Ricin Possibly Found at Las Vegas Motel

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[null and void]

What concerns me is that LE are talking about medical use.

That's just a set-up for "nothing to see here, move along"

I doubt they just knew that. I’m in the medical field and didn’t. I knew about how dangerous a bio-terrorism weapon it could be though through manditory inservices.

It's the new party line. I'm sure you'll get re-education at your next mandatory inservice.

Who fed them this other possible scenerio?

Our 'betters'. Can't let the sheep panic, can we?

[girlangler]

Yea, I’m still not breathing as well as I was before I contacted this. Lots of this going around here too, so many sick kids and teachers, the schools here have been closed for a week.

I agree with you MS, I want to know why this ricin was in a motel room, and who the fourth person was who went to retrieve something.

[CindyDawg]

Of course they don’t want to alarm people. I understand that some people just don’t want to know. I’m just not one of them.

[AD from SpringBay]

Save this post because if it is ricin the story will probably disappear in 18 hours.

[blam]

I use castor beans a decorative shrubbery around here.

[From One - Many]

the objective is to not panic the public....because if the public is in panic the people in charge would have to do something to protect the Citizens....the objective is to leave the Citizens exposed.....it is obvious what is taking place...watch and wait... is all that is being done.....the politicians have sold out....the enemy is preparing to attack...I am no safer than any other Citizen...but I too am being forced to watch and wait....while the enemy hurries toward their next attack upon our Nation.... America is another day closer to losing Citizens.

[girlangler]

I don’t think so.They had bomb sniffing dogs, extreme security measures.

Lots of military special ops people attend this. I wouldn’t want to be the bad guy who was caught there trying something fishy.

[penelopesire]

“It would have been a REALLY bad time for a terrorist to pull something LOL”

Maybe a terrorist cell just wanted to brouse and buy....
I am of the belief that Islamic radicals have infiltrated every branch of our government and with our FBI busy attending Muslim sensitivity classes, I doubt they will have time to pursue this../sarc

[MizSterious]

Maybe I’m just too cynical for my height, but it almost seems as though you can tell how serious an incident is by how ludicrous the “official” explanation is. The less sense they make, the more desperate they are to cover up the seriousness of what’s going on.

[penelopesire]

“Finding and disposing of the toxin is not particularly hazardous if one wears gloves and does not aerosolize the material”

I guess that will be the big question in this story...WAS IT AEROSOLIZED?

How long will it take the officials to find out?

[null and void]

It is beyond ridiculous and insults people’s intelligence when this pablum is force fed to the public.

The people who run the schools know the intelligence level of the American public. *sigh*

[null and void]

I used to think that “the best and the brightest” were actually competent and knew what they were doing. After 911, I revised my thinking.

Damm. Too long for a tagline...

[CindyDawg]

How many times have you been exposed to a terrorist threat the last 7 years? None? Nope, probably many times. Our government has done a good job keeping us safe. I don’t have a problem with that. I just don’t like their insulting our intelligence. Regardless of how good a job they do it is only going to take one bad guy to get thru. People need to know how to calmly take care of themselves. We don’t see mass panic in Israel and places under frequent attack. The people have been trained to take precautions. That’s my biggest gripe here. If this stuff is released who is going to know what to do and those that don’t will be on such a high panic that they may not hear. JMO.

[penelopesire]

Hot Air has the story up:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/29/breaking-100-ricin-found-in-vegas-hotel/

[CindyDawg]

LOL. That is how I measure threats too. This researcher, working in a weeky rate hotel on cancer treatments in LV has lights and sirens going.

[Judith Anne]

Some CDC guy on FoxNews basically said the same thing, about 5 minutes ago.

Same thing I’ve always heard.

[Judith Anne]

One bean can be very dangerous to child or animals, iirc.

[Neoliberalnot]

Extraction of ricin is simple. Weaponizing it for aerosol use is quite complex and most jackass mass murderers would not have the capability or equipment required. Then again, the anthrax released back on 2001 was weaponized by somebody with requisite knowledge and equipment. If this stuff is weaponized, then we must think Islamofascists are present and accounted for. The big question—will Hussein Obama get the blame?

[MizSterious]

I agree with "Old Nuke" who commented, I think the question should be “How much did not get left behind, and where is it?” I hope we've heard the last of this, but I am concerned that we might not have.

[Neoliberalnot]

“Our government has done a good job keeping us safe. I don’t have a problem with that. I just don’t like their insulting our intelligence. Regardless of how good a job they do it is only going to take one bad guy to get thru. People need to know how to calmly take care of themselves. We don’t see mass panic in Israel and places under frequent attack. The people have been trained to take precautions.”

Truly, the Bush administration has stepped to the plate and done some right by preventing further domestic attacks. For the record, the number of trained emergency personnel has skyrocketed in the last 5 years. You would be very surprised at the large number of training sessions that have occurred and are still going on.