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| Subject: The good: 3 fuckwit activists sentenced for breaking into nuclear site Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:24 pm | |
| Three peace activists who intruded onto a nuclear weapons site in July 2012 were sentenced Tuesday to between two and 5½ years in prison by a federal judge, three weeks after he ordered them to pay $53,000 in restitution for damaging the site’s security apparatus and defacing a storage facility that contains the United States’s stockpile of weapons-grade uranium.
“If all that energy and passion was devoted to changing the laws, perhaps real change would’ve occurred by today,” said U.S. District Court Judge Amul Thapar, after praising the trio’s conscience and good works. The judge, who leveled sentences that were lower than what the government requested, said that perhaps the threat of significant jail time “will lead people back to the political process I fear they’ve given up on.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/3-peace-activists-sentenced-for-breaking-into-nuclear-site/2014/02/18/13a6bb7a-9815-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html |
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