Any word on which churches, or at least what type?
Not just any woman, but “Jahaira Balenciaga, a transgender woman and activist who was murdered in her Massachusetts home in 2021.”
Now, I disagree that this suggests they’re dumb; it wastes investigators’ time trying to run down the return address and sender without giving anything away about the miscreant.
@Czarcasm, no, the TV bit (Boston station) just said “churches”, and I guess one would have to search out a Kansas news source to get a fuller story.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm… If all the fake sender names were of people like that, and the churches on the other hand were the kind that preach hate, that would be a clear political statement, I’d say.
No, I don’t at all approve of such tactics, but given the tsunami of hatred being spewed by right wingers, and the violence inflicted on LGBQT folks all the time, a small part of me wants to say “So how do you like a taste of your own medicine?”
Well, the ‘sender’ was a dead woman, so hopefully the KBI won’t waste any resources trying to track her down.
Then again, this is Kansas law enforcement.
I just did another Google search. This ABC news article now states that there are other targets outside of the state, including Trump and Clarence Thomas. Those letters were intercepted before being delivered.
True dat, although they did have to do the preliminary work of finding out who she was, so there’s that much time-wasting.
I haven’t been able to find a name of an actual church that appeared on a letter.
Now, here in Kansas we have the worst hate-preaching church, the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka. But that, to the best of my knowledge, is the only one of that ilk that vocally spews their vile messages.
Given that fact, I would guess the opposite, that maybe the actual churches are on the tolerant side of the spectrum, and the sender(s) are attempting to frame these institutions.
You may well be right. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if that proves to be so.
The way the right makes obviously bullshit allegations of their opponents conducting false-flag operations makes me really conflicted asking this. But…
What if the sender is a right-wing operator who wants to make it look like the letters were sent by left-wingers?
If any of the letters are found to have actual deadly contents, this theory is obviously false. The targets were apparently all Republicans, and right-wing operators would not want to expose their ideological brethren to fatal poisons.
But sending letters with nothing but powdered sugar would be a cheap, safe way to generate negative PR for opponents of the right.
True, and the postal inspectors say the powder is harmless.
I see no reason to jump to a conclusions as to whether something like this is false flag. Probably it isn’t, but maybe it is.
P.S. to my last post:
It is also quite possible that the powder sender has a weird combination of views and motives, as hinted by the return addresses. Again, I believe in withholding judgment at least until we know something about a suspect. (and then innocent until proved guilty).
This thought has indeed crossed my mind as well. Especially with a sender purported to definitely not be a right-wing person.
No, I could easily see a scenario where people who weren’t “anti-woke” enough, or “MAGA” enough, or seen as RINOs were targeted as traitors.
I would not be surprised if someone crazy enough to attempt chemical terrorism by mail would reason that way.