Lawyers: Tenn. nuclear plant break-in was symbolic act featuring 'Biblical graffiti'
Source: Associated Press
Lawyers for an 83-year-old nun and two fellow nuclear protesters called their intrusion into a nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge in July a symbolic act featuring Biblical graffiti, while prosecutors said Tuesday the act was a serious security breach that continues to disrupt operations.
The trial of Sister Megan Rice and Michael Walli, both of Washington, D.C., and Greg Boertje-Obed of Duluth, Minn., got underway in Knoxville with testimony from Steven C. Erhart, the top federal official at the Y-12 National Security Complex.
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Defense attorney Bill Quigley read several critical findings from a Department of Energy inspector generals report following the break-in, including that the perceived security at the plant officials liked to call the Fort Knox of uranium was unjustified and that a culture of complacency contributed to allowing the three elderly protesters to roam the facility for about two hours.
Erhart took issue with the complacency description.
I believe a better term would have been the normalization of a deviation from the optimum, he said, bringing chuckles from the audience largely made up of supporters of the defendants.
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bananas
(27,509 posts)LOL, we're going to hear some fine nukespeak during this trial!
From Wikipedia:
Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset
Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset is a 1982 book by Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell and Rory O'Connor. This book is a concise history of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the United States, with special emphasis on the language of the "nuclear mindset".[1][2]
The National Council of Teachers of English gave the book's authors an Orwell Award in 1982.[3]
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)a target at which any would-be REAL terrorist could have struck.
Now instead of nuclear mayhem, they have upgraded the place to a somewhat better standing.
Bozos.
Heywood J
(2,515 posts)Judges 4:21?