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As U.S. leaders attempt to hold down the rhetoric and speculation about Anthrax based bio-terrorism after the death of three victims, one begins to consider other scenarios besides the Bin Laden connection.  This is the first of a three part series that explores the other possibilities for the source of the bio-weapon unleashed on the U.S.

Is Anthrax scare a domestic terrorism attempt

No evidence of who planted Anthrax in our nation's capital?  Osama Bin Laden's Al-Qaida not implicated?

Who else has a bone to chew with Tom Daschel?  The answer is just as chilling as the popular belief that an outside source produced the toxin and introduced it into Congress.  What about Domestic Terrorism?  Surely there are right wing extremists in the U.S.  who don't have the brains to realize that now is a REALLY bad time to push a right wing agenda using violence.  In fact with the number of domestic terrorist groups out there, it almost seems impossible not to have had something like a domestic terror attack using a biological agent.

And hey, aren't some of these domestic terrorist groups based in the farmland of America -- where Anthrax in its natural form is more likely to be found?  Wasn't there a small Anthrax outbreak a while back -- enough for some clever, violent right wing nut to take a sample and somehow keep it around for awhile?

Or worse yet, isn't it possible a right wing domestic terrorist organization has connected up with a foreign terrorist group to get supplies -- weapons and biological agents?  Too remote to even consider?  B.S.!!!!

MILNET alone lists some 29 active domestic terrorist organizations in the U.S. Of these 29, some 11 are large enough to have the resources (dues and other funding) to put together a plane ticket to Washington, D.C. and break into the mechanical room and plant Anthrax in any building in Washington, D.C.  Of those 11, not one tear would be shed if Janet Reno's friends in Congress died a horrible death from Antrhax.

Motivation?  Just listen to talk radio to hear the message from America's heartland as well as places you'd never expect -- take San Francisco and the Bay area for instance.  A talk show host, the "Champagne of Talk Radio" in recent broadcasts, proclaims that "Liberalism is not a political position, it is a mental disorder".  Heard nationwide, Michael Savage will scare the bejesus out of anyone who believes things are going pretty smoothly in a normal day in American history.  But with the events of September 11, Savage and other Talk Radio hosts have stepped the anti-liberal rhetoric up more than just several notches.  They are on "Wide Open".  And the extreme right wing is listening.

Extremists in the U.S. hear messages the Talk Radio hosts aren't saying.  They hear "Rise Up", "Take Action", "It is a War and we are doing Nothing!!".  Those lacking the brains, willpower, or discipline to understand and deal with their emotions could very easily go over the edge and become bio-terrorists.

Still think it impossible?  Remember the background of Timothy McVey.  There are much, much worse people out there, folks.

© Copyright 2001, Michael Crawford - MILNET

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