A PACKAGE full of
highly toxic poison was reportedly addressed and
mailed to President Donald Trump earlier this week.
According to The New York Times, an envelope containing ricin was sent to the president at the White House in Washington, DC.
The package was intercepted by law enforcement officials who
tested the substance to see what it was.
Tests confirmed that the package contained
ricin which is part of the waste “mash” produced when castor oil is made.
Investigators guess the letter was sent from Canada.
Mail that's sent to the White House is
sorted through and screened somewhere before it's delivered to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Both the Secret Service and the FBI are said to be investigating what happened.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, if ricin is made into a partially purified material or refined, it can be used as a weapon capable of causing death under certain circumstances.
From the author:
I think this is NOT the FIRST attempt to physically eliminate our President. As a rule, such things are reported after his powers expire.
However, the real "customer" is, of course, not in Canada, but either in
Chelsea, Park Slope, New York, or in the
Pacific Heights region of San Francisco.
Assuming the possibility that the
Democratic party's protege in the Supreme Court, Ginsburg, may not live to see the elections, the Democratic leadership decided in its moral degradation to
return to the experience of the "poisoning epidemic" that covered America in the 19th century and commit another "purely American murder" of the past. Poison murder was very much "in style" in nineteenth-century America.
Marl Essig wrote that "poison murder was
very much in style in nineteenth-century America. Legal treatises devoted much attention to the difficulties of prosecuting poison murder cases. " (
Mark Essig. Poison Murder and Expert Testimony: Doubting the Physician in Late Nineteenth-Century America. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. Volume 14, Article 4).
But from the nineteenth century through the first few decades of the twentieth, some of the most celebrated cases involving expert testimony were
poison murder.
In 1893 the
New York toxicologist R. Ogden Doremus observed, in the opinion journal The Forum, that
"we seem to be passing through an epidemic of poisoning." 9
What Doremus could not have known in 1893 was that
New York's poisoning epidemic had only just
begun.
Between 1860 and 1891, there were only two trials for murder by poison in Manhattan. " In the next ten years, there were
at
least six more trials. Several involved
notable citizens, and all commanded the attention of the city and, in some cases, the country. "
These six cases
were part of a larger phenomenon. There were
many
other prominent trials elsewhere in the United States and in Europe,
not to mention countless accusations and investigations that never
made it to trial because possible poisoning victims' bodies were buried without suspicion. " We
do not know how many persons who were buried as having died of disease, may have died of poison," one physician explained."
Under the headline Poison Epidemic Sweeps the
Land, the New York World in 1899 reported on confirmed or suspected poisoning cases in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Kansas, and Maryland.
Nineteenth-century Americans suspected that many cases of poisoning escaped detection altogether.
"We do not know how many persons who were buried as having died of disease, may have died of poison, one physician explained. E
very poison murder case that
made it to trial ra
ised the fear that
scores more had gone undetected.
This fear of undiscovered crime lay at the heart of the nineteenth-century obsession with poison murder.
These fears gave rise to the need in society for science that could reveal poisoning with poison. And such a science,
toxicology had emerged as the first modern
forensic science by the 1840s.
Later, the science of preventing attempted murder by poisoning began to develop.
So our President is lucky.
And if everyone lived in the first half of the 19th century ???
Then all of us, including Trump, could be less fortunate ...
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