At 9:59 AM -0800 2/19/98, Tim May wrote:
CNN is reporting a news flash, with few details, about two men being arrested in Las Vegas for making or possessing or planning to make anthrax. Details should be emerging, but I have a hunch it's a witch hunt, an invocation of the Four Horsement, to drum up support for Clinton's Dirty Little War.
I'm now watching the FBI's news conference about this event. Very few details, lots of scary stuff about deadly biological viruses....par for the course. The FBI guy cites the help of "Dougwood Proving Grounds." Er, I think he means Dugway, but he's just a flack. He mentioned that the raids were launched "hours" after an informant gave them information. Ah, but how in this bureaucratic age did they get the support from Nellis AFB, the U.S. Army, a team from Quantico, and half a dozen other police and military agencies? And the Army's involvement (Army and Air Force personnel) would seem to violate Posse Comitatus (the law forbidding military involvement in domestic police enforcement). Still looks like a canned event to drum up support for Operation Wag the Dog. (Consider that one of the arrestees was charged two years ago with some crime related to having precursor chemicals which could be used in making bubonic plague. He was on probabation, and probably his movements were being tracked. Perfect for "rounding up the usual suspects.") So far the seized materials are "unidentified." It'll be real funny, and tragic, if nothing is found. (Ah, a reporter just asked, "You've had these suspects under surveillance for quite some time....") But I suspect the Feds will _plant_ something incriminating even if nothing is actually found. Like throwdown guns planted on perps in shootings, throwdown vials will be used. (Dugway Proving Grounds was involved, and is just one of many sources of anthrax.) It's truly indicative of our Orwellian state that the USG is ranting about "weapons of mass destruction" when the USG maintains massive chemical, biological, and nuclear stockpiles. (Or are Fort Detrick and Dugway and the VX stockpiles near Hanford just "baby milk factories"? :-) ) Wanna bet they also bring crypto in this media circus? --Tim May Just Say No to "Big Brother Inside" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^3,021,377 | black markets, collapse of governments.