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• Wednesday, August 6, 2008 06:57 PM

  Macgupta - On Death Decrees Against All Americans and All Jews

  Macgupta - How many people with access to the anthrax strain in question used an expression so close to the language and posting time of the anthrax letter? "Osama Bin Laden has just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans..."

  We see now that Ivins was almost certainly for the Patriot Act and similar police-state legislation, on the same page with the neoconservative/Christian Zionist agenda.

  I'm not sure in what sense Ivins was a Democrat. I know of very few Democrats, other than Joseph Lieberman, who are sympathetic to Christian Zionism (or who are Christian Zionists themselves).

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  On September 26, 2001, in an e-mail to a friend, Dr. Ivins writes "The news media has been saying that some members of Congress and members of the ACLU oppose many of the Justice Department proposals for combating terrorism, saying that they are unconstitutional and infringe too much on civil liberties. Many people don't know it but the official ACLU position is to oppose all metal detectors in airports and schools and other public buildings. It's interesting that we may now be living in a time when our biggest threat to civil liberties and freedom doesn't come from the government but fiom enemies of the government. Osama Bin Laden has just decreed death to all Jews and all Americans, but I guess that doesn't mean a lot to the ACLU. Maybe I should move to Canada. . . ."

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  —seanmcbride Read seanmcbride's other letters
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