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| 2012-02-23 | |
| WASHINGTON: Three members of the US Congress have received threatening mail containing a suspicious powder later found to be harmless and law enforcement officials on Wednesday warned that more may be coming. Another US law enforcement official said letters sent to television personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert threatened biological attacks on US senators. Other letters to a number of news organizations and postmarked Oregon warned that 100 letters had been sent to the Washington or home-state offices of US senators and that 10 of those contained a deadly pathogen, a law enforcement source said. At least two of the letters already received - one to the home-state office of a senator and the other to the district office of a member of the House of Representatives - contained a powdery substance. Tests found the substance to be harmless, according to a statement by Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer, the chamber’s chief law enforcement officer. In a statement to members of the Senate, Gainer did not say what was found in the third letter. Gainer’s notice, “Urgent: Suspicious Mail Alert,” warned that the unidentified sender of the letters “indicated that additional letters containing a powdery substance will be arriving at more Senate offices and that some of these letters may contain actual harmful material.” He warned that special attention should be paid to letters postmarked from Portland, Oregon. The official said the messages to Stewart and Colbert threatened to send letters to all 100 US senators, and that 10 of them would contain a deadly pathogen. Other law enforcement officials said some of the letters in question contained anti-government and anti-Wall Street rhetoric. The New York Police Department was made aware of the letters received by some news organizations on Tuesday night and alerted the FBI and the US Capitol Police, a law enforcement source said. The letters to the news organizations did not contain any suspicious substances. The letters demanded an end to corporate money and lobbying in US politics, an end to corporate personhood and called for a new constitutional convention, the source said. The letters were signed “the MIB.”
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #8 Kansas Senator Pat Roberts received one of these, and at the same time there have been robberies of nice houses then set on fire. OWS'rs were my first thought as well. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2012-02-23 21:05 |
| #7 Most are, mojo, but it gets real dangerous for the policeman to get complacent about it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-02-23 18:49 |
| #6 There ain't no such animal as a "routine traffic stop". |
| Posted by: mojo 2012-02-23 16:01 |
| #5 Washington state trooper was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. This type of incident has been happening for decades. Over a century ago a would-be lynch mob burnt down the county court house in Akron, Ohio. Several of the rioters died, their would-be victim did not, the state militia was there to enforce order in the court room. The leaders of the mob were arrested, tried & convicted in what was left of the court house. Looking at US history overall, this is not a big deal. The undermining of the legal process with respect to the FIRE industry, the tolerance of the biggest theft in world history by state & federal attorneys general, and assorted shenanigans going on with the Great Recession - now that, IMHO, is a very big deal and gets insufficient attention, even as it continues to damage what remains of our once great Republic. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2012-02-23 15:59 |
| #4 The sputtering passenger was a Saudi visitor, Omoluque Hapsburg8162, whose relatives are no doubt both furious and a good deal lighter in the purse, so no blame can attach to Oregon for that. The story is now posted on page 1 under Home Front: War on Terror. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2012-02-23 15:18 |
| #3 Oregon has its share of extremists with radical agendas but a Continental flight from Portland to Houston was turned back yesterday after an unruly passenger was subdued by other passengers, who said he was sputtering how great Allan is.....and a Washington state trooper was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. Do we have a western cell or are these all just lone nuts? |
| Posted by: Omoluque Hapsburg8162 2012-02-23 10:45 |
| #2 Probably a Hollywood promo for "MIB III". trailer |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-23 08:58 |
| #1 I'm PO'ed, wid me I was lucky to get a blank piece of paper - no signature or anything. D *** NG IT, I DEMAND TO FEEL THE LOVE! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-23 01:07 |