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February 15, 2006
COMMUNITY VIEWPOINT Yucca Mountain essential to the nationBy PAUL J. MILLER
Of course there are also those who have been temporarily led astray. Such a situation is obviously not set in stone and it is time we all become aware of it. We who have not been deceived are waiting for our brothers and sisters to return to our side. The understanding of this condition always lurks in the back of our minds but many or perhaps most don't see it yet. Propaganda against our own country emanates constantly from the press and splashes all over the place. Of course it isn't an accident. Internal and external enemies of the United States constantly plot to undermine the power of our country. Those leading this sick and treasonous attack apply a constant destructive hammering through propaganda against any proposed improvements in the storage of depleted nuclear material. For several reasons this material must be stored for a time, probably years, following its use. Eventually it will be cost effective to reprocess it into a form that is again useful. Enemies of our country have tricked many in the public into opposition to this crucial storage. A wise person can normally understand that secure storage is best. Such storage in special hardened underground sites, located in a few relatively remote places around the country, being something good for our country, is especially targeted to be stopped. Those who despise America are behind this gambit but plenty of others, folks easily manipulated, also pile on. Presently, the bulk of the so-called "waste" is contained in barrels sitting on the surface of the ground right beside the reactors where it was used. Please consider that transportation of this material to more secure and centralized locations is good logic, yet it is being strongly opposed by an assorted bunch of people mindlessly careless of our national security and the United States can only be weakened if these tactics are successful. Politicians often realize that the public has been largely fooled by the propaganda. So, mindful of political considerations and upcoming elections, they will renounce the good storage plans best for our country. They will at least appear to join the mob screaming to stop utilization of these facilities. Even the most powerful politicians and other officials cannot apply the power the major media, newspapers and television primarily, can wield. The momentum of the misguided outcry against the excellent storage facilities such as Yucca Mountain (in Nye County) is powerful. Only the truth can begin to slow and eventually to stop this nonsense. Nuclear power is essential to supply ample economical electric power for the greatest superpower the world has ever seen. Failure to fully utilize nuclear energy to provide the crucial cost-effective power would result in a gradual weakening of U.S. strength. This would not be completely destructive immediately but it would begin loading the U.S. economy unnecessarily to increasingly more painful levels. Eventually, the load would be destructive. Any actions designed to weaken the United States must be thwarted. We must all work to strengthen, not weaken, our country. Those directing this plot and the many citizens who have been unwittingly swept up in the madness must now be recognized for who they are. Hopefully, as the truth is made available, the numbers of ordinary Americans previously confused will cease to be and will come to realize the trickery and to be able to identify the spoilers who have been manipulating them. The primary angle being played by the enemy is the idea that transportation of "nuclear waste" to the storage sites would be too dangerous for the public. Secondarily, the locations of the sites are presented as also endangering the people living and working in each region where the sites are located. Great exaggeration in describing an imagined lack of safety is cunningly emphasized. These false claims are repeated constantly. In advertising anything, repetition is the key. In this case, the repetition is massive. It reminds me of the mindless saluting we have all seen in the old Nazi propaganda films wherein the crowds, having been swept away from decency and independent thought, as condensed mobs, repeat over and over their cheers for Hitler, perhaps the most evil individual of all time. While such as Hitler constantly seek to enslave the world, the United States seeks to provide for a future, which is free of slavery. Our country cannot be secure as long as it must share the Earth with Hitlers, Saddams, and their kind. Lands ruled by these evil ones will always be refuges for terrorists and funds provided by these murderous despots will smoothly flow under the table to those terrorists until we end it. Always these dictators will threaten our country until they are eliminated. A strong United States can only exist if crucial electricity is plentiful and inexpensive. Nuclear power plants are the only way we can have this strength. And, the number we have today is far too few. U.S. troops are now at war with terrorism in lands wherefrom it originates. The majority of people in these places are potentially our allies if they are freed from the oppression, which is the fertile soil feeding the terrorist plague worldwide. Americans will never be secure until terrorism is defeated and a strong America is essential to complete this task. All that Americans produce and provide is keyed to an efficient economical electrical system from coast to coast. So, here we are, back to nuclear production of electricity as an essential element for our strength and a bright future. The truth is that everywhere in the world where nuclear material is mined, refined and transported to users, said material is conveyed to those places over the roads and by various other routes. This has been true ever since uranium was discovered. Have you ever asked yourself how the fresh ore, and material having been refined in stages, gets to the nuclear reactors all over the United States and where ever in the world such facilities operate? Think about it. The same is true regarding delivery of nuclear weapons to military facilities. This isn't the television fantasy series "Star Trek." Matter is not transported magically by being "beamed" from one place to another. It is proper and natural to transport the material we all need to make our country strong. Our nuclear power plants provide absolutely essential power at a price acceptable to the market. Do we really wish to pay several times the current rate for electricity? Anyone foolish enough to say "yes" is indeed the maximum type of fool. If we breach the laws of economics by ignoring the vital need for cheap electricity, we will condemn our country to go the way of the Roman Empire. It is also most imperative that our military forces possess and maintain at maximum readiness all of the best nuclear weapons our great country can provide. Deterrence is still fundamental to our national security. These devices have always been transported by normal means as there are no other means. Every country in the world in possession of such materials and devices transports them the same way. The bold red herring of a screaming fit being flung broadly by the creatures bound and determined to weaken the United States is primarily based in the bogus concept that the public is being endangered by the simple transportation and eventual secure storage of the somewhat depleted nuclear material. What balderdash! Imagine the humiliating position our country would descend into, a downward spiraling condition, a pit from which there would be no escape if the enemies of our country were successful in their cunning method. The Yucca Mountain (project) is an excellent place to store depleted material and associated items. Furthermore, the state and local economies are now and will continue to benefit from such utilization. The enemy seeks to divide and conquer the first free country on Earth over phony crises actually nothing more than extensively and artfully designed diversions from truth. But more and more of us refuse to be fooled. Miller writes from Pahrump. |
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