US DIMWIT, NOT JIHADIST, FOUND WITH WMD IN SHED: Government says
Readers of this blog know that the newsmedia and government terror experts jones on the idea of jihadists with chemical or biological weapons, especially ricin, the poison found in castor seeds.
"It doesn't take a congressional hearing to figure that al Qaeda or associates are about 70 feet of the Rio Grande away from entering the United States and potentially turning Sea World or Disneyland into downtown Nasarif if they get clever with nerve agent or biofavorites like ricin, anthrax or serin [sic]," wrote a columnist for the Washington Times recently.
"Natural toxins such as ricin from castor beans or bacterial toxins would make very good bioweapons, particularly for clandestine or terrorist use: they are highly effective at very low doses, they are easy to produce . . . " added a press release last week from a couple American terrorism experts flogging their brilliance on the subject in an article from an obscure European journal.
And the simple Google search string of "al Zarqawi" and "ricin" returns this mind-numbing number of hits even though the dead terrorist was never discovered with actual castor seeds or purified ricin.
In the war on terror, we are crazy for jihadists and ricin.
But who is caught most often with castor seeds or the ground mash of them? Dimwit white Americans, that's who!
Every year the FBI or ATF arrest American men as reported here in The Jailbird's Bookshelf or here in Assorted Fiends, Nuts and Kooks.
There's not a jihadist among the crew of perpetrators. Just your plain stupid whitebread countrymen, almost always male, all infatuated with guns, explosives and survivalist literature, and angry at the Internal Revenue Service, or some government agency, or Jews, or the Pope, or the UN, or local officials, a spouse or former friend. Indeed, almost any setback from domestic modern life is enough to convince them of the need to turn their abodes into bunkers equipped with machine guns, pipe bombs and poisons. All of them dumber than bags of rocks.
Consider the case of William Michael Matthews of Davidson country, Tennessee, indicted last week on charges of possession of ricin, pipe bombs and firearms silencers.
" . . . ricin was found in a sealed baby food jar in a shed at Matthews' Nashville home, according to local and federal officials who searched the house [on May 31]," reported the Associated Press.
"Those who manufacture and possess weapons of mass destruction occupy a high priority with both the Department of Justice and this U.S. Attorney's office," said a prosecutor for the federal case.
Matthews' wife, Carole, "was the one who raised concerns about what was in the shed, and authorities said they found five gun silencers, three blasting caps and bomb-making materials."
The lesson: If you're going to manufacture WMDs, don't put them in your shed or your cabin in the woods, where the government will surely find them. Think of someplace else, like Iraq.
Why do Americans believe ricin is the go-to poison in pursuit of their personal revenge manias? It is because they have been told ricin is easy to make, again and again -- thousands of times -- in the media, in books, on television and in their favorite literature. It's the recommended poison of survivalists, gun nuts and terrorists, given certification by received American wisdom, a lore almost at the level of "An apple a day will keep the doctor away."
"Possessing biological agents for use as a weapon is punishable by up to life in prison and a $250,000 fine," reported the Associated Press, a statement American men found with castor mash have found to be essentially true. And careless talk always plays a part of their cases. "Associates of Matthews told authorities that he talked about ricin more than a year ago, but that he was not known to be associated with any terrorist organizations or other violent groups."
But how many people have been killed by terrorists armed with ricin since 9/11? (Hint: It's not a trick question.)
Zero.
Readers of this blog know that the newsmedia and government terror experts jones on the idea of jihadists with chemical or biological weapons, especially ricin, the poison found in castor seeds.
"It doesn't take a congressional hearing to figure that al Qaeda or associates are about 70 feet of the Rio Grande away from entering the United States and potentially turning Sea World or Disneyland into downtown Nasarif if they get clever with nerve agent or biofavorites like ricin, anthrax or serin [sic]," wrote a columnist for the Washington Times recently.
"Natural toxins such as ricin from castor beans or bacterial toxins would make very good bioweapons, particularly for clandestine or terrorist use: they are highly effective at very low doses, they are easy to produce . . . " added a press release last week from a couple American terrorism experts flogging their brilliance on the subject in an article from an obscure European journal.
And the simple Google search string of "al Zarqawi" and "ricin" returns this mind-numbing number of hits even though the dead terrorist was never discovered with actual castor seeds or purified ricin.
In the war on terror, we are crazy for jihadists and ricin.
But who is caught most often with castor seeds or the ground mash of them? Dimwit white Americans, that's who!
Every year the FBI or ATF arrest American men as reported here in The Jailbird's Bookshelf or here in Assorted Fiends, Nuts and Kooks.
There's not a jihadist among the crew of perpetrators. Just your plain stupid whitebread countrymen, almost always male, all infatuated with guns, explosives and survivalist literature, and angry at the Internal Revenue Service, or some government agency, or Jews, or the Pope, or the UN, or local officials, a spouse or former friend. Indeed, almost any setback from domestic modern life is enough to convince them of the need to turn their abodes into bunkers equipped with machine guns, pipe bombs and poisons. All of them dumber than bags of rocks.
Consider the case of William Michael Matthews of Davidson country, Tennessee, indicted last week on charges of possession of ricin, pipe bombs and firearms silencers.
" . . . ricin was found in a sealed baby food jar in a shed at Matthews' Nashville home, according to local and federal officials who searched the house [on May 31]," reported the Associated Press.
"Those who manufacture and possess weapons of mass destruction occupy a high priority with both the Department of Justice and this U.S. Attorney's office," said a prosecutor for the federal case.
Matthews' wife, Carole, "was the one who raised concerns about what was in the shed, and authorities said they found five gun silencers, three blasting caps and bomb-making materials."
The lesson: If you're going to manufacture WMDs, don't put them in your shed or your cabin in the woods, where the government will surely find them. Think of someplace else, like Iraq.
Why do Americans believe ricin is the go-to poison in pursuit of their personal revenge manias? It is because they have been told ricin is easy to make, again and again -- thousands of times -- in the media, in books, on television and in their favorite literature. It's the recommended poison of survivalists, gun nuts and terrorists, given certification by received American wisdom, a lore almost at the level of "An apple a day will keep the doctor away."
"Possessing biological agents for use as a weapon is punishable by up to life in prison and a $250,000 fine," reported the Associated Press, a statement American men found with castor mash have found to be essentially true. And careless talk always plays a part of their cases. "Associates of Matthews told authorities that he talked about ricin more than a year ago, but that he was not known to be associated with any terrorist organizations or other violent groups."
But how many people have been killed by terrorists armed with ricin since 9/11? (Hint: It's not a trick question.)
Zero.
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