Things to read when life gets too boring

[Bill Irwin]

This anthrax powder can be distributed by air.  I have a $1.98 garden tool
for dusting plants with powdered insecticide that a suicide minded
faith-based deconstuctionist could use in a theater or subway and do a lot
of damage.  Or, a baggie full emptied from a tall building on a breezy day
could empty a city in record time.  The moral of this story:  no superpower
is safe anymore.
Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: Monty/Judith Herr <herr@home.com>
To: <rcbaker@eden.infohwy.com>; <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: RE: Things to read when life gets too boring


> But, anthrax cannot be effectively distributed by air.
>
> Judith M. Herr
> Well Chosen Words
> herrj@home.com
> 925-443-4514
> 925-989-3723 (cellular)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
> [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of Roger Baker
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 10:41 PM
> To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
> Subject: Things to read when life gets too boring
>
>
>
> One of many things you can learn from this collection of links
>
> http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/bioterrorism/
>
> "...The prospect of an anthrax attack was investigated in the 1990s by the
> US Office of Technological Assessment. They concluded that 100 kilograms
of
> virulent anthrax effectively dispersed at night over Washington DC could
> cause between one and three million deaths. Crop-dusters can carry up to
> twice that capacity..."
>
>
>
>
>
> Bottom line: The best protection from determined terrorists over the long
> run
> is prevention; is to reduce the motivation to conduct terrorism. It is in
> the
> nature of complex and advanced societies to create so many points of
> potential
> vulnerability by well-organized terrorist groups that they cannot all be
> guarded
> effectively, no matter how many security precautions are taken. -- Roger
>
>