Almost no one ever talks about the 2001 Anthrax attacks anymore. And few remember that the anthrax was identified as a weaponized Ames Strain identical genetically to the one developed at the Lawrence Livermore weapons laboratory.

The first attacks came just one week after the Sept. 11, attacks, and were sent to the media. The second attacks were directed against two Democratic Senators, Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont. Daschle was the Senate Majority leader and Leahy headed the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both had been vilified in the media over their reluctance to help end freedom in America via the PATRIOT Act as they believed (correctly) that it would violate civil liberties. Not surprisingly, and as planned, they changed their minds.

No one was ever arrested. No one talks about it anymore. It has, quite deliberately, been forgotten.

At the time, Dr. Richard O. Spertzel a leading biowar expert said "In my opinion, there are maybe four or five people in the whole country who might be able to make this stuff, and I'm one of them." "And even with a good lab and staff to help run it, it might take me a year to come up with a product as good." He also said, "I do not believe science will identify the laboratory or country from which the present anthrax spores are derived. The quality of the product contained in the letter to Senator Daschle was better than that found in the Soviet, U.S. or Iraqi program, certainly in terms of the purity and concentration of spore particles."

Notice what he said, the quality was BETTER than even the Sovs, who are damn good, could make. It was not made in a kitchen, it was not made in a cave. It had to have been made, "in a good lab" with "staff", and it would have taken a year to do.

So where did it come from?

Operation Northwoods

Operation Northwoods, or Northwoods, was a 1962 plan by the U.S. Department of Defense to stage acts of simulated or real terrorism on US soil and against U.S. interests and then put the blame of these acts on Cuba in order to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. - Wiki

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Northwoods was real. Yes, it was canceled by Kennedy and the ultra-right CJCS Lemnitzer was fired, but it was real. The mindset, the sick despicable mindset, was there, Northwoods was not a conspiracy theory. And it almost happened in America.

Two or three letters, sent to the right people, and the American people will be begging Bush to protect them, they will demand that FISA be suspended. Bush will get anything he wants. Anything.

All for the price of a stamp.

The reason so many people don't seem to have a problem with the government spying on them is psychological.

You hear the authoritarian memes all the time... "if you don't have anything to hide", "they can listen to me talk to my Mom anytime", blah blah bleat.

This is because they really can't imagine someone actually going through their lives, listening, watching - with suspicion.

Try this experiment, get a video camera, walk around with it, stop and shoot people as they get out of their cars, or as they wait in line at the supermarket. See what happens.

Next time you see someone talking on their cell phone, walk over and listen to them talking. Take notes, make a recording. Imagine the reaction.

In both of these cases people would be outraged and quite correctly so. But move the camera up on a telephone pole, and put the listener in Langley, and magically the outrage disappears. It's a psychological problem. People have no imagination.

The Harris Poll. Feb. 6-10, 2008. N=1,030 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3.

"How would you rate the job Republicans in Congress are doing: excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?"

2/6-10/08

Only Fair/Poor - 72%

Excellent/Pretty Good - 22%

Of course you are writing your posts from the front line against terrorism? I mean you are fighting them over there so you don't have to fight them over here right?

BTW What's your telephone number? Credit rating? Medical history? Penis size? - never mind - we already know. Your IQ is showing as well...

But don't worry. We followed him down the street and taught him a lesson he'll never forget. Let us always be vigilant. The traitors are everywhere. LOL

I don't think this story is going to impact much, not even on the shooters of the world. How stupid do you have to be to believe that the level of one's patriotism can be measured by their accoutrement's?

He is not the anti-drudge because he sticks rigorously to the facts; but listen sometime to Mike Malloy at Nova M radio.

Mike is funny, smart, passionate, and like us, he is really really sick of what he calls, "the flying monkey right', and the "Bush crime family".

Check him out: www.novamradio.com, he is online and on the air and he is fighting for freedom. Tell your friends.

He is on at 9PM EST.

Personally I would have a lot more fun photoshopping swastikas on the lapels on the whole grisly gang...

And pretty soon you are talking real genocide...

Has anyone noticed how the MSM, even the "liberal" media, rarely mentions that number? It's always, "American casualties in Iraq have nearly reached 4000 dead..."

It is kind of like reporting on a baseball game by "reporting" that, "The Mets played the Yankees today, the Yankees got 4 runs."

Point of interest. If a human body averages 10 inches thick at the torso, then 1 million Iraqi "extra deaths" would be a stack of bodies 16.9 miles high.

With any luck, and some help from that little scumbag Kondracke, we could get that pile up into space! Safe at last! Safe at last!

And please, don't anyone tell me it's "only" 600,000.