>
> if aussies choose to go on murdering muslim babies for Israel and the
> usa , then sooner or later australia will be
destroyedhttp://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/img/2006/ep2/cronriot.jpg
>
> anybody who googles firebombing can see that a box of matches is far
> more deadly than a nuke bomb
>
> the nukes in japan did far less damage than the fire bombing
didhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebombhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_C...
>
> Australias first "Australian of the year" was a war criminal
IMHOhttp://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/03/09/1015365752044.html
>
> Burnet's solution: The plan to poison S-E Asia
>
> By Brendan Nicholson
> Poltical Correspondent
> March 10 2002
>
> World-famous microbiologist Sir Macfarlane Burnet, the Nobel prize
> winner revered as Australia's greatest medical research scientist,
> secretly urged the government to develop biological weapons for use
> against Indonesia and other "overpopulated" countries of South-East
> Asia.
>
> The revelation is contained in top-secret files declassified by the
> National Archives of Australia, despite resistance from the Department
> of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
>
> Sir Macfarlane recommended in a secret report in 1947 that biological
> and chemical weapons should be developed to target food crops and
> spread infectious diseases.
>
> His key advisory role on biological warfare was uncovered by Canberra
> historian Philip Dorling in the National Archives in 1998.
>
> The department initially blocked release of the material on the basis
> it would damage Australia's international relations. Dr Dorling sought
> a review and the material was finally released to him late last year.
>
> The files include a comprehensive memo Sir Macfarlane wrote for the
> Defence Department in 1947 in which he said Australia should develop
> biological weapons that would work in tropical Asia without spreading
> to Australia's more temperate population centres.
>
> "Specifically to the Australian situation, the most effective counter-
> offensive to threatened invasion by overpopulated Asiatic countries
> would be directed towards the destruction by biological or chemical
> means of tropical food crops and the dissemination of infectious
> disease capable of spreading in tropical but not under Australian
> conditions," Sir Macfarlane said.
>
> The Victorian-born immunologist, who headed the Walter and Eliza Hall
> Institute of Medical Research, won the Nobel prize for medicine in
> 1960. He died in 1985 but his theories on immunity and "clonal
> selection" provided the basis for modern biotechnology and genetic
> engineering.
>
> On December 24, 1946, the secretary of the Department of Defence, F.G.
> Shedden, wrote to Macfarlane Burnet saying Australia could not ignore
> the fact that many countries were conducting intense research on
> biological warfare and inviting him to a meeting of top military
> officers to discuss the question.
>
> The minutes of a meeting in January, 1947, reveal that Sir Macfarlane
> argued that Australia's temperate climate could give it a significant
> military advantage.
>
> "The main contribution of local research so far as Australia is
> concerned might be to study intensively the possibilities of
> biological warfare in the tropics against troops and civil populations
> at a relatively low level of hygiene and with correspondingly high
> resistance to the common infectious diseases," he told the meeting.
>
> In September, 1947, Sir Macfarlane was invited to join a chemical and
> biological warfare subcommittee of the New Weapons and Equipment
> Development Committee.
>
> He prepared a secret report titled Note on War from a Biological Angle
> suggesting that biological warfare could be a powerful weapon to help
> defend a thinly populated Australia.
>
> Sir Macfarlane also urged the government to encourage universities to
> research those branches of biological science that had a special
> bearing on biological warfare.
>
> A clinically scientific approach is evident in a note he wrote in
> June, 1948.
>
> He said a successful attack with a microbiological agent on a large
> population would have such a devastating impact that its use was
> extremely unlikely while both sides were capable of retaliation.
>
> "The main strategic use of biological warfare may well be to
> administer the coup de grace to a virtually defeated enemy and compel
> surrender in the same way that the atomic bomb served in 1945.
>
> "Its use has the tremendous advantage of not destroying the enemy's
> industrial potential which can then be taken over intact.
>
> "Overt biological warfare might be used to enforce surrender by
> psychological rather than direct destructive measures."
>
> The minutes of a meeting at Melbourne's Victoria Barracks in 1948
> noted that Sir Macfarlane "was of the opinion that if Australia
> undertakes work in this field it should be on the tropical offensive
> side rather than the defensive. There was very little known about
> biological attack on tropical crops."
>
> After visiting the UK in 1950 and examining the British chemical and
> biological warfare research effort, Sir Macfarlane told the committee
> that the initiation of epidemics among enemy populations had usually
> been discarded as a means of waging war because it was likely to
> rebound on the user.
>
> "In a country of low sanitation the introduction of an exotic
> intestinal pathogen, e.g. by water contamination, might initiate
> widespread dissemination," he said.
>
> "Introduction of yellow fever into a country with appropriate mosquito
> vectors might build up into a disabling epidemic before control
> measures were established."
>
> The subcommittee recommended that "the possibilities of an attack on
> the food supplies of S-E Asia and Indonesia using B.W. agents should
> be considered by a small study group".
>
> It 1951 it recommended that "a panel reporting to the chemical and
> biological warfare subcommittee should be authorised to report on the
> offensive potentiality of biological agents likely to be effective
> against the local food supplies of South-East Asia and Indonesia".
>
> Dr Dorling said that while Sir Macfarlane was a great Australian he
> was also a product of times when many Australians held deep fears
> about more populous Asian countries.
>
> He said the Menzies government was more interested in trying to
> acquire nuclear weapons. "Fortunately this also proved impracticable
> and Australia never acquired a weapon of mass destruction."
>
> The secretary of the Federation of Australian Scientific and
> Technological Societies, Peter French, said he had not yet seen the
> files but the whole notion of biological warfare was something that
> Australian scientists would not be comfortable with today. "Viewed
> through today's eyes it is clearly an abhorrent suggestion," Dr French
> said.
>
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