bushgang has in prison the only scientist that can stop plague

[donsu]

http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=so05greenough

Security for whose sake?

The government's dubious bioterror case has sent a dangerous message.

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By the time you read this, Butler will have been in prison for well over a year. It's a curious place for the U.S. government to put the man who is credited by the World Health Organization with saving the lives of more than two million children every year through a cholera treatment he helped to develop. Moreover, at the time of his arrest in 2003, Butler was researching ways to protect Americans from plague, a weaponizable pathogen.

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In January 2003, Butler could not locate 30 plague samples at his lab. He noted the missing specimens in his records and immediately reported the discrepancy to the Texas Tech safety officer, as per regulations. But instead of conducting a standard internal investigation, Texas Tech officials immediately called the police, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security. The White House was informed about the missing samples, and about 60 FBI agents soon arrived in Lubbock. The result was a modern-day witch-hunt.

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The U.S. government would like the public to believe that the dangerous plague doctor is in jail and that the country is safer because of it. But the truth is that we have removed from action the only scientist who had embarked on the very research that could save lives should there be a bioterror attack using plague. The government has demonstrated that those who work to protect us are themselves very vulnerable.
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america is a crime scene

[texpatriot2004]

1. Butler's attorney on John Ashcroft and this case

Perhaps Butler attorney Jonathan Turley has the answer to that. Last summer he told a reporter, "It would have been a personal embarrassment for John Ashcroft" to drop the case.

[patricia92243]

2. Unfortunately, the moral of this story is other scientist will learn to kee...

keep their mouth shut - ensuring that REAL terrorist can steal viruses, etc without worrying that they will be even be told on - much less apprehended.

[afdip]

3. my father always told me, "the best minds in the country don't

go into law enforcement." he's been proven right again.

[stray cat]

4. Almost any antibiotic can stop plague unless its gentically enginered

[Double T]

5. Always remember that TRUTH does not matter with the bush administration...

ONLY perception.

[CoffeeCat]

6. For a while they were "suiciding" scientists, virologists and other

medical experts who specialized in bioweapons, etc.

Now they're imprisoning them?

Does anyone else think that there is a concerted effort to wipe out scientists with very specific skill sets? It's as if we're being left alone, in a world without the top scientists who could help us through bird flu or a bioweapons attack.

[madrchsod]

7. selective genetic engineering

of virus/infection combinations. the russians were working in all these areas then the labs were abandoned..where did all the scientist go,where is their research, and where are the vials?