Anthrax Attacks 2001 - An Inside Job?

Well, well, well. The British History channel ran a program about how the
anthrax attacks that occurred shortly after 9/11 could only have come from
the U.S. bio warfare community. This program has never been seen on American
television. And needless to say, no one has ever been arrested for the
anthrax attacks. Weapons grade anthrax (ultra pure and processed so that it
would disperse very easily in the atmosphere) was sent in envelopes to
several people, mostly Democrats, and included Senator Patrick Leahy of
Vermont, and Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle, from South Dakota. This
attack occurred on Oct. 15, 2001. The so-called "Patriot" Act was then
quickly introduced. It passed. NO ONE READ IT. On Oct. 25, 2001, ten days
later, the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America - Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism - nice
acronym, you just know some schmuck spent hours, if not days coming up with
that one) passed in the Senate 98 to 1. Russ Feingold, the Democratic
Senator from Wisconsin was the only Senator to vote against this
monstrosity.

It later turned out that the so-called "Patriot" Act had been planned long
before September 11

Now here's a thought: the U.S. Senate had been split evenly, 50 Democrats to
50 Republicans in 2001, up till June 6, 2001 when Senator James Jeffords of
Vermont who was a Republican, pulled a switcheroo, and became an
Independent, and announced he would be caucusing with the Democrats. That
meant that Tom Daschle was now Senate Majority Leader. Three months later
came 9/11. Less than five months later came the Oct. 15, 2001 anthrax letter
attacks. Of 28 people who tested positive for anthrax, after the attacks, 20
of them came from Tom Daschle's office alone! Now, if Tom Daschle had died
from this anthrax attack (a distinct possibility given the extreme lethality
of the anthrax sent) then the control of the Senate would have shifted once
more to the Republicans. It gets rather complicated, but from 2000 to 2002,
control of the Senate switched back and forth between the Democrats and the
Republicans.

From the U.S. Senate website:

"Note: From January 3 to January 20, 2001, with the Senate divided evenly
between the two parties, the Democrats held the majority due to the deciding
vote of outgoing Democratic Vice President Al Gore. Senator Thomas A.
Daschle served as majority leader at that time. Beginning on January 20,
2001, Republican Vice President Richard Cheney held the deciding vote,
giving the majority to the Republicans. Senator Trent Lott resumed his
position as majority leader on that date. On May 24, 2001, Senator James
Jeffords of Vermont announced his switch from Republican to Independent
status, effective June 6, 2001. Jeffords announced that he would caucus with
the Democrats, giving the Democrats a one-seat advantage, changing control
of the Senate from the Republicans back to the Democrats. Senator Thomas A.
Daschle again became majority leader on June 6, 2001. Senator Paul D.
Wellstone (D-MN) died on October 25, 2002, and Independent Dean Barkley was
appointed to fill the vacancy. The November 5, 2002 election brought to
office elected Senator James Talent (R-MO), replacing appointed Senator Jean
Carnahan (D-MO), shifting balance once again to the Republicans - but no
reorganization was completed at that time since the Senate was out of
session."

In the event of a Senator leaving his office for any reason, the governor of
his state appoints a Senator to fill in for the interim. The governor of
South Dakota in 2001 was William Janklow, who had been governor for
something like 16 years, and was a Republican. Republican governors almost
always appoint Republican Senators as replacements, no matter whether the
original Senator was a Democrat. Thus, if Senate Majority Leader Daschle had
been killed in the anthrax attacks, the control of the Senate would have
switched back once again to the Republicans. So in this scenario, not only
would the control of Congress pass once more to the Republicans, including
the all-important subpoena power, but the former Majority Leader would be
dead. It's called a two-fer. Side note: just two short years later, William
Janklow, now the sole U.S. Representative from South Dakota, would be
charged with second-degree manslaughter, when his car, which was speeding,
slammed into a guy on a Harley-Davidson, and killed him, in rural South
Dakota. Now, going back in time just slightly, to late 2000, there were more
curious events relating to control of the U.S. Senate in the 107th Congress.
In Missouri, popular governor Mel Carnahan, because of term limits, could
not run again for governor. So he decided to run for U.S. Senate, against
John Ashcroft. Just one problem. On Oct. 16, 2000, he died in a plane crash.
A plane crash that some called suspicious. "Political Implications of
Governor Carnahan's passing

A Carnahan victory against Incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft was
key to the Democrats' plans for regaining control of the United States
Senate. Under Missouri law, even though he is dead, Carnahan remains on the
ballot. That is, the Democratic Party cannot change the ballot. We are now 3
weeks away from the election and the filing deadline has passed." Now,
isn't that special? Since Carnahan died 3 weeks from the election, and the
filing deadline had passed, the Democrats were forced to run a dead guy for
Senator from Missouri against John Ashcroft. Which looked very bad for the
Dems and very good for the Repubs. But incredibly the Dems won. That's
right, John Ashcroft became the first person in history to lose a Senate
election to a dead guy. Which freed up his schedule so that eventually we
all got the supreme bliss of having him as Attorney-General of the United
States of America. I mean hearing him sing "Let the Eagle Soar," was worth
it alone! But Mel Carnahan was not the only Democrat to die in a plane crash
around this general period of time. In 2002 Paul Wellstone also perished.
"Paul Wellstone was the only progressive in the U.S. Senate. Mother Jones
magazine once described him as, "The first 1960s radical elected to the U.S.
senate." He was also the last. Since defeating incumbent Republican Rudy
Boschowitz 12 years ago in a grassroots upset, Wellstone emerged as the
strongest, most persistent, most articulate and most vocal Senate opponent
of the Bush administration. In a senate that is one heartbeat away from
Republican control, Wellstone was more than just another Democrat. He was
often the lone voice standing firm against the status-quo policies of both
the Democrats and the Republicans. As such, he earned the special ire of the
Bush administration and the Republican Party, who made Wellstone's defeat
that party's number one priority this year. Various White House figures made
numerous recent campaign stops in Minnesota to stump for the ailing campaign
of Wellstone's Republican opponent, Norm Coleman. Despite being outspent and
outgunned, however, polls show that Wellstone's popularity surged after he
voted to oppose the Senate resolution authorizing George Bush to wage war in
Iraq. He was pulling ahead of Coleman and moving toward a victory that would
both be an embarrassment to the Bush administration and to Democratic
Quislings such as Hillary Clinton who voted to support "the president."
Then he died."

He died, by the way, on the exact one year anniversary of the passage of the
so-called "Patriot" Act. A nice touch, that.

His death, and the timing of it, was more than suspicious. He had just
recently been nakedly threatened with "severe ramifications' by none other
that Darth Cheney himself. Yes, indeed, the Dark Lord was not happy.
"Shortly before he died in a mysterious airplane crash 11 days prior to the
2002 elections, Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone met with Vice President ***
Cheney, probably the Bush administration's most evil public face. Cheney was
rounding up Senate support for the October 2002 vote on giving the
administration carte blanche to invade Iraq, with or without blessing from
the United Nations. Cheney strong-armed opposing politicians like the most
vindictive of Mafioso leaders, and opponents usually gave in but not
Wellstone. Whatever you thought of his progressive brand of politics, he
wasn't a wimp. And that's what made him more than dangerous in the eyes of
people like Cheney. At a meeting full of war veterans in Willmar, Minn.,
days before his death, Wellstone told attendees that Cheney told him, "If
you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever
is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the
state of Minnesota." Wellstone cast his vote for his conscience and against
the Iraq measure, the lone Democrat involved in a tough 2002 election
campaign to do so. And a few weeks later on Oct. 25, as he appeared to be
winning his re-election bid, Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, his daughter,
Marcia Markuson, three campaign staffers, and two pilots died in a plane
crash in Minnesota. Talk about "severe ramifications."

So once again, in the space of just two years, the Democrats were in the
position of having a Senate candidate die just days before the election. In
this instance, although there were only 11 days till the election, they were
able to persuade former Vice-President Walter Mondale to run in his place,
and polls that were taken just days before the election looked good. Real
good, fact - they showed Mondale winning by 6%, 51% to 45%. But then for
some reason, on election day Mondale lost to Norm Coleman, the former mayor
of St. Paul, Minnesota. Mondale lost by less than 50,000 votes out of well
over 2,000,000 cast. "At the time of his death, Wellstone was slightly ahead
in the polls. After Walter Mondale was chosen as the DFL candidate, in a
poll taken a few days before the election Mondale was leading 51% to 45%.
Early on election day Mondale was leading in votes but by nightfall Norm
Coleman pulled ahead. The senator-elect won narrowly 47% to 50%." Not that
it's necessarily germane to this discussion, but the reader may enjoy
learning that St. Paul has a special place in U.S. history, because in the
1930's, when John Dillinger and all the other outlaws were tearing the
country up, The St. Paul police and political establishment openly stated
and boasted, even, that they had made a deal with the crooks to keep hands
off, so long as the crooks didn't mess with St. Paul. So basically, St. Paul
gave the bad guys sanctuary, in exchange for being left alone. You know,
just like certain New Yorkers pay protection money to the mob in exchange
for being left alone. Now that's a great example to set for your
constituents.

Redman


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Psychotics live in them
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