This will not be a symbolic effort by the state's environmentalists. This is a struggle that will be supported by Vermonters of all stripes, as it is about much more than question of why we would run a leaky reactor for twenty more years in order to generate hundreds of tons more of radioactive waste that cannot be made safe for tens of thousands of years. No, this is also a struggle where common sense folk are saying no to insatiable corporate greed and to federal government overreach. This is a struggle where informed Vermonters are asking why so many other industrialized countries are re-thinking or ending their nuclear power programs, while our officials blithely plow forward, hand in hand with their corporate sponsors, intoning a mantra of wishful thinking passed off as official wisdom. This is a struggle where Vermont tea party and progressive types will work hand in hand to rid ourselves of the scourge of parasites like Entergy in order to get to the job of living together and building a sensible future for our state. This will be a defense of our state's sovereignty and our own safety unlike any that has been seen in this country in decades.
We have acted together as a state in a legal and responsible manner. Our Vermont politicians have done their job. The governor and the attorney general are still working for us, but we will be there to do what they cannot if we are betrayed by the federal courts. There will be a reckoning, and just as happened in Westminster in 1775, the people will prevail.
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