"The security guards at a nuclear weapons plant [in Tennessee] who failed to stop an 82-year-old nun from reaching a bomb fuel storage building earlier this year were also caught cheating on a re-certification exam, according to an internal investigation by the Department of Energy, which owns the weapons plant...

On July 28...the [Catholic] nun, Sister Megan Gillespie Rice, and two [Catholic] accomplices cut through three layers of fence, splashed blood on a building housing bomb-grade uranium, performed a 'Christian ritual' and then waited to be apprehended. A subsequent investigation found that many security cameras had been disabled long before the break-in."

-- New York Times

How is it that a couple of elderly peaceniks could penetrate a triple-layer, high-security perimeter, stroll past a guard force armed with automatic weapons, and get close enough to walk away with a canister of bomb-grade uranium without being detected? Who disabled the security cameras? Who else might have entered the facility during that time, using these nutters as a diversion?

Meanwhile, in the name of "state security", the rest of us are stripped, groped and herded like cattle just to get on an airplane. We are even forced to pay the salaries for the inept, arrogant twits and their bureacratic masters. What a sick joke!

UPDATE: In May 2013, the intruders were convicted of felony trespassing, property damage, and "intent to interfere with or obstruct the national defense of the United States". Liberal commentators immediately began whining that the charges were too extreme. The protestors could have staged a noisy event outside the gate complete with media coverage, but they chose to cut the fences and sneak into the facility at 3 am instead.