I am opposed to the National Bio- and Agro- Defense Facility.

Presented as a necessary facility to study animal to animal and animal to human disease, this Department of Homeland Security project would also bring a number of jobs to the Butner- Creedmoor area in Granville County.

Opposing this federal project called the “Biolab” is the Granville Nonviolent Action Team (GNAT). Their website www.nobio.org does an adequate job of explaining the justifiable concerns of area residents.

In my opposition to the Biolab, I want to take a different direction.

Just as the Patriot Act had to have the terrorist attack to justify such unconstitutional and draconian search, seizure and surveillance power by the federal government; we must have a catastrophic pandemic to justify total federal control and regulation of the production, storage, and transport of our agricultural products.

Similar to the puzzling lack of appropriate credit given to Todd Beamer, Jeremy Glick, Thomas Burnett, and Mark Bingham when they spontaneously and heroically stopped 25 percent of the next “terrorist attack” on 9-11 by ending Flight 93.  We ignore qualified experts when they explain and/or debunk the massive “bio problems” that have already been presented to the American public as a pandemic threats to life itself.

Starting with the media frenzy labeled the “War on Aids” we were a world at risk until Peter H. Duesberg, at great personal cost exposed the lies and the hype that justified federal spending for “research”. Peter H. Duesberg is now a PhD and has a website www.duesberg.com .

Then the “Mad Cow Disease” which justifies the need for tracking every animal on the face of the earth (The National Animal Identification System NAIS ); was given a much needed expose by Mark Purdey. See featured article: “Exposing the Lies: Prions,  Organophosphates, and Mad Cow Disease” at www.acresusa.com .

Like our four heros, on 9-11 the major media has not yet given any significant coverage to bright capable voices that stop the frenzied hype that demands more “research” and more “protection”.

Real plagues do exist, of course, so we should not take illness and disease lightly. State laws already exist to help medical professionals contain and/or treat infectious communicable disease.

We should be vigilant when we see so much attention given to “SARS” and the “Avian Flu” and then the “necessity” for greater federal research facilities like the Biolab. We have the technical ability today to “Genetically modify”, and to artificially create viral and bacterial mutants that are outside the natural immunity that has protected and regulated God’s creation for several thousand years.

We should not permit the federal government the power and resources to dabble and experiment until they succeed in creating a “super bug”that justifies the need for those control mechanisms that are already in the works. (NAIS, COOL, and Codex Alimentarious are regulatory concepts.)

I support the efforts of GNAT ( www.nobio.org )  and, of course, The National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association (www.NICFA.org),  as well as The Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance (www.farmandranchfreedom.org)  mentioned in my position on Food.