05.07.10
Powder hoax retirement plan: Only in the USA
Good news, lads! Good news! My retirement is now guaranteed and proceeding nicely.
Plain as the nose on your face, life for many in the formerly great US of A is relentlessly bleak.
Chalk the next piece up to that, along with innovative use of punishments for carrying out powder hoaxes after 9/11. While an interesting read, it impeaches our ‘way of life’ on many levels.
Reading the Modesto Bee today, we see here:
So far, Timothy Cloud’s retirement plan seems to be working out for him.
In a statement written by Cloud last month for two federal agents, he admitted mailing menacing messages scrawled on 3-by-5 cards, along with talcum powder, from Roseville to President Barack Obama at the White House and to Social Security Administration offices in New York City, Kansas City, Mo., and Baltimore.
“I mailed the envelopes … to those addresses because I hoped people would think it was anthrax,” he wrote. “I mailed the letters because I was mad. I knew I would be caught.
“I do not regret sending the envelopes because that was my retirement plan. Either I was going to get Social Security or I was going to jail.”
He went to jail in Sacramento, where he remains held without bail as a flight risk.
“All he wanted was three hots and a cot,” said his attorney, Assistant Federal Defender Matthew Bockmon. “He was frustrated with Social Security over denial of benefits to which he feels entitled.
“This is a pathetic case of a homeless person making a desperate cry for help. He’s been on the streets a long time; long enough that he was sick of it.”
You think Ted Nugent might offer him some stale balogna sandwiches, too?
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