It wasn’t funny then, and it’s even less funny now:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 — A discussion of recent threats to judges’ safety, at a bar association conference in suburban Dallas last week, became startlingly specific when Sandra Day O’Connor, the retired Supreme Court justice, recounted that each justice had received in the mail “a wonderful package of home-baked cookies” that contained “enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court.”
Justice O’Connor’s remarks were reported on Thursday in The Star-Telegram in Fort Worth.
Although the episode was not publicly disclosed when it occurred in April 2005, it had a public, although little-noticed, denouement last month when the sender of the poisoned cookies was sentenced in federal court here to 15 years in prison.
The sender, Barbara Joan March of Bridgeport, Conn., pleaded guilty to 14 counts of “mailing injurious articles.” The 14 recipients included the nine justices; the chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; and the director and deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The packages, containing either candy or baked goods, were laced with rat poison.
This is what you get when one party makes a concerted effort to demonize judges and our judicial system. I can’t wait to see how Michelle Malkin, et alia, explain this one away.
I can barely find a thing on it.
Good question, and I don’t know the answer.
But its now available in orange
Scary that this happened, and scary that this wasn’t disclosed. It should have been.
But on a completely different note…I love your sig! 🙂
that is an assortment of targets.
how did they catch her?
I assume the Court turned over everything they had to the FBI and they took it from there. The article doesn’t specify.
for her least favorite family members as well. Maybe that was a helpful clue that led to others.
A digression–‘et alia’, commonly abbreviated et al., is a Latin term meaning “and others.” Latin has an extensive gender system, with most words having endings indicating whether a word is masculine, feminine, or neuter. Alia is the neuter plural form (aliae would be fem., and alii masc.) and the implied grouping of Malkin into a neuter group made me smile. She’s not a person, she’s a thing!!
One benefit of the et al. abbreviation is that it conveniently dodges explicit gender, which is useful when referring to a heterogeneous group.
I should have run this by my son, the Latin student. Oh well …
Just how close was April 2005 to one of the comments by Coulter, Malkin, et al. about doing in judges?
Coulter’s comment came several months later. What I really wonder is whether she had knowledge of this case and still made her comment.