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Posted: 1/13/2006 12:49:33 PM EDT

Seattle Man Charged With Threatening Bush

ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE (AP) - A man was in federal custody Friday on charges of sending threatening packages to President Bush, including one last month marked "Brace For Impact" that shut down the White House mailroom, authorities said.

Steven Baldwin, 39, is accused of mailing two packages to Bush at the White House on July 20 - one bearing the words "Biological Weapons Enclosed" and the other labeled "Letter Bomb!" with a rambling five-page letter bearing Baldwin's signature, the Secret Service said in court documents.

On Dec. 14, according to the documents, Baldwin allegedly mailed a third package, this one labeled "Brace For Impact, I've Read Your Fortune & The Signs Are Not In Your Favor."

The White House mailroom was shut down for about two hours until authorities determined it contained a cellular telephone wrapped in wires, according to the court papers.

Baldwin, of the Seattle suburb of Renton, appeared before a U.S. magistrate Thursday on charges of making a false threat using biological weapons, a false threat using explosive materials and a threat against the president.

A detention hearing was scheduled for Wednesday. Baldwin could face as much as 20 years in prison if convicted.

Secret Service agent Erik Rasmussen wrote in an affidavit that Baldwin had been warned before the third package to stop sending threatening mail to the president.

I'm for free speech but I'm not for threatening any sitting president with mail.

Posted: 1/13/2006 1:07:25 PM EDT

[#1]

It's really kind of funny...he's sounds harmless, big bark and no bite. I suspect he'll be all good once a dem takes the WH. Ya know its Bush's fault....

Posted: 1/13/2006 1:52:15 PM EDT

[#2]

I live in Renton...so I can say this....

When did Renton become a suburb of Seattle?

Posted: 1/13/2006 2:07:15 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
When did Renton become a suburb of Seattle?

1901

Posted: 1/13/2006 2:43:21 PM EDT

[#4]

How the hell did these packages get all the way to the White House with that kind of writing on them???? You'd think they'd have been stopped at the first post office that received them. Boggles the mind....

Posted: 1/13/2006 3:10:30 PM EDT

[#5]

One less libtard in Western WA. 20 years you say? Nice.........

Posted: 1/13/2006 3:17:44 PM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:
Quoted:
When did Renton become a suburb of Seattle?

1901

+87

Posted: 1/13/2006 3:30:59 PM EDT

[#7]

Is it any suprise that his last name is Baldwin?

Trey

Posted: 1/13/2006 3:37:48 PM EDT

[#8]

I live in Renton...but Im pretty sure that its Bushs' fault.

-BJohnson

Posted: 1/13/2006 3:39:38 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
How the hell did these packages get all the way to the White House with that kind of writing on them???? You'd think they'd have been stopped at the first post office that received them. Boggles the mind....

Uh, yeah, you'd think that the slack-jaws in the sorting line might have at least reacted out of a sense of self-preservation, if not patriotism.

Posted: 1/13/2006 6:46:04 PM EDT

[#10]

WTF did he think was going to happen

Posted: 1/13/2006 8:35:02 PM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

One less libtard in Western WA. 20 years you say? Nice.........

Well at least it's a start.

Posted: 1/13/2006 10:41:14 PM EDT

[#12]

I lived in Renton with my 'girfriend between wives'...

Posted: 1/14/2006 4:39:49 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:

Uh, yeah, you'd think that the slack-jaws in the sorting line might have at least reacted out of a sense of self-preservation, if not patriotism.

Didn't you know? The USPS outsourced the mail sorting jobs to India.

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