[118386] in Cypherpunks
RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sun Sep 26 16:13:52 1999
From: "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:58:54 -0700
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Of course Americans are no more vulnerable today to bios than they were 20
years ago. We are still the same species we were 20 or a 100 years ago. And
designer bugs are still rather uncommonly found in the possession of those
that might use them.
What has increased, however, are the motivating factors for groups, both
foreign and domestic, to deploy bios in the US. Which in turn is a direct
result of the policies employed by the US government providing an every
increasing number of reasons to bring the wrath of [Allah, God, etc]. down
upon the perpetrators.
> The Commission on National Security, sponsored by President Bill Clinton
> and Congress, released a 143-page report on Tuesday that presented a dire
> forecast of the prospect of terrorism in the United States. The commission
> was composed of 25 former defense officials who served under U.S.
> administrations.
>
> "For many years to come, Americans will become increasingly
> less secure,"
> the report said. "America will become increasingly vulnerable to hostile
> attack on our homeland, and our military superiority will not entirely
> protect us. Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large
> numbers. Threats to American security will be more diffuse, harder to
> anticipate and more difficult to neutralize than ever before."
>
