Homeland InSecurity and Biological Offences

by Eddie Becker/Pacifica's Peace Watch

Wed, Apr 2, 2003 2:02PM

When you peel away the duct tape and plastic sheets of homeland security to look at the real threat posed by weapons of mass destruction there is another story.
It’s not one of the sinister Bin Ladin or Saddam developing new biological weapons, but of billions spent at US bioweapons labs dreaming up new pathogens to defend against hypothetical threats while money is diverted from community health centers.

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Independent Reporter Eddie Becker examines the last Anthrax attack, interviews the former commander of the biological weapons lab at Fort Detrick and stumbles onto the real threats to our security.
Interviews with,
1) Major General John S. Parker, Former Commander at Fort Detrick (1997-2002) and currently employed by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
2) Tony Morrison Director, Institute of Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Jackson State University, Mississippi.

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§Thanks-2 Establishment Types Questioned

by Al

Fri, Apr 4, 2003 8:07PM

Becker might have asked the two establishment types he talked to (whose jobs now or in the past depended on US gov't funding for biochem terror research) why the US is so uptight and scared of biochemical weapons when the only attack the US ever suffered was from US gov't anthrax stocks from a US gov't facility. We are our main enemy and the people in 'the business' are reaping big bucks (as are their Republican stooges) to 'protect' us.

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