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Of the many alarming parts of this article in the Washington Post about biological weapons research, which one would keep you awake at night?

On July 10, the day he was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation, for example, Ivins spent part of the afternoon at a sensitive briefing on a new bubonic plague vaccine under development at the Army’s elite biological weapons testing center, according to a former colleague who talked with him there.

(A) People with known psychiatric problems were doing sensitive bioweapons research while the rest of us dealing with the "War on Terror" can’t go through an airport screening with more than 3 oz of shampoo;

(B) We have something that can be characterized in the newspaper of record as our "elite biological weapons testing center";

(C) "Bubonic plague"

Personally, I’m gonna go for (C). But perhaps we should be reassured that everything is under control, the very folks that made a bloody fortune from the avian flu "crisis" are at the ready to make another billion pretending to fight valiantly against another threat which they will help generate.

Ah yes, good old Dynport, where investors like Rumsfeld go to make their millions scaring the bejeezus out of the rest of us and then offering an expensive solution.

Rumsfeld made $5,000,000 from this program, I’m sure it’s from good investment advice. Remember the omnipresent articles on avian flu? They finally had to quit talking about it because even the most compromised public health people stopped cooperating with such a ridiculous scam.

The potential for a virus with an animal reservoir to jump to humans and cause a catastrophe needs to be researched by public health professionals who will take it seriously and look for answers. Instead this was another opportunity for them to scare people to justify a program that will "save" us from yet another manufactured disaster.

Can’t make money off of avian flu? Must find another way to frighten people and make money. I know! Bubonic plague!

It clearly doesn’t trouble their conscience that tests will be done on actual human beings: vaccine tests on our helpless troops, just as with the anthrax vaccines which made untold numbers of our military sick; and worse, disease tests on a third world population group too poor, powerless, and isolated to complain. Not that I have any particular country in mind *cough*.

Thing is, I have really long thick hair and 3 oz of shampoo just isn’t enough. They raised my irish when they declared that mascara was a weapon of mass destruction after the London incident. But to keep our focus on ridiculous security concepts like four oz of shampoo instead of three, when the big boys are stealing billions yet again from making us afraid, reminds me of a very old racket.

Republican government: Break your windshield, then give you a business card about their windshield repair service.

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