BREAKING: Incident at Philadelphia Obama Office

BREAKING: Incident at Philadelphia Obama Office

by Stwriley
Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 07:44:04 PM PDT

And so the threats begin to go beyond nasty rhetoric and shouted obscenities.

Today, the Obama campaign office in South Philadelphia was the target of a mailed threat that also contained a white powder. It was found by a volunteer opening the mail and resulted in a full scale hazmat and police response. The office was evacuated and containment and testing instituted to find out what the substance was.

Fortunately, the powder turned out to be sugar and all staff and volunteers are fine. Since the letter was actually sent through the mail, the matter is now a federal investigation, as it rightly should be.

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This is a highly disturbing, though hardly unexpected, escalation in the current nastiness coming from radical fringe of the Republican party, only three days after Barack was in Philly. It looks like the "black helicopter" devotees are coming out of the woodwork and desperation is driving them to more extreme action.

The real question now is: how much more? Will the next delivery be a package instead, with more than a couple of spoons of sugar in it? It's the logical effect of the hatred that's been whipped up by the McCain/Palin campaign, including right here in Pennsylvania this very day. Hatred breeds this sort of extremism as surely as carrion breeds flies.

-more at link-

Also, I have been told by volunteers at that office of previous threats- this is NOT the first. The others just don't get publicized.