Riiiight. So roundworms are on the same level of pets or some other thing that you'd order off of Alibaba for everyday use?

No. But they are not a bioweapon, either.

People violate laws for lots of reasons. That's my point with the illegal importation of exotic animals, as an example. Those folks aren't terrorists - they're criminals who are doing it for profit. That doesn't mean that these are "innocent mistakes" or "harmless mixups." It's a false dichotomy that everything that isn't terrorism is a harmless paperwork error or something - there's lots of space between someone not intending to do any harm and someone who is intending to commit bioterrorism.

It's certainly possible that these people were deliberately violating the animal import laws so that they could get their roundworms without following proper procedures. That doesn't support the jump to the conclusion that the reason they were doing that was to commit bioterrorism. I note that they weren't charged with any terrorist activity, and while that doesn't preclude charges being added later it really does suggest that these guys are just "ordinary" criminals and that these aren't "bioterror" arrests.

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