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Bioterrorism Charges Brought Against Professor

Posted by michael on from the world-gone-mad dept.

gnetwerker writes "Wired and others are reporting about artist Steve Kurtz, professor at Univesity of Buffalo (NY), and member of the Critical Art Ensemble will face a Grand Jury in two weeks on bioterrorism charges over artwork that used samples of harmless bacteria to make a statement about genetic engineering and food safety. He is charged with BioTerrorism under Section 817 of the PATRIOT Act. Apparently John Ashcroft can't tell a weapons lab from an art installation. There is more info and a Defense Fund on the CAE Defense Fund Site."

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  1. Re:Thanks for the gratuitous Ashcroft bash by Kaemaril · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    we have found some just not the huge stockpiles everyone expected.

    It's news to me that we've found ONE "weapon of mass destruction" in Iraq, let alone "some". Did I miss a meeting?

    Wouldn't Bush, Blair and the rest of the coalition be screaming this from the top of their lungs by now? I mean, we've found mobile labs ... only they weren't. We've found a shell (which is a battlefield munition, not a WMD), we've found a couple of drums which had some sort of chemical residue which was initially claimed to be WMD ... only that sort of fell by the wayside ...

    So ... where was the WMD(s) again?