Ricin sent to Republican Senator

[JimC]

Ricin is an extract from castor beans, from memory...

Tero would know how to prepare it...

[pErvinalia]

I've seen Breaking Bad. I know how to prepare it.

[Robert_S]

Such a parcel of nutjobs in a nation.

[JimC]

Such a parcel of nutjobs in a nation.

And that's just Lichtenstein!

[HomerJay]

I can't help feeling that we're missing the Elvis connection here.

The letter was posted in Memphis, Tennessee.

Elvis covered a song called Memphis, Tennessee.

Elvis did a song called Poison Ivy League - could the target be described as Ivy League? I think so.

Elvis also did a song called Suspicious Minds which included the line We can't go on like this.

Elvis also did a song called Return to Sender about a letter which isn't wanted, just as this letter wasn't wanted.

It's as if Elvis was alive and well and wanted people to know.

Well, if he is, that's some pretty damning evidence right there! He'll be doing the jailhouse rock soon enough.

OMFG !!1!

I should work for the FBI

The guy has been arrested and charged, is an Elvis impersonator and goes by the name of 1st Elvis Guy on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/1stelvisguy

OMFG



You heard it first here folks.

[Warren Dew]

One's been sent to Obama, too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ ... story.html

Doesn't like Republicans or Democrats. Hmmm... Ross Perot?

Actually it looks like he is a Democrat. Maybe a Clinton supporter?



He seems to think there's some conspiracy at a former employer of his about body parts and organ trade:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/04 ... n-letters/

[Tyrannical]

Christian Democrat? Sounds German to me.

[HomerJay]

ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!1!

The Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-tainted letters to President Barack Obama and other officials has been released from federal custody, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service said Tuesday.

Paul Kevin Curtis, an Elvis impersonator from Corinth, Mississippi, was charged with sending a threat to the president last week after letters containing the poison triggered security scares around Washington. But a preliminary hearing that had been scheduled to continue on Tuesday was canceled and Curtis was released.

There is a bond attached to his release, but the conditions of the bond are under seal at this point, said Curtis' attorney, Christi McCoy. She said her client has been framed by someone who used several phrases Curtis likes to use on social media.

"I do believe that someone who was familiar and is familiar with Kevin just simply took his personal information and did this to him," McCoy told CNN. "It is absolutely horrific that someone would do this."...

..."I have a client who is not only not guilty, he is truly 100% innocent," she added. She did acknowledge that he has "a history of some mental issues," but said they are not severe.

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/23/us/ri ... index.html

[JimC]

"When released, the suspect said he was full of beans...

Castor beans..."

[Tyrannical]

I had heard it wasn't even ricin, but castor beans (which contain some ricin) ground to a powder in a coffee grinder. This is done more to just set off ricin detectors rather than a serious attempt to kill someone.

[pErvinalia]

It's definitely an instrument of terror. Probably one of the best, considering its simplicity and the fact that none one gets hurt.

[JimC]

My only serious attempt to disrupt the system by postal terrorism was sometime in the early 70's. At that time, all 20 year old males in Australia had to register, by post, for a ballot to be drafted as National Servicemen, and sent to Vietnam. The forms were available at post offices...

My cadre of left-wing guerrillas, the SDS, toured Melbourne collecting reams of the forms, and spent evenings filling them in with fictitious names and addresses, and then sending them in. One had to contribute to the purchase of stamps, which sorely reduced my beer spending for a while...

I can remember getting ticked off by our cell leader for filling one out as Mickey Mouse, C/O Disneyland...

They must be believable, Comrad Jim!

No ricin was involved to my knowledge...

Ah, those were the days...

PS A little later, my turn came, and of course I didn't register. Waiting for the dreaded knock on the door, but the government changed before they could get me, and Oz pulled out of Vietnam. I've always been lucky like that...

[Tyrannical]

It's definitely an instrument of terror. Probably one of the best, considering its simplicity and the fact that none one gets hurt.

Assuming Obama didn't think it was coke