Dozens of suspicious packages are being sent out here in Northern California

[Ecumenist]

That have been labelled "Anthrax". Several have been sent to businesses, KCRA tv, Congressman Radinovich in Modesto. they are telling folks in the viewing area to report any suspicious letter to authorities and to implement any emergency plans for hazmat evacuations IMMEDIATELY. I wonder what the hell is happening?
NO link yet.

[Danieljay]

1. here come the distractions.... who didn't see this crap coming? lol. Pathetic. n/t

[Ecumenist]

4. I'm believe that completely.

I think that this is what someone is up to. Apparently there's a picture of Colin Powell on the front of the packages. Pitiful.

[Ian David]

2. October Surprise! n/t

[Fovea]

3. Just more terrorist attacks Bush could not prevent

Republicans, weak on terror since 2001!

[rvablue]

5. We can wait on the link....WHERE DID YOU HEAR THIS -- TV? RADIO???? N/T

[Ecumenist]

12. Television. Channel 40 Newsbreak.

[DJ13]

6. I live in Central California, and all our local TV channels went off the air

....on our cable.

I dont know how long they've been off.

[eowyn_of_rohan]

7. This must be related: FDIC warns banks of threatening letters

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. today issued an alert to banks, credit unions and brokerages regarding threatening letters.

The alert reads:

“The FBI, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and state and local authorities are investigating more than 30 threatening letters that have been received by financial institutions in California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Most of these letters contain a powder substance with a threatening communication. At this point, field and laboratory tests on the powder have been negative. Financial institutions that receive one of these letters at any location should contact their local FBI office and ask for the WMD Coordinator.”

http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/10/27/daily32.html

[eowyn_of_rohan]

8. Here it is: Nearly 100 'White Powder' Packages Sent Out

Nearly 100 'White Powder' Packages Sent Out
TV Station, Congressman Receive Packages

POSTED: 1:14 pm PDT October 29, 2008
http://www.ksbw.com/health/17841097/detail.html

[drm604]

9. That article says that there's been one arrest.

Check out this part:

The CD inside the package sent to KCRA has a picture of former Secretary of State Colin Powell holding a vial across the top, and the word "ANTHRAX" handwritten in wild writing across the bottom. A packet was taped across the hole in the middle of the CD. It had a typewritten placard reading "ANTHRAX Shock & Awe Terror" pasted to the packet.

This sounds to me like the actions of a mentally unstable individual. I'm guessing that it will turn out to be something harmless like flour.

[Ian David]

19. I don't see anything about an arrest. n/t

[drm604]

21. The article has changed now.

The original article definitely said that there had been an arrest but it didn't give any other details. There's an updated article on that page now.
http://www.ksbw.com/health/17841097/detail.html

Man Arrested In Anthrax Hoax Mailings
TV Station, Congressman Receive Packages

POSTED: 1:14 pm PDT October 29, 2008
UPDATED: 6:36 pm PDT October 29, 2008
MODESTO, Calif. -- A 66-year-old Sacramento man was arrested Wednesday on charges of sending more than 120 packages that contained anthrax hoax letters, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported.

Packages containing a packet labeled "anthrax" were reported Wednesday at TV stations, newspapers, businesses and political offices through the United States, including at least five confirmed cases in Northern California.

Marc M. Keyser has been charged with three counts of sending a hoax letter. He was arrested at his home and is now in custody at the Sacramento County Jail, the FBI said.

[justiceischeap]

25. Dude is a TOTAL Wingnut

If you visit his blog, http://terrorblog.us/, he suggests contacting Fix News and speaks highly of "Commander Bush"

[MindPilot]

27. I think "domestic terrorist" is the correct nomenclature. n/t

[sunnystarr]

30. They sure removed that blog fast lol .. (nt)

[yowzayowzayowza]

32. Still there. Jus remove the comma. n/t

[wryter2000]

10. Gee,

I wonder why it would happen on the day that Obama has bought air time on the networks.

These crooks are so transparent.

[ThePowerofWill]

11. The boogey man is really at work.

Suspicious packages are showing up many places. We have had a few recent ones here in N.C.

http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/1271915.html


http://www.wcnc.com/news/local/stories/wcnc-101508-al-package.115c481ec.html

[ailsagirl]

13. Fod God's sakes-- who are these sick folks???

And why don't they get a life??

[Ian David]

16. Maybe it's The UnaFreeper again?

Will the Chad Castagana UnaFreeper Case Self-Destruct?
Topic started by IanDB1 on Dec-17-06 09:46 AM (3 replies)
Last modified by muriel_volestrangler on Dec-17-06 11:50 AM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=2933772

[King Coal]

14. Now that's the worst way to smuggle cocaine I've ever heard of.

[Ian David]

15. Update

Anthrax Scares in San Diego, Modesto

<snip>

Luque says similar envelopes have been mailed to other media outlets around the country. He says the powdery substance was attached to a CD containing a picture of former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

http://www.knx1070.com/Anthrax-Scares-in-San-Diego--Modesto/3224352

[uppityperson]

17. CD with pict of Powell? Sometimes people disgust me.

[Ian David]

18. Maybe it's a viral marketing campaign for a new show on The Cartoon Network? n/t

[Ian David]

20. Suspicious packages at newspaper not a danger

The Associated Press Comment on this story
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Authorities say packages sent to The Charlotte Observer and initially viewed as suspicious are not hazardous.
Published: Oct 28, 2008 12:49 PM
Modified: Oct 28, 2008 12:50 PM
http://www.newsobserver.com/1565/story/1271915.html



Are these the same "Colin Powell" packages?

[drm604]

22. Man Arrested In Anthrax Hoax Mailings

Man Arrested In Anthrax Hoax Mailings
TV Station, Congressman Receive Packages

POSTED: 1:14 pm PDT October 29, 2008
UPDATED: 6:36 pm PDT October 29, 2008

MODESTO, Calif. -- A 66-year-old Sacramento man was arrested Wednesday on charges of sending more than 120 packages that contained anthrax hoax letters, KCRA-TV in Sacramento reported.

Packages containing a packet labeled "anthrax" were reported Wednesday at TV stations, newspapers, businesses and political offices through the United States, including at least five confirmed cases in Northern California.

Marc M. Keyser has been charged with three counts of sending a hoax letter. He was arrested at his home and is now in custody at the Sacramento County Jail, the FBI said.

[bullwinkle428]

23. I just heard another update, and I am truly ROFLAMO!

Apparently, they actually WERE sugar packets, after I had joked about that possibility in another thread yesterday!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4331926&mesg_id=4332000

In addition, the guy actually had placed HIS OWN RETURN ADDRESS on some of the envelopes! Freeper, anyone?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[progressoid]

29. HIS OWN RETURN ADDRESS !

Good grief. :eyes:

[MindPilot]

24. "professional agitator" is how this report descibes the guy

One of the packages was recieved by the San Diego Union-Tribune:

In August 1998, U.S. Postal Service inspectors investigated Keyser, then president of the AIDS Action League in Sacramento, after the group mailed 4,000 bogus collection letters to Northern Californians. Keyser said it was an attention-getting device to persuade then-Gov. Pete Wilson to declare a state of medical emergency because of AIDS.

In an interview the next month in The Sacramento Bee, the newspaper described Keyser as a soft-spoken “professional agitator – someone who has made a living out of making waves,” someone with “the passion of a militant.” Keyser, who was once owner-editor of the Battle Mountain Bugle newspaper in Nevada, told the Bee that he was neither gay nor infected with the AIDS virus.

Keyser attracted attention again in July 2004, when as executive director of an organization called the Police and Firefighters Auxiliary, he solicited donations he said would be used to help prevent terrorist attacks, particularly anthrax, against the police department in the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove. The organization did not actually represent the department.

Public records show Keyser is also affiliated with Sacramento-based groups called Business Terror Watch and Neighborhood Terror Watch.


http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20081029-2023-bn29anthrax3.html

[Marrah_G]

26. scary- probably fake, but still scary

Especially since the anti-biotic used to treat Anthrax is deadly to me :(

I'm glad we are a small brokerage.

[lpbk2713]

28. It probably would have cost him a couple of hundred bucks to mail 120 packages.

So with that kind of an investment it wasn't done on a whim.

Crazy phucker. One of McLame's demographic. :eyes:

[mikelgb]

31. Hey I though the anthrax terrorist was dead?

[Julius Civitatus]

33. November surprise

Fear, fear, fear and distractions. That's all they have left.

[struggle4progress]

34. Feds: Suspect in hoax anthrax scare did it before

Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:07 PM EDT
The Associated Press
By JASON DEAREN Associated Press Writer


SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California man suspected of mailing more than 120 hoax anthrax letters to media outlets was interviewed previously by the FBI after one similar mailing in 2007, but he was not charged.

Marc M. Keyser, 66, was interviewed by the FBI in January 2007 for allegedly sending a package containing a small aerosol can labeled "Anthrax," along with a compact disc, to the Sacramento News and Review newspaper, according a criminal complaint filed Thursday in federal court.

Keyser told agents then that he was using the mailing as a publicity stunt for a novel he had penned, and "to model what would happen if terrorist were to use anthrax ... to show the amount of anthrax a terrorist might spray into the air conditioning system in a shopping mall." The can did not contain anthrax.

Agents warned Keyser that he violated federal law and could be prosecuted, but they didn't arrest him. Agent Filip Colfescu said in the complaint that Keyser at the time apologized for the hoax "and told agents they should not worry, that he would not be doing it again" ...

http://home.myhughesnet.com/news/read.php?id=16513526&ps=1011&srce=news_class&action=3&lang=en&_LT=HOME_USNWC00L3_UNEWS

[ColbertWatcher]

35. I see phase two of Ashley Todd's plan has swung into action. n/t

[struggle4progress]

36. Anthrax Hoax Suspect: 'I'm Not Sorry'

Marc Keyser Did Not Enter Plea In Court

POSTED: 10:29 am PDT October 30, 2008
UPDATED: 6:47 pm PDT October 30, 2008

... "I'm not sorry," Keyser told KCRA 3 Thursday during an interview at the Sacramento County Jail ...

Keyser said he sent 60 letters on Sunday and another 60 on Monday. He said he sent the letters to news organizations and Starbucks. When asked if he would do it again, he responded, "Absolutely" ...

"I feel I had to take a stand," Keyser said ...

http://www.kcra.com/news/17848946/detail.html

[Mari333]

37. from his blog:

'Unfortunately, the terrorists have the advantage of knowing when, where, and how they will strike; however, the time when the U.S. is most vulnerable is while we are in this economic crisis just before elections and the changing of the guard. As we sink deeper in the Economic Crisis, and as we approach the Presidential elections November 4, 2008, this is the time when we are especially vulnerable to large-scale terror attacks in the U.S. Osama bin Laden has every reason to want President Bush to remain in power. If we are attacked, Bush would have to suspend the elections, declare Martial Law and continue to rule as Commander-in-Chief. No one knows better than the terrorists that our President is their biggest asset and our worst enemy.'

looks like this guy was attempting to create his own anthrax attack and halt the elections.
all the crazies are coming out of the woodwork arent they.