Local Man Publishes Results of Anthrax
Investigation
Longtime activist Richard Ochs, a Lauraville resident, has issued a
10-page report called "Government by Anthrax." The paper is a
compilation of circumstantial evidence that Ochs believes justifies
"an independent and open congressional investigation" of the
origins of the anthrax letters that were mailed to some U.S. Senators in
October 2001.
The timing and targeting of the letters, according to Ochs, suggests that
the perpetrators' motivation was to promote legislation, namely the
passage of the USA Patriot Act. "Anthrax-laden letters were mailed
to the Democratic Senate leadership on the same day that they blocked an
attempt to rush the bill through without debate or amendments," says
Ochs. "These threats frightened Congress in general and intimidated
certain opponents of the Patriot Bill in particular." No Republicans
received any anthrax laden letters.
"The closing of the House and Senate office buildings made it
difficult for members to read the bill," Ochs charges. "After
the letters were received, the democratic leadership gave up their
insistence on a two-year sunset clause [for the legislation]."
Ochs notes that the day after the Patriot Act was signed, the Supreme
Court was closed by a false anthrax scare. "Anthrax letters to the
news media created widespread fear and a lockstep mentality in support of
the Administration's policies,"
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