MSNBC Reporting Less Than 1/3rd of Nuclear Plants Being Secured By Un-Armed National Guard

MSNBC | 6-10-02 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

MSNBC is just reporting a story that has come out this afternoon that less than 1/3rd of our nuclear power plants are being secured by armed guards. The power plants that are being guarded by National Guardsmen are not even using "live" rounds in their weapons. It seems that local state laws prohibit them from doing so as well as private companies paid to secure the plants from carrying live ammunition on site.

[My Favorite Headache]

This is just fabulous...we will never learn.

[Puppage]

God, forbid we arm them! Oh, that's right...guns are bad.

[My Favorite Headache]

It seems a bit of outrage is starting to happen in PA over this and the governor is figuring out what to do. WHY? OH WHY? Maybe someone on here can explain to me this that might be more versed in the matter, why are the National Guard NOT carrying live rounds? What happened to protecting ALL of our nuclear plants?

[mystery-ak]

Saw the report too, Im about ready to go to bed and pull the covers over my head!
Im less than 45 miles south of a N Power Plant....I want some iodine tablets or a bomb shelter would be better.

[My Favorite Headache]

Ping

[My Favorite Headache]

I was sitting here with my jaw dropped. WHAT does the U.S. consider securing our plants?

[mattdono]

MSNBC in another example of how they want the destruction of America.

Why don't they just announce: HEY AL QUAEDA, PLEASE ATTACK US NOW, YOU WON'T EVEN GET SHOT AT!

< These phucking idiots need to know when to keep their trap shut.

[pabianice]

"My God! What would happen if a guard started shooting at at someone who was trying to blow-up a nuclear plant? The 'freedom fighter' might get hurt!"

-- Sarah Brady

[mystery-ak]

How do they plan on stopping somebody?.....*Stop or I'll shoot*.....do they just plan on pistol whipping them if they get close enough...un&%$&@#&believible!

[mhking]

[MrNeutron1962]

Yes, this is the current State Law in Connecticut, it prohibts guards from possesing "Assult Weapons" in any facility in the state. I think its time for the US Government to make the owner controlled areas of Americas Nuclear Plants federal reservations.

[First_Salute]

It's the Bush [still running the Clinton] Administration at work; an enormous and soon to be much larger federal bureaucracy about which there is much comment, here, "in the name of our security" ... without acknowledging that the federal government already has all the power it needs, money too.

Our resources, we should be arranging for a long haul, multi-front war --- but we are hell-bent on wasting our money on more D.C. Beltway federal office buildings.

Instead of efficiency and application, we get enlargement and appropriations.

The President, or a party of officers whom he tasks, can organize the flow of information which the current hysteria has cried out for in the usual media-prompting's "something must be done about it(!) --- without any addition of the proposed federal cabinet level department, "homeland security."

The President does not trust our pilots with weapons.

Only federal agents are to be trusted.

The outrage, here, should be here, at Free Republic where more stalwart folks, who would otherwise make a study of wartime and the less glamorous duties of logistics, security, etc. (ie. the matters of war and warfare not rousing with frontline action(!)) ... and thereby observe that the federal government and the Bush [still running the Clinton] Administration is preparing to re-invent the wheel.

[My Favorite Headache]

I was thinking that very thing as they reported it. I was saying to myself..."hmm..looks like they just gave a free pass for a truck to ram the joint with a bomb and let go...why are they saying this crap but not to scare the hell out of everyone and give the Islamic nuts a free pass? "

Yes I thought that all at the same time..:)

[TommyDale]

This is strange -- a similar thread a while back about the airports being "protected" by unarmed National Guardsmen was pulled from FreeRepublic!

[MrNeutron1962]

"Why don't they just announce: HEY AL QUAEDA, PLEASE ATTACK US NOW, YOU WON'T EVEN GET SHOT AT!

< These phucking idiots need to know when to keep their trap shut."

I disagree, the Pols have had nine months to change Connecticut's Law, and haven't done a thing. Only peoples outrage will change these idiots minds.

[My Favorite Headache]

Who has a copy of that nuclear plant map of the U.S.? I have seen it a few times on here...it needs to be posted and looked at more carefully.

[VRWC_minion]

Did they print maps and directions to the unprotected ones ?

[VRWC_minion]

In arabic.

[My Favorite Headache]

As much as I thank Jim Brady for his duty and service to protect the president...I really wish him and his wife would just give it a rest and let the PEOPLE reserve the right to defend themselves...ya know..like the Constitution allows/allowed us to?

[ReaganIsRight]

I worked at a two-plant GE designed reactor when they were new.

I believe the rad waste pools would kill anyone attempting to retrieve the stuff.

I think the guards were armed (1973).

The plant had a missile shield covering the top, which I have since heard would not be effective against an airliner.

I think the biggest danger would be a bomb that was able to disperse the rad waste, after the missile shield was compromised.

The government is beginning to empty these pools and store the waste at a controversial NV location.

They have to do something because the pools are filling up and the reactors won't work well after the fuel cells are used.