VERNON — It's hard to believe that on Tuesday, Aug. 30, during Vermont's recovery from a 100-year flood, 10 anti-nuclear protesters would break the law and trespass at Vermont Yankee.
But they did.
It's difficult to understand why the protesters used locked chains so that first responders had to be diverted from helping Vermont's citizens.
But they did.
It's incomprehensible that the protesters would ignore Vermont's local law enforcement when they explained the extent of the natural disaster and asked them to leave peacefully (before six were arrested).
But they didn't.
You'd think that the protesters would have had sense enough to have known that immediately following a devastating flood is not a good time to protest as Vermonters look for our missing and mourn our dead.
But they didn't.
They just don't get it; they really don't.