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Anthrax Scare 2.0: Letter Addressed To US Senator Tests Positive For Ricin Poison
Yesterday we got a flashback of 9/11, and now the Anthrax scare is back. From @911Buff
- LETTER ADDRESSED TO A U.S. SENATE OFFICE INTERCEPTED AT U.S. CAPITAL, TESTS POSITIVE FOR RICIN POISION.
- POISON LETTER WAS SENT TO SENATOR ROGER WICKER FROM MISSISSIPPI AT THE CAPITOL. FBI INVESTIGATING.
Ricin's toxic history is long and illustrious: starting with the death of Bulgarian dissident journalist Georgi Markov, using the infamous KGB umbrella, and most recently used by Walter White (unsuccessfully) to eliminate the meth dealing competition.
CNN has some initial bits and pieces:
An envelope that tested positive for the deadly poison ricin was intercepted Tuesday afternoon at the U.S. Capitol's off-site mail facility in Washington, congressional and law enforcement sources tell CNN.
After the envelope tested positive in a first routine test, it was retested two more times, each time coming up positive, the law enforcement source said. The package was then sent to a Maryland lab for further testing.
A photo of Senator Roger Wicker via politico:
Live webcast from Politico:
Finally, some facts from the CDC on ricin:
What ricin is
- Ricin is a poison found naturally in castor beans. If castor beans are chewed and swallowed, the released ricin can cause injury. Ricin can be made from the waste material left over from processing 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.
- It is a stable substance under normal conditions, but can be inactivated by heat above 80 degrees centigrade (176 degrees Fahrenheit).
Where ricin is found and how it is used
- Castor beans are processed throughout the world to make castor oil. Ricin is part of the waste “mash” produced when castor oil is made.
- Ricin has been used experimentally in medicine to kill cancer cells.
How you could be exposed to ricin
- It would take a deliberate act to make ricin and use it to poison people. Unintentional exposure to ricin is highly unlikely, except through the ingestion of castor beans.
- 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 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian writer and journalist who was living in London, died after he was attacked by a man with an umbrella. The umbrella had been rigged to inject a poison ricin pellet under Markov’s skin.
- 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.
- Ricin poisoning is not contagious. Ricin-associated illness cannot be spread from person to person through casual contact. However, if you come into contact with someone who has ricin on their body or clothes, you could become exposed to it.
How ricin works
- Ricin works by getting inside the cells of a person’s body and preventing the cells from making the proteins they need. Without the proteins, cells die. Eventually this is harmful to the whole body, and death may occur.
- Effects of ricin poisoning depend on whether ricin was inhaled, ingested, or injected.
Signs and symptoms of ricin exposure
- The major symptoms of ricin poisoning depend on the route of exposure and the dose received, though many organs may be affected in severe cases.
- Initial symptoms of ricin poisoning by inhalation may occur as early as 4- 8 hours and as late as 24 hours after exposure. Following ingestion of ricin, initial symptoms typically occur in less than 10 hours.
- Inhalation: Within a few hours of inhaling significant amounts of ricin, the likely symptoms would be respiratory distress (difficulty breathing), fever, cough, nausea, and tightness in the chest. Heavy sweating may follow as well as fluid building up in the lungs (pulmonary edema). This would make breathing even more difficult, and the skin might turn blue. Excess fluid in the lungs would be diagnosed by x-ray or by listening to the chest with a stethoscope. Finally, low blood pressure and respiratory failure may occur, leading to death. In cases of known exposure to ricin, people having respiratory symptoms should seek medical care.
- Ingestion: If someone swallows a significant amount of ricin, he or she would likely develop vomiting and diarrhea that may become bloody. Severe dehydration may be the result, followed by low blood pressure. Other signs or symptoms may include seizures, and blood in the urine. Within several days, the person’s liver, spleen, and kidneys might stop working, and the person could die.
- Skin and eye exposure: Ricin is unlikely to be absorbed through normal skin. Contact with ricin powders or products may cause redness and pain of the skin and the eyes. However, if you touch ricin that is on your skin and then eat food with your hands or put your hands in your mouth, you may ingest some.
- Death from ricin poisoning could take place within 36 to 72 hours of exposure, depending on the route of exposure (inhalation, ingestion, or injection) and the dose received.
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Regardless of who this senator is, who the perpetrator is or what the motive is, the reality is that the world does not need shit like this if it is to progress in any way.
Mayor Bloomberg warns about 'Special Interests' after Boston bombing....
"Although Mr. Bloomberg didn’t explain what those special interests were, he did acknowledge Manhattan’s public security camera network as the sort of program that needs additional investment. Left unmentioned were the N.Y.P.D.’s controversial stop-and-frisk tactic and Muslim surveillance efforts, both of which Mr. Bloomberg has staunchly defended in the past."
http://politicker.com/2013/04/mayor-bloomberg-warns-about-special-intere...
There you have it.....Increased security cameras...I knew they were selling something
This is feeling more and more like domestic stuff to me. The pressure is rising, people are doing stupid things (that was not meant to mean the government as that would have made the word stupid redundant!), the government is flexing more and more and the people are getting more and more restless. As the great Walt Kowalski once said (Gran Torino) "This is going to get fucking ugly."
Let me be the prick that asks the obvious question: why only one?!
hujel
Does anyone remember the scene from Swordfish when Travolta shoots the senator through the heart for treason? Much more direct...
'Anthrax, Smallpoxs, and Bioterrorism' @ U.M. Amherst : Microbiology 397I -- Infectious Disease and Defense http://www.bio.umass.edu/micro/immunology/mic540hp.html
http://www.anthrax.osd.mil/resource/qna/qaAll.asp?cID=302 ?or? wtf! http://www.anthrax.osd.mil/resource/default.asp *Q & A
Ricin @ UM Amherst... Fruits and Nuts? http://www.smashinglists.com/top-10-poisonous-fruits/
Note: florida is the largest cattle raising state-- has the most easily available anthrax waste available for processing???
Ps. this boston massacre sounds like a home grown terrorist cell?!
JMO
" I can't find any supporting data, but maybe someone from Mississippi might know more..."
If only someone from Mississippi knew how to read, we might be able to solve this cursed mystery! Alas, down there they still communicate through a gutteral series of grunts, clicks and whistles, punctuated by obscene hand gestures and pelvic thrusting. Ahh, the blessed Mud-People of the Mississippi. I seen it on the innernets. True story.
Why Wicker? Who the hell is this guy that he deserves Ricin?
http://www.muckety.com/Roger-F-Wicker/1425.muckety
http://www.muckety.com/U-S-Senate/5001925.muckety
it's a red herring...
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Perhaps because he is pro Second Amendment?
http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Roger_Wicker_Gun_Control.htm
If this is indeed FF then according to the narrative of the original anthrax attacks where opponents to the pending Patriot Act were preemptively silenced and intimidated this may indicate which specific liberty will be targeted this time.
Perhaps there will be NO culprit responsible for the crime in Boston identified because the synthesis will produce the desired result regardless if not even better without, providing greater shadow, uncertainty and demand for security from the state. The explosive fuel appears to be black powder, as reported, so accordingly such material will be strictly controlled and regulated...to promote security...and freedom.
If you can't control the guns you control the bullets. Any Senators opposed? The Yeas have it.....
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So here's a question. How on earth did they detect a random letter laced with this poison. ? I smell a rat !!!! Do they have ricin detectors now scanning all mail??
All day Boston PD refused to disclose facts about their ongoing investigation. This is bullshit.
Don't you understand that is so they can all get their stories straight. So they don't have another embarrassing mess like sandy hook where the coroner said it was a long gun that did all the shooting, where the facts show it was a handgun and the rifle was found in the trunk of his car. just one of many discrepancies regarding that staged incident to take away our guns. Have you noticed the only solution to that incident is to restrict guns rights, no other solutions, just that in itself is very revealing.
The "boys" are at work again.
Do they test every letter?
Only when they know they will find something
This is a nonsense story. People who send poison in the mail do not provide return addresses. They know who sent the letter because he sends many letters to politicians. this proves he is a fool thinking that it might do some good, but not "that" big a fool.
Just like the anthrax 'attack' after 9/11, this is obviously another false flag being used to scare congress into grabbing more civil liberties by passing another draconian PATRIOT Act style law.
Same old tired playbook, wag the dog fearmongering. And if you look at the evidence regarding 9-11 you will clearly see it was a government op because there actually were politicians not wanting the patriot act. Look what happened to Paul welstone for standing up.
We can't have the public and the media discussing the fact that Ben Bernanke and the Obowel Movement just sold 500 tons of America's gold now , can we?
round up all prog nazis and shoot them. i dont know who this jackass is but lets do what the progtards do and over react, cant be to safe eh.
Why do the god damned terrorists always fail to kill the people we don't care about, but yet always seem to kill little kids.
Not this shit again