[118438] in Cypherpunks
RE: 'Americans will die on U.S. soil' from high tech terror
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Sep 28 03:52:13 1999
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:31:31 -0700
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
TERRORISTS ARE ABOUT TO ATTACK! BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID!!
COPY THIS PRESS RELEASE TO EVERY NEWS REPORTER WHO WILL MINDLESSLY
(or otherwise) REPORT THE STUFF WE TELL THEM TO REPORT!
TERRORISTS WANT TO TAKE OVER YOUR COUNTRY AND KILL YOUR MAMA!!!
SO JUST DO WHAT WE TELL YOU AND WE WON'T LET THEM HURT YOU! BE AFRAID!!!
GET YOUR RED HOT ANTHRAX SHOTS RIGHT HERE! BE VERY AFRAID!!!
I don't think there's much more motivation for biological attack on the US
by foreign terrorists than there's been for a while, though technology
has probably made it a bit easier. On the other hand, now that there
aren't any Commies around except the few who were recently discovered in
China,
the Standing Army and its supporters have much more motivation to
frighten everybody about the risks of terrorism and biowar.
But is the reason they're trying to immunize the Standing Army and Reserves
only to promote fear and protect them against foreign anthrax?
Or is it because the US wants to be able to use the stuff themselves?
Presumably they'd analyze any anthrax used against our troops and
declare it to be stolen Soviet Anthrax deployed by Scary Islamic Terrorists,
but it's a good way to get the US public backing our troops,
or to manufacture an incident if they need one.
>On Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:58:54 -0700 , "Lucky Green" <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
>wrote
>>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.
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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