From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Fri Feb 12 1999 - 13:59:48 MST
Paul Hughes wrote:
> "Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
>
> > As Vietnam proved, an aircraft carrier is of absolutely no use against a
> > rural, grassroots insurgency force. The proper equipment for the job. The only
> > way they will be able to control things if they are stupid enough to try to
> > take over is to use chemical and biological weapons...
>
> I think your right Mike. But also consider that there are plenty of very bright
> chemists capable of making something really nasty themselves - like Sarin Gas -
> the stuff used in the Tokyo subway incident. One cc. of pure Sarin in aerosol
> form could easily kill a medium sized city. If one of these chemists or his
> associates call's up the big-bad-boys-of-martial-law and tells them that they
> either return the power back to the people or face continued and random sarin gas
> attacks in vital areas, you'd quickly get a stalemate situation.
>
> When you have large amounts of military personnel wandering the streets never
> knowing whether a Sarin gas attack could happen anytime, it will do much to
> disrupt morale and the cohesiveness of a martial law regime.
>
The problem isn't so much that, but that the gummint would stage such an attack on a
rioting population i.e. south central LA or The DC ghetto/welfare island, then blame
it on right wing 'terrorists' as an excuse to come down on the rest of the country
with 'justification'.
Mike Lorrey
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