Backwoods militias suspected of being behind biowar threat

The Hearald UK ^ | )ctober 16, 2001 | Ian Bruce

[Shermy]

Problems for the "domestic" theory. The actual findings of Anthrax so far are from letters from 1. Malaysia, and 2. Trenton, N.J. I son't thnk Trenton is "backwoods." Granted, this information could be faulty and not pan out.

It could be Islamic terrorism coupled with copy catters sending inert powder, powder with inactive anthrax (like those guys in Las Vegas had a few years back), or copy catters with the real thing.

[Rustynailww]

[Don Myers]

They have many posters on free republic believing this. Imagine how many liberals will jump on this band wagon along with the free republic posters?

[NovemberCharlie]

Oh, I'm certainly considering the possibility, but it seems to me that anyone with marginal intelligence would probably conclude this is a bad time to launch a domestic terrorism campaign. As for the NRA, they're about as far from extreme as you can get (though I'll grant you they have had their idiotic moments). I suppose you won't be sticking around long enough to read this, but take a look around the site and you'll see that for the compromisers at the NRA we reserve special distaste.

[summer]

Did the writer mention that they also were 100% from the "red" portion of the 2000 electoral map and rabid supporters of George W. Bush?

No, but I bet the NYT won't forget to mention that in their headlines tomorrow morning.

[ScholarWarrior]

This Brit is so asinine.
The reports are in the following areas:
Lithuania, Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Britain, in addition to at least several hundred in the US.
Aside from the fact that at least some of this is weapons grade, with multiple distribution points and methods.
I'd love to debate who they think could do this.

[chainsaw]

The liberal have to make the Islamic terrorist look lilly white.
Blame it on american patriots that are ready to uphold the constitution.

But you can't blame this on militias:

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Ditto. They don't have the technology to create decent reloads much less anthrax.

[Bogie]

The timing of this article? England? It must have been written and ready to go before the good Senator made his anouncment!

[Rowdee]

What's amazing, OWK, is that a British journalist came up with this.....I can guarantee you he didn't just make this up out of the air!!!

[Dale 1]

I am already willing to accept a goofy right-wing, way-out-of-bounds group to be implicated in the “fake” anthrax scares. But what’s going to really pi$$ me off is the goofy left-wing liberal press calling them right-wing Christians, as they did in this article. Timothy McVeigh was not a Christian. Not left, right, or anything in between. The people who are conducting this are not of any religion. But I am beginning to believe that they are not necessarily foreigners.

Now the source of the real anthrax attacks is another matter.

[Carry_Okie]

IMHO, the reason Al Quaeda are targeting the American Left is that this is the component of America that threatens them the most. They are sick of leftist do-gooder NGOs messing up their economy and telling them how to live, how to raise their kids, and how to farm their land. They are afraid of American advertising and culture abetting loose sex in a nation with no means to control the spread of AIDS that would turn them into another Southern Africa. They know that food aid programmes mess up their local agricultural markets. They fear pagan klepto-fascist UN population control and a corporate takeover of their country and their freedom.

Do they need any more reason than that?

[Dr. Frank fan]

All have links with the National Rifle Association, the influential lobby group which represents weapons' manufacturers, hunters and gun clubs and campaigns for the right of all Americans "to own and bear arms".

I wonder who they are quoting here with this "to own and bear arms" phrase. Is that how the NRA phrases it? What happened to "keep and bear arms"?

Too obviously taken directly from the Constitution?

[Southack]

"Why targetted against Dems and leftist media?"

Microsoft in Nevada is Leftist Media??!

[Osinski]

Garbage garbage garbage.

[SuziQ]

There is some doubt as to whether this right is enshrined legally in the American constitution but the NRA has powerful supporters in both senate and congress and no-one has yet managed successfully to challenge the all-pervasive nationwide gun culture.

Typical Brit liberal crap. Man what a smear job! Granted this may be the work of some militia whack jobs, but this article makes it sound like if you are a Christian gun-owner, the whole nation should be afaid of you. What a maroon!

[Don Myers]

"We need to cut this out. We're being silly."

It takes more than conservatism to make a logical and clear-thinking person. I agree with you totally.

[OWK]

You are the weakest link....

Goodbye!