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Turning our attention to the news -
I don't recall Flordia being 'environmentally sensitive' - do you? My two cents? Offshore drilling in California is opposed by our governor, the guy who just cut everyone's pay back to minimum wage and booted everyone else while they fight out the budget. (Stay tuned - the controller isn't backing everyone's actual checks down, he's concerned about the lawsuits from the unions and well he might....)
We kinda know there's no long-term solution there, and drilling causes lots of long-term issues, doncha know.
I'll throw rocks.
An Army scientist committed suicide as federal prosecutors readied an indictment alleging he mailed anthrax-laced letters in 2001 in what U.S. authorities said Friday may have been a bizarre attempt to test a vaccine for the deadly poison.
The developments marked an unexpected turn in an episode that rattled the United States shaken only a few weeks earlier by the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Letters containing anthrax powder turned up at congressional offices, newsrooms and elsewhere, killing five and sending numerous victims to hospitals with anthrax poisoning.
The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, worked at the Army's biodefense labs at near Washington for 18 years until his death on Tuesday. He had a long history of homicidal threats, according to papers recently filed in local court by a social worker.
Remember the whole scare over anthrax, post 9/11? Looks like it was one of our own. And now, it looks like we won't ever know for sure, because the coward bailed on us. Take a look at the story - and remember that terrorists != any group. You can find them anywhere. You should expect to find them everywhere. And it's necessary to deal with them - when and where you find them - like the criminal dogs they are, no more and no less. Criminals.
Ghad, what did I have to right about that one....
We kinda know there's no long-term solution there, and drilling causes lots of long-term issues, doncha know.
I'll throw rocks.
An Army scientist committed suicide as federal prosecutors readied an indictment alleging he mailed anthrax-laced letters in 2001 in what U.S. authorities said Friday may have been a bizarre attempt to test a vaccine for the deadly poison.
The developments marked an unexpected turn in an episode that rattled the United States shaken only a few weeks earlier by the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Letters containing anthrax powder turned up at congressional offices, newsrooms and elsewhere, killing five and sending numerous victims to hospitals with anthrax poisoning.
The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, worked at the Army's biodefense labs at near Washington for 18 years until his death on Tuesday. He had a long history of homicidal threats, according to papers recently filed in local court by a social worker.
Remember the whole scare over anthrax, post 9/11? Looks like it was one of our own. And now, it looks like we won't ever know for sure, because the coward bailed on us. Take a look at the story - and remember that terrorists != any group. You can find them anywhere. You should expect to find them everywhere. And it's necessary to deal with them - when and where you find them - like the criminal dogs they are, no more and no less. Criminals.
Ghad, what did I have to right about that one....
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As for anthrax... the story will never be told... was it suicide or a fakede suicide, we'll never know that. I sometimes think that this whole war on terror is a 'manufactured' emergency just to suppress the people. Hey, Bin Laden was once a friend of the Bush family....
Killing to protect a source is not a new thing for the United Sataes Government. In CIA speak, it is called executive action.
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But I also agree that it is convenient that the guy offs himself.
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Anyway, this set him on a path to question everything, which was way cool, and he always wanted us to see him in action. So one day he came with a newspaper, I think USA Today, to show us their map of known anthrax labs around the world. It was a basic black and white line map of the countries of the world with a red dot for every lab. He was very proud to have noticed the conspicuously large white space on one side, shaped, of course, like the USA.
He asked, "This is a lie, isn't it? There has to be a lab somewhere in the US with anthrax, right? How else could it ever be studied or produced for our own military, right?"
Right.
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He may have been guilty.
However, we'll probably never have conclusive proof either way, and the mantra IS 'innocent until proven guilty' regardless if someone is alive or dead.
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You're right. We will never know. Personally I think the FBI is blowing smoke about being "almost ready" to indict him. I think they may well have been squeezing him in hopes he would do something like this.
Sorry, I'm not a conspiracy nut, really. I just don't like how this smells.