7 Financial Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

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11. Ok.

You say that "Getting to the outside of a secure building and spray painting it is quite a long way from getting in and removing nuclear materials". Okay then, how is 27 years behind bars a reasonable sentence for her infraction?

I rather doubt that she'll spend anything like 27 years behind bars. That's just the maximum sentence for what the jury convicted her of. She'll probably end up on the low end of the range with much of it outside of prison (perhaps all of it). She may even be able to get the sabotage charge thrown out on appeal. But your point is pretty silly. Just as there are a whole range of options for the offense, there's a whole range of possible punishments. Sentencing guidelines account for this as well. There isn't any reason to believe that she'll get the maximum sentence for her offense. Actually stealing weapons-grade material is orders of magnitude worse and there isn't any reason to believe that her punishment will match that crime.

you are equating nuclear waste / weapons grade materials, with not liking what some random person says?

Nope... and it's pretty ridiculous of you to pretend otherwise. It was just another way of saying "you can make your point... and even break the law and get arrested... without stepping over clear lines."

We have a long history of civil disobedience in this country.

Yep... which does not make just any action that you want to call civil disobedience suddenly acceptable. Chaining yourself to the gatehouse is civil disobedience. Cutting through multiple layers of security fencing protecting nuclear weapons isn't. If the third fence had been high voltage and she died trying to cross it... the facility would have nothing to apologize for.

The fact that she couldn't come up with something more appropriate form of protest certainly leaves her in the "less than creative" camp if not stupid.