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Breaking on M$NBComcast - similar ricin letter as one sent to Bloomberg was sent to the White House (Original Post) malaise May 2013 OP
Scratch A Gun-Fetishist, Ma'am, Find a Criminal The Magistrate May 2013 #1
That's the truth Sir malaise May 2013 #5
Prisons all full of goons who accuse the government of "tyranny" meow2u3 May 2013 #7
Inb4 conservatives say it is liberals fitman May 2013 #2
Ricin is not that easy to produce nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed May 2013 #4
Could You Clarify That, Sir? The Magistrate May 2013 #6
ROFL malaise May 2013 #11
Sadly they could not even get their username right. Rex May 2013 #14
That one was sent to the land of PPR. hrmjustin May 2013 #15
Yah yah yah. uppityperson May 2013 #9
Huh? hrmjustin May 2013 #10
As often as this has been happening lately, it's almost not 'breaking news' anymore. randome May 2013 #8
Did I hear that this has a Louisiana n/t malaise May 2013 #12
Yes a LA address. hrmjustin May 2013 #13
Round up the usual Elvis impersonators. FSogol May 2013 #16
Methinks sending lethal alsame May 2013 #17
Yah think? malaise May 2013 #18

The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
1. Scratch A Gun-Fetishist, Ma'am, Find a Criminal
Thu May 30, 2013, 12:35 PM
May 2013

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy lives as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even believe that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

meow2u3

(24,745 posts)
7. Prisons all full of goons who accuse the government of "tyranny"
Thu May 30, 2013, 12:56 PM
May 2013

When the system (provided it works properly) duly arrests, tries, and convicts them of the crimes they commit, that's what criminals call "government tyranny."

In other words, the translation is: the gun fetishists aren't getting off scot-free when they commit acts of terrorism, among other violent crimes.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
3. Ricin is not that easy to produce
Thu May 30, 2013, 12:39 PM
May 2013

Even if a side product of Castor oil.

So one has to wonder if our militia types are preparing for a Turner Diary kind of a thing?

(And this will immediately be flagged by the way)

Response to malaise (Original post)

The Magistrate

(95,237 posts)
6. Could You Clarify That, Sir?
Thu May 30, 2013, 12:55 PM
May 2013

By now, I hold that if a string of words conveys no clear meaning to me, the fault is not with me, but with the person who wrote them.....

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
14. Sadly they could not even get their username right.
Thu May 30, 2013, 01:22 PM
May 2013

It is spelled pleiadian council. So what group do we know that always spells everything wrong?

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
8. As often as this has been happening lately, it's almost not 'breaking news' anymore.
Thu May 30, 2013, 12:58 PM
May 2013

I'm starting to think that those who send ricin through the mail want to be incarcerated because their lives are so empty.

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alsame

(7,784 posts)
17. Methinks sending lethal
Thu May 30, 2013, 01:58 PM
May 2013

chemicals in the mail is not the best argument for your right to own lethal firearms.

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