Strange Culture

[Blaze]

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071022/williams2

In May of 2004 , artist Steve Kurtz woke to find his wife dead of heart failure and called 911. The police looked at his art installations, which involved harmless microbe specimens, and called the FBI. The FBI charged Kurtz with bioterrorism.

[CrAz3D]

Well, he got off cause he wasn't a bioterrorist, so...ok.

[Blaze]

Well, he got off cause he wasn't a bioterrorist, so...ok.

.. and then he gets charged with a different bull shit crime after they can't charge him with the last one...  :\

[CrAz3D]

Well, he got off cause he wasn't a bioterrorist, so...ok.

.. and then he gets charged with a different bull shit crime after they can't charge him with the last one...  :\

Maybe he did commit mail fraud, if he did why not charge him for it?

[Blaze]

Well, he got off cause he wasn't a bioterrorist, so...ok.

.. and then he gets charged with a different bull shit crime after they can't charge him with the last one...  :\

Maybe he did commit mail fraud, if he did why not charge him for it?

Perhaps you should read the full article?

[iago]

Even if he did commit mail fraud, the other party made it clear that they wouldn't press charges, and they are still planning on convicting him under the PATRIOT act. Wtf?

[Towelie]

Blame Canada.

[Blaze]

Even if he did commit mail fraud, the other party made it clear that they wouldn't press charges, and they are still planning on convicting him under the PATRIOT act. Wtf?

Exactly!

Blame Canada.

For your flawed legal system?  Right. 

[Armin]

Well, he got off cause he wasn't a bioterrorist, so...ok.

.. and then he gets charged with a different bull shit crime after they can't charge him with the last one...  :\

Maybe he did commit mail fraud, if he did why not charge him for it?

Stop making America look bad.