Anthrax Theatre

>Force hundreds of people to be imprisoned against their will, and
>injected with potentially lethal antibiotics, with one simple 25 cent
>phone call.
>
>-----
>
>LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ninety-one people were held for almost eight hours
>as a health precaution after an anonymous threat claimed anthrax had
>been released into the air ducts of a federal building.
>
>The people were given antibiotics and special suits to wear over their
>clothes Friday before preliminary tests showed none of them had been
>infected with the potentially deadly bacterium.
>
>Authorities held the people, most of them U.S. Bankruptcy Court staff
>members, as firefighters and FBI investigators tested the ventilation
>system for anthrax spores. Those tests also came up empty, said
>Jonathan Fielding, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Health
>Department.
>
>The FBI would not release details of how the threat was delivered.

The FBI is in between a rock and a hard-on here.

If anthrax spores really had been released into those air ducts, it could
potentially infect anyone in the building. They can't very well let these
people walk out when they might be carriers of antrax. That's the power of
bioweapons: Infect a bunch of people and they do the work of spreading it
for you.

>From a medical standpoint, it may be better to inject them with antibiotics
before the test results are back, in an attempt to increase chances of
survival. I can also understand the containment suits.

The fact that it can be done with a 25 cent phone call is funny.

At 9:17 PM -0800 12/19/98, Anonymous wrote:

>The FBI is in between a rock and a hard-on here.
>
>If anthrax spores really had been released into those air ducts, it could
>potentially infect anyone in the building. They can't very well let these
>people walk out when they might be carriers of antrax. That's the power of
>bioweapons: Infect a bunch of people and they do the work of spreading it
>for you.

This is not how anthrax spreads. Communicability between humans is nearly
nonexistent.

--Tim May

We would go to their homes, and we'd kill their wives and
their children. We would kill their families
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Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:
 
> This is not how anthrax spreads. Communicability between humans is
> nearly nonexistent.
 
Indeed, which was my point.
 
This type of operant conditioning of the sheeple is becoming almost
routine.
 
Witness the "Arab Oil Embargo", where there were long gas lines and
blaming of the Arab world, without one drop of oil ceasing to flow
into the United States.
 
"Drug Lab" busts, with prolonged evacuation of several square blocks
of neighborhood by men in astronaut garb are very routine now, every
time the police find a can of ether or other organic solvent in some
person's apartment.
 
Children are marched outside a school, stripped, and hosed down by
biohazard teams, because someone broke a mercury thermometer in class.
 
Now we have the latest incarnation of adjusting sheeple motivational
inperatives, Anthrax Theatre.  Genuine Anthrax not required, of
course. Yes children, see what happens because of Saddam Hussein?
There'll be a test later, to see if further attitudinal adjustment is
required.

-- 
Eric Michael Cordian 0+
O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division
"Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"