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Apparent Suicide In Anthrax Case
penguin_dance passes along the news that a respected anthrax researcher, about to be indicted, has committed suicide. The FBI has been investigating the case since anthrax-contaminated letters were sent to the media and various politicians in 2001. The AP's coverage mentions that prosecutors intended to seek the death penalty. The suicide was not the one you might imagine if you've been following the story. "A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned. Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who for the last 18 years worked at the government's elite biodefense research laboratories at Ft. Detrick, Md., had been informed of his impending prosecution... The extraordinary turn of events followed the government's payment in June of a settlement valued at $5.82 million to a former government scientist, Steven J. Hatfill, who was long targeted as the FBI's chief suspect despite a lack of any evidence that he had ever possessed anthrax."
will be a lot of negative comments about the government. none of which address the crime of someone who put anthrax in the public mail, killing people. regardless of whether or not the guy who just committed suicide did those crimes. finding and prosecuting the guy who did that is job #1, right?
oh right, sorry... the government did the anthrax mailings. right after they did 9/11
(rolls eyes)
folks: healthy distrust of your government is normal and helpful to the functioning of a virbant society
however, rabid, paranoid schizophrenic musings on all evil in the world falling at the government's doorstep is not anywhere near the definition of "healthy distrust". more like pathological hobbling distrust
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
occam's razor
look it up
cuts through paranoid schizophrenic drivel like you just wrote above like a hot knife through dick cheney's belly button lint
do you know why people believe in ufos? why they believe in angels? why they believe in demons, monsters, bogeymen?
because the world is full of uncertainty, and the unknown. the unknown is terrifying. people need a security blanket, they need answers to the unknown
so they invent them. to assuage their terror, people invent narratives in their minds, invisible secret characters that do and say awful things in the world
for some people, this is dracula, for some people this is mephistopheles, and for some people, this is agent smith: the g-man in a suit with dark shades and an earpiece. doing sinister secret things that make Bad Things (tm) happen in their world, to keep the Secret Cabal (tm) in power
but please, you should ignore me. i'm obviously a fooled stupid sheeple, one who does not see the terrifying Super Secret Truth (tm) that you and you alone have figured out all by yourself! obviously, i swallow the lies of the gubmint to fool the simple stupid sheeple. or even worse, i could be one of Them (tm)!
or, better said than me:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=633193&cid=24438091
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
dick cheney: warhawk asshole
john mccain: warhawk asshole
this anthrax scientist: deranged warhawk asshole
so far, both you and i have nothing to disagree about
my conclusion: individual initiative by random warhawk assholes sure can wreak a lot of havoc in the world
your conclusion: a top secret dark cabal of warhawk assholes controls all these manipulations in a finely tuned agenda
WTF?!
occam's razor friend, look it up
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it