Posted on 02/20/2014 8:37:57 AM PST by Impala64ssa
An 84-year-old nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for breaking into and defacing a storage bunker holding bomb-grade uranium in a peace demonstration at a Tennessee weapons plant. Megan Rice was sentenced Tuesday along with activists Greg Boertje-Obed, 58, and Michael Walli, 65. The men were sentenced to more than five years in prison. All sentences were less than the recommended minimum guidelines, the Knoxville Sentinel reports.
Rice asked Judge Amul Thapar to put her in prison for life, but he declined. "I just can’t accommodate you on that," he said. The three activists cut through three fences on July 28, 2012, and reached a storage bunker that holds the nation's primary supply of bomb-grade uranium. They painted messages, hung banners, and threw blood on the bunker wall. While officials claimed there was never any danger of the protesters reaching materials that could be detonated or used to assemble a dirty bomb, the break-in raised serious questions about security.
She may be a third order-lay nun. Not living in community (like a convent), has a regular job, family life, but is contributing to the mission of the order.
Forget the guards. Whoever was in charge of the facility should have been fired immediately. But government official are never held personally responsible for anything that happens on their watch.
Couldn’t the little sister have found better ways to serve God than by being an idiot. I seem to remember that pride is a major sin and maybe she will have a few years in prison to contemplate this. Where is her religious order in all this? Look at other orders of nuns that spend their time caring for poor or in total prayer. I think they are doing more for God’s glory than being a protestor.
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