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I'll admit the smallpox candy scenario is pretty wild. But...

1. The FBI is involved and has taken people into custody over this... Middle Eastern men.
2. We know we're currently under biological attack, and the attacks appear related to the attack on 9/11, with a probable Iraqi connection.
3. We know that Sadaam has developed smallpox as a biological weapon.

So... whatever is happening with these verified candy cases, we know that whatever's going on isn't completely innocent. This is not a case of "nothing to see here folks, please move along."

My neighborhood is a trick-or-treater's magnet. We get so many kids that everyone eventually runs out of candy. Between 6 and 9 pm, you might as well not shut your door in between trick-or-treaters.

My own kids have been looking forward to this a long time.

I am very torn, not wanting to cower in fear and keep my kids in because of our fertile imaginations, and yet my primary raison d'etre is to keep my kids safe.

I mean, it would be possible for even Middle Easterners to want to make innocent profits, selling candy to discounters before Halloween. It would be perfectly plausible for these men to have overstayed their visas a bit.

Yet, we are at war, and we are having mail drops of anthrax at this time. What if anthrax was just the beginning? What if the terrorists have smallpox and wish to use our practice of Halloween to gain easy access to our children? Surely not every neighborhood in the US would be targeted, but how would we ever know which ones were?

Torn between the tin hat and the ostrich.