Ricin Beans 3

3 comments

1. George Smith

   June 2, 2013 at 1:24 pm

   Apt. Thanks. The paradox here is that having spent over a decade screaming about how easy ricin is to make (and continuing to do so during the recent spate of mailing castor powder) has some bearing on why we’re seeing what we are. Some government officials have begun to realize this. But the media, largely, still does not and simply cannot write pieces that don’t include how deadly it is and that recipes are on the internet. And it’s shameful because of course they now must realize that Americans are very suggestible and that there will be a certain number among them, even if small, who act out on this. Are the Richardson’s (whichever one of them, or both, are the perps) a menace to their neighbors in New Boston? No, not really, mostly a hazard to themselves. Cruel and thoughtless, certainly. These people certainly don’t merit the money that must be wasted upon them in the lightning reaction investigations that come down. But they have not arisen in a vacuum, or been generated spontaneously, like the old belief that if you through fish heads in a jar and sealed it up, flies and maggots would be the result. Our press and national security ways have had a hand in it, even if unintentional. And so, unimaginable and ridiculous stores, fit almost for sitcom drama or movie scripting, replete with bizarre social media pictures that beg for republication.   

    
2. George Smith

   June 2, 2013 at 1:27 pm

   And I feel sorry for the cat. Buried in the news was an item that the house pet had been left with no one to care for it amid all the coming and going. So someone from the city went back and took it out for safekeeping. We can easily imagine how upsetting an FBI search would be to a pet. 

    
3. Frank

   June 2, 2013 at 3:06 pm

   All that the major news media outlets care about any more, except for rare exceptions such as the Nation, is click-bait.

    

   A car wreck that injures one will beat a cardiological breakthrough that saves millions any day of the week and twice on Sundays.

    

   My compliments to whoever remembered the cat.  I sometimes wonder what it must be like to be arrested, justly or unjustly, and have your life as you have known it just stop for days or weeks or years.