Team Obama 'nuclear security'
Lucky for Planet Earth, it was just 3 hippy refugees from the 1960s.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/us-usa-securtity-nuclear-idUSB...
U.S. nuclear bomb facility shut after security breach
By Mark Hosenball Reuters WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 2, 2012 6:50pm EDT
Three activists cut through perimeter fences to reach the outer wall of a building where highly enriched uranium, a key nuclear bomb component, is stored. The activists painted slogans and threw what they said was human blood on the wall of the facility, one of numerous buildings in the facility known by the code name Y-12 that it was given during World War Two, officials said.
The activists passed through four fences and walked for "over two hours" before reaching the uranium storage building, on which they hung banners and strung crime-scene tape.
Ralph Hutchinson, coordinator for the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, said the group's intention was not to demonstrate the lack of security at the plant, but to take a stance against the making of nuclear weapons. "It wasn't so they could show how easy it was to bust into this bomb plant, it was because the production of nuclear weapons violates everything that is moral and good," Hutchinson said. "It is a war crime."
The security failure was an embarrassment both for the security firm and for the National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, the Energy Department branch that operates U.S. nuclear weapons plants. "It was obviously a pretty serious incident," NNSA spokesman Joshua McConaha told Reuters.
The activists cut through two chain-link fences surrounding the sprawling facility and a third fence surrounding the ultra-secure enriched uranium stockpile building, known as the "Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility."
Peter Stockton, a former congressional investigator and security consultant to the Energy Department, expressed skepticism at government assertions the nuclear material was not at risk. "It is unbelievable this could happen," Stockton said. "The significance is outrageous. If they were terrorists, they could have blown open the door and got inside." The security breach was the "worst we've ever seen."
(Additional reporting by Mary Wisniewski in Chicago and Preston Peeden in Knoxville, Tennessee; Editing by David Storey and Peter Cooney)
Now for Scientific FACTS!!
First, the poster above is in ERROR about the half-life of Cesium-137. The half-life of Cesium-137 is 30 years, not 50 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137
It has a half-life of about 30.17 years, and decays by beta emission to a metastable nuclear isomer of barium-137...
Additionally, the fallout from both nuclear power (listed as "nuclear fuel cycle") and weapons tests ( listed as "fallout") is an extremely small fraction of what people are exposed to courtesy of Mother Nature. Courtesy of the Health Physics Society chapter at University of Michigan:
http://www.umich.edu/~radinfo/introduction/radrus.htm
Nuclear Fuel Cycle: <0.03% of total
Fallout: <0.03% of total
These figures predate Fukushima, but do include Chernobyl, which released much, much more than Fukushima.
Once again, the above poster makes claims of lies; but has no lead in his pencil.
Various
1) Confirm Cs-137 halflife is ~30yrs (early morning pre-coffee post)
2) Get scrude & quit pretending that you are an engineer
3) Dimensional analysis is a high-school level math skill
4) You have never demonstrated one iota of engineering understanding on any subject.
5) It is obvious that you NEVER learned to think like an engineer
What???
Where did I rely on dimensional analysis in the previous post.
Your claim that I don't know / think like an engineer is really vacuous; considering you didn't know about the Planckian distribution of thermal radiation; you also didn't know that explosives contained their own internal oxygen,.....
You make vacuous claims; but never seem to be able to back them up. You can't point to something I said and say, "This University website disputes that..."
So just keep fabricating to fulfill your self-righteous whims.
Whimper, Whine, PissNmoan
Rude Dog,
Your reading retention is lower than your reading comprehension, which is in the bottom quintile of the 'Special' kids.
Your unqualifed, stupid, blanket statements are laughable.
How are you coming along toward that GED?
Good luck with that. You will need it.
Vacuous Comments - as always.
The casual reader here has become accustomed to the vacuous claims of the above poster.
The above poster appears incable of citing a specific statement that I have made and offer a challenge to it. ( Actually, when he attempts, he digs himself in deeper by displaying an even more egregious lack of comprehension. )
The above poster can only make vacuous claims that my statements are stupid, or laughable. This poster has yet to demonstrate any of the claims made.
Note the hand-waving generalities. Nothing specific ( because he can't ).
One can't find fault with statements that are true and based on science.
This poster has been beaten at every turn; but is incapable of admitting it.
It's the same old narcissitic, self-righteous delusions that one comes to expect from the anti-nukes.
The Western World
Rude Dog,
The Western World (& Japan) are taking a giant step away from commercial nuclear power generation.
You are screaming alone, in the dark.
Your muffled sobs, and lying pretenses wrt 'science' and 'engineering' are laughable.
You will NEVER make a pimple on an engineer's butt.
WE are laughing at you. It is amusing to watch your gibbet twist slowly in the wind.
TTFN
????
There's been no great giant step away from nuclear power by the Western World. The nations that are big into nuclear power; the USA, France, UK, Sweden...are not shuttering any nuclear power plants. The only ones to announce some type of nuclear retrenchment are Japan and Germany. Germany was never really big in nuclear power. The reaction in Japan is understandable; but when the Japanese are confronted with the choice of using nuclear power or shutting down their industrial economy; they will choose to use nuclear. In fact, the Japanese Prime Minister is calling for restart of nuclear power plants:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/japan-restarts-nuclear-reactors/stor...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/world/asia/japans-prime-minister-order...
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/12061...
YAWN???
There's no muffled sobs. I have no financial interest in the nuclear power industry.
If the world turns away; that doesn't hurt me at all. However, it does hurt the world.
If the world does this based on "fear-mongering" and "junk science" from the likes of the above poster; that is just plain sad.
As a scientist, I will explain the science so that the world can make an informed decision, and not be rail-roaded into something against their interests by the lying anti-nuke crowd.
Once again I note the above post is nothing but vitriol; there is no intelligent content meant to inform.
Engineering 1
Engineers,
Actual Engineers routinely take rapid shortcuts and use approximations and models. A quick answer will often do ...
Pi ~ 3, Root2 ~ 1.4, 30 ~ 50
The approximation is correct ... enough, for the purposes at hand, A non-engineer, such as the Rude Dog, may pounce, as though a sub-order of magnitude error is 'WRONG'. Sort of like a dog on a bone. Engineers are trained to deal in Big O thinking (Order of Magnitude) .01, 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000 It is ingrained.
Never mind engineering 101, 210, 363, 421, 575, 602 ... 9999. Rude Dog FAILS at the starting gate. Everything he writes gives him away. Everything! We all tend to 'give ourselves away' ... in thousands of ways. There is not much point in hiding.
ERROR is NOT APPROXIMATION
Scientists and engineers use approximations when they don't have the correct answer available.
The problem here is that there is no difficulty to getting the correct answer for the half-life of Cesium-137; it is as close as a Google search.
With the above hand-waving; the above poster is not justifying an approximation, but is covering up for a mistake.
I might have given him the benefit of the doubt; but this MISTAKE is just the most recent in a long line of scientific ERRORS and MISTAKES that this poster has been perpetrating on the denizens of this forum.
When we were discussing thermal radiation, that is the glowing / emission of photons of an object because it is hot; the above poster thought that all radiation emission was independent. This is WRONG. There is a correlation to the radiation emitted at different wavelengths, as seen in the graphs shown here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation
The above poster in describing the operation of the shotgun shell at the tip of a "bang stick" used against sharks underwater postulated that even when submerged, the shotgun shell got enough oxygen from its watery environment to combust the explosive in the shotgun shell.
The above poster didn't know that explosives have the oxygen they need for combustion built right into their chemical composition. That's why so many high explosives are "nitrates". The nitrate radical is NO4 with 4 oxygen atoms built right into the explosive molecule. The amount of oxygen in the explosive relative to what is needed to combust the material is called the "oxygen balance":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_balance
As far as "quick answers" referenced above; it takes just as long to give the CORRECT answer of 30 years for the half-life of Cesium-137; as it does to give the INCORRECT answer of 50 years for the half-life of Cesium-137.
So what advantage is there in giving the INCORRECT answer?
Continue to PROVE the point
The Rude Dog continues to prove the point.
No engineer would argue (against) the notion of Big O
Much less DWELL upon the subject, on an Engineering Blog.
That is Stupid**3
Rude Dog, you continue to PROVE yourself to be as stupid as a gawdamn bucket of rocks.
And WE continue to laugh @ ewe
Wackenhut gets ‘whacked’
Wackenhut gets ‘whacked’
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/bw-y-12-says-wsi-transition-wi....
The National Nuclear Security Administration announced earlier today that it had formally requested the termination of WSI-Oak Ridge's security contract at Y-12.
B&W said all active Y-12 security police officers and "all other active union WSI Oak Ridge employees at Y-12 and the Central Training Facility" will be offered jobs with B&W at their current wages and benefits. "B&W Y-12 will honor the collective bargaining agreements with union employees," the contractor's statement said. "B&W Y-12 will also conduct an evaluation and hiring process for non-union WSI Oak Ridge employees who provide supervision and support to the security police officers at Y-12. WSI Oak Ridge employees at Y-12 and the Central Training Facility should continue coming to work as scheduled."
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/new-developments-in-y-12-secur....
The dominos just keep dropping.
Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Energy took steps to terminate the security contract of WSI-Oak Ridge, which has provided ‘protective force services’ at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant since 1999. There have been a series of personnel purges, at least half a dozen investigations, two congressional hearings, and a temporary shutdown of Y-12's nuclear operations in order to focus on security training.
Josh McConaha, spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, a sub-unit of DOE that oversees the nuclear weapons complex, said today the department had formally requested the termination of WSI's contract.
USA National Security … 2nd to Nun
"Y-12 Security: Second to Nun."
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/the-cardboard-box-strategy-at.html
An 82-year-old Catholic nun was able to … “penetrate the Oak Ridge plant's vaunted defenses, cut through four security fences and decorate the outside of the fortress-like facility that houses the nation's stockpile of weapons-grade uranium with peace graffiti.”
Outsourced National Security
G4S screwed up more than the London Olympics
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/world/europe/after-london-olympics-deb...
British security firm G4S shuffles management
By ALAN COWELL
Published: September 28, 2012
LONDON — G4S, a British company, failed to provide promised security staff for the London Olympics, forcing the army to deploy troops to make up the shortfall, on Friday announced a partial purge of its senior management.
After an internal investigation, G4S chief operating 0fficer David Taylor-Smith, the, and Ian Horseman Sewell, the managing director global events, resigned. But the chief executive, Nick Buckles, who acknowledged his company’s shortcomings to a parliamentary panel before the summer games, kept his job.
“The wall crumbled”
Boertje-Obed slammed his hammer into a cornerstone, created a hole, and a piece of the wall crumbled.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/boertje-obed-says-y-12-protest....
Greg Boertje-Obed, the last of three Plowshares protesters to be released from jail, said today the peace activists had been planning the break-in at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant for many months -- using publicly available maps and other resource materials to help guide their efforts.
The three protesters began their entry into the Y-12 around 2:30 a.m. on July 28. They cut through a fence behind a church that borders federal property northwest of the plant. They watched a couple of patrol cars pass on Bear Creek Road -- the main road leading into Y-12. After crossing the road, they had to cut through three high-security fences loaded with sensors and cameras in order to reach their destination. He was really surprised they were able to get through the middle fence, which had all sorts of tiny wires attached, without setting off alarms. He also said they were concerned fences would be electrified.
One of the symbols of the Plowshares movement is the hammer, and each of the protesters carried one. Boertje-Obed said he was carrying a small sledge hammer, while Rice and Walli had tiny, symbolic hammers. After reaching the uranium storage facility, Boertje-Obed said he slammed his hammer into a cornerstone. He said the blows created a hole, and a piece of the wall crumbled. Rice did the same with her tiny hammer, but they did not continue because the purpose was symbolic, not to create as much damage as possible.
The Hammer Song
If I Had a Hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UKvpONl3No
http://www.metrolyrics.com/if-i-had-a-hammer-lyrics-peter-paul-mary.html
Well, I've got a hammer
and I've got a bell
and I've got a song to sing
all over this land
It's the hammer of justice
It's the bell of freedom
It's a song about love between my
brothers and my sisters
all over this land
The guard force would have been dead as a doornail
What if they hadn't been pacifists?
A question that's driving investigations and has crossed many minds is this: “What if the middle-of-the-night intruders in late July had been a group of armed-and-trained terrorists instead of a trio of pacifists bearing candles, flowers and the Holy Bible?”
Peter Stockton, a senior investigator with the Project On Government Oversight, a watchdog group that has been a frequent critic of DOE security, said that's a very scary prospect. "The guard force, the way they responded, would have been dead as a doornail," Stockton said. "If, indeed, that was a real attack and had approximately a dozen guys, highly trained with explosives and all kinds of other materials, they could have gone through the wall of the HEUMF."
In a worst-case scenario, terrorists could have gained access to vaults where stocks of highly enriched uranium are stored and used the fissionable material to create and detonate on the spot an improvised nuclear device with a Hiroshima-like yield, Stockton said. "You simply cannot allow hands on the material (highly enriched uranium)," he said.
...
What if they hadn't been pacifists?
EXACTLY!!
One of the things that has NNSA and DOE miffed at how this was handled is that the facility at Y-12 has a "kill zone" around it. The whole idea is that the facility is so sensitive that you don't take the chance on whether the intruders are pacifists or terrorists. If they are so close to the facility that they are in the "kill zone", then the guards are supposed to shoot them on sight. It is literally "shoot first and ask questions later".
The guards here decided on their own that they were not going to kill these intruders because they looked harmless. What if terrorists dressed up like pacifists so that the guards wouldn't kill them?
The pacifists had better lay low and not attempt any more of these stunts in the future. I bet the word is out to all the guards at all the DOE / NNSA nuclear sites that if anyone is dumb enough to breach the fences and enter the "kill zone"; then they will get what they deserve; they will be killed.
Criminal Elements in government
Criminal Elements in government
There are several levels of offenses that particularly describe criminal misconduct, by officials. Beginning with the trivial, and following with generally increasing seriousness of offense:
Personal Violations:
Misuse and/or personal use of government files and investigative equipment
Violation of State/Federal misdemeanors
Common Law violations
Violation of State/Federal felonies
Subversion
Sedition
Constitutional Offenses:
Violation of laws under the color of authority
Civil Rights Violations (State/Federal Bills of Right etc)
Insurrection (Oath Breaking -Amendment XIV, §3-4 http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv )
Treason (Art III, §3, http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii)
Let the record reflect, that I am NOT presently accusing any federal officials of … Treason, in connection with these matters. The other offenses ARE explicitly on the table; and I favor, bringing the malefactors to (harsh) justice, for constitutional offenses.
Amateur "lawyer" above doesn't know the law.
Once again we are subjected to the ignorant bleating of those claiming the Constitution or some statute forbids some action. Once again, they are 100% WRONG
The of deadly force is codified in Federal law ( subsequently upheld by the US Supreme Court on numerous occasions) in Title 10 CFR 1047.7. Courtesy of the Cornell University Law School:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/1047.7
If a gunman discharges his weapon indiscriminately in a crowded shopping mall, the responding peace officers don't have to arrest and bring the miscreant to trial. If in their opinion, shooting and killing the bastard is necessary to ensure the safety of themselves and others; then they are allowed to use deadly force as prescribed in paragraphs (1) and (2) of the above.
Likewise, the above law prescribes that deadly force can also be used, as per paragraph (4), for protecting special nuclear material. If the protestors want to protest, then they are welcome to do so at the exterior fence of the nuclear facility. However, if they illegally gain access to the facility, then the use of deadly force is authorized. As stated in the above, the guard forces may issue a verbal warning, if deemed feasible, before shots are fired. However, warning shots will not be fired. If shots are fired, they will be shoot to kill.
Lon Tomohisa ‘Head-Shot Horiuchi’
http://www.progunleaders.org/H-S/
In 1992, while working at sniper position Sierra 4 Ruby Ridge, Idaho, West Point Graduate, FBI Special Agent Lon Tomohisa Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver with a 308 Remington rifle model M40A1, fitted with Unertl Scope. At the time, Vicki Weaver was holding her 10-month-old child, in one hand and a milk pail in the other.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) "Ruby Ridge Task Force" on 10 June 1994, delivered its 542-page report to the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility. The Report stated: "With regard to the two shots fired on August 22, we concluded that the shot did NOT satisfy the standard of "objective reasonableness" the Constitution requires for the legal use of deadly force. http://www.justice.gov/opr/readingroom/rubyreportcover_39.pdf
In 1997, Boundary County, Idaho Prosecutor Denise Woodbury, with the help of special prosecutor Stephen Yagman, charged Horiuchi in state court with involuntary manslaughter over his killing of Vicki Weaver.
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/215/986/608021/
The case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge on May 14, 1998, who cited the supremacy clause of the Constitution which grants immunity to federal officers acting in the scope of their employment. The decision to dismiss the charges was reversed by an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit, which held that:
“¶40 Besieged by a platoon of FBI agents with high-powered rifles, two armored vehicles and a helicopter, the suspects at Ruby Ridge posed no immediate danger. There was no chance they could escape and take hostages. There was plenty of time to call out a warning, and there were many occasions to give the suspects a chance to surrender. Instead, FBI Agent Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Mrs. Weaver. ¶41 A Senate Committee, the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility and a prior panel of this court all have concluded the shooting was patently unconstitutional.”
The surviving members of the Weaver family received $3.1M in 1995 to settle their civil suit brought against the U.S. government for wrongful deaths of 16 year old Sammy Weaver and Vicki Weaver.
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/weaver/weaveraccount.html
“anti-government hatred not seen since the Civil War”
"Ruby Ridge was the opening shot of a new era of anti-government hatred not seen since the Civil War"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20120820/us-ruby-ridge-20th-ann...
"Ruby Ridge was the opening shot of a new era of anti-government hatred not seen since the Civil War," said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which keeps tabs on hate groups. After Ruby Ridge, federal agents laid siege to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. It ended violently after 51 days on April 19, 1993, when a fire destroyed the compound after an assault was launched, killing 76 people.
Timothy McVeigh cited both Ruby Ridge and Waco as motivators when he bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. Ruby Ridge has been cited often by militia and patriot groups since. "What Ruby Ridge did was energize the radical right in a way it had not been in years," Potok said.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCNloTPLg-U
http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f54/tim-mcveigh-why-i-bombed-murrah-federa...
The Dog Ate the surveillance film
The FBI would produce surveillance footage of the Murrah Building blast, but the dog ate the film.
http://nation.foxnews.com/justice/2011/07/05/okc-bombing-tapes-go-missing
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2011/07/01/FBI-Official-to-Feder...
FBI Official to Federal Judge: OKC Bombing Videotapes 'Might Have Been Misfiled, Impossible to Know Where'
by Bob McCarty 1 Jul 2011 post a comment
In a response filed yesterday to a federal judge's order May 11, an FBI official offered no denials about the existence of video images captured by more than 20 surveillance cameras operating prior to 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, in the vicinity of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Instead, he explained that officials at the bureau merely cannot find the tapes and raised the possibility that they "might have been misfiled and thus could be located somewhere other than in the OKBOMB file (though it would be impossible to know where)."
Crimes against Humanity
Perhaps we could ADD
War Crimes
Environmental Crimes
Crimes Against Humanity
And I repeat, there are no TREASON charges preferred.
The rest generally remain 'on the table'.
Easy Guesses
Shall we play 'Hide & Seek'?
Hows about I guess your name, title and phone#?
Nah ... That would be way 2EZ
However, U can slither back into your viper's den.
Then we'll all 'Feel Better'.
TTFN
wenn es dem Esel zu wohl wird, geht er aufs Eis
All of the above
wenn es dem Esel zu wohl wird, geht er aufs Eis
(Complacency makes one reckless)
The deliberate execution, of peaceful protesters, constitutes the felony of murder. The PROPOSAL to execute citizens, by a sworn-in federal official, constitutes an action of insurrection (oath-breaking), under Amendment XIV.
So, are YOU yet another sworn-in federal official committing yet another act of insurrection? Or are you a sworn-in federal official trying to cover your criminal complacency at ORNL? Again, this is NOT an XOR.
Again, I shall presume … BOTH
'Team Obama', caught with their pants down ... again/still
Butt flappin in the wind
IMHO
WRONG!!
The deliberate execution, of peaceful protesters, constitutes the felony of murder.
It depends where they are. If they are outside the exterior fence of the facility; then they are protected against undue harm.
However, if they are within the facility where they aren't supposed to be - then they are fair game.
Some facilities have electric fences, or robotic automatic weapons. If they are in the wrong place; they get killed. If you are killed because you touched an electric fence around a US nuclear missile; your family can't sue because the fact that you were killed by the fence means you were someplace you shouldn't be.
We can't take the chance that people who look like pacifists, may actually be terrorists dressed that way. We don't want to cut the terrorists any slack when they are near our nuclear weapons, so we can't cut the pacifists any slack either. Protest outside, like you have a right to; but go inside where you have no business going, and you are dead meat.
Shooting an 'UnARMED' man ... literally
Perhaps Houston Texas police officer Mathew Marin should be your partner. It appears to be a perfect fit.
Officer Matthew Marin recently shot 45-year-old Brian Claunch who lost two limbs and sustained brain damage, in a train accident, for brandishing a ball point pen. Marin and Claunch both liked to draw. The former with a pen, the latter with a service revolver.
Contrary to the phrase, 'the pen is mightier than the sword'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/9565175/FBI-to-investigate-pol...
http://www.chron.com/opinion/letters/article/Letters-Police-and-an-unarm...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/fbi-investigates-matthew-marin-...
Repeat
Fair Game?
Dead Meat?
These statements will work wonders at your murder trial, for executing 82 Y/O Nuns, Peace Protesters and small children.
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/forum/218/team-obama-nuclear-security.2012-0...
See you there!
WRONG!!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!
Federal law in Title X CFR 1047.4 ALLOWS the use of deadly force in the protection of special nuclear material and nuclear weapons:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/1047.7
You can't be tried for murder when the Federal statute explicitly gives the officer the right to kill.
A peace officer that kills a person shooting in a shopping mall is also allowed to use deadly force to protect life. The illegal gunman doesn't have to hit or kill someone in order to be killed. His actions make him a "clear and present danger" or threat, and he can be killed before he kills someone else.
Congress holds threats to nuclear weapons and material in the same light. The person in the "kill zone" is a clear threat even before he accesses the material. In the interest of public safety, the tresspasser can be killed. Deadly force in this case is authorized by Congress - hence no murder charges.
You "amateur" lawyers don't know the law.
'cribbing' the security guard test
Crib the exam
If it is necessary to cheat, in order to pass the ORNL 'security guard' exam ...
Then perhaps the BRAWM Forum is a bit out of your league.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/another-y-12-shocker-wsi-offic....
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/y-12-security-contractor-says.html
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/cheating-it-certainly-can-be-p....
"WSI acknowledged today that test information was distributed inappropriately to guards at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in advance of a security evaluation" ...
Courtney Henry declined to name the protective force supervisor who distributed the test questions, but she indicated that the supervisor had received the questions from John Garrity, WSI's protective force director at Y-12. Garrity was "administratively reassigned" after the issue was raised in late August.
"He (Garrity) acknowledged his intention was to use the testing materials outside of their intended purposes."
Dumber than Forest Gump
Follows ... perhaps the most stupid statement EVER posted on the internet ...
"You can't be tried for murder when the Federal statute explicitly gives the officer the right to kill."
Ewe CAN damsure be tried for murder, for excessive force.
WRONG!!!
The statute defines what is excessive; and Congress has deemed that non-authorized people that close to secure facilities represent a threat in terms of a "clear and present danger".
Congress says it is not excessive to kill them.
Besides, many of these facilities have electric fences and robot guns to do the killing. You going to try the fence or the robot?
Nope - it's not excessive force when Congress says it is not excessive force.
Where did you study law? See if you can get your money back.
Just for giggles
We shall momentarily play along with the Y-12 wanna be 'security guard' ...
Strictly for grins ...
A passenger airliner is struck by lightning and manages to crash land, with survivors, near Oak Ridge Tennessee, with radios nonfunctional. Numbnuts will shoot them.
The Wizard of Oz returns to earth, from the Emerald City, in his hot air baloon, and lands inside the ORNL fence ... also killed by Numbnuts.
Former USA President GHWB is skydiving, and blown onto the reservation, with his jump team. Numbnuts adds their carcasses to his growing pile of stiffs.
Santa Claus is delivering Christmas packages to the good little boys and girls in the ORNL area, including the General's daughter. Numbnuts 'stitches' Santa and his 8 raindeer. Bye Bye Rudolf, Comet and Cupid!
LOL
While there IS a time and place for deadly force ... WE should ALL hope and pray ...
That numbnuts is NEVER allowed to handle sharp objects ... much less loaded weapons.
Facts not in Evidence.
First, I'm not a security guard, nor do I aspire to be one.
However, many facilities are protected by deadly force not all of it in human control. There are electric fences and robotic guns protecting facilities.
Should someone crash into an area protected by an electric fence surrounding a nuclear facility; they will probably be fried if they attempt to scale the fence. However, the likelihood of such a crash occurring is vanishingly small.
The protestors should confine their protests to outside the main fences where they belong. The protestors in this recent incident were fortunate that they chose a facility that didn't have the automatic forms of deadly force, and the guards that did respond made the mistake of being compassionate.
However, the next time the protestors attempt this, they probably won't be so lucky. They'll attempt to use their wire-cutters on an electrified fence, and will be fried crispy critters. Nobody will be charged with their murder.
It won't be murder; it will be their own damn fault.
Define … ‘National Security’
Define … ‘National Security’
Perhaps, WE merely have different ‘National Security’ priorities
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/09/12/FLOTUS-Obesity-Absolute...
FLOTUS: Obesity 'Absolutely' Greatest Threat To National Security
“No indication the events are connected”
“No indication the events are connected”
Just a typical Friday morning
http://posttrib.suntimes.com/news/porter/15143328-418/threat-made-to-vu-...
Valparaiso University has posted a campus alert about potential danger during chapel break period, which happens at 11:15 Friday.
Published September 14, 2012, 10:16 AM
http://www.kxan.com/dpp/news/local/austin/threat-evacuates-all-of-ut-campus
http://www.kxan.com/generic/news/livestream-one-kxan
Updated: Friday, 14 Sep 2012, 11:22 AM CDT
Published : Friday, 14 Sep 2012, 9:55 AM CDT
Jackie Vega
Caller claimed to be with al-Qaida, planted bombs
AUSTIN (KXAN) - The University of Texas is evacuating all of its buildings due to threats on campus after a caller claiming to be with al-Qaida said he placed bombs all over campus that would go off around 10 a.m. -- which has since passed.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/243182/group/homepage/
By: Associated Press report, Forum Communications
Students at North Dakota State University in Fargo and the University of Texas in Austin have been ordered to evacuate their respective campuses this morning because of bomb threats.
There was no indication that the two events were connected.
Heads Up, ‘Team Obama Nuclear Security'
UT Austin has TWO (2) nuclear reactors ‘On Campus’
The 2nd nuclear reactor is in the basement of the PMA building, (whatever its present name.}
And TAMU has one over in Bryan/College Station
http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/bomb-threats-evacuate-texas-n-dakot...
By JIM VERTUNO The Associated Press
Updated: 12:47 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2012
Published: 10:17 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2012
The University of Texas received a call about 8:35 a.m. from a man claiming to be with al-Qaida who said he had placed bombs all over the 50,000-student Austin campus, according to University of Texas spokeswoman Rhonda Weldon. He claimed the bombs would go off in 90 minutes and all buildings were evacuated at 9:50 a.m. as a precaution, Weldon said.
http://www.infowars.com/nuclear-reactor-facility-evacuated-in-austin/
Nuclear Reactor Facility Evacuated In Austin
Infowars.com
Friday, September 14, 2012
A research facility at the University of Texas in Austin that houses an active nuclear reactor has been evacuated after a man with a middle eastern accent claiming to be a member of Al-Qaeda warned authorities the campus had been booby-trapped with explosives.
UT’s JJ Pickle Research facility in North Austin was also evacuated. The facility houses a a fully functional nuclear reactor operated by the Nuclear Engineering Teaching Lab department.
The Pickle campus is protected by a guard shack that visitors have to pass through to enter the building.
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Oh great, ‘A Guard Shack’
Correction 3 UT reactors
Ooops 3,
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-massive-nuclear-secret-uncovered-in-aus... 15, 2012
The Infowars crew investigates a nuclear secret buried in Austin, Texas. A nuclear reactor started in the 60s is hidden beneath the monolith of the LBJ Library on the University of Texas campus, even as the nearby J.J. Pickle Research Center admittedly runs two research reactors. Meanwhile, nuclear waste is said to be dumped and sealed in limestone caves located in what was once the outskirts of Austin, according to an inside source.
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But don't worry there is a campus security Kiosk ... nearby
terrorists could have set up "interlocking fields of fire"
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/09/y-12-aftermath-winners-losers.html
What if they hadn't been pacifists?
Dr. Edwin Lyman, senior scientist for global security at the Union of Concerned Scientists and former president of the Nuclear Control Institute, said he's not sure about the potential for terrorists putting together a weapon on the spot at Y-12. He called the findings of the IG's investigation "stunning."
"The initial response was so far delayed that if these were adversaries who had the tools to go farther, to penetrate deep into the (uranium) facility, that would have given the adversaries a great tactical advantage," Lyman said. The terrorists could have set up their own "interlocking fields of fire" to seal off responders while others attempted to access the uranium vaults, he said.
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"while others attempted to access the uranium vaults"
Y-12 'always had a certain mystique'
"You can't buy that back for no amount of money"
If the Y-12 break-in was stunning, the fallout from it was equally so. It was not just the physical damage, which was fairly unsubstantial, but rather the deep damage to the image of Y-12, often called the Fort Knox of Uranium, a symbol of national security.
Restoring confidence in the plant that houses the nation's primary supply of bomb-grade uranium won't be easy. Dr. Bill Bibb, a retired DOE official who once headed the nuclear defense activities in Oak Ridge, said he's not sure if Y-12 will ever recover from the damage to its reputation. "The plant has always had a certain mystique that it was impregnable. You can't buy that back for no amount of money," Bibb said.
G4S Government Solutions (also known as WSI and Wackenhut) periodically staged media events to show off the latest armaments -- such the Dillon Aero Gatling gun, reportedly capable of bringing down low-flying aircraft or blitzing incoming terrorists with 3,000 rounds a minute of 7.62 mm ammunition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd4ghW8sL30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nug5FZgxuk
http://www.defensereview.com/dillon-aero-m134d-and-m134d-t-gatling-guns-...
http://military.discovery.com/videos/ultimate-weapons-dillon-aero-gatlin...
Who’s gotcher DAGG & U235 now? ... beech
Black Flag of Islam Flies Over American Embassy
Team Obama ‘Security’
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/18840
Black Flag of Islam Flies Over American Embassy in Tunisia as Attacks on America Continue Around the Globe
By Leader Staff. Published on 09/14/2012 - 12:38pm
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/world/africa/libya-attacks-came-in-two...
In Libya, Chaos Was Followed by Organized Ambush, Official Says
By SULIMAN ALI ZWAY and RICK GLADSTONE
Published: September 13, 2012
BENGHAZI, Libya — The mayhem here that killed four United States diplomatic personnel, including the ambassador, was actually two attacks — the first one spontaneous and the second highly organized and possibly aided by anti-American infiltrators of Libya’s young government, a top Libyan security official said Thursday.
The account by the official, Wanis el-Sharif, given to a few reporters here, was the most detailed yet of the chaotic events on Tuesday in this eastern Libyan city that killed J. Christopher Stevens, the first United States ambassador to be killed on duty in more than 30 years.
"Mahomet directed the U.S. ambassador before his death"
Team Obama ‘National Security’
"Mahomet directed the U.S. ambassador before his death"
"Allah Akbar"
Black Flag of Al Qaida
Clear enough
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/09/16/BREAKING-Video-Purports...
Graphic: Video Purports To Show US Ambassador Dragged From Benghazi Consulate
Breitbart Sep. 16, 2012
YouTube user "Abdalgadar Fadi" has uploaded a video on the Arabic language version of the video sharing site purporting to show US Ambassador Christopher Stevens dragged from the consulate in Benghazi. The translation of the text below the video reads: "Mahomet directed the U.S. ambassador before his death." The victim in the video appears to be wearing the same pants, belt and t-shirt seen in this photo of Amb. Stevens.
The validity of the video and the accuracy of the description of the events it depicts are still under investigation, but through Twitter and Facebook the video has already taken a life of its own.
UPDATE 9:15 PM ET
Various tipsters have offered differing interpretations of what they hear and witness on this video. The shouts of "Allauha Akbar" are clearly heard and many assume that the cry is meant as a celebration of the attack on the consulate and Amb. Stevens.
(John Sexton and Morgen Richmond contributed to this report)
A more accurate translation is probably more like, "Mahomet directed the U.S. ambassador before his death", as inserted above.
Mahomet, prophète de l'islam
The translation of the text below the video reads: "Moment directed the U.S. ambassador before his death" and the headline translates to: “U.S. Ambassador and the people of Benghazi rescue attempt before his death.”
Career Diplomat, Former Peace Corp
The Late Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, is NOT Your typical E-Bay Auction, 2-Bit-political hack,USA Ambassador; so I actually do ‘give a hoot’ about this Act of War.
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/193075.htm
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/09/12/chris_stevens_bio_amba...
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. He arrived in Tripoli in May 2012 as U.S. Ambassador to Libya. Ambassador Stevens served twice previously in Libya.
Stevens served as Director of the Office of Multilateral Nuclear and Security Affairs.
"He was born and raised in northern California. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley in 1982, a J.D. from the University of California’s Hastings College of Law in 1989, and an M.S. from the National War College in 2010. He speaks Arabic and French."
Inadequate Security … for a city dump
In Brief
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/IG-0868_0.pdf
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General, Office of Audits and Inspections
Special Report DOE/IG-0868 August 2012
Inquiry into the Security Breach at the National Nuclear Security Administration's Y-12 National Security Complex
We found that the response to the security breach at Y-12 was inadequate in several material respects. Although immediately aware that a number of alarms had been activated at the HEUMF, a Protective Force officer was not promptly dispatched to assess the situation. The trespassers were not physically observed by the Y-12 Protective Force until after they had severed three separate fences surrounding the HEUMF. The officer did not notice the trespassers until they approached the vehicle and "surrendered" to the responder.
Technology features critical to the security of HEUMF and other nuclear related facilities at Y-12 were inoperable and/or not properly maintained. Our inquiry disclosed that both Federal and contractor management officials at the site were aware that a substantial backlog of degraded and/or nonoperational security equipment existed.
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Inadequate Security … for a city dump (landfill)
The 1st Responder reacted appropriately
The 1st Responder called for backup, alerted his chain of command, and surveilled the general area, for actual THREATS, rather than ‘taking down’ and/or ‘taking out’ the 3 Peaceful Protesters.
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/IG-0868_0.pdf
A narrative has been excerpted from the clumsily written, CYA management ‘Hatchet Job’
The officer (1st responder) did not immediately secure the scene or neutralize the trespassers. The 1st responder did not notice the trespassers until they approached the vehicle and "surrendered”. The 1st responder remained in the patrol vehicle answering a cell phone call from a supervisor for a brief period. The 1st responder exited the patrol vehicle, did not draw a weapon, and permitted the trespassers to retrieve various items from backpacks they had apparently brought into the area adjacent to the HEUMF.
A supervisor arrived on the scene, and directed the 1st responder to cover the supervisor until protective gear could be donned. The 1st responder continued to dynamically survey the area, rather than cuffing the elderly, Peaceful Protesters.
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The 1st Responder (officer) reacted appropriately, to the ACTUAL INTRUDERS, 3 elderly and peaceful protesters. He attempted to stay alert to other intruders, and/or actual THREATS.
The first supervisor to arrive on the scene, was apparently as stupid as a bucket of rocks.
IMHO
The problem is....
The 1st Responder called for backup, alerted his chain of command, and surveilled the general area, for actual THREATS, rather than ‘taking down’ and/or ‘taking out’ the 3 Peaceful Protesters.
The problem is...the first responders couldn't be sure that the trespassers were peaceful protestors. They might look like peaceful protestors, but they could be terrorists dressed as protestors.
That's why DOE, using the authority granted it under Title 10 Code of Federal Regulations 1047.7, has established "kill zones" around various nuclear facilities. Courtesy of Cornell University Law School:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/10/1047.7
Anyone that enters such zones is supposed to be "taken out" immediately. You don't waste time attempting to determine whether they are benign protestors, or terrorists. The fact that they are where they are is enough "good cause" to dispatch these miscreants to the hereafter.
Many DOE / DOD installations use either electric fences or robot controlled machine guns like the Dillon Aero M134D that fire automatically:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s77T7UGIzrY
The protestors can attempt to plead their case to the robot, but I don't think they are going to get very far. That gun will make short work out of the protestors.
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Men-in-Black.html
BEE:"Humanoid?"
ZED:"You wish. Bring a sponge"
There was no threat for me to pull a gun
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/08/fired-y-12-guard-claims-hes-a.html
Security police officer, 52 Y/O Kirk Garland, was fired because he apparently wasn't rough enough with protesters during the July 28 predawn break-in at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge. In a telephone interview Friday from his Lake City home, Garland confirmed that he was the first security officer to arrive at the scene outside the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, where he encountered the three Plowshares protesters. He did not pull his gun or take other physical actions immediately because that wasn't necessary. He quickly established they were pacifist protesters, in part because of the messages spray-painted on the walls, and they obeyed everything he said.
The Aug. 10 termination notice from WSI-Oak Ridge, the government's protective force contractor, alleged “blatant disregard for the situation." Garland followed his training and "force continuum," which provides guidelines on how much force is needed in given situations. Among the accusations against him is that he turned his back on the protesters at one point while they lit a candle. "There was no threat for me to pull a gun.”
Having worked at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado for more than 20 years (1983-2004) and the Pantex warhead assembly plant in Texas for three years (2004-2007) before coming to Y-12, Garland said he had plenty of experience in dealing with demonstrators. "So I handled them the way I was trained to handle passive protesters."
'They are peace protesters.'
'They are peace protesters.'
20 feet from the ‘Guard Tower’
Sister Megan Rice, one of the three protesters, said Garland treated them with great maturity. "We would like to surround him with honor and thank him." "I would describe him as a very mature, thinking person," she said. "The way he moved and sized up the situation. I watched his face from the time he entered the area. Using his cellphone, I heard him say, 'They are peace protesters.' He was very calm. He never took his eyes off us." She added: "We were not touched for quite a while."
Rice said she and the other protesters -- Michael Walli, 63, and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 -- were able to read their entire statement, including Gandhi's views on nonviolence, before other guards arrived and handcuffed them. They were standing about 20 feet from one of the guard turrets that anchor each of the four corners of the HEUMF, which houses the nation's supply of bomb-grade uranium.
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Gandhi's views on nonviolence … are somewhat extensive …
http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/Gandhi'sstruggle.htm
http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil1.htm
http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/gandhi's%20view.htm
http://www.gandhi-manibhavan.org/gandhiphilosophy/philosophy_nonviolence...
Kirk Garland “followed his training!”
Perhaps the IGUA can enlighten Team Obama, that sometimes Hard_A-- and Dumb_A-- are synonyms.
Y-12 security police officer Kirk Garland was fired for following his training.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/08/another-security-casualty-at-y....
As has been reported previously, Y-12 security police officer Kirk Garland was fired following the July 28 intrusion by Plowshares peace protesters.
Randy Lawson, president of the International Guards Union of America, Local 3, confirmed that the
IGUA is challenging the firing of Kirk Garland, who “followed his training in dealing with protesters at the site”.
Posted by Frank Munger on August 29, 2012 at 10:37 PM
Kirk Garland “followed his training!”