Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:12:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Jamal Hannah <jah-AT-iww.org>
Subject: Re: Non-Lethal Nerve Gas Used in Seattle


Ok. Great. This is just plain horrible. If it's all true it could mean
good friends of mine, and many intelligent, heroic activist's lives are
RUINED.  They'll have headaches, muscle aches, nausia, and trouble
concentrating for the rest of their lives.  I assume this is like Gulf War
Syndrome.

Why didnt they just machine-gun everyone at the damn protest?
Might as well have.

 - Jamal Hannah

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Jym Dyer wrote:

> =>> Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
> =>> From: Mark Graffis <ab758-AT-virgin.vip.vi>
> =>> Date: 10 Dec 1999 09:15:06 -0600
> =>> Subject: Non-Lethal Nerve Gas Used in Seattle
> 
> => From: "Justin M. Hanlon" <pogueman-AT-scn.org>
> => Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 20:57:33 -0800 (PST)
> => Subject: My research regarding the gassings
> 
> I want to thank the three hundred or so people who have responded to my
> previous e-mail regarding the gassings and the symptoms you folks are
> suffering, I am documenting and printing up each case and I plan to
> present it to the city council hearing on Tuesday 14 December.  I still
> need people to send me their symptoms regardless of whether or not they
> were gassed on tuesday or wednesday. I am finding that the symptoms of
> people gassed on wednesday are more severe than that of those who were
> gassed on tuesday. Tuesday folks have come down with flu like symptoms,
> this is due to the drying out of the mucas membranes once they are opened
> it creates a mock infection of those membranes. It should be treated not
> as a cold but as an infection People who were gassed on Wednesday need to
> read what I am about to write with caution, what I am going to fill you in
> on is quite disturbing, please remember I am not a Doctor and I have no
> medical training, I did about 30 hours of research at both the UW library
> and the public library. In the 1980's Saddam Hussein launched a full scale
> invasion of Iran,In his war with Iran, he used CS gas that he had
> purchased from the Pentegon and the Kremlin. Both counties gas had a
> NON-LETHAL Nerve agent additive added to the tear gas, the soviet gas was
> alot stronger. It is not clear as to which gas was used on who or when
> those type of records were not kept by the Iraqi regime. The side affects
> of the Gas were as follows: 
> 
> Nausea
> Sleeplessnes
> Fatigue
> Lack of focus and concentration
> mild break down of basic motor functions
> loss of appetite
> Flu and sinus symptoms
> Headache
> uncontrolable bowel movements
> Severe throat and chest problems
> 
> Women saw all the above symptoms but also suffered from Periods weeks
> ahead of shedule Miscarriage Long term affects on people were as follows
> Some males suffered from impotency and sexual problems Women had frequent
> miscarriages Birth defects among the children who were gassed I don't
> think that we need to panic, these are more than likely the symptoms of
> people who were gassed by a significantly stronger CS gas than that which
> was used on us, In numerous cases the people(both civilian and Military)
> were incapacitated immediately I have yet to see that in our cases. But
> its the only other evidence of people being gassed with CS in the past 15
> years. (the MOVE folks where gassed with plain old tear gas). 
> 
> No police department in America is allowed to use CS gas, but on Tuesday
> afternoon when Mayor Schell declared a civic emergency the police
> deprtment became federalised, and the federal government can use CS gas on
> civilian populations in times of crisis. There was speculation that SPD
> ran out of tear gas on Tuesday and they had to order new Gas from Wyoming,
> this is not true, they ordered the CS gas from an Army wherehouse in
> Wyoming because SPD became federalised. This is speculation, there is an
> Army wherehose listed in the phone book outside of Jackson hole I phoned
> them and asked what kind of tear Gas the SPD ordered and they told me I
> did not have clearence for that information and also told me that they
> colud not confirm or deny whether SPD had ordered gas from them. There are
> no other wherehouses of this type in Wyoming. Dow chemical does have
> offices ther in Wyoming though. I called SPD and inquired about purchasing
> new gas and they told me that they had people working on this and the city
> would release a report on this issue soon. I think it is important for all
> people gassed whether Tuesday or wednesday to go and get blood tests to
> look for anything mildly resembling a nerve agent. There are those out
> there already saying that our symptoms come from post traumatic stress
> disorder. Only three people in history have used highly toxic gas on
> innocent civilians, Adolph Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Paul Schell. We
> need to force the SPD and the city to tell us why many of us who were
> gassed are suffering from Neurological problems, what they gassed us with,
> and why did they use such a highly toxic compound, I was gassed both days
> and I like many others admit that Wednesdays gas was some hardcore shit. 
> Lastly I want to apologise for the grammar and length of this mail, I got
> a lot of mail requesting a response and I cannot respond to 300 individual
> e-mails one at a time. So i tried to answer as many as I could in one
> shot. I'm also having trouble concentrating so thats why there are so many
> grammar errors, my mind has wondered at least a dozen times during this
> typing. I can also use as much help as I can get on this, Is there any
> interest out there on a victims group forming to work on investigating and
> uncovering the truth through the legal system? Take care of yourselves and
> lets take care of each other. 
> 
> In solidarity 
> 
> Justin
>