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4 November 2001.
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- TERRORISM -

The Anthrax terrorists in the USA are still unidentified.  Is this the McVeigh legacy?  Are there US citizens who believe that the Union has gone astray, and see terrorism as the answer?   Are there microbiologist Unabombers?  The evidence released indicates that the Anthrax attacks are not all related, and that at least some of the sources are local.

In Australia those who have obtained a high public profile are called "Tall Poppies".   Suspicion exists that high position is frequently achieved by undeserving people using questionable means (especially e.g. politicians, journalists).   They are held in no high regard by a majority of Australians.

I have little difficulty imagining that many of my fellow Australians would not be suicidally unhappy if all Australian politicians dropped dead with Anthrax tomorrow.

It may be Osama Bin Laden that did the Anthrax.  Politicians and media high profile public figures are fair targets for terrorism, but the WTC was an inhabited artifact and the mass murder involved in that attack has made criminals of the perpetrators, even if most of the victims were "tall poppies".

Every cloud has it's silver lining.  One positive result of "the terror" is the reduction in air travel & pollution.  Possible further beneficial results would be an improvement in the quality of our politicians and journalists as the less desirable elements resigned or got "pruned".
 

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