Both presidential candidates have both moved in that direction. It’s appalling.

On Point, please help us discuss this issue in the context of FISA, habeas corpus and the Patriot Act.

As the article explains, we used to have an international biological weapons treaty, which prohibited all parties from making biological weapons. Unfortunately, the U.S. used one of the loopholes to develop our own biological weapons. The treaty allowed countries to create biological weapons, in order to supposedly figure out defenses against those weapons. So we started creating some of the most dangerous infectious diseases ever made, such as weaponized anthrax, vaccine resistant anthrax, and others.

Now we’ve given the world biological weapons. The first use of our own weapons was against us. It’s unlikely that weaponized anthrax would ever have been created if we hadn’t done it. But now that we’ve done it, everybody knows it can be done, and if there are any terrorists who want to attack us, they know it can be done.

Meanwhile, the government has taken money from real threats, like pandemic influenza, and moved it into bioweapons “research.”

Most of the experts on this program are getting government money — sometimes millions of dollars — for developing bioterror programs.

They have a strong financial incentive to exaggerate the threat of bioterrism, and that’s what I think they’re doing.

If you had a doctor from a pharmaceutical comapany telling us that everybody needs his drug, you’d want to remind your listeners that he had a conflict of interest.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin