ENVELOPE STUFFING JOB

[Ken Brown]

Steve Furlong wrote:
 
> Powder color is the thing that's been driving me up a wall the past few
> days. People are panicking about the wrong dang thing.

I'm not at all sure that a large collection of anthrax spores would look
like a powder. These things are far too small to see individually. A
mass of them would look like a paste. Any visible granularity would
either be because they had agglutinated into larger particles in some
way, or because they had been mixed with a powder as some sort of
vector.  
 
> I'm tempted to scatter baker's yeast in a public place and powdered
> sugar nearby, and observe which causes people to panic. All that's left
> is figuring out how to do this enough times for meaningful results,
> without getting arrested...

New emergency law in UK as of this week. Up to 7 years in jail for
biowarfare hoaxes.

In a world of cheap DNA sequencing, these well-known bacteria bear their
ancestry with them like an audit trail. They are *American* anthrax. 
Why doesn't the FBI let some of those Arabs go without torturing them,
and pick up some of the workers from their own biowar labs?

Ken Brown