Nuclear Info Kept From Congress and the Public

Thermite writes "On March 6, 2006 an accident occurred at Nuclear Fuel Services in Erwin, Tennessee. According to reports, almost 9 gallons of highly enriched uranium in solution spilled and nearly went into a chain reaction. Before the accident in 2004, the NRC and The Office of Naval Reactors had changed the terms of the company's license so that any correspondence with Nuclear Fuel Services would be marked 'official use only.' From the article: 'While reviewing the commission's public Web page in 2004, the Department of Energy's Office of Naval Reactors found what it considered protected information about Nuclear Fuel Service's work for the Navy. The commission responded by sealing every document related to Nuclear Fuel Services and BWX Technologies in Lynchburg, Va., the only two companies licensed by the agency to manufacture, possess and store highly enriched uranium.' The result was that the public and Congress were both left in the dark for 13 months regarding this accident and other issues at the facility."

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Congress Isn't for Everyone

[Doc Ruby]

Duh, Congress isn't "everyone". The whole point of a republic is to represent the governed people who consent to let those representatives make decisions and hear info on our behalf.

The core hypocrisy of "Republicans" is how they hate the republic, preferring a monarchy whose benign neglect amounts to corporate anarchy.

This kind of Republican fraud goes well beyond the $5 word "hypocrisy". Republicans prefer rulers to be mere actors on a political stage, fed their lines from under the platform, written by their corporate sponsors.

Republicans have studied Ben Franklin's famous reply to a new American's question about what kind of government, "a republic or a monarchy", they'd just created in Independence Hall:

A republic, if you can keep it

Knowing they could steal it best by first stealing its wardrobe. And they studied their Party's first president, Lincoln, especially well his (often attributed) observation that

You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.

So they make sure that when all of the people sometimes aren't fooled, that we're as discouraged as possible from doing something about it. Like scaring us with images of "terrorists and enemy combatants".

It's not going to work this time.

Re:Congress Isn't for Everyone

[Doc Ruby]

Anonymous Republican Coward can't read because they were "home schooled" ("babysat") for Jesus.

Re:Congress Isn't for Everyone

[Doc Ruby]

You can tell from my - that you're a Republican apologist, as I amply explained in my last post - that I'm not a "democrat"? That I don't support and defend the power of the people to make our own government? Because I'm not interested in your formula of promoting a "role model" for people to tell to follow, but rather to let people decide for themselves. Just like a Republican who hates the republic to also get exactly backwards the proper behavior of a democrat.

You're talking nonsense, literal absurdity. Pounding you again will just make the rubble bounce. And certainly not inject any sense into you. I propose ceasing to waste any more time humoring your blather.

Goodbye.