Biowarfare and Terrorism - Softcover

Boyle, Francis Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932863469 ISBN 13: 9780932863461

Publisher: Clarity Press, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

This book outlines how and why the United States government initiated, sustained and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms buildup. Most significantly, U.S. expert Francis A. Boyle reveals how the new billion- dollar U.S. Chemical and Biological Defense Program has been reorientated to accord with the Neo-Conservative pre-emptive strike agenda—this time by biological and chemical warfare. Linking U.S. biowarfare development to the October 2001 anthrax attack on Congress—the most significant political attack on the constitutional functioning of democracy in the United States in recent history—Boyle sheds new light on the motives for the attack, the media black hole of silence into which it has fallen, and why the FBI may never apprehend the perpetrators of this seminal political crime of the 21st century. Biowarfare and Terrorism should raise public concern at what the vastly expanded US biowarfare research and purported civilian preparedness programs hold in store for America—and the extent to which the Bush administration is prepared to pursue them, irrespective of their incitement to a global biowarfare arms race, and likely exposure of the American people to future accidents and reprisals.

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About the Author

Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served as Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1991 to 1993, served on the Board of Directors of Amnesty International (1988- 1992), and represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University of Illinois, Champaign and is author of many books. Francis A. Boyle holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as a Ph. D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University.

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The NeoCons in the Bush Jr. administration have tried to sell this biowarfare arms race to the American people and the U.S. Congress as well as to the rest of the world by disingenuously claiming that it is all for the purpose of ‘defense,’ which, as previously explained, is not a permissible exception to the Biological Weapons Convention in the first place. Their specious argument deludes no one but the gullible, the frightened, the disinformed, the greedy, and the deliberately panicked. Certainly other major biotech states understand full well the military implications of this rapidly expanding U.S. biowarfare industry and will proceed to respond accordingly by deploying their own national biowarfare equivalents. The world will soon witness a de facto biological arms race among the major biotech states of the world under the guise of ‘defense’, and despite the requirements of the BWC. The 1972 BWC itself will gradually fall into desuetude even if its skeleton is kept upon the law books’unlike its contemporaneous 1972 AntiBallistic Missile Systems (ABM) Treaty that the Bush Jr. NeoCons made a point of repudiating outright on 13 December 2001,81 which they had also sought to accomplish going back to the Reagan administration,82 but now using the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks as a pretext for doing so. It will then become only a matter of time before some state intelligence agency uses biological weapons again for domestic terrorist purposes or for foreign warfare; or else a catastrophic accident occurs at some biowarfare facility in the United States or abroad. In regard to this latter eventuality, the recent mass distribution’allegedly by mistake!’of a virulent 1957 pandemic flu virus strain which killed between 1 million and 4 million people to 4,614 laboratories primarily in the United States and also to seventeen foreign countries is a harbinger of things to come.83 The massive proliferation of biowarfare technology, facilities, as well as trained scientists and technicians all over the United States courtesy of the NeoCon Bush Jr. administration will render a catastrophic biowarfare or bioterrorist incident or accident a statistical certainty. If such a catastrophic event should occur, it would mark the final end to democracy, human rights, the rule of law, and the Constitution in the United States of America even as we know and experience it today, as materially diminished under the burgeoning Bush Jr. NeoCon police state.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarity Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0932863469
• ISBN 13: 9780932863461
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 140