Legal Opinion
United States v. Bonnie L. Urfer and Michael R. Sprong
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 26, 2002No. 01-3680, 01-3681PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The U.S. Navy has an ELF (extremely low frequency) system that broadcasts communications to submerged U.S. submarines that are armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles fitted with nuclear warheads. The ELF facility in Wisconsin (there is another in Michigan) includes a 28-mile-long antenna strung on wooden poles on federal government land. Urfer and Sprong, the defendants in this case, sawed down three of the poles, disabling the facility for 24 hours. They fastened literature denouncing nuclear-armed submarines on the poles and spray-painted “Nuremberg” on one of…
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