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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable [View all]PamW
(1,825 posts)15. It turned out better than it could have.
I'm just saying that the long prison term she got is better than what could have happened.
What if the fence they cut with the bolt-cutters had many thousands of volt of electricity running through it? Today she would be a burnt mound of carbon had that fence been electrified.
Pretty DAMN STUPID to take that type of risk regardless of your cause. It doesn't take much in the way of brains to march and chant and do as your "handlers" instruct you.
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Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable [View all]
kristopher
Jan 2014
OP
By that standard MLK, Ghandi, Thoreau, John Lewis, Bill McKibben, Nelson Mandela,
Iterate
Jan 2014
#23
Not surprised you'd call that (too short) list a "rogues gallery" and hold them "in EXTREME disdain"
Iterate
Jan 2014
#30
Martin Luther King protested using Civil Disobediance, do you think he shouldn't have?
CreekDog
Jan 2014
#36
Nuclear power justifies extending use of deadly force authority to rent-a-cops?
kristopher
Feb 2014
#40
Well, all of our energy systems are vulnerable--if not to people trying to breach
MADem
Mar 2014
#46