Justice Department News Conference on Mail Bombs Arrest

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[Pollard]

Officials at the Justice Department hold a news conference on the arrest of an individual in Florida in connection with the mailing of twelve explosive devices to senior current and former Democratic Party officials and CNN.

[piasa]

He’s also had the money to get hair plugs. That’s why his hairline is so darn unnatural looking.

[piasa]

Yikes. Why was this guy running loose?
I was thinking it could be political but apparently not. He’s just a extreme high pressure type A.
Thanks.

[anton]

How, EXACTLY, would one of these bombs be detonated?

[piasa]

Maybe sent them to Walgreens via his phone?

[Pollard]

He did it over the phone to Florida Power & Light, the elec co.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

This doesn’t add up.

It sure doesn't. Something is totally crooked about all of this.

[palmer]

Assuming gunpowder inside the tube, there are two possibilities. Hit one very hard with a sledgehammer. It would have to be a hard enough hit to generate heat from friction. Maybe 10% chance of an explosion. Second possibiltiy: throw one on the campfire. But since they are plastic and not metal there's a good chance the plastic would melt and open up. Then there would be a very large fountain effect as the gunpowder ignited. Like this but larger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJG2X249uQ

[palmer]

It’s simply a terror atack like the fake ricin letters (at least seven or those). The guy didn’t want the potential danger to himself of constructing real bombs or didn’t have the detonators. Also he wanted light weight tubes so he chose plastic. AFAIK, all lethal pipe bombs are metal and they have detonators of some type.

[b4its2late]

LOL.

[MNJohnnie]

Officials are saying that there was volatile materials in the devices

Violate means burn. A pipe stuffed full of match heads is "filled with volatile materials". It is not a bomb

Why is Law Enforcement so carefully parsing their words rather then directly answering the question "Were these bombs"? Could it be because if DOJ and the NY Cops tell the truth, instead of obfuscating, the whole thing takes on a Keystone Kops air and totally deflates the “crisis” narrative?

[Grampa Dave]

“Guy is real multicultural like Fauxcahontas. Seminole. Pacific Islander. Filipino. Italian. Caucasian. What next?”

He is a Russian FSB agent working for Trump to meddle in the Floriduh elections.

[Eleutheria5]

It’s...Jethro Bodein! Ah done trahd to make a bomb that’d work, but ah’m a fictional character. What am ah doin’ here? Wasn’t our show canceled?

[Eleutheria5]

From the name I’d say he’s from some Balkan state or other. Green Party? How strange. They just arrested a Green Party member who shot up a synagogue in Pittsburgh. What’s up with the Green Party? Is that where leftards who are too whacked out to be Democrats (i.e., really really rally nuts!) go? Bring on the red tsunami. I want to see heads explode.

[Eleutheria5]

He’s a Seminole Indian.

[Kay Ludlow]

They nearly all are (although you may not notice it). There are so few that aren't, that they can generally be indentified by who they are put it the sorting machines with.

[Dead Corpse]

Still trying to figure out why they keep calling the active ingredient “energetic material”.

Could be anything from coffee creamer to PETN.

[MNJohnnie]

That is driving me nuts too. Why not just say it was C4 of Composite D or TNT why all the carefully parsed words?

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Oh, OK! I was wondering what the heck that was about. I thought he was just trying to look nuts.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yeah, that’s odd to me. I’ve gone to plenty of concerts and gatherings like this, I’ve never gotten a picture. It would be one thing if I was standing a foot away from Trump or Pence. But just getting a pic in the middle of a bunch of people? Odd.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Oh, good catch. I’m not familiar with that design but I believe you.