A Connecticut woman tried a unique court-packing scheme:
Cookies mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year contained enough rat poison to kill all nine justices, retired member Sandra Day O’Connor said at a conference last week.
Barbara Joan March, a 60-year-old Connecticut woman, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison. She sent 14 threatening letters in April 2005 — each with a baked good or piece of candy laced with rat poison — to a variety of federal officials: the nine Supreme Court justices; FBI Director Robert Mueller; his deputy; the chief of naval operations; the Air Force chief of staff and the chief of staff of the Army.
Any justice who had succumbed to March’s poisoned treats would have been replaced by a nominee picked by George W. Bush.
The letters did not seem to pose much of a real danger since the threatening note told the recipients the food was poisoned. In court papers submitted with the plea agreement, prosecutors said each of the envelopes contained a one-page typewritten letter stating either “I am” or “We are” followed by “going to kill you. This is poisoned.”
And nobody took even one little bite? But it looked so irresistable!
You know, something about Ms. March’s plan sounds awfully familiar. I can’t quite put my finger…
Quick! Call the FBI! We need to find out whether Don Rumsfeld helped plan this.
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