Another classic new appointment in Margaret Hamburg as FDA
Administrator. Time did an article on the Hamburg
appointment yesterday. The article features three
quotes from Hamburg, two of which focussed directly upon
terror: ( http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1884627,00.html -
scroll down)
"I think that's an investment worth making. Clearly it's not
off the scale compared to other investments we routinely make for
national security and defending the health and well-being of our
nation." - (On the spending needed to prepare
the country for an attack using weaponized smallpox or other
bio-chemical hazards. - CNN, November 10, 2001)
"I believe that in this age of terror, the only thing that
can stop a small group of committed individuals is a large group of
committed individuals. Only all of us acting together, with wise
policies and sound judgments, can make our world safer." - (A
speech to graduating students at Bowdoin College, May 2003)
Didn't we get enough of this fear-centered bunkum during
the previous administration? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsqPeqhKJ7Q)
Are we going to have to re-live this again? Where's the
change? (http://www2.whidbey.net/zipmont/revamp/change.htm).
And in a somewhat humorous twist of fate, many of those who were
critical of it during the previous administration have suddenly
grown sheepishly silent.
ps;
Wouldn't it be nice if we could get just one appointment
that didn't have close connections to the secret meeting
gang? (http://www2.whidbey.net/zipmont/revamp/council.htm)
Hamburg serves on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation and is a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, whose think tank is
"The David Rockefeller Studies Program". http://www.nanotechproject.org/about/leadership/board/margaret_hamburg/ .
Isn't it great that we have these "philanthropists" like Rockefeller,
Ford, Soros, etc ... who are so dedicated to spreading sugar and
spice and everything nice around the world - simply for the benefit of
their fellow men, or to evade yet another catastrophic event looming on
the horizon? http://www2.whidbey.net/zipmont/revamp/sugarandspice.htm .
Isn't it funny that, despite their ostensible, noble causes,
the results tell a very different story - the story of
making the world safe for multinationals?