A Strange Culture indeed
Artist Steve Kurtz, arrested on bio-terrorism charges after the FBI found petri dishes in his house, is the subject of a fascinating new film

Those with reasonably long memories may recall one of the odder offshoots of the "war on terror" - the arrest, back in 2004, of artist and academic Steve Kurtz on bio-terrorism charges after the FBI found petri dishes in his house in Buffalo, New York. Kurtz had initially called the emergency services after his wife Hope died of heart failure in her sleep; no-one, least of all Kurtz, could have foreseen that this phone call would lead him to an appearance in front of a federal grand jury. A simple misunderstanding, you might think, if you are feeling charitable; straightened out, perhaps, after some stern tellings-off. But no, here we are in 2008 and Kurtz is still facing 20 years in jail. No longer for bio-terrorism, but for patently absurd charges of mail fraud.

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