Anthrax Threats Mass Mailed to Abortion Clinics

Los Angeles Times ^

[Asmodeus]

November 9, 2001 Anthrax Threats Mass Mailed to Abortion Clinics By MEGAN GARVEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER Security: More than 200 facilities receive FedEx packages, while more are intercepted en route to West Coast.

WASHINGTON -- FedEx packages containing a white powder and the threat: "This contains anthrax. You're going to die," arrived Thursday morning at more than 200 abortion clinics in the Midwest and along the East Coast.

[toenail]

"All of the anti-abortion zealots who assert that "abortion is murder" give aid and comfort to abortion clinic attackers."

All the pro-life zealots who rightly proclaim that abortion is murder give aid and comfort to desperate women and their babies. And that's what drives you nuts.

[lowbridge]

[ravinson]

Notice that no anthrax has ever been found in any of these abortion clinic threat letters or packages.

That doesn't mean they are harmless acts, does it?

[YaYa123]

It's ludicrous this reporter and her editor wouldn't mention at least the possibility, that enemies of pro-life groups would be sending this stuff through the mail.

[Steve_Seattle]

If the Army of God actually sent those letters and signed their name to them, why can't the FBI prove anything? It would seem to be easy to solve a crime when there is physical evidence and someone says, "I did it!" If you can't solve a crime like that, what crime can you solve?

[ravinson]

If the "Army of God" has a website and known members, would they be so stupid as to sign the name of their organization to terrorist letters?

Signing the name of an organization doesn't prove that the owners of a website who use that name are involved. As they claim on their site, the "Army of God" is a loose knit organization or merely a "state of mind".

If they did so and the FBI still can't find evidence to arrest them, the FBI is beyond hope.

I'm nop big fan of the FBI, but as long as people can send letters and packages anonymously, it's very difficult to pin down responsibility for terrorism by mail.

[ravinson]

All the pro-life zealots who rightly proclaim that abortion is murder give aid and comfort to desperate women and their babies,

You cannot properly claim that abortion is murder without redefining "murder" and therefore making the statement meaningless demagoguery, and demagoguery gives no comfort to any rational person.

[Steve_Seattle]

Of course anyone can claim to be a member of an organization even if they are not, and send a letter under false pretenses. My point was that if the Army of God really did send those letters, the FBI should have a lot of physical evidence as a basis for an investigation.

[toenail]

"You cannot properly claim that abortion is murder without redefining "murder" and therefore making the statement meaningless demagoguery, and demagoguery gives no comfort to any rational person."

Care to explain why you don't think committing abortions is not murder?

[ravinson]

My point was that if the Army of God really did send those letters, the FBI should have a lot of physical evidence as a basis for an investigation.

What "physical evidence"? As I said, the Army of God appears to be a very loose organization, and even in the unlikely event the FBI finds fingerprints on the letter, how do they find the sender if their prints aren't on file?

[PLK]

All of the anti-abortion zealots who assert that "abortion is murder" give aid and comfort to abortion clinic attackers.

Attempting to compare this situation to President Bush's declaration that nations who harbor terrorists are also accountable is ridiculous and void of any reasonable logic. Don't work.

[ravinson]

Care to explain why you don't think committing abortions is not murder?

Murder is defined as the unlawful and malicious killing of another, and abortion is not illegal, not malicious, and cannot even be proved to be the killing of another person.

[toenail]

"Murder is defined as the unlawful and malicious killing of another, and abortion is not illegal, not malicious, and cannot even be proved to be the killing of another person."

A true believer.

What makes you think that committing abortions is legal?

Killing defenseless babies is malicious.

And only by deluded sophistry can anyone claim that another person is not killed.

[Diverdogz]

I think most Americans realized the AG is just a little busy right now.

Busy with what? Meddling with states rights in Oregon. Listening to privledged attorney-client conversations? Fighting medical marijuana? He needs to meet with Planned Parenthood before they use his lack of response as a weapon against him. Whether you approve of PP or not, the AG needs to actively prosecute ANYONE who mails an Anthrax threat. That is his DUTY.

[Steve_Seattle]

"What physical evidence?

The 450 letters and packages.

[Azzurri]

This is clearly an inside job. PP, or a lone sympathizer, mailed this hoax. Hopefully, the FBI will be able to track this package quickly like they did with the Bush debate tapes. Mailing this FedEx was a critical mistake on the mailer's part.

[Diverdogz]

even in the unlikely event the FBI finds fingerprints on the letter

Exactly. Anyone who couldn't find a way to mail a letter without getting fingerprints or DNA on a letter is a complete idiot.

Then again, anyone who would send out an anthrax letter is by definition, an idiot, too.

[ravinson]

What makes you think that committing abortions is legal?

The law. Read it, digest it, get a clue.

Killing defenseless babies is malicious.

Legal malice is defined as the intentional doing of a wrongful act.

And only by deluded sophistry can anyone claim that another person is not killed.

You cannot prove that a fetus is a person any more than you can prove that any human sperm cell and egg cell considered together constitute a "person".

[ravinson]

Then again, anyone who would send out an anthrax letter is by definition, an idiot, too..,?

Then I guess you don't believe in the concept of an "evil genius"?

[Diverdogz]

Idiot was the wrong word to use. Yes, I believe that there are "evil genius's". History is full of them.