Justice O'Connor: Entire supreme court was sent rat poisened cookies

[ourbluenation]

Justice Recalls Treats Laced With Poison
By LINDA GREENHOUSE

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 — A discussion of recent threats to judges’ safety, at a bar association conference in suburban Dallas last week, became startlingly specific when Sandra Day O’Connor, the retired Supreme Court justice, recounted that each justice had received in the mail “a wonderful package of home-baked cookies” that contained “enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court.”

Justice O’Connor’s remarks were reported on Thursday in The Star-Telegram in Fort Worth.

Although the episode was not publicly disclosed when it occurred in April 2005, it had a public, although little-noticed, denouement last month when the sender of the poisoned cookies was sentenced in federal court here to 15 years in prison.

The sender, Barbara Joan March of Bridgeport, Conn., pleaded guilty to 14 counts of “mailing injurious articles.” The 14 recipients included the nine justices; the chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; and the director and deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The packages, containing either candy or baked goods, were laced with rat poison.

All mail received at the Supreme Court is screened, and the tainted packages never reached the justices, said Kathleen Arberg, the court’s public information officer. The danger posed by the packages was immediately apparent. Each contained a typewritten letter stating either, “I am going to kill you,” or, “We are going to kill you,” and adding, “This is poisoned.”

The letters carried various return addresses of people who had earlier connections with Ms. March, including seven who attended college with her. The F.B.I. determined that Ms. March wrote and sent the letters, typing a number of them on a typewriter at a public library near her home.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/washington/17threat.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=washington&pagewanted=print

[Deep13]

1. Also, don't eat the justice sundae.

:o

[NoQuarter]

2. Justice Sundae

:rofl:

[clichemoth]

3. Well, we know she wasn't on our side.

If she'd been a crazy left-wing poisoner, the M$M would have never shut up about it.

Since this got almost completely swept under the rug, there has to be some reason they didn't use this to spin for some draconian "security" measure. I wonder what the real story was here.

[everythingsxen]

8. We don't know at all what her political leanings were...

For all we know, she did it to protest the War. Look at who she went after:

SCOTUS
CoS Army
CoS Navy
CoS Air Force
Dir. FBI

That is a list I could see a left-wing loonie going after too.

[Hippo_Tron]

4. Thank god their mail is screened, otherwise Bush would've gotten 9 Supreme Court appointments

[indepat]

5. And confirmed in lock step fashion

[Akoto]

6. You know, I don't mean to make a joke, but ...

I have to figure that someone who labels their assassination cookies as poisoned is an amateur. :P

[librechik]

7. Ann Coulter, fess up--you know you called for the poisoning of Stevens

I guess you "got your wish"

Somebody arrest Ann!

[malaise]

9. She is 60 years old

Notice she did this just after the Terry Schiavo death. What a fugging loony. COme on DUers let's find her in those Florida pix outside the nursing home.

[reichstag911]

10. It's a shame 5 of them...

...didn't dig in...and I think we can all agree on the 5.

[hopein08]

11. self delete...sorry

[malaise]

12. Wolfie about to discuss this n/t