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Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby cmsellers » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:18 am

Windy complained that there wasn't a thread on this yet, so I am mustering up the energy to make one. Someone sent what is believed to be ricin to the White House, Pentagon, and Ted Cruz's office.

I feel like we've been through this with the W. anthrax scares, but this time only targeting one party. So I would like to issue a reminder: please don't send poison to politicians you disagree with. Especially not Ted Cruz. It only makes him stronger.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby Kivutar » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:34 am

Is sending poison to politicians you agree with all good, then?
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby Krashlia » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:38 am

Kivutar wrote:Is sending poison to politicians you agree with all good, then?


Well... Are you, uh, getting something back? Like briefcases?
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby Windy » Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:50 am

I'm going to call this a false flag attack so I can continue claiming TCS is full of conspiracy theorists.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby cmsellers » Wed Oct 03, 2018 4:00 am

Kivutar wrote:Is sending poison to politicians you agree with all good, then?

I totally forgot that there are some people who agree with some politicians. The lucky bastards.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby Crimson847 » Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:09 am

So the four targets were:

Ted Cruz
Donald Trump
SecDef James Mattis
and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson?

The first two make perfect sense for a left-wing #Resist type, but then it gets weird. Mattis is the only reason many liberals can sleep at night with Trump in office. Richardson was appointed to that position by Obama, and he's Chief of Naval Operations, a relatively nonpartisan position. That makes it look like the attacker might have been reacting to US militarism or "imperialism", a bipartisan phenomenon. But if the gripe was against US foreign policy, why target Cruz? He's fairly hawkish, sure, but not more so than other folks in government.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby gisambards » Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:01 am

It's an odd list - as well as the strange inclusion of Cruz, surely there are more prominent military figures than Richardson to target?
My famous deductive skills lead me to the following conclusion: The perpetrator is from Texas (so targeting the more famous of their local senators), a big fan of Breaking Bad (hence ricin), ex-navy, and lost their position in the navy in a way they disagree with (dishonourable discharge, for example) during the current administration, hence Trump, Mattis and Richardson.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby iMURDAu » Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:27 pm

White House mail doesn't get to the Oval Office unopened. Someone deserves jail time just for thinking it would.

I don't see what making a martyr of Ted Cruz would do to positively affect the outcome of humankind.

See, including Ted Cruz in this means that the perp is likely to... avoid prosecution by first perishing in a mysterious fashion. To be clear, I'd avoid public parks if I were them.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby Anglerphobe » Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:48 pm

iMURDAu wrote:White House mail doesn't get to the Oval Office unopened. Someone deserves jail time just for thinking it would.


This is an excellent point. I don't like any criminals, but I particularly dislike inept criminals. All of the contemptible character without any drive or diligence to give a reasonable effort towards doing things well. He was probably sitting at home thinking about what a badass he was while his plan was failing at the most basic, easily foreseeable complication.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby NathanLoiselle » Thu Oct 04, 2018 12:24 am

RiceIn What? RICEIN WHAT???
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby Absentia » Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:03 am

The FBI has arrested a suspect, former Navy fireman William Clyde Allen, in Utah. They also released a statement saying they believe the substance sent was castor beans and not refined ricin.
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Re: Suspected ricin sent to Pentagon, White House, Ted Cruz

Postby JamishT » Thu Oct 04, 2018 6:04 am

My mom used to plant castor beans in the garden, purely for aesthetics.

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Or maybe she was trying to make ricin...hmmmmmmmmmmm
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