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These guys sneaked into a nuclear (weapons) facility. Which I guess is a very critical and important facility to the US.

How can we know they weren't real spies?

There is a difference between freedom of expression, and cutting a nuclear facility fence. Try to convince people about the dangers of the weapons and not cut the fences.

Cutting the fences will obviously put you in jail. Maybe the sentence was too harsh, but I have little sympathy for them.

If they were detained for speaking about the dangers of nuclear weapons, they'll not have only my sympathy but also any possible help I can give.

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    > Maybe the sentence was too harsh, but I have little 
    > sympathy for them.

I cannot rightly comprehend the sociopathy that assembles the facts of this case and renders a judgment like the above. I hope you never need stand before a jury of your peers.

Did you miss the part where he said NUCLEAR WEAPONS FACILITY?

There are absolutely zero places I would want more defended than a place holding nuclear weapons. Hell, one of the points used to oppose nuclear power plants is the fact that they have nuclear fuel at all, and that kind of fuel doesn't even blow up in a nuclear yield. But nuclear weapons can!

Precisely. And that's why the managing director of that facility should be the one charged with 35 years in prison for not protecting it well enough, and thus endangering the safety of the United States of America. These people should be only given the original charge of trespassing and spend at most a year in jail.

Which is why we should be giving these three people a medal and sending to prison whoever was responsible for the incompetency of the security force.

We were lucky and need to be thankful that three pacifists (including a nun of all people) and not actual terrorists were the first ones to find a major hole in the security of this facility. A facility, mind you, tending to weapons that could destroy human civilization many times over.

I want them defended too, which is why everyone in charge of security should be punished to the fullest extent of the law for their incompetency, as well as everyone up the food chain reprimanded for their poor oversight.

I expect that fence to be at least somewhat resistant to a group of pacifists cutting a whole in it. I expect it to be electrically charged.

I expect that EVERY camera is ALWAYS working and when ONE goes down that at least 20 people are notified "Fix this or you are fired". EVERY instance of failure should be notified.

The fact that cameras weren't working at a "secure nuclear facility" for 6 months is what should scare you.

because spies would probably not be spraying graffiti, sitting around singing hymns and waiting to be arrested?

If your escape strategy is to hang around being as obvious as possible, and then hoping for only a short prison sentence, you've probably made some poor career choices.

How can we know they weren't real spies?

Apart from what others have said, two are retired armymen and, more importantly, one has been a catholic nun for the last 60 years.

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