Even paranoids have real enemies

Did somebody spray the Sept. 24 D.C. peace rally with francisella tularensis?

The Washington Post says this:

...Biohazard sensors showed the presence of small amounts of potentially dangerous tularemia bacteria in the Mall area last weekend as huge crowds assembled there, but health officials said they believed the levels were too low to be a threat.
Health authorities in the Washington area were notified yesterday that the bacteria were found in and near the area between the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial, where crowds gathered Saturday for an antiwar rally ...

According to a WAPO writer there was a "demonstration" of something that week

Today,(Septeber 21) somewhere in the DC metropolitan area, the military is conducting a highly classified Granite Shadow "demonstration." Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and compartmented operation related to the military’s extra-legal powers regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency military operations in the United States without civilian supervision or control. A spokesman at the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR) confirmed the existence of Granite Shadow to me yesterday, but all he would say is that Granite Shadow is the unclassified name for a classified operation

Hmmm. So really, getting there late and leaving early was not all that bad a plan...


lifted from Stone Fruit with an assist from Blondesense