Mostly about the "liberal-media" and the Democratic leadership in the Congress.
Letters with anthrax have been sent to the headquarters of news media, including The New York Times. Today, a letter (field-tested positive for anthrax) was intercepted before it reached it's target: Daschle.
I think its clear that the far-right is behind these attacks. Not simple because of their target, but the method of delivery: if they wanted to just kill Americans, they'd pump it into the air. No, they're targeting specific people.
It's time the right-wing stop bitching about "tree-huggers" on the left and start looking for the killers on the far of their own party.
Discuss.
I think I should add something. I am not saying that George W. Bush is whispering orders to his henchmen to carry out these orders, anymore then Newt Gingrich gave McVeigh the "go-ahead" to blow up Oklahoma City. However, I do think that the anthrax attacks are the results of efforts by American whackos, and I do think these "homegrown terrorists" would most likely be aligned along the far-right.
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Um... it's confirmed that one of the letters came from Malaysia...
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I'm not going to touch this one with a ten foot Gunblade.
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I'm assuming Jeff is not referring to the Omega right, or even the Limbaugh right, but rather the "let's live in a Bunker in Montana so the socialist thugs don't come and brainwash us" right.
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*ahem* I do think you're being a bit absurd, JeffK. Do you know what it takes to make anthrax? Probably not. In order to produce the right kind of anthrax, it takes several large centrifuges in order to precipitate the right size of anthrax spore. Too large and it won't be airborne. Too small and it won't lodge in the lungs. How does one manufacture that much anthrax under cover in the United States? Nay, I think its a much more logical conclusion to say that Saddam Hussien had a hand in this. BioWeapon inspectors have been forced out of the Iraq for quite some time. He certainly has the money and the know-how. All it takes is a hired 3rd party to mail the letters out, and we have ourselves a crisis. He has the ability and the motive.
And if it was a "Right-wing Conspiracy," why was some of the Fox News(the channel that liberals like to call conservatively biased) staff targeted as well?
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Nice try, JeffR. If Iraq was behind this, they'd just release the stuff into the air. Why send letters?
Besides, the far-right (read: McVeigh) isn't exactly known for being rational. My point is that this is more likely the result of "homegrown" terrorists. The far-right (and I do mean the far right) would be the most logical suspects.
And because people seem to think I'm accusing Omega, Rob, JeffRaven, and George W. Bush of actively participating in this ... let me say it one more time.
THE FAR RIGHT. THE FAR FAR FAR RIGHT. You know, like the same whacko militia McVeigh seemed to be apart of. I'd be very surprised if they haven't done anything to take advantage of Sept. 11th.
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He means the anarchistic right: "Government is evil and should be destroyed, no matter what the form." Silly persons.
Kardde, whether you think Iraq would simply have released it in aresol form doesn't make much difference. Homegrown terrorists simply would not have the capacity to engineer anthrax like this. It had to be someone with major resources, and no accountability. That's pretty well Iraq. There could be any number of reasond that they didn't use aresol dispersion. Just 'cause it was in a Clancy book...
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They're targeting specific people. If they just want to kill Americans, why wouldn't they just send some suicide bio-chemers into shopping malls and release it? My only guess is that they're trying to keep exposure limited.
I wouldn't discount that the far-far-militia-whacko right (similar to the far-far-I'm going to live/chain myself in a tree-left) would work with a foreign power (read: Iraq, or ... [insert]). I'm labeling them Internal Suspect #1, given their past track record (McVeigh).
JeffR, I am NOT (believe it or not) saying Rush Limbaugh is in his living room every night putting anthrax in an envelope and muttering "I'll show you all..."
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I don't buy all this far right wing conspiracy stuff. First off, I don't consider the media to be liberal.
1) Out of four major newspapers in Toronto, only one is on the left, and that is the Centre-Left. 2) I think CTV (Canada's equivalent of CBS) is owned by a private operator who is affiliated with the right wing.
And secondly, Tom Daschle is simply the majority leader after that guy changed affiliations to Democrat. Had it been the Republicans with the majority, I'd be expecting Trent Lott to receive that same letter.
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To tell the truth, I had the same wonderings about the anthrax and the far right.
However, it takes resources to make things like anthrax... a sophisticated laboratory.
In the U.S., the unsupervised sophisticated laboratories are pretty much all on college campuses... which aren't exactly hotbeds for rightist extremists (though they frequently are for leftists.)
And then, of course, there is the possibility that the same letters could be getting sent to conservatives, but that they never actually reach them, because conservatives are a bit more diligent about matters relating to personal security. (that's half-joking.)
quote: 1) Out of four major newspapers in Toronto, only one is on the left, and that is the Centre-Left.
As you folks up there are so fond of pointing out, Canada is not the United States.
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