Jakarta, US at odds over 'spy' lab (Excerpted)
Stephen Fitzpatrick, Jakarta correspondent | May 03, 2008
NEGOTIATIONS over whether a controversial US military laboratory should remain in Indonesia have reached a knife-edge, as officials argue about biological sample-sharing and the diplomatic status of staff in the facility.
Politicians and sections of the media have joined the fray over the work of US Naval Medical Research Unit No2, known as NAMRU, which was established in Jakarta in 1970 and is one of five such facilities worldwide.
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Dr. Supari may in fact be close to sacrificing her job, after a senior government source told The Weekend Australian that her bellicose rhetoric, including comments on the bird flu epidemic in a rambling treatise entitled "Time for the world to change: the hand of God in bird flu" - had made life "awkward" for fellow ministers.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23635645-2703,00.html
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This raises some very ugly possibilities. Remember how not too long ago, a large group of scientists were applauding the idea of a massive reduction of the world’s population:
“Dr. Eric R. Pianka gave a speech to the Texas Academy of Science last month in which he advocated the need to exterminate 90% of the population through the airborne ebola virus. Pianka’s chilling comments, and their enthusiastic reception again underscore the elite’s agenda to enact horrifying measures of population control.”
Airborne ebola is not a realistic way of accomplishing this holocaust of billions. A “perfect storm” Avian flu influenza might achieve a respectable percentage of this insane goal, however.
But this raises the very troubling concern that there may be scientists who may actually want to either promulgate an H2H Avian Flu pandemic, or interfere and inhibit efforts to control a naturally occurring pandemic, and by doing so to directly cause the death of millions, or even billions, of people they want to die.
This is much, much worse that al-Qaeda attempting to obtain and detonate a nuclear weapon in a city. This is equivalent to trying to provoke a global thermonuclear exchange. It reaches the very zenith of the idea of “terrorism”.
It should not be overlooked by the government, either.
Anyone in a position of authority or trust and in a position to influence public policy before or during a pandemic, should be carefully screened to determine if they are sympathetic to such a massively homicidal scheme. If so, they should no more be allowed access to the public health effort that a fanatical jihadist should be allowed access and the means to launch a hundred ballistic nuclear missiles.
A single person with knowledge of how to effectively spread this disease, could on their own not just wipe out a city, but the vast majority of the people in several nations. And they could do so in a single day, with minimal effort.
As a minimum, temporary authorization to kill any person attempting to create a lethal epidemic, or strongly interfere with efforts to limit its spread before it becomes an epidemic, should be given to federal agents. And efforts should be made to determine the extent of, advocates of, and determination of this terrorist organization.
These people represent one of the greatest threats the world has ever known.