Posted on 09/06/2009 4:17:10 PM PDT by kingattax
An author and terrorism expert says as the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks approaches, Americans need to be aware of the threat of agro-terrorism and the impact it could have on the nation's food supply.
Tim Downs is the author of Ends of the Earth (Thomas Nelson, September 2009), a novel which explores the scenario of a terrorist attack on U.S. farms which contaminates the nation's food supply. Downs, who has done extensive research on agro-terrorism, says it is especially difficult to defend against.
"The concern about an agricultural act of terrorism is we just can't defend a thousand-acre farm," he explains. "You can put up a metal detector in an airport -- but how do you protect a thousand acres of corn or wheat?"
The 2007 Christy Award-winning author says this method of terrorism is much cheaper than making a nuke.
"Experts have estimated that for a terrorist group to develop a nuclear weapon could cost them a billion dollars," Downs notes. "But to develop a very good biological arsenal you would need about ten million dollars and a very small lab and a master's degree in chemical engineering."
Downs says more than likely the terrorists would use genetically altered insects to spread pathogens to infest the crops. According to the author, experiments of this kind were conducted by both the former Soviet Union and Nazi Germany
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not to worry....our lord, master, and messiah has determined that we probably deserve what we get for being evil Americans.....
If you want to see the future of Agro Terrorism, look at the recently passed (in House) H.R. 2749. In that bill the FDA is to take control of all agricultural production in the U.S.
Imagine that. You will not be allowed to grow anything without the permission of the FDA. Not the Department of Agriculture, but the FDA.
This should be on the top of the news cycle, but is not.
It amounts to another nationalization. Puts Agricultural output squarely in the hands of Federal Government and the Multi-National Agriculture Corporations.
More of the same from Obozo. This one absolutely frightens me, and I am not easily frightened.
That’s ok. The government is already doing it in California, where the Central Valley is turning into a dustbowl because its water supply has been cut off.
from desert to desert in only 100 years...now thats progress.
If I were an agro-terrorist I would simply shut off irrigation water to the California Central Valley and blame it on some non-indigenous fish.
Dang, shoulda read your post first.
Just saw a Hawaii-5-0 rerun where commies were trying to introduce a fungus to the sugar cane crop. (Guest Star: Theo Bikel). FYI, McGarret only slightly gets his hair mussed in this episode.
Agro terrorism is a program from within.
Very interesting bill. If one compares agriculture in the old Soviet Union to agriculture here in the near future under -11bama, one realizes they can be one and the same - the statists get total control and don't care how... they can use two methods: by the ballot box putting in marxist clowns or by regulation. Looks like they chose to persue both.
“…author says this method of terrorism is much cheaper than making a nuke...But to develop a very good biological arsenal you would need about ten million dollars and a very small lab and a master’s degree in chemical engineering.”
And so is destroying other natural resources...and now tell me why we are messing around with this human debris, instead on conducting a real war; I guess we have not learned anything as a knowledgeable society from WWI, WWII and Korea… For we know what they are, who they are and where they are, when we get to the point of “killing them 12 cousins deep” they will see the way of peace in total defeat. I guess too many foreign entanglements have rotted and corrupted America to think clearly.
“...H.R. 2749. In that bill the FDA is to take control of all agricultural production in the U.S.”
Yup. That and NAIS which will make every chicken accountable to DC.
“... and he is us.”
My family has farmed in the same county in TX for over 110 years. I see 3 events that are going to have catastrophic effect on agriculture production.
1. More centralized “Planning” (never has and never will work)
2. Plant Variety Protection Act (Drives up production cost and does not increase production or quality) Legal mine field.
3. Squeezing out smaller producers, by method of regulation. H.R. 2749 is example.
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Food is the most powerful subjection tool. Ask Mugabe in Zimbawe.
Or Joseph Stalin in Russia >
http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/soviet.exhibit/famine.html
“The policy of all-out collectivization instituted by Stalin in 1929 to finance industrialization had a disastrous effect on agricultural productivity. Nevertheless, in 1932 Stalin raised Ukraine’s grain procurement quotas by forty-four percent. This meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the peasants, since Soviet law required that no grain from a collective farm could be given to the members of the farm until the government’s quota was met. Stalin’s decision and the methods used to implement it condemned millions of peasants to death by starvation.”
“Yet one of Stalin’s lieutenants in Ukraine stated in 1933 that the famine was a great success. It showed the peasants “who is the master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay.”
“...we know what they are, who they are and where they are, ...”
We should. We’re bringing them over and giving them healthcare — (dental included?) — jobs — stipends — education (not sullied by traditional US values & historical accuracy).
It all boils down to military control of the countryside. Who controls the countryside controls the nation. Now Obama/Dingle/Waxman/Schumer et al can’t let the countryside be in the control of those who cling to their guns and religion, can they?
While the health care circus is playing, behind the scenes the small and mid-sized farmers are being pushed out. It’s rural cleansing.
Ping!
I am with you on your concern for the bill H.R. 2749. I also read that it will affect seed sales and could take in the health food/vitamin industry. Not much has been heard about this bill but it is bad news on so many levels.
All the more reason why to have your own garden can and dry everything you can. Buy beef and pork by the 1/4,1/2 or whole depending on family size and what you can use in a year and keep that on hand. I also tend to have a minimum of 10” of flour of several types always onhand and most likely am looking at over 60# in the house right now of various types. If worst comes to worst I need a chicken for eggs(FIL has a bunch of those!) and we eat for 12 months or more.
And it's partner is Monsanto
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