Tim, it's time to switch to decaf.
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 20:59:31 -0800, you wrote:
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> Journalists, diplomats, inspectors, and civil servants are being urged to evacuate
> the capital. A timetable of 48 hours has been given.
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> "The Evil Doers will be rooted out and the Evil Ones punished," said one spokesman.
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> However, as of midnight, Eastern Standard Time, there is no evidence that Washington
> residents are taking these warnings seriously.
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> Needless to say, this is not a threat. I am 3000 miles away, relatively safe on my
> hilltop. Being the survivalist that I have been for much of the past 30 years, I
> have a pantry closet filled with canned goods, rice, cereal. And I have a generator,
> which I expect not to use much. And solar battery rechargers (sufficient to recharge
> AAs and Ds for my various small radios, even recharge my laptop...this in case my
> 24-packs of AAs and Ds run out, or my several lead cell battery packs, etc.). And I
> have my perimeter alarms, my solar-powered intrusion alarms, my rifles, my handguns,
> my shotguns, my other weapons, my water filters, my colleagues. I don't expect to
> need this stuff, but I am, as always, happy to be able to just stay at home on my
> hill and watch the chaos unfold.
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> About the threat to Washington: I think it's relatively high. A nerve gas attack on
> buildings or the Metro seems likely. (The Japanese AUM cult had Sarin, but was
> inept. A more capable, military-trained operative has had many months to get into
> D.C. and wait for the obvious time to attack. And he need not even be a suicide
> bomber. A cannister of VX with a reliable timer is child's play.
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> If I were Declan, I'd get out of Dodge.
>
> --Tim May
