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THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER (Graphic description of Smallpox)
The New Yorker, July 12, 1999 pp. 44-61 | July 12, 1999 | RICHARD PRESTON

Posted on 12/29/2001 12:18:40 AM PST by Lazamataz

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To: Lazamataz
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61 posted on 12/29/2001 2:33:25 AM PST by backhoe
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To: blue buttercup
You see, my country was stolen from me before I was born by 1960s hippie types,

Your country was stolen, really???

To have a posession stolen, you first have to have owned it. What you a refering to of course is what YOU think this country was at one time and should be in your future.

Have you lived long enough to carry such a huge burden of leading US into the future?

Have you experinced life enough to make the right decisions that are just and moral?

and I intend to pay them back for that indignity.

How would you do that?

Re-education camps or just wipe them off the face of the earth?

You may have an education and a quick mind, but have no idea what you are talking about.

Freedom and Liberty are not found in in words. Anybody that can throw out a comment like you did about the CIA infecting China with smallpox has no concept of reality. This is not a Saturday morning cartoon or a Playstation game.

In other words: Grow up

62 posted on 12/29/2001 2:59:10 AM PST by JZoback
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To: blue buttercup
Not as though that's ever stopped anyone.

You're obviously an intelligent, well spoken fellow, but you are mistaken -- and misguided.

African-American males still exist after the social strife of the last several decades, while the vast majority of microbiologists are and have been white males. This fact alone demonstrates that many people are "stopped" by moral considerations.

Morality may not always have stopped everybody, but it stops most people.

Some people fancy psychopathy to be a virtue and empathy a weakness. These people are clever to a point, but they lack the perspicacity requisite to appreciate the larger picture, and they lack the humilty requisite to see it when its shown to them.

"Evil feeds on everything, even itself -- I have seen this." -- Aristotle (Ethica Nicomachea)

63 posted on 12/29/2001 3:13:22 AM PST by Yeti
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To: RANGERAIRBORNE; blue buttercup; Lazamataz
Go troll someplace else, you sorry loser.

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

Seconded. I've seen other samples of blue buttercup's output -- remember, Laz? -- and it stinks.

64 posted on 12/29/2001 5:43:16 AM PST by dighton
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To: blue buttercup
History is replete with fellow thinkers, such as yourself. Eradication of an 'enemy' by violent and/or silent means. In the last century we had Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Aum Shinrum, various small time killers like Jim Jones. Even the Federal assault on the Waco compound has been argued to be a government extermination act under color of authority.

One could envision that someday, after your vision of "national reclaimation" had failed to bear fruit, a lashing out at anyone who would dare oppose your enlightened struggle. Perhaps, instead of bombing a Federal Building your solution would be to release Smallpox into the ventilation system?

This nation and culture is much stronger than you believe and will survive in spite of attempts to undermine it. In your case, the threat comes not from alien subversion; it comes from a domestic insanity.

65 posted on 12/29/2001 6:08:26 AM PST by Thumper1960
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To: blue buttercup
"Eerily similar"?

What has this nation been fighting against for the past three months? An Islamist zealot who attacks an ideal (Western Civilization) by attempting to annihilate as many innocents as possible. Attacking American sites with the intent of bringing down America and the West. "Eerily similar" would be the assertion that dropping virulent Smallpox into Chinese rice paddies would bring down the Red Chinese communist threat.

I don't suppose the "eerie similarities" register at all, eh.

68 posted on 12/29/2001 6:43:34 AM PST by Thumper1960
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To: blue buttercup
What might be your solution to the 'insanity' of people like Sen. Feinstein, Kennedy, Schumer, Boxer, et al being elected?

Be specific.

69 posted on 12/29/2001 6:46:45 AM PST by Thumper1960
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To: Lazamataz
As I understand it the Clinton administration wanted to destroy our stocks of smallpox(all in Gov labs) so they could say they had eradicted smallpox ...all the while ignoring the very real possibility that smallpox has been weaponized by Russia and other countries and is out there in the land of terrorists...In short they chose political posturing over facing reality ....Enough American scientists raised a stink about their plans and stopped it
70 posted on 12/29/2001 7:07:32 AM PST by woofie
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To: Lazamataz
Bump
72 posted on 12/29/2001 10:11:17 AM PST by woofie
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73 posted on 02/18/2002 11:10:53 PM PST by kimosabe31
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To: Lazamataz
Blast from the past.

Preston's new book "The demon in the freezer" comes out tomorrow (Oct 8).
74 posted on 10/07/2002 11:32:54 PM PDT by TheLooseThread
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