There are days when I wear my tin foil hat with pride, no matter how intense the jeering gets. And today may be shaping up to be one of those days.
A much under-reported (even in the blogosphere) story was how during the big September 23 Peace Rally in Washington, DC (the one that Bush avoided by fleeing deep underground a Colorado mountain under the guise of "watching the deployment of hurricane Rita relief), was that six widely dispersed bio-terror weapons sensors in the region were triggered for the first time ever, detecting tularemia (rabbit fever), a natural bacteria weaponized like anthrax. Official warnings were issued by state and local health departments, but the federal government issued a lame denial claiming that this unique event was due to the peace marchers "kicking up dust" (even though it was raining the day of the protest). Subsequently, they were many reports, including many here on Daily Kos, of persons attending the march getting violently ill with strange symptoms, on their way home or very soon after their trip to DC.
http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/...
Yesterday, there was a large peace demonstration in San Francisco at which Cindy Sheehan spoke. And, the local news is now reporting, that for the first time ever, bio-terror weapons sensors in the Bay Area are detecting Tularemia. Just a coincidence?
http://www.nbc11.com/...
If the Plamegate shows us anything it is that a vengeful and vindictive out-of-control White House will do absolutely anything to shut down its opponents. We have wilkerson's word's that the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal has run amok and hijacked America's foreign policy. Need I remind anyone, that Karl Rove himself is STILL in charge of American domestic policy? Could this be a Rovian plot designed to blame the protesters (who hate America, of course) for the release of bio-toxins?
Yesterday's release of information about the bird flu plan shows a centrally-controlled solution that relies heavily on the military to quarantine communities and suspend civil rights. Could the bird flu epidemic be the trigger for a declaration of martial law, that many suspected might come as a result of a terrorist attack, but now given the public skepticism about terrorism would no longer be effective?
Remember that bio-terror has actually been used for thousands of years against unruly populations by the powers that be. Plague-infested corpses were catapulted into ancient and medieval cities under siege. Blankets infected with smallpox were distributed to native Americans by the British to clear the frontier. The Great Spanish Flu epidemic after World War I has been described as a way to frighten populations and discourage public assemblies in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, which caused a huge Red Scare in Europe and the US.
Could it be happening again? Is this the neo-con master plan to eliminate all threats to our "War President," and give him a free hand to pursue aggression against Syria and Iran, and avoid the fallout of Plamegate? Could the coming legal battles over quarantine, martial law and suspended civil rights be the reason it was so important to get John Roberts and Harriet Miers on the Supreme Court?