As I mentioned below, the point man in the Ethan Allen Institute’s UVM-sponsored, right-wing ambush of Arnie Gundersen during tonight’s VT Yankee “debate” is Howard Shaffer. Shaffer is a prominent member of Lynchburg’s Christian Nuclear Fellowship, which includes in its “about” page this purpose:
Believing that Christ is Lord of every aspect of our lives, our purpose is to encourage each other to live out our Christian faith day-by-day and to apply Christian principles, Christian ethics, and a Christian worldview in all aspects of our personal and professional lives.
And yet, as Caoimhin Laochdha detailed in the comments below:
“Mr. Shaffer, ignorant of regulatory policy, attempted to stifle Mr. Gundersen as well as run his legal bills by complaining to a State regulatory body. That agency, the Board of Professional Engineering, possess quasi-judicial disciplinary authority. This included the power to levy State fines (in the thousands of dollars) and the Board of Professional Engineering also has statutory authority to seek injuctive relief in civil court and/or refer people for criminal prosection. Mr. Shaffer’s intent was a not-so-thinly-veiled attempt to use a State Agency to smear Mr. Gundersen’s reputation through mere allegations of wrong-doing.
Mr. Shaffer did not realize, however, that this particular State agency has NO statutory (i.e. enabling Act) jurisdiction over Mr. Gundersen. It has zero statutory authority over non-licensees who do not run afoul of the agency’s Title 26 enabling Act. The Board neither gave Mr. Shaffer a hearing or bothered to investigate Mr. Gundersen. The Agency did not even ask Mr. Gundersen to answer Mr. Shaffer’s allegations nor did it even bother to call Mr. Gundersen to ask for “his side to the story.” Instead it had a staff person send Mr. Shaffer a “pound sand” letter, and the Agency pointed out to Mr. Shaffer that, even without an investigation, Mr. Shaffer’s mean-spirited allegations raise no legal issue for State consideration. “
WWJD, indeed? Click here to view the official response to Shaffer’s Christ-like attempt to harass/intimidate Gundersen out of the same public arena he now gets his taxpayer-funder opportunity to ambush him in.
I think you must mean ‘pound sand’
From the link:
“We believe that God is the Creator of the universe, which includes all nuclei, as well as radioactivity and nuclear energy, which we should therefore consider to be His good gifts to mankind.
We count it a privilege to be involved professionally in investigating and harnessing this source of God-given energy and making it available to benefit humankind, in a safe and responsible way. We are also committed to bearing witness to Christ (by word and deed)[..]”
Another cult! And I though I had seen them all.
that man’s a christian scientist!
Mr. Shaffer speaks with a consistent voice in support of VY, and to my ear he has been reasonable. He is smart and well informed, and has a great deal of experience with VY, first as a start-up engineer, and then as a retired engineer. I don’t agree with everything Mr. Shaffer says, but he certainly has a right to speak him mind on this issue, and I appreciate hearing his point of view.
As to his pointing out that Mr. Gunderson isn’t technically a nuclear engineer, please keep in mind opponents of the VY station have been criticizing Uldis Vanags, the State Nuclear Engineer, for the same thing.
Mr. Shaffer shouldn’t be vilified.
There was a last-minute report that Mr. Shaffer would not be participating because he was in the hospital. So let’s take him and his tactics off the table.
Reportedly substituting for the ailing Howard Shaffer was Meredith Angwin, “the pro-VY blogger who is running the Ethan Allen Institute’s VY-promotional Energy Education Project,” as Odum parsed the participants in the previous diary.
NanuqFC
The human race has today the means for annihilating itself … by careless handling of atomic technology through a slow process of poisoning and of deterioration in its genetic structure. ~ Max Born (Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1954; from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, June 1957)
The whole idea of the Christian Nuclear Fellowship and its insane attempt to make radioactive nuclei into warped religious reliquary brings back memories of “A Canticle for Leibowitz,” in which humanity, post-nuclear-apocalypse, finds itself in a new dark ages. But in a magnificent twist, the primary religious document preserved by the monks of the times, in the end, after millenia of attempts to decipher its meaning, turns out to be the instructions for building a nuclear bomb.
The overall lesson: humans are deeply fallible, and we need to be very careful where we place our faith…
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if, someday, a leaked email or two laid out the way in which the nuclear industry created this as a psy-ops group in order to manipulate some of the more gullible Christians in our country.
I’m confused, by this:
Anyone who claims the bible is ‘historic’ is questionable in my mind. Unless they are saying it is part of history. But am I making a leap here in thinking that when they say:
they really believe that the bible is history?