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Judge says Y-12 protesters not contrite as snow delays sentencing

Posted at 1:06 pm January 29, 2014
By John Huotari 5 Comments

Y-12 Plowshares Protesters

Pictured above are the three anti-nuclear weapons protesters who broke into the Y-12 National Security Complex on July 28, 2012, and vandalized a uranium storage building. From left, they are Michael Walli, Megan Rice, and Greg Boertje-Obed.

KNOXVILLE—The three protesters who cut through fences and vandalized a uranium storage building at the Y-12 National Security Complex in July 2012 have not shown contrition or accepted responsibility for what they’ve done, a federal judge said during a Tuesday sentencing hearing.

The three anti-nuclear weapons activists—Greg Boertje-Obed, Megan Rice, and Michael R. Walli—have acknowledged that they splashed human blood, hung crime scene tape, and hammered on the side of the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility on July 28, 2012. They have freely given interviews to reporters and admitted that they spray-painted slogans—they called them “Biblical graffiti”—on the side of the HEUMF, which stores most of the nation’s bomb-grade uranium.

But acknowledging their actions is not the same as contrition, U.S. District Judge Amul R. Thapar suggested during a Tuesday sentencing hearing at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Courthouse in Knoxville. To accept responsibility, the trio would have to show contrition and remorse, and acknowledge that what they did was wrong, Thapar said.

However, the defendants have fought the government at every step in the 18-month-old case, the judge said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Federal, Government, National Nuclear Security Administration, Slider, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12, Y-12 National Security Complex, Y-12 Security Breach Tagged With: Amul R. Thapar, Andy Anderson, B&W Y-12, Bill Quigley, Chrissy Nesbitt, civil disobedience, Greg Boertje-Obed, HEUMF, Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, Howard H. Baker Jr. Courthouse, Jeffrey E. Theodore, Megan Rice, Michael R. Walli, Michele Naar-Obed, National Nuclear Security Administration, NNSA, nuclear weapons, protesters, restitution, Rodney L. Johnson, security breach, sentencing, Transform Now Plowshares, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. District Court, uranium, WSI Oak Ridge, Y-12 National Security Complex, Y-12 protesters

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