Biological Weapon Used Against Anti-War Demonstrators?

[NVMojo]

PEJ News
October 4, 2005


Waiting a week before raising the alarm of the possible infection of possibly thousands of the hundreds of thousands of Anti-War demonstrators and D.C. citizens exposed over the September 23-24 weekend, many of whom by that time having long departed, dispersed far and wide to their various home states across the nation, is not the strangest thing about the story, run in the Washington Post's Saturday, Oct 1 edition, and since broadly picked up.

The source informing the story, The Department of Homeland Security, lay it out roughly this way: Sensors placed around Washington, specifically designed to detect trace amounts of considered biological weapons agents, were examined and determined to contain unnaturally large amounts of tularemia. The samples where then, apparently, rigorously tested, and retested, the results kept underwraps for almost a week. Only then was the Center for Disease Control alerted, and in turn, D. C. health officials. Those officials were upbeat, saying that the normal gestation period, the time before doctors can expect to see the symptoms of an epidemic manifest, had passed without producing evidence of a significant nature.

The bacterium, francisella tularensis, also called 'rabbit fever' is naturally occurring, but has a long history of manipulation for the purpose of weaponization. Imperial Japan is noted for its groundbreaking experiments on tularemia's effects on human physiology. They are estimated to have sacrificed more than 10,000 prisoners to science during their occupation of China.

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[MissMarple]

1. So. Same old, same old. Maybe we need to develop an early warning system.

These guys have no imagination. We do.....well at least those of us who have read sci fi since junior high, or who have some memory of past events.

This has precedents from the fifties, I am so sad to say. And that is just from my personal understanding. It harks back to medieval times when diseased cattle were catapulted into besieged fortifications.

edit: So sorry, forgot to spell check.

[NVMojo]

2. of course this is nothing like the blankets infected with small pox

that were given to Indian tribes by the military in this country???

[MissMarple]

3. Some folks say that didn't happen.

Ah huh. It fits right right in with all the Seminole and Cherokee displacements. The righteous whites were bullies. The record damns their souls. The whites wanted the land.

I'm white. Part of my family fought on both sides of the Civil War, but one thing they never were was dishonest. As they saw it. And for many middle class whites who fought that damn war, it wasn't about slavery. For the big money people, it was. We seem to be revisiting similar issues today. It's the money and the power.

Our current problem is defining these issues for the common man, and in understanding what is in our own best interest is in the best interest of every one of us. We stand together.

So, please, forgive the confessional. At some point all of us, historically speaking, have been oppressed. The capability for inflicting injustice and cruelty lives in each of us. We must fight that propensity. In the end, we stand or fall together. I think that is what is in our Constitution. We, as a people, need to be smarter about that.

[Moderator]

4. Locking

Old news with an inflammatory spin.