A photo of Stan Jones taken back when he had normal skin color: http://www.mtlp.org/jones/home.htm Colloidal silver was popular among Y2K enthusiasts (and on groups like misc.survivalism) as a general cure-all. It's been touted as a cure for AIDS (http://www.colloidal-silver.com/article7.htm), cancer, warts, bad breath, herpes, and even head lice. And, of course, if you had more silver than you could eat, you could spend it -- when the federal fiat currency regime collapsed after all the bank runs. See: http://www.colloidal-silver.com/uses.htm -Declan --- From: Georgeat_private Subject: Y2K Nutter Turns Blue! Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 16:15:24 -0400 http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/02/offbeat.blue.candidate/index.html # # Senate candidate blue -- literally # # GREAT FALLS, Montana (AP) --Montana's Libertarian candidate for # Senate has turned blue from drinking a silver solution that he # believed would protect him from disease. # # Stan Jones,a 63-year-old business consultant and part-time college # instructor, said he started taking colloidal silver in 1999 for # fear that Y2K disruptions might lead to a shortage of antibiotics. # # He made his own concoction by electrically charging a couple # of silver wires in a glass of water. # # His skin began turning blue-gray a year ago. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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