Posted on 09/10/2004 9:52:43 AM PDT by BJungNan
Governors in five states received mail that contained incendiary devices, including one that caused a section of the Montana Capitol to be evacuated.
Authorities said a letter sent to Gov. Judy Martz's office ignited when it was opened. Similar letters were received Thursday in governors' offices in Idaho, Nebraska, Utah and Washington and by a prison official in Nevada, the Helena Independent Record reported.
Glen Whorton, assistant director of the Nevada Department of Corrections, told the newspaper authorities were investigating a possible suspect in the state's prison system. The letters were sent from the prison in Ely, Nev.
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How do we allow prisoners to send this stuff through the mail? What are we, stupid?
Good point. That is really stupid. Maybe the prisons are not allowed to open and inspect prisoner mail.
In some ways we are really stupid.
One has to wonder as to how inmates can 'manage' activities outside the prison so well. It would probably be very disconcerting to actually know the nature of and the free flow capacity of information into and out of prisons.
Governor Romney of MA got one according to local reports.
In WWII we dropped puportedly pro-Japanese propaganda on Japan on paper that had been coated with phosphorous and then shellaced. It was picked up, folded (breaking the coating), put in the pocket and YOWEEEE!!!
Pretty clever hack to put the needed materials together in prison. Thank God nobody has been hurt.
How do we allow them to have the kind of materials that could be used for something like this?
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