Mailing baking powder--arrested for what?

[Koxinga]

*Originally posted by sleestak *
**To respond to Doghouse Reilly

There is a general rule of law that states that if a reasonable person sees something as a threat it can be considered a real threat. IE, the guy with a fake gun in a pocket robbing a store. After recent events it seems to me to be really plausable that sending white powder to anyone could be considered a harmful act. This is due to new developments.

Reasonable people in this country know about the Anthrax issue. So now sending this type of material, without the recipents knowledge, is a really bad idea.

Eric **

I’m sure that there is some legal principle ensuring that what the guy did is indeed illegal. It just never struck me before that the law could be so subjective.

I wonder what might happen if there is a scare involving some other disease. If smallpox were somehow released, kids who haven’t taken their Noxema had better watch out (lest they cause a panic while they’re walking down the street).