Blankets(M&D spoiler)

[Sojourner]

At 08:49 PM 6/4/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Matthew opines on the exemplary qualities os small pox:
>
>>Whether there was any success or not is apparently unknown.  Personally, I
>>do not comprehend why this method is singled out for special outrage.
>>--
>>-Matthew P Wiener (weemba at sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
>
>Well, Mat, I'm not sure either given the vast array of genocidal activities
>engaged in by the prevailing Occidental Culture from which to choose.
>However, I do find it ironic that small pox is one of the very few serious
>diseases which have been (supposedly) completely eradicated from the
>planet. I guess it didn't have any real military value after all.
>

Ahem...  I used to live across Old G'g't'wn P'k from NIH, where they keep a
feisty vial or two of smallpox alive, ready "just in case".  And just in
case you think "so?", I saw PETA successfully break in to their labs on
several occasions to free monkeys.

Blankets be damned its the government that won't stop their chicanery.