Letter sent to Senator laced with ricin

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

I don't think I like your implication Oberon. There are what another dozen republicans who also voted to approve debate. Did they get ricin in the mail too?

I don't know, like I said, he's also against any gun law, so it could be something, it could be nothing. If any other senators do get ricin parcels then perhaps a pattern will emerge, but until then it's idle guesswork on my behalf. I can't see anything on Wikipedia that would single him out as a priority target by an Islamic militant, although I must concede it could just be random, perhaps a hope that his mail wouldn't be checked as throughly as the head of the Senate? Again, idle guesswork, it could equally be a nutjob of either political demographic.
Or maybe SecDef holds grudges?

Originally Posted by Platapus

One also has to recognize the chance of coincidence. Not everything is a coordinated conspiracy.

Simply because incident B follows incident A does not mean that B is related to A.

True, this is true.