Fukushima No. 1 engineer’s warning to Taiwan: Nuclear power unstable

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31. Rouges Gallery

There are people like ML King and Nelson Mandela that were truly fighting for the inalienable rights of people. Not even a majority of the people can deny anyone their inalienable rights; and the USA was founded on that principle.

However, there are others who just don't like the choices that the majority made when it comes to something that the majority certainly has a right to do.

For example, the Navy has to have a place where they can test fire their munitions and have their drills and war-games. That's not violating anyone's rights. So the Navy reserves some section of land, like a beach in Puerto Rico or somewhere else. You might not like where the Navy and or Congress decided to put their test range; but it's their call, and they aren't violating anyone's rights. If you protest and they move the test range; it only means that you moved it out of one backyard and into someone else's backyard. Big deal.

Nuclear power is LEGAL in the USA as well as in India. If people are protesting, they are protesting a LEGAL activity. They are not protesting for rights; they are protesting because they don't like a CHOICE made by the government. The protesters have to stay within the code of conduct allowed for protests. In the USA, that means you don't block streets, or inhibit the legal travel of other citizens....

If protesters don't behave properly; then they are subject to all the sanctions that the local laws allow.

I don't know where some people got this "idea" ( term used loosely ) that if they are protesting, then they have free reign to violate the law. About 20 years ago, the local nuclear protestors put a proposition on the county ballot that said the county sheriffs department couldn't arrest them if they were protesting. As one might have expected, that bit of self-serving trash got defeated in a landslide.

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