Posted on 09/04/2002 12:13:10 PM PDT by RCW2001
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Suspicious Powder Found in Mass.
Eight Police Departments North of Boston Receive Envelopes Containing Unidentified White Powder
The Associated Press
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| B O S T O N, Sept. 4 — Eight police departments in towns north of Boston received envelopes Wednesday containing an unidentified white powder, authorities said.
"They came in regular mail, I don't if there was anything with them," said Jennifer Mieth, a spokeswoman for the state department of fire services, which was coordinating the response. State police identified the towns as Hamilton, Peabody, Salem, Middleton, Topsfield, Marblehead, Wenham and Lynnfield. "We've sent HAZMAT teams to respond," Miethe said. "Police departments have been advised to follow the procedures that have been long established," including not opening the envelopes and putting them in protective bags. |
(snip)"Let's look at this from another perspective. In 1993, I went to Cuba as a consultant to the Cuban Ministry of Health. I was surprised to learn that before Fidel Castro's takeover in 1959, Cuba had 6,000 doctors. Half left the country after the change in government. The remaining 3,000 were encouraged to teach their skills to others. Apparently Castro believed you could never have too many doctors. (snip)
I hope the FBI has been testing the homes and offices of these people with as much intensity as they have directed at Hatfill and other citizens.
And one Lotus Notes creator. I stand corrected!
As reported here in early January (see "The Left Assaults John Ashcroft," Feb. 12), members of dozens of 501(c) organizations met in Washington at the offices of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), where they launched a comprehensive lobbying campaign against the Ashcroft nomination. Staff of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee and of four leading Democratic senators, including Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., were in attendance.
The Landmark Legal Foundation has written to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who was Senate Judiciary Committee chairman during the Ashcroft hearings, seeking the identity of members of the Senate staff in attendance at the lobby-planning meeting, a description of their role at the meeting and whether they attended with his knowledge. "The public has a right to know whether these nonprofit organizations, with your encouragement, are using tax-exempt funds or federal funds to lobby senators," Levin wrote to the highly partisan Leahy. As Insight goes to press, Leahy has not yet responded.
Among those listed as having representatives in attendance were: the American Bar Association (ABA); American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice; Feminist Majority; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium; National Association of Protection and Advocacy Systems; National Black Women's Health Project; National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; National Council of Jewish Women; National Education Association; NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund; Organization of Chinese-Americans; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Planned Parenthood (USA); Sentencing Project; Sierra Club; and Youth Law Center.
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This group also was involved in trying to stop the US Government from starting up a nuclear plant in Washington for the purposes of obtaining Tritium for use in National Defense.
Something fishy is definitely going on. The Zimbabwe thing has no other source but her, and she is a self-taught 'expert,' not a credentialed authority. Her interest in anthrax supposedly is derived from wanting to stick her nose into the business of another person; she wanted to investigate the research of an MIT professor who was studying anthrax for the Government back when she was a student. I wonder who that scientist was?
Evidently the students were part of some organized group and I figure she was a member of that group too. Problem is, I don't know what that group was, but I'm betting it wasn't the Young Republicans or the ROTC unit.
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After finding the courthouse building, we made our way through the security and up the steel stairs that looked like jail bars until we reached the third floor. As people from various peace organizations from across New England, talked with each other, a jury was selected from the jury pool. During that time, I talked to a young woman who had been part of a delegation witnessing the effects of the bombing of Iraq which she said changed her life. I also got to talk with Jonathan Leviett of the Massachusetts Green Party. I had worked with Jonathan years before when he was part of a protest against the Department of Defense organized by Students for A Responsible University. After doing research about what military research was being conducted at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the students found out that anthrax research was being carried on on campus. Making that knowledge public sparked off a campus-wide debate and protests that ended in student arrests. Making the courthouse a community meeting ground for peace activists was certainly democratic action. Hattie Nestle, one of the defendants, even brought nametags with her so that people could get to know each other for the next protest.
So, if my guess is correct Nass was a member of Students for a Responsible University.
(I know of no way to study how to fight such weapons without also knowing how to develop such weapons. Obviously, if you don't know how to create nasty strains, how can you possibly test to see if your treatment will work? these same groups slam the anthrax vaccine saying it was untested, yet they seem to go out of their way to make sure it can't be tested with protests such as these.)
Anyway, the students made such a stink over it - I think this was in the early nineties- that the researcher decided not to renew the grant, and from that time on Nass was proclaimed an 'expert' although she has yet to obtain any credentials to back up the image, as far as I can tell. She is now reaping credentials from the 'crisis,' and from the Gulf War Syndrome hysteria which are not proof of knowledge or accomplishments so much as a list of interviews. Like the 'General' the cable news networks used in interviews who turned out to be a nobody, all it takes to get 'expert' status is to sucker at least one mainline news show or paper into citing you. She has since supposedly been called to testify at a Courts Martial and all over the place... if I knew this was all it takes to become an 'expert' I could have been a talking head too by just feeding people what they want to hear. Good grief.
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