Posted on 04/16/2013 3:25:05 PM PDT by gore_sux
Washington (CNN) -- An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.
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The write is from MS. Now THIS might be a disgruntled constituent mad over Wicker’s vote for cloture on the gun bill.
writer...is from MS and mailed the letter from Little Rock, per Fox. He is a frequent writer to politicians.
I took a nice nap. I see that lots of others are already here.
Question: Would ricin be able to be weaponized similar to anthrax?
Thanks for taking up my question. I will check out what you mention here. Weaponized anthrax is a much finer powder than basic anthrax enabling it to become airborne. Very expensive and takes special talent and environment to produce. Can’t be made in someone’s bathtub. Was wondering if Ricin was similar.
The ricin toxin is from the castor bean I believe. Good grief, 9/11 and the weeks following all over again!
Guest on CNN said that 2 of the 3 tests came back negative/inconclusive.
It was a joke that obviously you didn’t get. Have someone explain it to you.
If I need it explained maybe you shouldn’t have been making it...
Looking thou some history and it seems the previous attacks with this sort of poison were also directed towards mostly republicans.
There is something about liberals and their willingness to kill that is amazing. If conservatives behaved as liberals do Obama would be dead by now. Sometimes I find myself I wondering if we would be better off.
Thank you for the ping and post!
I heard about this late this afternoon.
Please ping me if there is an update.
Ricin...yes, thanks for the ping Ernest.
Ok, before I post any other jokes, I’ll run them by you first to make sure they’re simple enough for an moron to understand!
Takes the focus off the Gosnell trial. Did Wicker have anything to do with the abortion crackdown in Mississippi?
LOL Okey-dokey.
Senator Wicker voted to allow Manchin-Toomey to go ahead. I think that it is not beyond the realm of possibility that a very ticked off gun owner decided to do this as payback of some sort and/or as a warning to other Congresscritters not to mess with the 2nd Amendment.
What lines up against this explanation is the timing - the Manchin-Toomey vote was on 4/10 or 4/11, and here we are only a few days later and the ricin letter pops up. This seems to be too soon for such an action to be started and completed, though I will gladly stand corrected by anyone who can speak with more knowledge than me about the process of making ricin.
That all said, whoever it is has clearly got mental issues. Further, the FBI is apparently investigating someone that routinely sends Wicker very irate letters.
Intriguing connection between the ricin and this case from last week. The person below was also upset about trucking regulations (same as the person who sent the 2004 ricin envelopes). The person who sent the 2004 ricin letter signed his name “Fallen Angel”.
The person below works for a trucking company called “Kane Trucking”. Googling this shows the full name of the company is “Kane is Able”. In religious circles “Cain” is the original “fallen angel”.
Could all be coincidence - but the guy below should also be questioned for the 2004 ricin letter as well as yesterdays.
WASHINGTON, D.C. April 12 2013— Police believe a man from Luzerne County is responsible for a bomb threat that shut down traffic around The White House Wednesday morning.
Police in the nation’s capital say a man walked up to the White House gates around 5 a.m. Wednesday and told a Secret Service agent a bomb was about to go off in a truck parked nearby.
Investigators say it was a hoax, and arrested the man.
Police and secret service agents swarmed the streets outside of the White House early Wednesday. Investigators say a truck driver threatened to detonate a bomb inside his rig parked not far from the White House.
That man was arrested and identified by the Secret Service as Krzysztof Wasik, 44, of Hazle Township.
His home and independent trucking company are listed on Goshen Avenue in Hazle Township. A woman who answered the front door said she is married to Wasik and claims they recently separated. She believes he likely stopped taking medications for a mental illness.
“Yesterday, actually he looked a lot worse. I never actually saw him like that, in that kind of a mood. Usually he`s quiet. Yesterday he was actually walking around grabbing things for no reason, papers, napkins,” said Adam Swieciaszek of Scranton
Swieciaszek works with Wasik as a contractor for Kane Trucking in Scranton. He says he and Wasik were both assigned to the same route for a delivery to Virginia Tuesday night but Wasik refused to follow him. Swieciaszek didn’t hear about the bomb threat until another trucker for Kane told him to turn on the TV this morning.
“I actually thought the truck broke down. He`s at work every day, he works really hard, he`s actually a really nice guy if you get to know him. So, very surprised.”
Neighbors who say they’ve known Wasik for years in the Chapel Hill Estates development say he’s a religious man and a good father of two teenagers.
“Nothing out of the ordinary at all. No warning at all,” said Leonna Seginak of Hazle Township.
A federal criminal complaint says Wasik was upset over trucking regulations and told an agent he had explosives in the cab of his truck. According to the Secret Service, wasik said, “don`t touch the keys in the ignition or else something bad will happen. I don`t care if children or veterans are harmed by the bomb. I only care about speaking to the President.”
No explosives were found in the tractor trailer cab and no one was hurt during the scare.
If Wasik is found guilty of the threats charge, he could spend several years in a federal prison.
Kenneth Curtis of Tupelo arrested in connection with ricin letters
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage?odyssey=refresh
Festus?
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