A .50-Caliber M2 machine gun is lowered into
the cargo area of a GMC Suburban as it is
prepared for towing to a test site from the
Ibis Tek shop in Butler, Pa.
(AP Photo)
Posted on 08/07/2002 8:41:54 AM PDT by It'salmosttolate
Smallpox is terribly contagious. The Aralsk incident http://www.cns.miis.edu/pubs/opapers/op9/op9.pdf and http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/020729.htm proved that the Soviets had "weaponized" smallpox, aka made it distributable in aerosol form, but the fact that only one of the crew contracted smallpox is pretty good proof that this test did not involve the more persistent powdered form.
On the other hand, Ken Abilek, former deputy director of one of the major Soviet biowar programs (Biopreparat) has said repeatedly that the Soviets did succeed in creating a powdered form. See http://www.infowar.com/wmd/SaxtonJEC_hearings/wmd_052198d_j.html-ssi and his book, Biohazard.
Stupid people lingering in areas contaminated with former Soviet smallpox powder obtained by terrorists or, more likely, Iraqi-produced smallpowder, would be contagious once they catch smallpox from the powder. See an article on Strategy Page called Smallpox Apocalypse for what would happen then. http://www.strategypage.com/strategypolitics/articles/20020722.asp.
So yes, people who won't voluntarily evacuate areas contaminated with smallpox powder would likely be forced to leave, if necessary by being shot dead. You don't fool around with that kind of threat.
You'd better check an archived thread called
"FEMA: The Dark Underbelly" right here on FR. I did some research right before the Y2K scare that wasn't. But it wasn't because of FEMA. They have a black bag budget that is not subject to congressional overview and their organization is VERY well structured. I saw them in action here in south Florida after Hurricane Andrew.
It was reported in the Miami Herald in 1998 that the former Homestead AFB was converted to immediate use as a detention camp with FEMA as oversight even over the objections of local community leaders. It was also reported in that same article that the base is part of a string of such camps nationwide for use in "emergencies" of a nonspecified nature. Do another FR archive search and look up something called REX 84---a plan for the future use of FEMA as an "interim national authority" in case of terror attack. Written during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan by LTC Oliver North.
No, they won't have that, but be very careful around their soldiers, the kids with rifles who are perhaps zealous in doing their assigned task. If you don't want to go, then don't answer the door, and if they come in, hide. If they find your stash of Spam, they'll probably take it.
On second thought, keep your tin foil hats on until AFTER you read this, LOL!
The important lesson you can learn from this book is never, under any circumstances, ever become a refugee...Refugees are people without hope who have left their homes to run ahead of the holocaust, never in control of their own destinies. They are people who must rely on the charity of others until their time runs out and they die...Die if you must, but die on your home turf with your face to the wind, not in some stinking hellhole 2000 kilometers away, among people you neither know nor care about.
FEMAville will just have to start the party without me and my family.
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
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