{"article":{"id":12108,"heading":"Anthrax Terror: A Right Wing Milita Gambit","author":"johnk","created":"2001-10-20 19:38:30","modified":"2001-10-21 02:31:55","last_modified":"Sun, 21 Oct 2001 09:31:55","article":"

Just came across this email:



It sure looks like the Anthrax is coming from the looney right. Going to \"liberal\"

media and Senators, included Wellstone.

If you remember as Evan mentions some guys a few years ago, sent away for some Anthrax and got it back in the mail. 

 
  
 Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:07:26 -0400 
  
 From: Evan Davis <evan@iwaynet.net<\/a>> 
  
 Subject: [change-links] Aryan Nation Anthrax lab in Lancaster, Ohio 
  
 X-Sender: evan@iwaynet.net<\/a> 

  
  
 Because people seem to forget... 
  
     The following is a short rant published in the Progressive Populist 
  
 several years ago written by a couple of friends of mine here in 
  
 Columbus. It talks about a white supremacist in a semi-rural Ohio town 
  
 who successfully ordered Anthrax through the mail and was propegating it 
  
 in his kitchen. 
  
     The original article was commissioned by TheNation but was \"killed\" 
  
 ( not published but paid for). Anyone's guess as to why. I cancelled my 
  
 sub not long after. 
  
     http:\/\/www.populist.com\/98.4.anthrax.html<\/a> 
  
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 It's a story that doesn't even exist in the left media, much less the right media. 
  
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 A right wing terrorist could, in good conscience, release small amounts of anthrax, secure in the knowledge that he or she would not kill too many people, and create extreme terror.  It would be a \"wake up call to America\" that everyone should get in line with their paranoid, apocalyptic fantasies. 
  
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 Increasing militarization helps the milita movement, by validating their heavily armed, survivalist organizations.  I think they know this, and will use the situation to help themselves, even if it means inciting terror on the population. 
  
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 Wasn't OK City supposed to help unify the militia movement to unify against the federal government? 
  
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 I know this is idle speculation, but I think the scenario of the militias or white power groups distributing anthrax makes as much sense as middle eastern terrorists spreading it.  Any comments?<\/p>\n","contact":"johnk@woodstock.com","link":"http:\/\/www.populist.com\/98.4.anthrax.html","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"Some idle speculation that the anthrax is being sent, not from bin Laden, but from our own domestic fundamentalist religious terrorists.","numcomment":3,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/10\/12108.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":12109,"heading":"Environmentalists?","article":"It could be the environmentalists - they get mad when you wear a fur coat and are very Nazi-like in their beliefs.  It could be someone young, with excess energy, and doesn't think first.  Or a lot of ghetto people are pissed off for living in poverty (even though it's gotten better for Blacks through the years). All I know is Emma Goldman says \"The natural impulse of the primitive man to strike back, to avenge a wrong, is out of date.\"  And she said this in the early 1900's!   ","author":"Ellen","parent_id":12108,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-10-20 20:19:23","modified":"2001-10-20 20:36:49","fileurl":""},{"id":12112,"heading":"It \"Could Be\" You, Too, Ellen","article":"Ellen wrote: \"It could be the environmentalists - they get mad when you wear a fur coat and are very Nazi-like in their beliefs.\"\r\n\r\nI'm afraid you don't know the difference between an environmentalist and an animal rights activist.\r\n\r\nWorse, you don't know the difference between possibility (just about anything is possible) and plausibility.  (Who has a *plausible* reason for sending anthrax to these particular people?)\r\n\r\nI find it really sadening that someone quoting Emma Goldman could display such sloppy thinking.\r\n\r\nBut, like I said, just about anything is possible.\r\n\r\nAlas!","author":"Paul H. Rosenberg","parent_id":12108,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-10-20 21:43:23","modified":"2001-10-20 22:00:01","fileurl":""},{"id":12118,"heading":"Guardian story supports JohnK","article":"                          US: 'anthrax attacks could be homegrown' \r\n                          Staff and agencies            \r\n\r\n                          As a seventh American contracted anthrax today, investigators\r\n                          in the US said they are coming to the conclusion that\r\n                          homegrown terrorists are responsible for the spate of anthrax\r\n                          attacks, rather than Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network.\r\n\r\n                          The seventh victim was an employee of The New York Post, a\r\n                          tabloid newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, who\r\n                          tested positive for skin anthrax. \r\n\r\n                          Federal investigators are trying to track anthrax-laden letters\r\n                          back to their point of origin after a New Jersey postal carrier who\r\n                          may have handled the envelopes yesterday became the sixth\r\n                          person to contract the disease. \r\n\r\n                          Claire Fletcher, a CBS News employee and a British native, was\r\n                          also confirmed to have contracted the disease. Ms Fletcher\r\n                          works as an assistant to CBS news anchor Dan Rather, and her\r\n                          case meant that all three major US television networks had been\r\n                          targeted with anthrax. \r\n\r\n                          The US president, George Bush, said officials had found no\r\n                          direct link between the anthrax cases and foreign interests such\r\n                          as al-Qaida or Iraq. Speaking today at an economic summit in\r\n                          Shanghai, China, Mr Bush did not rule out the possibility that\r\n                          the anthrax attacks are acts of domestic terrorism, and vowed to\r\n                          prosecute those who carry out anthrax hoaxes. ","author":".","parent_id":12108,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-10-21 02:31:55","modified":"2001-10-21 03:00:01","fileurl":""}]}