Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Putting Chemical Weapons In Perspective

While we're whining about what Syria's Assad may or may not have done, let's ask why the US government thinks it's justified in using nerve gas on its own citizens:

During the protests at the 1999 World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle, US police mostly used chemical agents known as irritants (e.g., pepper spray) for crowd control. However, on the day that President Bill Clinton visited the conference, the police (and I use that term loosely) used a type of nerve agent known as CNX on the crowd. This was discovered by doctors at free clinics treating the protesters, who reported undeniable symptoms of nerve agent poisoning in their patients. Some have chosen to call this substance an “incapacitating agent”, but in its action it is clearly neurotoxic.

Source - https://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg30928.html

If Bill Clinton can do it, then what's the big deal when others do (assuming they even did)?

We need to get a grip before this all gets out of control (although I fear it's already too late for that).

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