Who's the terrorist?
Media are intentionally sliding past the interesting part of a "terrorist" incident involving the Spokane county jail, giving us an intentionally wrong impression.

Media version: A "sovereign citizen" is being held for a fairly ordinary crime, and his wife is sending what the sheriff calls "paper terrorism" to "obstruct justice".

(1) From the headlines you assume the "sovereign citizen" is KKK Honky Fundy McVeigh Hitler. Nope. He's black, a member of one of those obscure half-Jewish half-Muslim movements. The Black Israelites or the Real Moors.

(2) From the headlines you assume the "paper terrorism" is an actual noxious substance. Anthrax or something. Nope, it's just an unpleasant smell. (I'm guessing it's good old Magic Shave depilatory. That stuff would be available to a black prisoner, and it's strongly ammoniac. Spreads through an entire cellblock in seconds flat.) The FBI analyzed the letters and found nothing poisonous or hazardous, so they returned the letters to the wife. I trust the FBI to get these things right when it's not running a sting.

So. In reality we have people who are scaring themselves into a panic over an unfamiliar smell. I understand this only too well since I was doing it last week! But scaring yourself doesn't mean the source of the smell is a crime. If that's the case, I should call the cops and have my toilet arrested.

The government and media are the real terrorists here. Without government lies and media-induced panic, an unfamiliar smell wouldn't be "terrorism".

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Later: Another "terrorist incident" made a dozen people sick at Fairchild AFB. All the "terrorism" experts were called in, and the "terrorist" turned out to be too many air fresheners in one office. Again, the real terrorist is the media and government.

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