Poisonings and cowardly threats of violence are antithetical to the American way of life. That’s not what I’m here about.
Surely you know that the President does not open his own letters. Right? Then what do you think you’re doing? You’ve done nothing more than endanger the lives of postal workers, and possibly the lowliest Washington staffers and interns, if your little stunt would have slipped past mail screening.
Think about this: in your wildest dreams of success, you would have accomplished nothing more than murdering some poor sucker who’s just doing his job, for a pittance as far as DC goes, who has zero influence in making any kind of decision.
You have revealed yourself to the world as a nut. Whatever side of whatever issue you are on, everyone else who agrees with you wishes you weren’t on it. You make life harder for them and for every citizen who has legitimate correspondence to make with their representatives. Right now people’s casework documents, pleas for representation, and discussions with their elected officials are languishing in screening because of you and assholes like you.
No matter what lawyer you get, or what fire you stoke in the bellies of your fellow nutters, it is a guarantee that the next few years of your life are down the shitter, and I don’t have any sympathy for you, because you are a piece of shit.
Much like the Boston bomber, it only takes one individual who is mentally ill and reacts to perceived slights to go off track and kill/try to kill people. Thank god they aren’t more successful in doing things in the kind of mass killings that we see overseas.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all criminals were as stupid as this one. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that he included his address on the fucking envelope.
KC looks like he’s schizophrenic. He’s posted his delusions to a couple websites, about finding bags of body parts in a hospital, then being intimidated by police for years, having his trash searched, cameras pointed at him in public, etc., usual paranoia fare.
I happened to speak just too soon. I still think anyone who willfully poisons people is a shitbag, but I wouldn’t have written the OP about an obvious mental case.
OK, so where does a mentally ill Elvis impersonator get ricin? You can actually buy this stuff in the open market easily?
And good OP point – poison/bomb letters to high-ranking officials would only take out some humble mailroom staffer.
Last I heard it involves castor beans and acetone - and note to the FBI, I learned that from a “false positives for ricin” story at a major news site, not by Googling the seedy underbelly of the Internet. Considering this guy apparently had really crappy, barely-harmful ricin, I’m betting that’s the kind of method he used, rather than ordering from Terrorists-R-Us.
Another clearly batshit crazy person gets nabbed for finally breaking the law after years of acting batshit crazy out in front of god & everybody.
What do other countries do about this kind of shit? Are there crazy people going around acting crazy in, say, France or Australia? Do French or Australian crazy people eventually snap and attempt to kill other people the way the American ones do?
Sorry, I’m late to this thread, but:
We can assume that after he gets locked up, the other inmates will treat him like a hound dog, step on his blue sude shoes, and not let him dance to the jailhouse rock.
Sorry–I suppose making fun of a schizophrenic patient is not politically correct.. But this is the Pit, and dammit–no matter how crazy somebody is, if he’s dangerous enough to murder innocent people, then he deserves to locked up first, and only later maybe somebody might show some pity on him.
Because they have universal health insurance, they tend to be medicated. Moreover, there are less sane people in Europe who go around spouting conspiracy theories about their governments, so there’s less for crazy people to go on.
Having said that, if you want to know what crazy people do in the UK, visit Hyde Park. Speaker’s Corner is the traditional forum for the politically overwrought.
Silly question. A single plant can yield enough ricin to kill thousands of people. Of course it’s legal. Growing marijuana, a plant whose toxicity is almost nil, can land you in prison.
Try explaining that one to the next batch of alien visitors.
Well, I suspect it’s more complicated than that. If the castor bean plant can yield ricin easily and without processing, then yes, I could consider it weird that the plant itself is more legal than marijuana. But perhaps it’s illegal to own another substance that’s required to turn the plant into ricin? Maybe the processing procedure is itself illegal? I don’t know.
Edited to add: I hope people won’t feel the need to fight my ignorance with a detailed description of the ricin making process. I don’t want to know that much and I’m a little uncomfortable with spreading that knowledge any more than is necessary. Feel free to vague it up.