Powder in letter sent to HRC building tests positive for ricin

[William769]

New York City police announced late Wednesday that an unidentified suspect mailed letters containing poisonous ricin powder to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a prominent gun control advocate working out of the Human Rights Campaign building in Washington, D.C.

In a dramatic turn of events, Deputy New York Police Commissioner Paul J. Browne said preliminary tests determined a powdery substance sent to the D.C. office of longtime gay rights advocate Mark Glaze, who serves as director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, appears to be ricin.

“Anonymous threats to Mayor Michael Bloomberg in letters opened in New York City on Friday and by the director of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns in Washington, D.C. on [Memorial Day] contained material that when tested locally, preliminarily indicated the presence of ricin,” Browne said in a statement.

Browne’s statement, which was confirmed by an FBI spokesperson in Washington, contradicts a statement given to the Washington Blade on Tuesday by D.C. Fire Department spokesperson Lon Walls.

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/05/29/powder-in-letter-sent-to-hrc-building-tests-positive-for-ricin/

[onehandle]

1. We have a new, but old, front of terrorism.

The McVeigh type gun rightists will start coming out of the woodwork in the next few years.

[William769]

2. I think they are already here.

[onehandle]

3. Yes, but I mean there will be a proliferation of them from now on.

I expect bombings, sniper attacks, and worse to become commonplace.