Dr. Butler in trouble - and where's Dr. Ri?

Thanks to La Belle Soeur, I did get to see the 60 Minutes program on the arrest of Dr. Thomas Butler. I didn't expect to come away with what I did, which is that this man really is being railroaded by the government.

As Jean points out, why would the man call the FBI to report the missing vials of bubonic plague if he were guilty of their charges? Doesn't make sense. Of course you never know what people will do - what they're thinking. But, seeing this report, it seemed clear to me that Dr. Butler is one of those absent-minded professors, totally buried in his research and naive about most anything else.

The 30 vials of the bubonic plague organism went missing from Dr. Butler's lab during the major anthrax scare, and worried about terrorist possibilities, he called the FBI. The FBI convinced him, after nine hours of questioning, that he just destroyed the vials by mistake - perhaps a mix-up with other vials. They told him that if he'd sign a statement to that effect, then they'd just close the case, and he'd be free to go. So he did.

And guess what? They immediately slapped handcuffs on him and took him into custody. Now they have his signed statement that he destroyed the vials, and one of the charges against him is "lying to the FBI"!

I have a friend who thought he could trust the FBI, too. Pay attention here folks: YOU CANNOT.

Of course, the question still out there is, what happened to the vials? Did they get accidentally destroyed? Or does somebody have them?

And on the same microbiological note, how's this for creepy?

The "bomb" which is more accurately characterized as a biological weapon, is designed to attack specific human genetic structures. Its dispersal methods vary, but most analysts expect it would be put in a warhead and launched on a missile. Mossad, the CIA and MI6 have all independently confirmed Ri and his team of microbiologists were developing an "ethnic bomb" designed to attack white races.

The news has already sent a shock wave through the closed world of microbiology used for covert purposes.

There are various genetic components for racial types: hair color and texture, skin and eye color all the way down to nose shapes.

Ri and his researchers were working on a genetic bomb that would be deadly accurate in its targeting. To achieve this, they needed to create a genetic profile of people who uniquely share common inherited variations of their dopamine-regulating genes regardless of their ostensible race, geography or ethnicity.

A secret report, prepared for Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz by a team of geneticists, states: "Consider what could happen with a virus or bacteria that only infected a certain type of person. Consider the political leverage a nation would have if it could credibly threaten the extinction of all people worldwide of a certain color. Targeting specific genotypes could transform bio warfare."

...Ri was last seen in his lab late in June.

Knowing what the CIA is capable of, and knowing that Hitler's scientists were brought over here to continue their work on perfecting the Aryan race through genetic experimentation (does anybody know anything about a project called "Kindernest"?), then I'd say if CIA didn't nab this guy, they're trying to.

At Britain's Porton Down and at Fort Detrick, Md., the details are being urgently studied. "A whites-only ethnic bomb in the hands of bin-Laden or a rogue state like North Korea or Iran could have a dramatic effect on the current balance of power," said a microbiologist at Fort Detrick.

Fort Detrick - remember the last microbiologist to meet with an "accident"? Ex-Fort Detrick. Even if I believed in coincidence, all the microbiologists suddenly meeting with untimely deaths is too much for even the most stubborn of conspiracy refuseniks. Or should be.

"No one yet knows how far the North Korean research has gone. But the indications strongly suggest the work is far more advanced than any similar research in the West," said a senior Israeli intelligence source.

Like you didn't think they were researching that kind of thing in "the west"?

And we thought it was their threat of a nuclear bomb that we needed to worry about. No wonder we went after Iraq instead of North Korea.

Just as Iraq's notorious "Dr. Germ," Dr. Rihad Taha, used prisoners to test out her biological weapons, similar experiments are conducted at Sukho. It is these experiments that could lay him open to charges of war crimes ”if he has fallen into the hands of the West.

In your dreams.

I know people think I, and people with a similar outlook, are "conspiracy theory nuts", but history proves us out. I just think it's amazing how far we will go to deny that there are people who are not only willing to carry out such diabolical plans, but who are members of our own culture, and are even now working on these types of projects.

If Ri's research is more advanced, as the unnamed Israeli intelligence person said, then he'll be used by "the west".

And it's not just conspiracy theorists who think so.

But at least one person who knew Ri - Dr. Norbert Vollersten, who worked in North Korea and now leads international demonstrations against the Kim regime - believes that Ri would have anticipated the possibility of facing trial.

"There is every possibility that he would have brought with him important documents listing the stage of the research he was engaged upon," Vollersten said. "He would trade them for a new life in the United States."

There is a precedent. After World War II, top Japanese scientists who had conducted germ experiments on U.S. and British prisoners were granted immunity from prosecution if they agreed to reveal their work to scientists at Fort Detrick. Many of those scientists were later granted U.S. citizenship and new identities.

Further...

The mystery of his disappearance began three weeks ago, in the bustling city of Guangzhou in southern China. The Australian government has its consulate in a high-rise office building in the city.

In the early hours of the morning on a day in September, a man was seen trying to enter the building. His physical description - middle-aged, stocky, bespectacled and with thinning hair - matched that of Ri.

The man was seen to reach the stairwell of the high-rise. But he never emerged again. The consulate was closed at the time. But earlier local residents had seen "foreigners coming and going from the upper floors where the consulate is situated," said one.

All the Australian government in Canberra will admit is that it would have been impossible for anyone to reach the consulate by the stairwell.

Now, catch this part:

Initial research had focused on anthrax, cholera and yellow fever. But both the CIA and MI6 claim that in the past five years, Ri has led a team working exclusively to develop the plague - the Black Death of medieval times - and smallpox.

...the plague. Now let's ask again where Dr. Butler's vials may have gone.

...but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.