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*** Factual Instructions About What to Do During Attacks
By SFC Red Thomas (Ret.), Armor Master Gunner
Since the media has decided to scare everyone with predictions of chemical, biological, or nuclear warfare on our turf, I decided to write a paper and keep things in their proper perspective. I am a retired military weapons, munitions, and training expert.
Lesson number one: In the mid 1990's there were a series of nerve gas attacks on crowded Japanese subway stations. Given perfect conditions for an attack, less than 10% of the people there were injured (the injured were better in a few hours) and only one percent of the injured died. 60 Minutes once had a fellow telling us that one drop of nerve gas could kill a thousand people. Well, he didn't tell you the thousand dead people per drop was theoretical. Drill Sergeants exaggerate how terrible this stuff was to keep the recruits awake in class (I know this because I was a Drill Sergeant, too). Forget everything you've ever seen on TV, in the movies, or read in a novel about this stuff, it was all a lie (read this sentence again out loud!)! These weapons are about terror. If you remain calm, you will probably not die. This is far less scary than the media and their experts make it sound.
*** CHEMICAL WEAPONS are categorized as NERVE, BLOOD, BLISTER, and INCAPACITATING AGENTS.
Contrary to the hype of reporters and politicians, they are not weapons of mass destruction. They are "area denial" and terror weapons that don't destroy anything. When you leave the area, you almost always leave the risk. That's the difference; you can leave the area and the risk; soldiers may have to stay put and sit through it and that's why they need all that spiffy gear. These are not gasses, they are vapors and/or air borne particles.
The agent must be delivered in sufficient quantity to kill/injure, and that defines when/how it's used. Every day we have a morning and evening inversion where "stuff" suspended in the air gets pushed down. This inversion is why allergies (pollen) and air pollution are worst at these times of the day.
So, a chemical attack will have it's best effect an hour of so either side of sunrise/sunset. Also, being vapors and airborne particles, they are heavier than air so they will seek low places like ditches, basements and underground garages. This stuff won't work when it's freezing, it doesn't last when it's hot, and wind spreads it too thin too fast.
They've got to get this stuff on you, or, get you to inhale it for it to work. They also have to get the concentration of chemicals high enough to kill or wound you. Too little and it's nothing, too much and it's wasted.
What I hope you've gathered by this point is that a chemical weapons attack that kills a lot of people is incredibly hard to do with military grade agents and equipment, so you can imagine how hard it will be for terrorists. The more you know about this stuff the more you realize how hard it is to use.
*** We'll start by talking about NERVE agents. You have these in your house. Plain old bug killer (like Raid) is nerve agent. All nerve agents work the same way; they are cholinesterase inhibitors that mess up the signals your nervous system uses to make your body function. It can harm you if you get it on your skin, but it works best if they can get you to inhale it. If you don't die in the first minute and you can leave the area, you're probably gonna live. The military's antidote for all nerve agents is atropine and pralidoxime chloride. Neither one of these does anything to cure the nerve agent, they send your body into overdrive to keep you alive for five minutes. After that the agent is used up. Your best protection is fresh air and staying calm. Listed below are the symptoms, for nerve agent poisoning.
Sudden headache, Dimness of vision (someone you're looking at will have pinpointed pupils), Runny nose, Excessive saliva or drooling, Difficulty breathing, Tightness in chest, Nausea, Stomach cramps, Twitching of exposed skin where a liquid just got on you. If you are in public and you start experiencing these symptoms, first ask yourself, did anything out of the ordinary just happen--a loud pop, did someone spray something on the crowd? Are other people getting sick, too? Is there an odor of new mown hay, green corn, something fruity, or camphor where it shouldn't be?
If the answer is yes, then calmly (if you panic you breathe faster and inhale more air/poison) leave the area and head up wind, or, outside. Fresh air is the best "right now antidote". If you have a blob of liquid that looks like molasses or Kayro syrup on you, blot it or scrape it off and away from yourself with anything disposable. This stuff works based on your body weight. What a crop duster uses to kill bugs won't hurt you unless you stand there and breathe it in real deep, then lick the residue off the ground for while. Remember, they have to do all the work, they have to get the concentration up and keep it up for several minutes while all you have to do is quit getting it on you/quit breathing it by putting space between you and the attack.
*** BLOOD agents are cyanide or arsine, which effect your blood's ability to provide oxygen to your tissue. The scenario for attack would be the same as nerve agent. Look for a pop or someone splashing/spraying something and folks around there getting woozy/falling down. The telltale smells are bitter almonds or garlic where it shouldn't be.
The symptoms are blue lips, blue under the fingernails, rapid breathing. The military's antidote is amyl nitride, and just like nerve agent antidote it just keeps your body working for five minutes till the toxins are used up. Fresh air is the your best individual chance.
*** BLISTER agents (distilled mustard) are so nasty that nobody wants to even handle it, let alone use it. It's almost impossible to handle safely and may have delayed effect of up to 12 hours. The attack scenario is also limited to the things you'd see from other chemicals.
If you do get large, painful blisters for no apparent reason, don't pop them. If you must, don't let the liquid from the blister get on any other area. The stuff just keeps on spreading. It's just as likely to harm the user as the target. Soap, water, sunshine, and fresh air are this stuff's enemy.
Bottom line on chemical weapons (it's the same if they use industrial chemical spills), they are intended to make you panic, to terrorize you, to herd you like sheep to the wolves. If there is an attack, leave the area and go upwind, or to the sides of the wind stream. They have to get the stuff to you, and on you. You're more likely to be hurt by a drunk driver on any given day than be hurt by one of these attacks. Your odds get better if you leave the area. Soap, water, time, and fresh air really deal this stuff a knockout punch. Don't let fear of an isolated attack rule your life. The odds are really on your side.
*** NUCLEAR BOMBS. These are the only weapons of mass destruction on earth. The effects of a nuclear bomb are heat, blast, EMP, and radiation. If you see a bright flash of light like the sun where the sun isn't, fall to the ground! The heat will be over in a second. Then there will be two blast waves, one out going, and one on it's way back. Don't stand up to see what happened after the first wave; anything that's going to happen will have happened in two full minutes.
These will be low yield devices and will not level whole cities. If you live through the heat, blast, and initial burst of radiation, you'll probably live for a very, very long time. Radiation will not create fifty-foot tall women, or giant ants and grass hoppers the size of tanks.
These will be at the most 1 kiloton bombs--that's the equivalent of 1,000 tons of TNT.
Here's the real deal. Flying debris and radiation will kill a lot of exposed (not all!) people within a half mile of the blast. Under perfect conditions this is about a half mile circle of death and destruction, but, when it's done it's done. EMP stands for Electro Magnetic Pulse and it will fry every electronic device for a good distance. It's impossible to say what and how far but probably not over a couple of miles from ground zero is a good guess. Cars, cell phones, computers, ATMs, you name it, all will be out of order.
There are lots of kinds of radiation. You only need to worry about three. The others you have lived with for years.
You need to worry about "IONIZING RADIATION". These are little sub atomic particles that go whizzing along at the speed of light.
They hit individual cells in your body, kill the nucleus, and keep on going. That's how you get radiation poisoning. You have so many dead cells in your body that the decaying cells poison you. It's the same as people getting radiation treatments for cancer, only a bigger area gets radiated. The good news is you don't have to just sit there and take it, and there's lots you can do rather than panic.
First; your skin will stop ALPHA PARTICLES. A page of a news paper or your clothing will stop beta particles. You just gotta try and avoid inhaling dust that's contaminated with atoms that are emitting these things and you'll be generally safe from them.
*** GAMMA RAYS are particles that travel like rays (quantum physics makes my brain hurt) and they create the same damage as alpha and beta particles--only they keep going and kill lots of cells as they go all the way through your body. It takes a lot to stop these things, lots of dense material. On the other hand, it takes a lot of this to kill you.
Your defense is as always to not panic. Basic hygiene and normal preparation are your friends. All canned or frozen food is safe to eat. The radiation poisoning will not effect plants, so fruits and vegetables are OK if there's no dust on them (rinse em off if there is). If you don't have running water and you need to collect rain water or use water from wherever, just let it sit for thirty minutes and skim off the water gently from the top. The dust with the bad stuff in it will settle and the remaining water can be used for the toilet, which will still work if you have a bucket of water to pour in the tank.
*** Finally there's BIOLOGICAL WARFARE. There's not much to cover here. Basic personal hygiene and sanitation will take you further than a million doctors. Wash your hands often. Don't share drinks, food, sloppy kisses, etc., ... with strangers. Keep your garbage can with a tight lid on it. Don't have standing water (like old buckets, ditches, or kiddie pools) laying around to allow mosquitoes breeding room. This stuff is carried by "vectors," that is, bugs, rodents, and contaminated material. If biological warfare is so easy as the TV makes it sound, why has Saddam Hussein spent twenty years, millions, and millions of dollars trying to get it right? If you're clean of person and home, you eat well and are active, you're gonna live.
Overall preparation for any terrorist attack is the same as you'd take for a big storm. If you want a gas mask, fine, go get one. I know this stuff and I'm not getting one and I told my Mom not to bother with one either (how's that for confidence). We have a week's worth of cash, several days worth of canned goods, and plenty of soap and water. We don't leave stuff out to attract bugs or rodents so we don't have them. These people can't conceive of a nation this big with this much resources. These weapons are made to cause panic, terror, and to demoralize. If we don't run around like sheep, they won't use this stuff after they find out it's no fun. The government is going nuts over this stuff because they have to protect every inch of America. You've only gotta protect yourself, and by doing that, you help the country.
Finally, there are millions of caveats to everything I wrote here and you can think up specific scenarios where my advice isn't the best. This letter is supposed to help the greatest number of people under the greatest number of situations. This is how we the people of the United States can rob these people of their most desired goal, your terror.
-- SFC Red Thomas (Ret), Armor Master Gunner, Mesa, AZ
Unlimited reproduction and distribution is authorized. Just give me credit for my work, and, keep in context.
"The secular West does not understand the Bible, much less radical Islam, which is increasingly embraced with America's detriment in mind. While secular and moderate Muslims do not appear threatening, the growing number of extremists who take the Koran as a declaration of war against all non-Muslims has become a clear and present danger, not only overseas, but increasingly in our own country." --Cal Thomas
*** I Was Afraid This Would Happen
For a long time now, there has been a frantic email going around the 'net urging people to write their congressman and stop them from passing Bill 602(P) which would, the email claims, result in taxing the Internet.
There is no such thing as Bill 602(P) and that email is in fact a hoax.
But much like the Boy Who Cried Wolf, now that a REAL threat to tax the Internet has come along, a lot of people think it's still a hoax.
I can't be more clear than this: THIS IS NOT A HOAX!
But don't take my word for it. Go to the official congressional web site and see for yourself. If you surf over to http://thomas.loc.gov you'll find both the House version of the legislation to keep the ban on Internet taxation as well as the Senate version.
The House version is bill H.R. 1552.
The Senate version is bill S. 777
So just go to the congressional web site. In the box titled "By Bill Number," type in the above bill number (one at a time) and hit "Search." The full bill and any other information you might want will be right there.
But in case you're one of those government conspiracy nuts who thinks this official congressional web site might also be a hoax (yes, some people in Palm Beach, Florida and Berkeley, California ARE that dense!), then go verify this issue by doing an Internet-wide search at www.google.com. Just type in the official title of the House version of this bill in the search engine, the "Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act," and follow all the links that'll pop up to various official news articles and documents.
Of course, maybe this is all just a left-wing media hoax and you don't trust the Washington Post, the New York Times or CNN. Can't fully blame you there. Then go to this link to read a Saturday editorial on this matter by the highly CONSERVATIVE and highly-respected Washington Times: http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20011020-587828.htm .
The article ends with this dire warning: "Nonethelesss, as of Sunday, Internet taxation becomes a definite possibility once again - and Congress should act immediately to prevent it from ever happening."
Folks, don't be fooled by people on your email list who tell you you've been duped. I wouldn't do that to you and you should know that by now. What's happened here is some people who don't pay as close attention to the world around them as you do are ASSUMING this Internet tax legislation and efforts to extend the ban on Internet taxes is the same thing as the hoax that's been going around for so long.
Again...IT ISN'T. This is the real deal. By now we all should know what happens when you ASSUME something. That's what your friends and colleagues are doing.
So ignore the well-intentioned but wholly ignorant people who are telling you that THIS particular piece of legislation is a hoax. Forgive them, for they know not what they speak. And go to www.libertypetitions.com and immediately sign the online petition urging the Senate, which reconvenes tomorrow, to extend the ban on Internet taxation.
And you might want to save this particular email to copy and send to anyone else who tries to tell you this is a hoax.
[ Chuck Muth, Editor, GOP News & Views ]
One of America's wealthiest African-Americans, asked by Jesse Jackson to assist with Jackson's "Wall Street Project," says the tactics used by the civil rights leader amounted to "racketeering."
A prominent black broadcast executive says he's been the victim of intimidation at the hands of Jackson and is fighting the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to block the sale of his television stations.
A black entrepreneur seeking aid from one of Jackson's groups describes it as "a boys club to me, an inner circle," that he cannot penetrate.
Officials with Jackson's various interests largely refused to comment on these complaints, which represent a growing number of concerns about some of the methods used by Jackson to advance his agenda.
But increasingly, more African-American business professionals are wondering whether the reverend represents American blacks to the extent Jackson says he does.
*** Accusations that Jackson 'Stiffed' the Poor
Businessman Harold Doley, Jr. said he thought Jackson "was going to do what he was saying," in launching the Wall Street Project.
Founder and chairman of the New Orleans-based Doley Securities, Inc., and rated as one of the country's 100 wealthiest African Americans by Securities Pro, a newsletter covering blacks on Wall Street, Doley was asked by Jackson in 1996 to help with the Wall Street Project, a program designed to promote minority participation in corporate America.
As the first African American to purchase a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1973, Doley was thought to be able to open many doors for Jackson on Wall Street.
"I got to really know Jackson," explained Doley, who added that he shared the project's stated goal of "making corporate America look more like America from the entry level to the board room."
He explained that Jackson's original vision appealed to him. "This is what is appropriate, this is where America needs to be going," said Doley. "I felt what he was doing was good, good for America, and good for my business."
But after initial exuberance about the Wall Street Project, Doley became disillusioned.
Jackson went after the multi trillion-dollar pension fund industry in his quest for minority empowerment and worked for legislation to require 10-15 percent of the nation's pension funds, depending on the state, to be brokered or managed by minority firms.
Doley disapproved of the methods Jackson employed in persuading the pension industry to aid minorities. "What worried me was the way he operated, dealing with these veiled threats," he stated.
Doley soon realized that Jackson's efforts "directing an enormous income from pension [funds]" were only being channeled to "roughly 10 firms that qualify."
He doubts most Americans know "that they were paying and putting money in Jesse Jackson's coffers to the tune of $170 million in commissions a year, 10 percent of which is going to Jackson."
Doley says he was a first-hand witness to how "Jesse in effect stiffed the poor people of America." According to Doley, Jackson gave political cover to a bank merger that "cut out $330 billion dollars" over a 10-year period to poor communities in the U.S. The merger did not meet the minimum standards of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which requires that financial entities do not negatively impact poor areas of the country.
According to Doley, representatives from Operation PUSH and the Wall Street Project went before the Federal Reserve Board and testified that the deal was in the best interests of America, despite the fact they did not meet CRA guidelines.
Doley could not believe Jackson would support a merger that "fell short by $330 billion dollars going into communities in terms of mortgages and services provided by financial institutions. This was a tremendous loss."
According to Doley, Jackson "knew the mega mergers were not meeting the guidelines ... but Jesse was getting contributions because of his support" for the deals.
An incredulous Doley decided to personally confront Jackson about his support of the bank merger. The meeting was not very productive. "I said, 'man, you cannot do this.' And I went over the numbers quickly and he just walked away," Doley recalled. Despite Doley's protestations, the merger was finally approved.
Doley says he then saw Jackson in a completely different light. "What he was doing was a kind of RICO operation, both criminal and civil. It was racketeering."
[ CNSNews.com ]
*** TCN Appropriate Quote: "A man to be a sound politician and in any degree useful to his country must be governed by higher and steadier considerations than those of personal sympathy and private greed." --Martin Van Buren
Human (read "Homosexual") Rights Campaign director Elizabeth Birch complained to the Navy about an Associated Press photograph last week showing a seaman on the U.S.S. Enterprise flight deck standing next to a bomb with the inscription "Highjack This Fags."
The Navy's chief information officer, Rear Adm. Stephen Pietropaoli, both called and wrote Ms. Birch to apologize for the "inappropriate comment scrawled on a piece of ordnance." Pietropaoli's letter continues, "We immediately notified Navy commanders involved with Operation Enduring Freedom to ensure steps were taken to prevent a recurrence of this unfortunate incident. They have done so. ... Clearly the photograph in question failed to meet our standards, and I assure you that had it been a Defense Department photo, it would never have been released. ... The U.S. Navy does not tolerate discrimination of any kind. I sincerely hope this isolated incident will not detract from the hard work and dedication of the thousands of Sailors and Marines serving our Nation in this war on terrorism." Pietropaoli also jotted a note at the bottom of his letter: "Appreciate your help in letting folks know our reaction on this!"
Well, on that last point, we are doing our part, Mr. Pietropaoli. We encourage all our readers to write the Honorable Gordon R. England, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C. 20350-1000, and suggest he find this rear echelon ____________ a suitable job cleaning heads on CVN-65, if not a courts martial. At a time when our nation is at war, for the Navy's CIO to pander, in fact grovel for some Leftist front's forgiveness, is dereliction of duty at best. Purge the military command lines of these Clintonista leftovers.
Be sure and copy your letter to
Navy/Marine Corps News at -- nmcn@mediacen.navy.mil
AllHands magazine at -- allhands@mediacen.navy.mil
Navy Wire Service at -- pubs@mediacen.navy.mil
Enterprise Public Affairs Officer at -- pao@enterprise.navy.mil
Carrier Air Wing Eight Public Affairs Officer at -- sneadt@nasoceana.navy.mil
[ The Federalist ]
*** TCN Comment: I find it interesting that sodomites identify with the name "fagot" The word is used repeatedly in history to refer to the bundles of sticks used by Catholics to burn to death Christians that would not convert to their system of false belief. The Catholics were not the "fagots" the fagots were just the fuel for the fire.
Technically, a fagot is a bundle of fuel for a fire. If the bomb happened to be napalm or other incendiary device, the word was very appropriate.
Of course there are only two options for where you go when you leave this life, so the term fagot actually is appropriate for a sodomite as well. I just find it interesting that they agree, because they rarely agree with me on the Scriptures.
I Corinthians 6:9-10 "Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." KJV
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