ABC News - Terrorists Could Target the Food Supply:
"Agro terrorism is clearly one of the pillars of terrorism that we worry about," said Vahid Majidi, assistant director for the FBI Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate.Agro terrorism, Dick Clarke, Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate?
Former U.S. counterterrorism czar Dick Clarke agreed.
"There are clearly people in other countries, who are hostile to the United States, who have the knowledge to be able to wipe out a food crop or to be able to poison a food crop," said Clarke, now an ABC News consultant.
It's the kind of nightmare scenario that used to keep Tommy Thompson, former head of Health and Human Services, up at night.
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One of the reasons illegal immigration's become such a knee-jerk excitement issue is there's a percieved overpopulation in the US. Not enough gas, not enough water, not enough of a lot of things and too much and too many of other, not-good things mostly coming from having too many people around.
Blaming everything on terrorists is so easy, you just know someone, somewhere, some day, has got to be tempted to at least try to pawn off some heinous move or disastrous incompetence on them, or "them".
"Terrorists have thinned the population down to a nice sustainable level. Terrorists have reduced the over-population problem. Terrorists have made it possible for us to continue to drive our Ford Expulsions and our Lincoln Annihilators.
Plus real estate prices have really come down."
Every cloud has a silver lining.
