You could, but you’d have to have a lot of it blown airborne. you’d have to have it blown in your face to realistically inhale any of it.
Anthrax and other effective mail-delivered substances were dangerous since they were much more airborne or were hard to properly ensure is cleaned off your person. Fentanyl won’t be ingested if it gets on your clothes or a trace remains on your hands, but invisible, long-lasting bacterium spores? Lethal.
It has to be aerosolized to do that, which isn’t going to just randomly happen from opening an envelope. You’d have to do something deliberately really stupid like spray it into a theater full of innocent hostages.
I hope he doesn’t pull a gun, gets arrested, and police gets a chance to investigate this dude’s associates and round up the whole chat group. Maybe he’ll be sentenced to a restorative prison system where he gets deradicalised, realizes the error of his ways, supplies info to help stop shit like this in the future, and becomes a spokesperson for deescalation training and restorative justice reform.
That’s the kind of thing I want for common criminals. When it comes to terrorists, I just want them locked up forever, and if I trusted the government to always catch the right person, I’d want a much worse fate for them.
Don’t understand what these people think would be accomplished by sending the stuff in the mail like that. Touching it isn’t going to do anything. Inhaling I supposed, but it would be rather difficult to accidentally inhale it especially after being packed during mailing.
What they’re trying to accomplish is to make people afraid to get involved in administering elections unless they’re “on the right side.”
This particular effort might or might not have any effect at all. But the point is, it’s in concert with a thousand other things. And, more importantly, they’re getting practice, and learning about what works and what doesn’t and what they can get away with, and who they can trust as their allies when things get real.
Oh for sure. I’m just glad they keep doing this harmless shit. But, the scary thing is that the more they escalate and see it doesn’t work, the more they will keep escalating.
High praise to all the people working the elections these days ❤️
The one good thing is that the government does not take that lying down.
Part of the reason why the Jan 6th insurrectionists have been subjected to such a dog and pony show is because they're attempting to use the media to dissuade further domestic terrorists from engaging in domestic terrorism.
I feel like tracking down the people that send strange white powders to government offices and subjecting them to the same punishment and ridicule should also help prevent or at least minimize future occurrences as well
They actually don’t use volunteers here. They pay people to do the work. I asked Julie Wise about this at a town hall once. You can go observe, though.
Watching too many cop shows maybe (stuff like blue bloods). They usually treat fentanyl as something you will die from if you touch it for even one second.
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