From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 12:45:27 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: SWAT: A Growth Industry
Message-ID: <199711130433.FAA10917@basement.replay.com>
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Dan Veeneman wrote:
> US News & World Report 11/17/97
> Everyone gets into the terrorism game
> BY DAVID E. KAPLAN
>
>Congress...allocated more than a billion dollars in support
...
> Even the toughest critics acknowledge that many of the new programs are
> needed.  For example, they agree that the training of local emergency
> workers to deal with a chemical or biological attack is long overdue.

  Are these guys with the same government that ignores the fact 
that the development of antibiotic-resistant *natural* diseases 
due to the greed of the medical and pharmaceutical industries may
well lead to more death and disaster than any terrorist threat?