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Examining New York's Bioresearch Laboratory
Evangelion quotes from a NY Press story about Plum Island: "'Located just two miles off the tip of Long Island and six miles from the Connecticut coastline, Plum Island is home to a Bio-Safety Level 4 (BSL-4) research facility... During the fifth month of [an Engineer's] strike, a three-hour power outage renewed public interest in the island... Without power, the air filtration systems are inoperable. Without power, decontamination procedures break down. Without power, the seals in the pressurized airlock doors start to deflate. According to one report, workers were desperately sealing the doors with duct tape...'"
... of how fundamentally irresponsible we have become as a species, and ignorant we all are of just how a few people, with their endless justifications for 'research' endanger us all.
... just maybe ... some of those dirty A-Rabs might just have a point about the U.S. ...
oh, i'm sure this 'bio-lab' has its legitimate uses. do we really need more weapons-grade anthrax, though, really? asian bird flu really needs human helping hands to become the higher species?
i dunno. shit like this makes me start to think, maybe
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --
Sorry, but it doesn't take rocket science or brain surgery to maintain a back-up generator. The idea that they hired scabs that had no clue about back-up generators is unlikely.
The most probable reality is that the strikers sabotaged the equipment. Use your head.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
You're right. Let's disarm completely and all sing "We are the World" while holding hands in a field of flowers. Meanwhile, people with evil intentions will continue to plan for the first major bioweapon attack in a dense population center. When hundreds of millions are dying, at least you can claim with a clear conscious "at least we weren't building these bugs in our own labs." Some consolation.
>>Then we should only need exactly enough amount to deter those people.
You're changing the subject from one discussing the necessity of having a bioweapons research lab to one about disarmament in general. It's a troll, I realize, but I'll bite:
Unfortunately, I don't think that anything will deter the sort of people who strap bombs onto their bodies and blow themselves up on city busses full of women and children or fly airplanes into buildings full of innocents for the thrill of murder and the promised trip to heaven with seventy virgins, etc. That's evidence of madness of a grotesque magnitude; madness that cannot be conquored through negoiations. Would you disagree? If so, please provide historical evidence of such a success right here _____________________________________
Complete annihilation or crushing, overwhelming use of force is the only solution for purely evil cultures, but others in our time (including, most recently, the voters in Spain) have ignored history and believe such people can be negotiated with and appeased. That same mistake was made across Europe approximately seventy years ago with the result of tens of millions of deaths. How soon we all forget.]
Now, let's get back to the issue at hand. The necessity (or not) of having a bioweapon research lab. The past century is full of examples of people willing to kill themselves and/or their countryment so long as they also murder some number of their enemies. The purpose of these labs is to discover means of countering and controlling the effects of these weapons so as to minimize the threat these weapons pose and thus reduce the threat (and power) of terrorists and their supporting governments with these weapons.
We'd better be able to deal with the weapons, because we cannot reason with suicidal religious fanatics or cultures that believe that by killing children on a bus, one punches a ticket for an express trip to heaven. Biochems are merely one more tool for those who wish to exert power over others, and the labs are means for discovering ways to counter those weapons.
... its tongue in cheek? Because it scares you that the 'enemies of America' (A-rabs) may actually be on to something, in their objections over super-technology facilities like this being created by people who obviously can't keep them under control and who have a distorted, banal, base value for life on this planet?
; -- the corruption of government starts with its secrets. a truly free people keep no secrets. --