Anthrax...why is it down the memory hole?

[springhill]

I just don't get it. If this was murder, why on earth did it disappear so quickly from the news after it happemed? Very curious to me. It's kind of like the Osama Bin Laden thing. The mastermind of supposedly murdering up to 3,000 people and he is no longer important. Am I missing something here?

[rhiannon55]

1. Nope you're not missing anything

Orwell predicted it - when the news is no longer useful, they "disappear" it.

[elehhhhna]

2. They can't say "We've had no terrorist troubles since 9/11" unless we all

forget the Anthrax dustup.

[gatorboy]

15. Or the Bronx plane crash. n/t

[KurtNYC]

21. And the LAX machine gun attack and the DC snipers

[elehhhhna]

25. True, though the Anthrax, traced to FORT DEITRICK, btw,

is still 'unsolved'.

Ahem cough cough.

[lectrobyte]

3. We are all missing something. You'd have thought there'd be

rioting in the streets of New York after Bush's "Osama, I don't care about him" comment when he was stroking us up to go into Iraq.

[Ganja Ninja]

4. Exactly! US Army anthrax from a US Army lab ...

mailed to leading Democrats. Five people dead and it's treated like a harmless prank that isn't worth investigating and should just be forgotten.

[lectrobyte]

6. not just Democrats. Media figures, and a big WTF, the National

Enquirer, if I remember correctly.

[frylock]

23. all of them "enemies" of bushco..

fancy that.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

5. It was domestic

That alone was enough reason for many to wish it forgotten.

[Finder]

7. Because it is the key to understanding 9/11and who enabled it...n/t

[SoCalDem]

8. Because they don't "need" it anymore...n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

16. Bingo! After 9/11 public opinion was so pro-war that they didn't ...

need anymore prodding to sell the war in Iraq. And a rather obvious DNA link to an army lab was a little close to home and embarrassing. I'll bet they didn't expect that.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. I dunno. As soon as it was traced back to a US Army Lab and suspicion fell

on white, far right Christian extremists, the story just magically vanished off the radar.

Go fuckin' figure.

[jayfish]

10. Because They Haven't Had A Good CD Out Since "The Sound Of White Noise"?

:shrug:

Jay

[mmonk]

11. They don't want black ops operations to get too much publicity

and thus scrutiny.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. It's a long story but think about who gained what from the scare...

Bayer and the PNAC...

[Ganja Ninja]

13. and who was peddling the false claims about mobile ...

bio-weapons labs in Iraq?

[SeveneightyWhoa]

27. Bayer, as in the German pharmaceutical company?

So Germany was behind the anthrax attacks? :shrug:

[Individualist]

14. Anthrax was sent to Democrats and media

Who do you suppose did that? It was a very effective way of getting the message across to watch what you say, don't you think? Look how well it has worked.

[valerief]

17. Exactly. They're not talking about because they don't want to

get anthraxed themselves.

[blm]

18. Why? Who controls most broadcast and print media in this country?

.

[madrchsod]

19. it worked once and it can work again

the price of staying alive is silence

[DirtyJersey]

20. Anthrax?

[Supersedeas]

22. take a look at the Targets...explains the Corp Media and DoJ memory hole

[Javaman]

24. The two Dems that received the "anthrax letters" were also

holding up the passage of the patriot act. Suddenly, once threatened, they changed their tune. Funny how that works.

It was the equivalent of the horse head in bed.

[bobthedrummer]

26. That's a good question since there is no statute of limitations for murder

Tommy Thompson, Jerome Hauer, Mark Buller, "Ken Alibek" and a lot of the biological "defense" experts never answered similar questions.

[Beelzebud]

28. Because it was grown in our army medical labs...

It was and inside job. Look at the targets. Look who benefitted.

[bobthedrummer]

29. kick

[Nikki Stone 1]

30. Because it served its purpose: getting the PATRIOT ACT passed by

intimidating all possible outspoken opposition. Remember the anthrax went to Dem leaders Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. It also created enough fear that there was no significant public opposition to the act.

When Homeland Security was up for debate, there was the Washington DC sniper. Another diversion and fear inducing event.