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Biohazards
offeror
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I realize this is the gun board, not the antidote board, but the truth is I am becoming more and more convinced that this will be the century of bioterror.
Oh there will still be the need for guns to defend against various kinds of crime, urban and otherwise. But the "great" minds who are not on the side of America have figured something out, and they are extremely dangerous because of it.
What they have figured out is that the only way to bring down a superpower is with biohazard -- virulent diseases. The anthrax scare was just a drop in this new bucket. The current West Nile Virus is the equivalent of America catching a cold, compared to what is available out there to be systematically inserted into American society. It may be that the most prophetic media of the 20th Century will turn out to be the movie OUTBREAK and Stephen King's book THE STAND.
The major defensive weapon of the 21st Century may well be the innoculation, and the antidote. There will be a great deal of overt and covert activity around this subject. Get educated on it.
It would be ironic if capitalism actually killed America by making antidotes and innoculations too expensive for common availability. This is the best argument for socialized medicine I've seen in a long time. We need free distribution programs on tap. We need our best researchers and pharmaceutical minds working on scenarios and solutions, including anticipating all the weapons of choice, stockpiling quantities of antidotes, and proactively building up the American people's immunities. This is a hell of a time for antibiotics to stop working, but we have already found one strain of staph that does not respond to the very best antibiotic we have.
When you begin to consider the relatively low tech, easy availability of viruses from smallpox to hanta to ebola, and the willingness of suicide terrorists to die by infecting themselves and entering our country, and the fact that the smartest enemy minds are working in this direction to bring down America -- and the fact that they might actually be able to bring virulent diseases existing in foreign countries here, the mind boggles.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - offeror on 08/31/2002 02:20:20
Oh there will still be the need for guns to defend against various kinds of crime, urban and otherwise. But the "great" minds who are not on the side of America have figured something out, and they are extremely dangerous because of it.
What they have figured out is that the only way to bring down a superpower is with biohazard -- virulent diseases. The anthrax scare was just a drop in this new bucket. The current West Nile Virus is the equivalent of America catching a cold, compared to what is available out there to be systematically inserted into American society. It may be that the most prophetic media of the 20th Century will turn out to be the movie OUTBREAK and Stephen King's book THE STAND.
The major defensive weapon of the 21st Century may well be the innoculation, and the antidote. There will be a great deal of overt and covert activity around this subject. Get educated on it.
It would be ironic if capitalism actually killed America by making antidotes and innoculations too expensive for common availability. This is the best argument for socialized medicine I've seen in a long time. We need free distribution programs on tap. We need our best researchers and pharmaceutical minds working on scenarios and solutions, including anticipating all the weapons of choice, stockpiling quantities of antidotes, and proactively building up the American people's immunities. This is a hell of a time for antibiotics to stop working, but we have already found one strain of staph that does not respond to the very best antibiotic we have.
When you begin to consider the relatively low tech, easy availability of viruses from smallpox to hanta to ebola, and the willingness of suicide terrorists to die by infecting themselves and entering our country, and the fact that the smartest enemy minds are working in this direction to bring down America -- and the fact that they might actually be able to bring virulent diseases existing in foreign countries here, the mind boggles.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - offeror on 08/31/2002 02:20:20
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