Posted on 11/05/2001 9:01:18 AM PST by t-shirt
Edited on 04/29/2004 1:59:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A man was arrested Saturday night at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, when he tried to board a flight with nine knives, a can of Mace and a stun gun, police said.
The man may have some connection with two men who were detained Sept.12 in Texas as material witnesses in the investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, CNN has learned.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
If this were an isolated incident I would be inclined to agree with you. However, T-shirt is CONSTANTLY posting articles into Breaking News that do not fit that category, so I believe he simply wants to draw a lot of attention to his posts, forum guidelines be damned. And it is not censorship to pull them out of an improper category, and it is absurd for you to claim such.
How very unfortunate, indeed, that you did not understand the gist of my comment. There is no dispute about the administration of the category placement, and whatever rules are in place. Remember, it is all subjective referencing how an article is posted. Do you honestly believe that t-shirt has visciously pre-meditated breaking the rules?
Yes, I do. His posts are constantly pulled from Breaking News, but he insists on placing them there anyway. What else am I supposed to deduce from this?
No, the basic story was previously posted three times. And the moderators agreed and pulled this version from breaking news. Happens all the time with t-shirt. He tries to claim that since it is a different article or an update, it makes it new information - but new information is not breaking, and that has been made clear to t-shirt many, many times - but he persists in his view.
You got a problem, take it up with the moderators, they are the ones who actually remove something from breaking news.
And it's funny to watch how, after you thoroughly embarrass yourself on a thread such as this one, then you have the thread or your posts pulled, so people can't see how bad your bahavior really is later on.
Do the issues ever matter to you at all dirtboy?
Does informing people, and exposing and fighting corruption have any value to you at all?
Or is this all about your vanity and ego and power-tripping dirtboy?
I will try to avoid replying to you again.
There no way I could have posted it in less than 8 minutes, with the < P > 's in there and comments, etc.
Nice try again, T-shirt. I talked to the moderator about that, he pulled the wrong post (my number 5 instead of your number 7), and was unable to re-instate mine - bug in the software, he told JohnRob about it.
You can blather all you want. The point is, you continuously have your posts pulled from Breaking News - but instead of bothering to follow the forum guidelines, you insist on doing things your way - you are one of the key reasons why JimRob was going to get rid of the sidebars, and why we need a Sidebar Moderator in the first place. So cut the crap and look at yourself in the mirror. Guys like you led to the need for moderators.
YOU DIDN'T EVEN HAVE THAT IN YOUR STORY. There was a post several hours before yours that covered the O'Hare arrests.
My moderator? Man, you are paranoid. I don't even know who they are, and they report to JimRob. The moderators are probably sick of your abuse of the sidebars. But instead of listening to them, you blame me. Man, the liberal victim culture has NOTHING on you.
LOL.. Thanks for that! I was trying to be subtle.
I appreciate the "ping" too. Thanks.
By Adrienne Sanders
Of The Examiner Staff
Until now San Francisco has escaped the powdery panic anthrax has delivered elsewhere in the nation, but health officials say brace for the worst.
"The anthrax situation will affect us," said John Brown, medical director of emergency services for the Department of Public Health. "It's already affected many cities and could very well come here in the future."
Having crept westward from the eastern seaboard to Indiana and recently to Missouri, the anthrax threat is likely headed for the Rockies -- and beyond.
Although it has been reported that smallpox could be the next weapon in the bioterrorist arsenal, Brown and cohorts in the health field agree that anthrax bacterium is the most serious biological threat to city residents for a number of reasons:
* Anthrax travels well, is relatively easy to cultivate in labs and can spread instantly to large numbers of people.
* The spores' tough outer shells also allow the bacterium to weather tough environmental elements.
It also is a practical weapon, Brown said, because it is easy to pack in a simple envelope.
"It doesn't have to affect a huge number of people to reach a terrorist's desired effect," he said.
And these terrorists seem to know what they are doing by shipping sophisticated strains of the bacterium, said Jonathan Tucker, a biological weapons specialist at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
The finely-ground type of the anthrax sent to the office of Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., is particularly worrisome to health officials because it is easily inhaled and is the most lethal of the strains.
Four of the 10 reported individuals found with inhalation anthrax in the United States died. On the other hand, the seven victims of cutaneous anthrax are being treated effectively with antibiotics.
Though it seems news-numbing to hear and read so much about anthrax, Tucker said, the public should be on alert because no one knows the amount of the bacterium nor the strains the terrorists have in their possession.
As for smallpox, Tucker downplayed the threat since obtaining the virus is limited to two sources: American laboratories or scientists from the former Soviet Union.
It is possible that terrorists acquired a small supply, Tucker said, "but there's no smoking gun evidence that that's occurred."
Nonetheless, no amount of scientific preparedness is foolproof.
"It's impossible to accurately assess the possibilities of what could happen," Tucker said. "We thought an attack like Sept. 11 was impossible until it occurred."
E-mail Adrienne Sanders at asanders@sfexaminer.com
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(Thankyou Admin Moderator for insisting that we discuss the topic. For the record I have never hit the abuse button on this thread or any other thread as long as I have been on FR.)
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