Re: [ RadSafe ] Man Pleads Guilty to “Dirty Bomb †Hoax
Gary Isenhower
gisenhower at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 16:39:06 CST 2008
Hi Franz,
I don't think it is citizenship. Rather, I think there is a subtle but
widespread US belief that Hitler (or his brain) is being kept alive
somewhere. Thus, there is a prejudice against senile Austrians. Personally,
I deplore this kind of thing, but what else can you expect from Americans?
-Gary Isenhower
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Franz Schönhofer <
franz.schoenhofer at chello.at> wrote:
> Clayton,
>
> As far as I remember I have already several times expressed my esteem for
> your opinions not conforming with the political "main stream". I see all
> those actions stunned which were documented on RADSAFE and were obviously
> severely scrutinized and even ridiculed by the RADSAFE community (radiation
> detectors at every corner in your country, mobile phones with automatic
> radiation detectors reporting automatically to some authority without the
> knowledge of the mobile phone owner..... Highly extended surveillance of
> public spaces. A few weeks ago a young man was murdered right behind the
> Viennese State Opera - the surveillance cameras could not yield a
> discernable picture of the suspect. So what?
>
> I am not going to discuss all the deprivation of privacy - there are
> better people to do that - but I just wonder, what would have happened if I
> - being a foreigner - would have expressed similar opinions like you on
> RADSAFE. The last "uprise" was, that several hardliners, who hardly
> contribute anything to the list, demanded my ban from the list - nothing
> new, I survived it several times. Though I have been probably the first to
> be put under surveillance by the listowner I never protested it, but
> accepted it.
>
> Still, what is your secret of not being flamed? US citizenship?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Franz
>
> Franz Schoenhofer, PhD
> MinRat i.R.
> Habicherg. 31/7
> A-1160 Wien/Vienna
> AUSTRIA
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] Im
> Auftrag von Clayton J Bradt
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 04. März 2008 15:30
> An: Steven Dapra
> Cc: Clayton J Bradt; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Betreff: Re: [ RadSafe ] Man Pleads Guilty to “Dirty Bomb †Hoax
>
> DHS, NNSA, DOJ, congress and others have all been pushing the RDD "denial
> of access" scenario for all its worth. By insisting on tracking down
> every
> last ionizing event with hundreds (thousands?) of stationary and hand-held
> detectors, they distract public attention from the real dangers which
> governments have done practically nothing to address e.g. chemical plants,
> firearms, explosives.
>
> Clayton J. Bradt
>
>
>
>
> Steven Dapra
> <sjd at swcp.com>
> To
> 03/03/2008 09:44 Clayton J Bradt
> PM <cjb01 at health.state.ny.us>,
> radsafe at radlab.nl
> cc
>
> Subject
> Re: [ RadSafe ] Man Pleads Guilty
> to “Dirty Bomb †Hoax
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> March 3
>
> Clayton:
>
> How do you figure "The US government have been the real
> perpetrators of this hoax."? At present I am not disupting your
> suggestion, I merely would like to know what has caused you to draw that
> conclusion.
>
> Steven Dapra
>
>
> At 09:32 AM 3/3/08 -0500, Clayton J Bradt wrote:
>
> Friday, February 29, 2008
>
> Man Pleads Guilty to "Dirty Bomb" Hoax
>
> A Wisconsin man could be sentenced to five years in prison after
> pleading
> guilty yesterday to claiming online that terrorists planned to use
> radiological "dirty bombs" against seven National Football League
> stadiums,
> the Associated Press reported (see GSN, Oct. 23, 2006).
>
> On about 40 occasions from September to October 2006, Jake Brahm
> posted a
> message on a Web site claiming that attacks were planned on Oct. 22
> of that
> year in Atlanta, Cleveland, Houston, Miami, New York, Oakland and
> Seattle.
>
> "The death toll will approach 100,000 from the initial blasts and
> countless
> other fatalities will later occur as [a] result from radioactive
> fallout,"
> the message stated.
>
> A federal grand jury one year ago indicted the 22-year-old Wauwatosa
> man
> under the Patriot Act for willfully conveying false information
> regarding
> attacks on the stadiums involving weapons of mass destruction and
> "radiological dispersal devices."
>
> He is scheduled for sentencing in federal court in New Jersey on June
> 5.
> Along with up to five years in prison, Brahm could be fined $250,000.
>
> "This was the Internet version of yelling fire in a crowded theater,
> but to
> a much wider audience," U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said in a
> statement. "I don't think anyone needs to be reminded in this day how
> serious and dangerous such conduct is." (Jeffrey Gold, Associated
> Press/USA
> Today, Feb. 28).
>
> *****************************************************************************
>
>
> The US government have been the real perpetrators of this hoax. This
> guy
> was dumb enough to believe it. So was the jury, apparently.
>
> Clayton J. Bradt
>
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