Sam Spade's San Francisco

Biosecurity is a new and evolving field established to prevent bio-terrorism. San Francisco is home to the most advanced stem-cell research institute on the planet. Through many UCSF research programs based here, a very major portion of the advances being made in immunology and AIDS research are being made right here in San Francisco.

We need to be informed about and defended against bio-terrorism. The field that addresses such concerns is biosecurity.

Left in the hands of scientists, UCSF Police and SFPD authorities and university administrators we would probably be in good hands. Unfortunately that's not how things work in 2006. The federal government feels a need to be involved, if not completely assume command.

Enter: the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB ... also known to some as the National Science Advisory Board for BS). It is a Bush Administration creation, so don't get your hopes up and expect too much.

The NSABB is a wonderful exapmple of the cowboy ineptitude of the Bush White House. The Bush White House has not only botched-up much of the Department of Homeland Security and devastated FEMA, but now they add another layer of jabberwocky. Read the following statement from the NSABB web site describing what and who they are. It is a wonderful example of Bushspeak ... that difficult-to-follow assortment of mis-matched words we see so often coming from the Bush White House. This statement is about as clear as a lead bell. Read it yourself:

"The NSABB has been established to provide advice to federal departments and agencies on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security."

So, do I feel more secure living in San Francisco, a world center for bio-research, knowing that George Dubbya and the boys are riding herd over us all?

Oh my God. We are in deeeeeeep trouble!