Oh, I have COMPLETELY thought of the possibility of Ayers or someone like him making good on his proposed theory back in the 1960s that approximately 25 million “hard-core” conservatives(capitalists) would need to be “eliminated” in order to achieve his radical violent communist revolution dreams... And, people thought we were crazy to worry about Obama’s friendship with Ayers?
[I can search for the video about it - an interview with an FBI agent who infiltrated the Weather Underground is the one who testified to that - if anyone is interested, or hasn’t seen that. It’s on my favorites over at YouTube]
Also history has shown that communists often ‘eat their own’ as they scramble to be “king of the mountain” within their organizations. Not sure how that would play into a speculative theory on this... but Obama was just down in South America meeting with a whole bunch of communist and fascist buddies.
A Sci-Fi/Political/Thriller writer (like Clancy) could probably come up with some pretty scary, and yet completely plausible theories with the relatively small amount of information we currently have on all of this, combined with known threats, and the ease of travel/spread of disease in our world.
Plus, the response of the public has been varied widely - from not being worried at all, to thinking it’s a “false flag” event promoted by our fascist leader, or bio-terrorism, or God, etc... I honestly wish this were a bad dream instead of a reality — even though I’m not panicked, but practicing cautious optimism at this point... :)
I think many of us are still in the “throwing it all up and seeing what sticks” mode of things at this stage I would think — at least those of us discussing this here are...
While I wouldn’t put something like this past Ayers, I’m thinking more of the green sky is falling global warming crowd. Some of those folks would like to see a hundred million less humans on planet earth.
I still tell the story of a pharmacist I worked with, who said he would love to see a catastrophe befall mankind and kill off a lot of people. He was dead serious.
We’re not talking about people with no education.