Lawyers: Tenn. nuclear plant break-in was symbolic act featuring 'Biblical graffiti'

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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 general’s 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]

1. Nukespeak: it's not a culture of complacency, it's "normalization of a deviation from the optimum"

LOL, we're going to hear some fine nukespeak during this trial!

From Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukespeak:_Nuclear_Language,_Visions_and_Mindset

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]

2. These defendants deserve MEDALs, not jail. They exposed a terrible lack of basic security at

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]

3. What kind of biblical graffiti?

Judges 4:21?

[Javaman]

4. 'Biblical graffiti' was the name of my christen led zepplin cover band in college, nt