Tonight we witnessed the power of the Boogie Man. Terra

[spanone]

The cable media was there hook, line and sinker. BREAKING NEWS. Even after the all clear was given, Larry King was asking Dr. Sanjay Gupta what kinds of symptoms these people should be looking for. For crying out loud.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/08/nerve.agent/index.html

(CNN) -- A U.S. Senate office building was evacuated Wednesday evening after a sensor detected the presence of a possible nerve agent, but it was later determined to be a false alarm, sources said. ~snip~

[fooj]

1. Don't worry Larry...that kind of stuff only happens to the DEMOCRATS

You know--Daschle, Leahy...

Peace.

[file83]

2. What. The. F#(%. are you talking about? Links, a summary, a hint

as to what you are talking about or what your point is would really help us non-mind readers.

[northamericancitizen]

4. I support your " WTF are you talking about?"

[sabra]

5. CNN reporting - Senate Russell Office Building - Evacuated

then all clear

[Liberal In Texas]

10. OP needs to read:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x349888

[file83]

12. LOL, I couldn't find that post - Thanks! OP you need to read that!!!

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Were you not aware of the anthrax attacks

in the wake of Sept. 11 that targeted two national politicians (Senators Daschle and Leahy), who were (and are) both Democrats ?

[file83]

16. To clear the confusion - I made my "WTF?" comment because

I hadn't heard about the evacuation and the orignal poster didn't mention anything about it - so I had no idea of what the context was. Read the original post for this thread and try to imagine you hadn't heard the news - how would you know what this guy was even talking about?

To answer your question - yes, I'm fully aware of the anthrax attacks in DC and that the anthrax used was "weapons grade" spores AND from the US Military arsenal.

Do you remember the biological (Francisella tularensis) attacks last October in DC? DHS didn't even warn the protesters. Read about it here: http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/101805HA.shtml

[Webster Green]

3. Eh?

Any link or anything?

[Drum]

6. here we go...

thus commenceth the season of domestic scares, terra-alert-level seesawing, and the like.
I think the hands on the levers are just warming up!

[janx]

8. This is not the country I grew up in.

This is insane.

[WillyT]

7. I Think Maybe He's Talkin About This !!!

Nerve agent alarm clears Senate office building

Second test negative; more testing under way

Wednesday, February 8, 2006; Posted: 8:50 p.m. EST (01:50 GMT)

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/02/08/nerve.agent/index.html

:shrug:

[file83]

14. Remember in Sept, 2005 during the DC protests the bio detectors went off

but DHS didn't alert the protestors? Read the story here for the reminder:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/101805HA.shtml

Unknown to the crowd, biological-weapons sensors, scattered for miles across Washington by the Department of Homeland Security, were quietly doing their work. The machines are designed to detect killer pathogens. Sometime between 10 a.m. on Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. on Sept. 25, six of those machines sucked in trace amounts of deadly bacteria called Francisella tularensis.

Yet they never told anyone about it. But when the Senate detectors go off, they actually evacuate. Hmm...I wonder why that is.

[Skip Intro]

9. we sure did. Putting a scare into a rebelling Congress?

get the feeling something's about to break open

and the same damned circular logic - bush keeps us safe be scared - wtf is that?

[justgamma]

11. What is with the Cons they interviewed?

They were all whining about not having any food for 3 whole hours and they were hungry. They did get bottled water right away.
All I could think about was the people in New Orleans. I wonder if any of them were yelling about those people not having food or water for 3 days.

[Kansas Wyatt]

13. While the MSM (Corporate Republican Media) is catapulting FEAR

The MSM needs to report a few things that they have missed.

1) What part of the U.S. Government did the anthrax come from a few years ago in the last alleged 'terror' attack?

2) Was that anthrax linked to the NSA in any way, and is it tied to Bush's illegal spy program?

3) Has the NSA conducted covert missions to disrupt political opponents of Bush, like the anthrax attacks?

4) Could this be a covert NSA mission against political opponents of Bush or wavering Republicans, regarding the hearing on Bush's illegal spy scandal?

[radfringe]

17. if false scare stories don't work

there's always a real attack and plenty of time before mid-term (s)elections

That's what has me the most nervous. War drums and saber rattling noises about Iran and "green salt" -- all too familar

toss in the accusations of Iran/Syria inciting the cartoon protests

now add terra-lerts and turn up the fear

so I ask how long before we have a real terrattack on US Soil and it gets blamed on Iran?

I fear we will be invading Iran by this time next year