[dubyagee]

Any thread about Anthrax or plane incidences are being hammered by our "no-fear" freepers. IMHO, there have been too many "false-alarms" for there to be nothing behind them. Maybe they're trying to get us to the point where we don't worry anymore, so they can begin the real attacks.

I didn't post about the plane being forced down in Louisiana, simply because I didn't want to see all the smart-aleck replies. If many others start feeling the same way I do, we won't get much news here.

Laughter is good, but so is being alert. Sorry for the rant. Thanks for the post.

[dubyagee]

Welcome home, dubyagee! member since August 10th, 2001

Thought I'd go ahead and post it to save all the "cheese" guys the trouble of looking.

[ChemistCat]

Dubyagee, that is a point I hadn't considered. My advice has been to act as if it's going to be a bad flu year (which it is supposed to be, anyway) and change behavior accordingly. Our habit of going to work sick could cost the lives of millions if a deadly strain of flu hits us, and even a mildly debilitating strain could really hurt our economy at a time like this. People mistake luck for a law of the universe! Especially people who don't know the history of epidemics. We're RIPE FOR A DEVASTATING FLU YEAR and even before 9/11 they were saying this year's strain predictions are scary. But I decided that the terrorists were not going to prove competent at distribution of anthrax, IF they're the ones who killed the man in Florida. My theory was that they expected many, many more to die.

But I heard Dr. Larry Wayne Harris, microbiologist and author of a book on bacterial warfare that was published several years ago, on KTOK-AM 1000 here in the OKC metro, and he has changed my mind. He said that one woman terrorist with a diaper bag and one babyfood jar full of anthrax spores could kill ten thousand people if she stood in one of those tunnels in stadiums and shook the contents into the wind that whooshes through into the stadium. (I've never been in a stadium, so I have only a vague idea of what he's talking about.) If that happens, the only thing we've got going for us is the fact that anthrax isn't contagious from person to person. To clean up the stadium, however, might not even be possible....

[MissAmericanPie]

I think copy cats are taking advantage of the situation, like sending powder to the IRS and State Dept. We have some pretty sick tickets in this country. Like the idiot that buzzed a county fair in Georgia, what a sense of humor.

I try not to be to fearless but I think the worst is over, it makes me pretty furious to see dorks taking advantage of this situation to deal their own brand of terror. I think they should face the same prison time as any terrorist.

[ScholarWarrior]

I agree.
That's part of the reason why PENTTBOM was not picked up by intelligence.
Too many "false alarms" breeds complacency and laxness.

[proud American in Canada]

the plane being forced down in Louisiana
okay, I'm up in Canada--WHAT plane being forced down in LA?