Posted by
Chad on Friday, August 08, 2008 2:09:16 PM
The media rush to judgment against Dr. Ivans tells you one thing. Innocent till proven guilty and our civil liberties are being erroded. Are voices that would defend Ivans afraid of retribution? Has it really gotten that bad?
I my self was in the mental ward, so here is my take on it.
We need to wait for a more complete picture of Dr. Ivans.
Question: Does any normal socially well adjusted person ever end up working in a government anthrax lab?
No, the place is full of sadistic technogeeks probably. Guys who couldn't get a job in the civilian sector because of bad social skills where they could make alot more money.
So, if Ivans had guys he trusted, other schizotypal nutty professor types, do you think they might exchange monty python humor by email before 911? Probably could do it!
There, we have put Dr. Ivans in context.
But as they say, dead men tell no tales.
Why did anthrax happen, 3 choices:
1) Dr. Ivans made it happen acting alone along the lines of what Alkida would want in time and place.
2) Dr. Ivans didn't do it and was framed.
3) Dr. Ivans did do it but was egged on and hired by creeps who would manipulate his weak mental state.
Which leads back to 911, 3 choices.
1) Government didn't make it happen/
2) GOvernement made it happen in a broad conspiracy/
3) Government let it happen.
Five safety nets that failed Dr. Ivans and the Gulible American Puplic
1) Nobody saw he was a mental case
a) coleauges
b) Familly
c) Friends
d) GOvernment screeners
e) Government Psychologists and his phsycian at yearly physicals (he was 62)
2) If he did it nobody stopped him from stealing the anathrax or even noticed it was gone.
Conclusion: Only a specially trained psychiatrist can tell the difference between a mental case and a person who is being gas lighted into insanity. A third option, again, would be the psychiatrist detecting a borderline mental who is being systematically pushed over the edge.
I come from a military familly. Both my grandfathers served at a local military base as either civilians or soldiers. Me and my dad did too. So I kind of know what I am talking about. I mean, the guys I knew at Redstone Arsenal were patriotic engineers interested in military science. Red white and blue, apple pie and all that. They worked on Bradley fighting vehicles, Rockets, things like that. I'm sure anthrax wasn't on the top of their list for carrer paths. Were talking about a weapon that doesn't discriminate between civilians or combatants. In fact, no one ever expected it to be used except in a doomsday scenario.
Who the wants to sit there and think about that stuff with that?
Why in the world are we messing with that stuff to begin with? Wasn't there a movement in the past to destroy it all for good?
Or was that small pox? Same difference.