-Caveat Lector-
>>>Figure out how many anthrattax there have been; to whom; how
often; when. Then figure out when 'flu season is; how often this
happens and at what time of year. Compare the deaths for just one
season (5 vs what? 20,000?) as well as the methods of transmission.
Now, given this, people in the U.S. have NO problems being around
'flu infected people. And why can't the gov't or whoever is
responsible deliver enough 'flu vaccines any more, each year?
Another "seed" waiting to blossom is TB.
Very interesting how the powers that be determine the "real" threat,
eh? A<>E<>R <<<
>From www.wsws.org
WSWS : News & Analysis : North America
Once again: government, media silent on right-wing role in US anthrax
attacks
By Patrick Martin
28 November 2001
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The evidence continues to mount that extreme right-wing elements are
responsible for the anthrax attacks that have killed five people in
the United States since early October. But both the Bush
administration and the American media have lapsed into virtual
silence on the subject, a noticeable contrast to their portrayal,
barely a month ago, of the anthrax attacks as a major terrorist
threat.
The shift in the official treatment of the anthrax attacks points to
the cynical political calculations that underlie both the media
coverage and the policies of the Bush administration. As long as it
seemed possible to attribute the anthrax attacks to Osama bin Laden
or some other foreign terrorist, shrieking headlines and alarmist
statements from government officials were the norm. Now that it seems
certain that domestic fascists are to blame, anthrax no longer serves
as a pretext for expanded US military intervention in the Middle East
and Central Asia. Accordingly, the danger is being downplayed and the
investigation put on the back burner.
Last week�s discovery of a contaminated letter addressed to Senator
Patrick Leahy further undermines suggestions that Middle East
terrorists are behind the anthrax attacks.
The letter to Leahy was found as part of a systematic search of the
mail delivered to Capitol Hill the week of October 15, when the first
anthrax letter to Congress, addressed to Senate Majority Leader Tom
Daschle, was discovered. Investigators found an extremely high level
of anthrax contamination in one of the 250 barrels of mail set aside
for testing, and narrowed down the source to the letter addressed to
Leahy. The block printing on the envelope, the Trenton, New Jersey
postmark and the fictitious return address were all identical to the
Daschle letter.
FBI officials said the Leahy letter confirmed their hypothesis, based
on an analysis of the writing style and wording of the previous
anthrax letters, that the sender was an American terrorist with some
familiarity with biotechnology and relatively simple
equipment�costing as little as $2,500.
One official told the New York Times that sending a letter to Leahy
suggested that a domestic terrorist was responsible. �No disrespect
to Senator Leahy,� the official said, �but I don�t know how many
foreign terrorists would want to single out the chairman of a
Congressional committee. They would have other targets.�
The Judiciary Committee handles issues that are among the most
inflammatory for the extreme right in the United States, including
abortion rights, gun control, review of the work of the FBI, and
confirmation of federal judges.
One Democratic congressman, James Moran of Virginia, drew the obvious
conclusion from the targeting of Daschle and Leahy, two of the
leading Senate Democrats: the anthrax attacks were carried out by �a
domestic, right-wing oriented group,� he said, rather than by foreign
terrorists. �Why would they choose the new Senate majority leader and
the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman?� he said.
Two Bush administration spokesmen on the anthrax attacks, homeland
security director Tom Ridge and Health and Human Services Secretary
Tommy Thompson, have admitted that the likely source is domestic
rather than foreign. Thompson told USA Today that investigators
believe that the attacks are the work of �a disgruntled American,�
and that a microbiologist working alone with only $2,000 worth of
equipment could have developed the anthrax used.
The New York Times concluded, in an editorial November 22, �Discovery
of an anthrax-laced letter mailed to Senator Patrick Leahy
strengthened the likelihood that the terrorist is home-grown rather
than foreign... Since Senator Leahy is primarily associated with
social and law enforcement issues, he seems more likely to attract
the attention of home-grown terrorists.�
No dragnet against the far right
Those involved in the investigation now admit what the facts fairly
scream�that domestic fascists are responsible for the anthrax
attacks. But federal authorities are noticeably reluctant to act on
that conclusion. While the Justice Department has sent out
instructions to local police departments, all across the country, to
bring in for questioning thousands of Arab and Muslim immigrant men,
aged 21 to 35, there has been no such dragnet ordered against right-
wing elements such as the members of militia and gun-rights groups,
white supremacists, or anti-abortion extremists.
For the Bush administration, of course, such an investigation could
prove politically embarrassing, given its close ties to the ultra-
right and the prominent role such forces play in the Republican
Party.
The FBI and Justice Department are well aware of the links between
extreme right groups and past threats of bio-terrorism. Two white
supremacists have been linked with such threats: Larry Wayne Harris,
a microbiologist and former member of the Aryan Nations, who obtained
both bubonic plague and anthrax materials; and Alexander James
Curtis, author of an Internet report entitled �Biology for Aryans,�
with information on botulism, typhoid and anthrax.
An extraordinary article in the New York Times November 20 described
the scene at a recent gun show in Salt Lake City, Utah, a virtual
convention of right-wing enthusiasts, at which one individual,
Timothy W. Tobiason of Nebraska, sold printed and CD copies of his
self-published book �Scientific Principles of Improvised Warfare and
Home Defense Volume 6-1: Advanced Biological Weapons Design and
Manufacture.� According to the Times, the work is �a germ-warfare
cookbook that bioterrorism experts say is accurate enough to be
dangerous.�
The book contains directions for making �mail delivered� anthrax, and
advises readers, �if you can make Jell-O, you can wipe out cities.
Enjoy!� The Times reported that federal officials have been
monitoring Tobiason for years, and that he delivered copies of his
book to the offices of dozens of US senators, including Daschle.
A former electronic warfare specialist in the Navy, Tobiason went
AWOL after a conflict with an officer and eventually received a less
than honorable discharge. His anti-government grievances allegedly
grew when the US Patent Office failed to grant him a patent for an
agricultural chemical, and then awarded a patent for a similar
product to a large corporation.
While Tobiason is only one among hundreds, if not thousands, of such
individuals, he and his ilk have been given little or no media
attention, especially from the major television networks. Whenever
the networks make mention of anthrax at all, they continue to suggest
that these attacks somehow justify the Bush administration�s military
intervention in Central Asia.
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