Ricin found in a Las Vegas hotel room, along with an anarchist book, guns, and no reason to consider terrorism? Oh, and by the way, we can thank George Bush for protecting us from terrorism for the past seven years... at least from knowing about it.

::::::::

Ricin found in a Las Vegas hotel room, along with an anarchist book, guns, and no reason to consider terrorism? Oh, and by the way, we can thank George Bush for protecting us from terrorism for the past seven years... at least from knowing about it.

"Let's get something straight. You don't assume something is terrorism. You declare early on that it is not assumed to be terrorism."

I can picture new FBI recruits getting that lecture from their superiors, passing on the message that has come from on high. The best way to prevent reports of terrorism is not to call any acts terrorist acts. Right?

So we have this hotel room with people exposed to Ricin. The room's been empty for over a week, because its inhabitant has been in the hospital with respiratory problems. Hmmm. They're a primary symptom of exposure to ricin.

But not to worry. Bloomberg news reports,

 

So all's okay with the world. Oh, there's a guy in a coma after exposure to the stuff. And Associated Press is reporting
that "Firearms and an "anarchist type textbook" were found in the same motel room where several vials of the deadly toxin ricin was found, police said Friday."

But not to worry. There's nothing unusual happening here. And in all the articles, they keep talking about "the man" a 57 year old man. No name no info on where he's from. You think his name, or some info about who he is might be worth mentioning in an AP or Bloomsberg article. Remember those good 'ol journalistic questions? Who? What? Why? Where? When?

I guess the pros reporting on this story, and their editors forgot to ask that question, or even to mention that the information on WHO was refused by the police or FBI. Wouldn't want to get people's suspicions up if the name or origin of the man would raise suspicions of terrorism.

Oh, and CNN reports that days before the ricin was discovered, they had suspicions, so they searched the room, but didn't find anything. Then, later, someone who knew the victim in hospital raise the alarm.

That's when they found the anarchist book, guns... but still, no reason to suspect terrorism. And CNN doesn't mention who "the man" is, or the person who knew the man.

The Las Vegas police spokesperson reported, "There is no information to lead us to believe that this is the result of any terrorist activity or related to any possible terrorist activity," AP reports.

Maybe this goes back to my speculation on FBI instructions to new recruits. Maybe they don't want to see possible terrorist ties.

Me, when I think of Ricin in the news, I think of people killed in Japanese subways, terrorists plotting, ricin found in 2004 in the capitol.

But no, maybe the Ricin here accidentally fell in "the man" the unindentified man who also had an anarchist book, with the page on ricin bookmarked, maybe that book just accidentally showed up in the room.

Or, maybe, just as I don't trust the economic numbers the Bush administration dishes out, I don't believe it when they say there are no cases of terrorism in the US. Yep. I don't believe it when they say there have been no cases of terrorism because it has been clear that they wouldn't tell us if there were.

It would be nice if we could at least find out who the guy with the anarchy book bookmarked to the ricin page was.

And why, why isn't the mainstream media demanding to know. How about it. Any of our readers want to do a bit of journalistic digging?

Call Las Vegas' Capt. Joseph Lombardo or police Deputy Chief Kathy Suey and ask them who the ricin victim who rented the room at the Extended Stay America motel was.

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.

Check out his platform at RobKall.com

He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity

He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com

more detailed bio:

Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.

Rob Kall Wikipedia Page

Rob Kall's Bottom Up Radio Show: Over 400 podcasts are archived for downloading here, or can be accessed from iTunes. Or check out my Youtube Channel

Rob Kall/OpEdNews Bottom Up YouTube video channel

Rob was published regularly on the Huffingtonpost.com for several years.

Rob is, with Opednews.com the first media winner of the Pillar Award for supporting Whistleblowers and the first amendment.

To learn more about Rob and OpEdNews.com, check out A Voice For Truth - ROB KALL | OM Times Magazine and this article.

For Rob's work in non-political realms mostly before 2000, see his C.V.. and here's an article on the Storycon Summit Meeting he founded and organized for eight years.

Press coverage in the Wall Street Journal: Party's Left Pushes for a Seat at the Table

Talk Nation Radio interview by David Swanson: Rob Kall on Bottom-Up Governance June, 2017

Here is a one hour radio interview where Rob was a guest- on Envision This, and here is the transcript..

To watch Rob having a lively conversation with John Conyers, then Chair of the House Judiciary committee, click here. Watch Rob speaking on Bottom up economics at the Occupy G8 Economic Summit, here.

Follow Rob on Twitter & Facebook.

His quotes are here

Rob's articles express his personal opinion, not the opinion of this website.

Join the conversation:

On facebook at Rob Kall's Bottom-up The Connection Revolution

and at Google Groups listserve Bottom-up Top-down conversation