[RockChucker]

"The sisters were convicted in April of obstructing national defense and damaging government property. On Oct. 6, they cut through a chain-link fence to reach a Minuteman III missile silo. They painted crosses with their blood on the 110-ton concrete silo lid and hammered on tracks that would carry the lid to firing position."

They got off easy. These are nukes we are talking about after all.

[FourPeas]

They got off easy.

That's what I thought. Five to eight sounds quite lenient. Considering that the most either one had previously served was 8 months, I guess they thought they'd continue just getting a slap on the wrist.

[Steve_Seattle]

If these nuns are so eager to stop evil, why don't they go trash an abortion clinic? Maybe it's because they wouldn't get such good press if they did that. And the previous poster who says the nuns probably figured they'd get easy time because they are nuns - that's probably exactly what they figured.