Motherfuckers Act Like They Forgot About Anthrax

You know, I pretty much agree with what Mr. Black says here.

September 11th is what people remember. It's the story, the epic that's going to be part of the history books and passed down until it becomes unto legend. Because those towers falling and the Pentagon burning is so visceral, so visual, and so memorable. Seared into our collective consciousness. But the Anthrax scare was the confirmation that we were really, seriously, under attack. That sinister forces were out there plotting to harm us and kill us in as many inventive and diabolic ways as possible. The idea that there could be cells of terrorists living, lurking among us even as we were trying to recover was the follow-up hammer blow to the psyche that really sent the country into full-blown panic mode.

And, I think it's important to remember it just wasn't turning a common, ordinary, everyday thing like the mail into a weapon, the way the hijackers turned box-cutters into jet-fuel laden missiles. It was who it was targeting. Political figures. The news media. And the fallout extended to little old ladies who were unfortunates caught along the way. That's what greased the skids to start chipping away at civil liberties and wage unilateral war and do everything unnecessary and foolish to protect the country. Because, for the common person, they could be killed as an afterthought, as collateral damage, by rifling through their mail. But for the leaders and opinion makers? They could be next.

And it's not just downright weird we've forgotten about them. It's awfully suspicious.