``As Shaw nearly said, not all rightwingers are psychopaths, but nearly all psychopaths are rightwingers.
On the other hand, and venturing far into the zone of bum talking, I'd suspect that this is not the work of organised militias, or indeed of organised anything. The selection of targets has too much of a flavour of personal hobby horses and private obsessions to them, rather than the glamour-boy targets which a terrorist group would pick;..''
`` The email address isn't some kind of joke, by the way; almost every webmail service is blocked by work these days, and I'm fucked if I'm having an email address at "thankgod4jesus.com" or "irishabroad.com". '' dd
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Sorry to hear you're reduced to al-islam.com for a non-blocked email service---which is hilarious. You could jump one of your phone lines for dial-up and plug it into a personal laptop to dodge the office network (probably a firing offense).
Well, that's what I did (jumped one of the fax lines), since us shop types have no reason for a computer. But my boss really doesn't care as long as it didn't cost him anything, and I use it during my lunch break.
In any event, it is interesting that according to the WSJ, the FBI is focused on finding a link between WTC/Pentagon and the anthrax letters. As I wrote in the post, I don't think there is one. And, while middle easterners in the US are certainly not immuned to personal psychopathologies, in this case it just seems like a very unlikely lead.
I suspect the FBI might be in denial or under political pressure to NOT find a domestic rightwing link. After all, half of the US Congress are rightwing nutters themselves, and the last US administration's FBI and DOJ got in serious hot water over all their rightwing crazoid busts (Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc). I also suspect that since Clinton was pursuing the rightwing under various terrorism directives, this is exactly the reason that the Congress started politically blocking his efforts, hence his do-nothing, accomplish-nothing legacy on curbing domestic terrorism (a point I am certain the right will bring up on the next election---assuming we have all forgotten they were the main source prior to 9/11). Now days the rightwing is susposed to be understood as synonmous with the holy heartland of patriotic Amercia---who of course would never do anything to harm the rest of us.
Chuck Grimes