The photo is of Joseph Moshe enjoying one of four dousings with tear gas powder near the LA Federal building in Westwood.
Remember? After several hours he was shot with a cattle prod (a Taser, a war crime, that is torture) and captured and... nothing more was heard.
Apparently he was an Israeli microbiologist who had phoned into a radio show saying that he had evidence that the H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine was a bioweapon. He was apparently trying to reach the Israeli embassy in LA when the LAPD surrounded his vehicle.
There is no evidence he made threats of any kind to anyone at all.
Remember this story? It certainly disappeared in a hurry.
Do you remember the Ukrainian Plague? Apparently precisely the scenario described by Mr. Moshe.
Where is he now? Some trails lead to a psychiatric hospital outside of LA, some suggest that he, as a dual citizen of Israel, was sent there.
There certainly hasn't been any other news, has there? This story is straight out of a Philip K. Dick novel.
Keep it in mind the next time you scoff at a "conspiracy theorist".
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So ... your unimpeachable "sources" can't even get the guy's name right, but okay, let me just play along a bit. Here's this Mossad-trained professional, a scientist working on a project to develop globally banned bio-weapons, who's been hiding in plain sight all these years by racking up a raft of scholarly publications on virus RNA -- because when you're looking for guys making illegal bio-weapons, the very last guy you'd consider is the virologist from Mossad. Suddenly, overcome by guilt, our guy feels the urge to come clean, so this Mossadnik takes the most cloak-and-dagger path he can find: he calls the White House to let them know he's about to blow their cover. And the most effective thing this product of the world's most dangerous espionage agency can think to do -- *after* tipping his hand to the White House -- is call up some crank radio host with an average nightly audience of, what, fifty-three to blab what he knows -- because in the age of the internet, there's just no better way to disseminate damning information about the powers that be than that twenty-kilowatt station operating out of the shack behind the barn, as any good Mossadnik will tell you. And *then* this cool-as-a-cucumber Mossadnik, trained to perform under the worst kinds of pressure, tries to take it on the lam by bee-lining to the Israeli embassy, which, as luck would have it, is right next to the local FBI franchise -- because no agent of the Mossad, who'd already threatened the White House with spilling its deepest, darkest secrets, could possibly anticipate that the FBI might, you know, take an interest.
Wow, you're right. I'm completely convinced.
http://www.agri.gov.il/people/856.aspx
And -- the guy arrested in LA, one "Joe Moshe," is said to have been 56 at the time of his arrest. The Israeli microbiologist, one "Moshe Bar-Joseph", retired in 2004 after"39.5 years of service." If they are truly the same guy, "Joe" would have retired at 51 from a career that apparently got under way when he was ... twelve?
You know what the sad part is, Gordon? Half of the conspiracy-nut websites I visited in the course of ten minutes of googling this thing had already debunked this one -- three (make that six, now) months ago. Your crank isn't even fresh crank.
That he sat and shrugged off the CS is noteworthy. It's just an interesting story. I didn't mean to push any buttons.
And, er, the Ukrainian Plague version of H1N2 was certainly an interesting and severely underreported story... turning people's lungs into black mush? That did not sound good.