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From: binkley@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Jon Binkley)
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Subject: Re: Dugway Biowarfare Facility--a clarification
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 16:35:50 EDT
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Keywords: Genocide, global contamination and other superpower responsibilities
Summary: Keeping up with the Joneskys
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In a previous article, pell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Anthony Pelletier) writes:

>Allowing the military to use modern biotechnology for top-secret warfare
>research is dangerous.  Given their history of bungling, what they do by
>accident is more worrysome than that which they do intentionally (consider
>the "anthrax tower"--a building at fort Dietrick that cannot ever be used
>because of an accident with anthrax--and the death of some six thousand
>livestock around Dugway due to an accidental release of nerve gas.  A complete
>list is too long to include here).
>
>Giving the military control over research funds in biotechnology is potentially
>dangerous.  Consider the double-bind in which our colleagues in physics now
>find themselves.
>

Poor, dear Tony, you ARE so naive...

Of course we must research and develop biological warfare-- the Soviets
are!!!  The risk of accidently or intentionally wiping out vast
populations is one we'll just have to take!  (Not to say there aren't
just as many risks in non-military research-- just think of the
ramifications if some well-meaning academician accidently released
insulin producing HB101 into the streets!)

Surely you can't be so naive as to think we shouldn't assassinate
foreign leaders not to our liking when the Soviets have done so many
times.  Nor can you possibly be opposed to us sponsoring our fascist
allies in their campaigns of torture and genocide, while the Russians
commit torture and genocide both on their own and through their
communist allies.

My point is that biological warfare research is just as necessary as
political torture and assassination, and those involved in this
research are EVERY BIT as noble and admirable as those involved in
genocide.

So you see, dear, misguided Tony, we MUST continue to do all of these
things.  How else can we keep the planet safe for democracy and
maintain our many shining examples of how much BETTER we are than the
Soviets?

Yours ever so sincerely,

Jonathan P. Binkley
Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado
Box 347
Boulder, Colorado   80309
binkley@boulder.Colorado.EDU

(These views are probably not shared by this pinko-commie
university, or this department.)