Posted on 01/05/2002 4:37:59 AM PST by CrossCheck
Besides that possibility and the one mentioned in the article, it is also possible that this was done by someone who wanted to make the military labs look bad, or who wanted to help the democrats by letting them be victims, or who wanted to make money on anti-anthrax measures....
There are a host of possibilities and motives. The danger from Iraq is not a knee-jerk reaction. The paper has conveniently forgotten Iraq's attempted assassination plot targeting the first President Bush.
USAMRIID, that's it!
The author makes an excellent point-- these letters were not about killing, they were about 'raising the spectre of bio-terror.' With less than 100 insiders as potential perps, I bet the FBI is close. Then if they dig deeper for a motive, we can find who wanted the perp(s) to act.
Only tabloids and free broadcast media suffered an attack.
The perpetrator's profile must include these facts - this one does not.
At the moment you could as well put your money on an advertising sales manager at the Washington Post as anyone. After all advertising sales are down and this is a very competitive business.
-Oscar Arias Sánchez, A Scourge of Guns
From ASMP (Armed Sales Monitoring Project)
An armed and aroused citizenry, they assert, must be mobilized and ready for a call to war. For most, if not all, of the militias, the fear of government confiscation of their weapons is a paramount concern. Samuel Sherwood, head of the "U.S. Militia Association" in states: 'When they come around to collect weapons, we'll have the legal and lawful structure to say 'no' to that." Sherwood has stated further: "Go up and look legislators in the face, because someday you may have to blow it off." Randy Trochmann of the "Militia of Montana" gets tougher: "If and when the federal government decides to confiscate weapons, people will band together to stop them. They are not going to give up their guns." And the "enemy" easily becomes nightmarish: Robert Pummer, a leader of the "Florida State Militia," says that his group is "capable of defending ourselves against chemical and biological agents."
Although thwarting gun control is the chief aim of the militias, they seek to turn the clock back on federal involvement in a host of other issues as well, e.g., education, abortion, and environmental protections. A case in point is Norman Olson, until this past weekend a regional militia commander in northern Michigan. Olson, a Baptist minister who owns a gun shop, has envisioned violence erupting if present government policies continue, declaring: "We're talking about a situation where armed conflict may be inevitable if the country doesn't turn around."
It's obvious what their agenda is.
Anti-abortionists, progunners, Christians are bad.
Globalists, the UN, the pro-aborts, all good.
They have "Leftist" written all over them.
Exactly.
This article, like most on the subject, assumes a single perpetrator or singular motive--something neither facts nor logic support.
Each of the standard media musings about "the" anthrax mailer relies on selective omission of one or more key facts to make things fit. The glaring omission in this piece is the Florida anthrax case at American Media.
Indeed, if any assumption is to be made, it seems more logical to assume multiple players. Multiple players with multiple--even conflicting--motives who found each other temporarily useful. History is rife with strange bedfellows.
The complexity and sophistication of these crimes, combined with timing, location, and chosen targets, argues strongly against the single perpetrator theory embraced by the pundits. Their universal attraction to this otherwise unlikely scenario is the handy platform it provides for the advancement of personal agenda.
I also think, responsible party is someone wanting credit for warning of a possible bio-chem threat to USA - he/she has been trying to bring this to the government's attention but has been shunned and brushed off so it's an I'll show you attitude.
Looking at the address on the envelope reminds me of Canadian way of addressing envelopes. That is reaching.
Special Interest Extremists
Special interest extremists continued to conduct acts of politically-oriented crime last year. Violent anti-abortion advocates were responsible for almost all of these activities.
Due to the efforts of the Department of Justice's Task Force on Violence Against Abortion Providers (TFVAAP), the number of abortion-related crimes decreased from 1994 levels. Although the number of incidents declined, the TFVAAP still investigated more than 100 violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in 1995.
Two of the most prominent abortion-related events in 1995 included the following:
On February 22, 1995, Dr. Elizabeth Karlin, a physician in Madison, Wisconsin, received two death threat letters. Vincent Whitaker--an inmate at a local county jail who was serving a 67-year sentence for reckless injury with a motor vehicle--later admitted writing the letters. On September 12, 1995, Whitaker was tried and convicted of two counts of the FACE Act and sending threats through the U.S. Mail. On November 21, 1995, Whitaker was sentenced to an additional 63 months imprisonment.
In August 1995, John Salvi--the suspected murderer of two receptionists during a December 30, 1994, shooting spree at an abortion clinic in Brookline, Massachusetts--was declared competent to stand trial. Salvi is charged under Massachusetts law with the murders of Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, and five other counts of aggravated assault.
The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, through the TFVAAP, investigates any instance in which customers or providers of reproductive health services are criminally threatened, obstructed, or injured while seeking or providing services.
Do a search on their website. Enter keywords like I did, such as 'gun control' or 'abortion', and this groups left wing tilt should be obvious.
It's the same garbage from the same "America Last" crowd, except here they call themselves "scientists".
The author is a doofus. Not licking the envelope filled with anthrax is not evidence of forensic knowledge, but rather evidence of how not to get anthrax when you're engaged in bioterrorism.
You will see so called conservatives quoting these and even worse "Salon.com", "Antiwar.com", "Clymer Rockweiller.com" _____________(you fill in the blank) full tilt in 2002.
Why, to try to trash GW, the Republicans and to try to shift the blame away from the left wingers led by the Clintoons which enabled OBL to mass murder innocent Americans on 9/11!
Ooops! I forgot to throw in the left wing newspapers and phoney news wires like the left wing UK fishwraps and the AFP from that $hitty little country, France!
We will need chest waders to wade through this b$. We need to point out where this b$ is coming from and why! This will be a strategy of a certain group until we use the laws of truth/gravity to roll their b$ back down on them!
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