nuc materials there and they are breaking in and have entered, and nothing is done, then maybe the guards are sympathetic with the mob and need to be fired.
They have to shoot at them at the least….
S. Wolf commented:
Use Seal Team #6 #2
They move there from states where the economies have been ruined with high taxes and regulations, and the leftists discover they’ve driven out the jobs. Oops. So the leftists move to states that haven’t been ruined, yet, like TN and start voting for leftist politicians who will raise taxes and ruin that state’s economy. TX is seeing this, too. CA leftists are moving here.
Isn’t it amazing how many security breaches have occurred in the Hussein regime? You’d almost think the leftists running the country into the ground sneer at security. Well, they do.
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