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That naughty 82 year old anti nuclear nun!

Aging protesters paint nuclear arsenal in Tenn. Knox News Associated Press  July 31, 2012 OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Emerging details about a security alert at the federal government’s Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge reveal three aging activists staged the protest.
According to The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/T1UfNV  ), guards found an 82-year-old Roman Catholic nun, a gardener and a housepainter splashing blood and painting messages on the $549 million storage bunker that holds the nation’s primary supply of bomb-grade
uranium.
The intrusion early Saturday resulted in armed security guards being scrambled to find Megean Rice; Greg Boertje-Obed, 57; and Michael Walli, 63, hanging banners in the dark and reportedly singing and offering to break bread with them. The protesters reportedly
offered to share a Bible, candles and white roses with the guards.
Rice is from Nevada; Boertje-Obed is from Duluth, Minn.; and Walli is from Washington, D.C. They were arrested on federal trespassing charges.

The protesters called themselves “Transform Now Plowshares.” There is no known Plowshares national protest group, but there is a philosophical practice of using high-profile demonstrations to draw attention to nuclear disarmament and related causes.

Details about how they got into the high-security area aren’t known….. http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/jul/31/aging-protesters-paint-nuclear-arsenal-in-02/

August 1, 2012 - Posted by | Religion and ethics, USA

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