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U.S. Army To Ramp Up Anthrax Purchasing
An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist reports that the U.S. Army wants to purchase a large supply of an anthrax strain." From the article: "A series of contracts have been uncovered that relate to the US army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. They ask companies to tender for the production of bulk quantities of a non-virulent strain of anthrax, and for equipment to produce significant volumes of other biological agents ... Although the Sterne strain is not thought to be harmful to humans and is used for vaccination, the contracts have caused major concern. 'It raises a serious question over how the US is going to demonstrate its compliance with obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention if it brings these tanks online,'"
I'm always glad to have the opportunity to speak openly, without fear of Zonk twisting my words in a perfidious attempt to make it nearly impossible to disturb his hate-filled gravy train. Let's start with my claim that someone has to be willing to condemn -- without hesitation, without remorse -- all those who dissolve the bonds that join individuals to their natural communities. Even if it's not polite to do so. Even if it hurts a lot of people's feelings. Even if everyone else is pretending that the Universe belongs to Mr. Zonk by right. I am not mistaken when I say that in this case, the obvious solution is also the correct one. That's just a fancy way of saying that by Mr. Zonk's standards, if you have morals, believe that character counts, and actually raise your own children -- let alone teach them to be morally fit -- you're definitely a lackluster, stentorian scumbag. My standards -- and I suspect yours as well -- are quite different from his. For instance, I feel that Mr. Zonk may have access to weapons of mass destruction. Then again, I consider him to be a weapon of mass destruction himself. Mr. Zonk says that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. This is at best wrong. At worst, it is a lie.
I hate it when people get their facts completely wrong. For instance, whenever I hear some corporate fat cat make noises about how Mr. Zonk can convince criminals to fill out an application form before committing a crime, I can't help but think that education is vitiated by Mr. Zonk's recommendations. That fact may not be pleasant, but it is a fact regardless of our wishes on the matter. So we're supposed to give him permission to rewrite and reword much of humanity's formative works to favor philistinism and hope he's rational enough not to do so? How incredibly naive!
If you've read this far, then you probably either agree with me or are on the way to agreeing with me. Plan to join Mr. Zonk's camp? Be sure to check your conscience at the door. Mr. Zonk can't possibly believe that he's merely trying to make this world a better place in which to live. He's infantile, but he's not that infantile.
I am now in a position to define what I mean when I say that I commend to your earnest and philosophical consideration Mr. Zonk's plan to purge the land of every non-predatory person, gene, idea, and influence. What I mean is that Mr. Zonk thinks we want him to court a slovenly minority of uncouth slanderers. Excuse me, but maybe pauperism doesn't work. So why does Mr. Zonk cling to it? In other words, where do we go from here? That's the big question. If you knew the answer to that then you'd also know why Mr. Zonk's protests have reached a depth of degeneracy that was virtually unknown in the past. Period, finis, and Q.E.D. I don't know what Mr. Zonk's problem is, but even if one isn't completely conversant with current events, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that his exegeses are like an enormous plagiarism-spewing machine. We must begin dismantling that structure. We must put a monkey wrench in its gears. And we must build an inclusive, nondiscriminatory movement for social and political change, because statements like, "Mr. Zonk's idea of addressing a problem is not to fix the problem but to establish a task force, council, or commission to look into it, study it, dissect it, and finally talk it to death" accurately express the feelings of most of us here. Mr. Zonk says that the Eleventh Commandment is, "Thou shalt seek temporary tactical alliances with sadistic renegades in order to abuse science by using it as a mechanism of ideology". Yet he also wants to desecrate religious objects. Am I the only one who sees the irony there? I ask because he maintains that free speech is wonderful as long as you're not bashing him and the unbalanced conspiracy theorists in his polity. Perhaps it would be best for him to awaken from his delusional narcoleptic fantasyland and observe that many people think of his neurotic smear tactics as a joke, as someth
...probably the pot heads!