Bio Terror Dome
This was sent to me by an attorney who knows what she is talking about:
I strongly and wholeheartedly oppose the siting of the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility in Athens.
Please come out to the meeting on Wednesday, February 13th at 7pm at the Presbyterian Student Center on Lumpkin Street. Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher of FAQ will be there to hand out some information my law firm has gathered to help you understand why having this compound in our town is a very, very bad idea. Hillary Clinton won't have it on Plum Island because that's too close to where people live. And Plum Island is a mile and a half off Long Island, with no pedestrian connections.
Don't let the federal government play around with foreign incurable diseases in the heart of our Classic City. No amount of money is worth that risk. (And, you know, the way our university and local officials are acting you'd actually think there was a lot of money coming in from this proposed bio-terror lab. Think again. The projected benefit is shockingly low.)
This is not a scare tactic -- it's just the reality of the situation. The feds want to study these diseases because they know how devastating it could be if a terrorist used them against us. And yet, they want to pretend that the concentration of any number of these diseases in a 500,000 square foot building in the middle of a well-known city is not going to make Athens a target?
But if you want to put terrorism out of your mind, let's think of natural disasters, fire, power outages, water shortages, automobile accidents on the way to delivering the biological agents to the compound, human error in the lab. A host of ways for these dangerous pathogens to escape. Is it likely that this will happen? Hopefully not. Is it possible? Absolutely it is.
I want to talk with each of you about the pros and cons of having this lab in Athens. I hope you can come out to the meeting on Wednesday -- and please give me a call or an email to discuss this more.
I strongly and wholeheartedly oppose the siting of the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility in Athens.
Please come out to the meeting on Wednesday, February 13th at 7pm at the Presbyterian Student Center on Lumpkin Street. Kathy Prescott and Grady Thrasher of FAQ will be there to hand out some information my law firm has gathered to help you understand why having this compound in our town is a very, very bad idea. Hillary Clinton won't have it on Plum Island because that's too close to where people live. And Plum Island is a mile and a half off Long Island, with no pedestrian connections.
Don't let the federal government play around with foreign incurable diseases in the heart of our Classic City. No amount of money is worth that risk. (And, you know, the way our university and local officials are acting you'd actually think there was a lot of money coming in from this proposed bio-terror lab. Think again. The projected benefit is shockingly low.)
This is not a scare tactic -- it's just the reality of the situation. The feds want to study these diseases because they know how devastating it could be if a terrorist used them against us. And yet, they want to pretend that the concentration of any number of these diseases in a 500,000 square foot building in the middle of a well-known city is not going to make Athens a target?
But if you want to put terrorism out of your mind, let's think of natural disasters, fire, power outages, water shortages, automobile accidents on the way to delivering the biological agents to the compound, human error in the lab. A host of ways for these dangerous pathogens to escape. Is it likely that this will happen? Hopefully not. Is it possible? Absolutely it is.
I want to talk with each of you about the pros and cons of having this lab in Athens. I hope you can come out to the meeting on Wednesday -- and please give me a call or an email to discuss this more.
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