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01.07.2009 9:39am EST
(Seattle, Washington) Seattle police say they are taking seriously threats of ricin attacks on 11 gay bars in the city.
The threats were made in letters received by the bars on Tuesday and have been turned over to police. Seattle weekly newspaper The Stranger received a 12th letter saying it should be “prepared to announce the deaths of approximately 55 individuals.”Seattle police forensics investigators are examining the letters and the FBI and Homeland Security have been notified.
Ricin is a poison found naturally in castor beans. It can be in the form of a powder, a mist, or a pellet, or it can be dissolved in water or weak acid.
If made into a partially purified material or refined into a terrorist or warfare agent, ricin could be used to expose people through the air, food, or water.
In the 1940s, the U.S. military experimented with using ricin as a possible warfare agent. In some reports, ricin has possibly been used as a warfare agent in the 1980s in Iraq and more recently by terrorist organizations.
“We are actively investigating and coordinating with the FBI and other federal partners,” Seattle police said in a statement. “We encourage the community to be alert for suspicious activity and call that activity in to 911 immediately.”
The letters make no mention of a reason for targeting the gay bars and were not signed.
“I have in my possession approximately 67 grams of ricin with which I will indiscriminately target at least five of your clients,” the letters said. “I expect them to die painfully while in the hospital.”
Police said that if the sender is found he or she will face hate crime charges. Federal terrorism charges also are possible.
Bud you are a hoot.
God you know how to articulate a point.
I have to say that the issue at hand is not a funny one and your point is well taken.
You are right. There are so many issues even on 365 that one would think make MSNBC reels but we seldom have a voice network news or most any cable channels other than LOGO.
I wonder how much time would be given in the news if Warren’s church was threatened or the Church of the Crazy Underwear…Oh I meant the Mormon Church. Had been hit.
Speaking of Warren, I was so happy when Jerry Falwell kicked. Any belief in God that had diminished was restored. I thought God does have a sense of humor, knocking that irritating fat ass off just before the campaigns really got rolling. Now “this” right wing creep (Warren) rears his ugly head. There is something about this guy that could pass for Falwell’s first cousin, even kinda looks like him.
Any way koodos for your writing style. Though I don’t know you I still could see you saying it.
Serous topic, but a hilarious post.
For all his humor, Bud is quite close to the truth. In a previous election, Florida made sure the rights of farm animals were enshrined into law, as I believe CA did in this last election. It’s nice to know we rate even lower than farm animals.
Thanks, John S. … I think taking humor (even gallows’ humor on my part) away from a gay person is like clipping the wings off from a butterfly. We’d be just another Earth-bound bug then — like the pitiful majority of humankind.
As to your other point — about the not-so dearly departed Reverend “Rot-in-Hell” Falwell and his evil clone Mini-mean, Rev. Warren — I agree with you. I am also very perplexed as to why Obama pulled that fat, pontificating, gerbil out of his own skinny posterior and why he is now trying the shove the very same self-righteous rodent up the collective ass of America.
The only history Obama has made so far (beyond the novelty of his pigmentation) has just been to set-up his own administration to be just another offensive urban legend. The story this time is about a half-Black man who once made pretty speeches to Gay people who, in turn, all metaphorically woke up the next day in a bath tub full of cold reality and lying half submerged in ice with their hearts, hopes and dreams ripped out of them.
Caveat emptor is Latin for “Let the buyer beware”
Sucker is American for “dumb-ass“.
Fool us once — shame on you. Fool us twice — you might get re-elected.
Good times!!! Yep, good times ahead for all!!!!
SIGNED:
Optimistically Forever Yours — with bells on my toes and rose-colored glasses on my nose…
~ Bud Evans
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Me and my partner have talked about this over the past few weeks, the fact that the people of the united states and starting to blame gays, for everything, well not just everything but that we are the outsiders so we must be part of the promblem.
Maybe the people that sent those letter are thinking the same thing, That gays are to blame for the war, for the promblems that ‘we’ when i say that, i mean gays and not gays, are faceing in the united states.
Fear makes men think that there needs to be someone to blame, It was the blacks at one point, and now it has changed to the gays, Now me and my partner may not be right and im not saying that we are, But i have to say that is what we are thinking.