AW: [ RadSafe ] News Item Online - Belgian Activists Breach NuclearWeapons Site

[Steven Dapra]

Feb. 5

         I'm not certain of how to construe 
this.  Without imputing anything specific to 
anyone, no one is suggesting that the guard(s) 
should have shot any of these intruders.  They 
should have been detected when they crossed the 
first fence, and either arrested for trespassing, 
or escorted off the base.  Their getting as far 
as they did bespeaks gross incompetence on the 
part of the so-called guards.  Their intrusion 
also doesn't say much for the general level of 
security at this base, nor does it say much for 
the specific security procedures.

         Naturally, the intruders would not have 
been able to detonate (or steal, etc.) any of the 
weapons.  Their purpose is to make NATO look 
foolish or incompetent, or both.  They succeeded.

Steven Dapra


At 07:54 AM 2/5/2010, Franz Schönhofer wrote:
>Come on and take a few seconds (or minutes) to consider this "event": If the
>guards had shot in defence a few of those "activists" - what would the
>outcome have been? An outraged worldwide cry that peaceful protestors were
>killed by the reckless pronuclears.
>
>Personally I do not believe that nuclear weapons are necessary or wanted.
>Moreover I do not believe that any of these "groups" would be able to fire
>any nuclear weapon - so actual risk is zero - but try to explain this to
>journalists! Those journalists depend on horror stories - not such rubbish-
>no honorary......
>
>Those events are not to be taken from a serious, scientific point of view -
>politics and mass media transfer is what fits their agenda.
>
>Franz
>
>Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
>MinRat i.R.
>Habicherg. 31/7
>A-1160 Wien/Vienna
>AUSTRIA
>
>
>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im Auftrag
>von blreider at aol.com
>Gesendet: Freitag, 05. Februar 2010 02:01
>An: radsafe at radlab.nl
>Betreff: [ RadSafe ] News Item Online - Belgian Activists Breach
>NuclearWeapons Site
>
>
>This story was on a few sites.  Not directly an HP issue, but I thought it
>would be of interest.  The story says that on Feb 4th (today) Belgian peace
>activists climbed over a fence at a NATO airforce site, walked across a
>runway, and then breached a double security fence and walked to an area
>where 10-20 American nuclear weapons possibly are stored.
>
>If this is true this is a big breach of security.
>
>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2010/02/kleinebrogel.php
>
>Barb
>
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