She's a microbiologist, and a very pissed off woman.
Posted on 11/05/2013 10:18:49 AM PST by nickcarraway
Finally, a Supreme Court case that can keep my attention: NPR reports that today the highest court in the land hears the 2005 case of Philadelphia suburbanite Carol Anne Bond, who discovered that her husband had impregnated her best friend, and then attempted to poison said best friend. Bond was subsequently convicted under a chemical weapons treaty.
Using chemicals stolen from the chemical manufacturing company where she worked, Bond mixed a compound that can be lethal in small amounts — and is bright orange in color — and put it in her ex-BFF’s mail. The mistress easily noticed the powder (she suffered only a thumb burn), and complained to police, who took no action. But her mailman alerted the the Postal Service, which had videotaped Bond spreading the chemicals on 24 different occasions. The federal government convicted Bond under the chemical weapons treaty, and she was sentenced to six years in prison, three times the sentence she would have received if the state had pursued the case. Bond appealed to the Supreme Court on the grounds that the treaty is unconstitutional because it violates states’ rights to prosecute simple assault.
The government, however, says the treaty was enacted to ban a variety of uses of chemical weapons outside of war. “If Mrs. Bond's actions had ended up killing the victim, or killing a postal worker, or killing the victim's child, I don't think anybody would dispute that this was an appropriate use of this convention," said former State Department legal adviser John Bellinger.
Bond's lawyer, former solicitor general Paul Clement, begs to differ. “Nation states conduct war. They don't poison their husband's lover. [...] I think you could tell 100 people on the street what Ms. Bond did here,” he told NPR, and none of those people would determine that Bond "deployed a chemical weapon." He says his client is “peaceful” by the international law standards recognized in the treaty.
Huh??
was sentenced to six years in prison, three times the sentence she would have received if the state had pursued the case
You only get two years for attempted murder in Pennsylvania? Remind me to go there if I need to almost kill somebody.
As if there are no laws on the books to cover this, they resort to treaties?
So if I spray a cotton field with parathion and some bum that was sleeping in the cotton field gets sick I’m violating a chemical weapons treaty? If I have a couple of gallon of O-Ethyl O-2-diisopropylaminoethyl methylphosphonite (which is NOT poisonous) am I in violation of a chemical weapons treaty?
Mix it with readily-available sulfur then yes, I would say you’ve got yourself a weapons-grade problem on your hands.
Apparently, the feds got involved because the Philly police were not interested in pursuing a case as unimportant as attempted murder.
"was sentenced to six years in prison, three times the sentence she would have received if the state had pursued the case"
You only get two years for attempted murder in Pennsylvania? Remind me to go there if I need to almost kill somebody.
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Well said.
What’s the big deal? LBJ sprayed a whole country with the color orange.
Think of the opportunity this may represent to the anti-smoking Gnatzis!
“She assaulted me with a chemical fog from her ciggy-butt!”
Don’t forget dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff can desolve battleships and kill you as well. And it’s freely available. I think it should be regulated.
If I remember correctly, this is the case that, if the court cites international chem weapons law, will have gone a long way to nullify US or state law and bring us much closer to losing our sovereignity to the UN.
This female’s time in the slammer is irrelevant compared to what this means for us as a nation.
If the Senate were to approve the recent arms trafficking treaty, they could claim the Congress can restrict firearms in any manner irrespective of the 2nd Amendment.
This is a massive power grab by the Feds and the ruling class.
None of this would have happened, apparently, if the Philly police had any interest in doing their job in the first place.
If I mix it with sulfur, I wouldn't have any problems at all. I'd probably be dead.
I knew a few people personally who have died from prolonged exposure to dihydrogen monoxide.
I myself have had coughing fits and gagging from minute inhalation of the substance.
If your intent was to spray the field, then no. If your intent was specifically to cause harm to a human through the use of toxic chemicals, then perhaps.
She's a microbiologist, and a very pissed off woman.
I think it depends on whether the bum was eating your cotton.
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