THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER (Graphic description of Smallpox)

The New Yorker, July 12, 1999 pp. 44-61 | July 12, 1999 | RICHARD PRESTON

[Optimist]

and this is just the fear we have of the Russians. Who's MAD?

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[Demidog]

What is my plan? Frankly, I don't see why your plan won't be executed anyway. Many of those in office right this moment could care less about the humanity of the citizens they are paid to serve. So I think it is only a few more short steps before "de-population" begins. Knowing the futility of my efforts, and the extreme weight of the historical record against my favor, I would still do my best to stop such nonsense.

Murder is always wrong but it is more repugnant in my view when it is performed in the name of "benevolance."

[Thumper1960]

Genocide is not a Conservative value.

What you propose is insanity.

[primeval patriot]

Nice try newbie.

[Demidog]

What do you get out of it

My honor. It is not my job to hand down a legacy of benevolance to the American people. And as far as the "grand scheme" you're now walking out into pre-destination theory and I'm too tired to go there.

Suffice it to say that pre-destined or not, murder is wrong and I won't support it for any reason.

[nunya bidness]

Tell me more about Ken Alibek.

[Thumper1960]

Using an arguably efficient means of eradicating a foreign people, considered by many to be the enemy of Western Civilization, is unsettling. If only to forestall a possible future conflict with that enemy. How short is the path to employing equally efficient means to eliminate a percieved domestic threat? The demonizing of an enemy makes it easier to destroy that enemy. "The Communist or radical Islamic threat must be eliminated". It takes no great polemical gymnastic exercise to apply the "Final Solution" to the domestic dissenter.

As Pogo once stated: "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

[RANGERAIRBORNE]

You sound like a snot-nosed college kid, who has read some Hegel but has never seen war (or much of anything else) up close and personal.

Go troll someplace else, you sorry loser.

Free advice, kid- get lost, and STAY lost!

[nunya bidness]

As Pogo once stated: "We have met the enemy and he is us!"

You are more right than you know. Seek American Type Culture and find the truth.

[kansas_goat_roper]

Genocide is not a Conservative value.

Tell that to the Indians (native Americans) . After we infested blankets with diseases and killed them for their lands and screwed them on every treaty we ever signed. There is a dark side to the conservative.

[Thumper1960]

Irrelevant juxtaposition.

[freebilly]

Now if only we could defrost the smallpox and have it mysteriously end up in the rice paddies of China (with the help of the CIA)...we'd be forestalling problems with that power years down the road. Does the U.S. have the foresight, and the backbone, to undertake such a task? Our forebears as far back as the Romans would catapult diseased bodies over city walls...

You, my dear sir, are a complete moron.

[primeval patriot]

Why not send a few MIRV's over Asia instead of your bogus bio-war fantasies?