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McCain Mail Threat Suspect Charged
August 22, 2008 6:23 PM
ABC News' Jack Date Reports: Marc Harold Ramsey, the man investigators believe was responsible for mailing a package containing a suspicious powder to the Denver office of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, will face charges of mailing threatening communications, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Denver, earlier today.
The powder was determined to be non-hazardous and non-lethal.
Ramsey allegedly mailed the suspicious package from the Arapahoe County Sheriff's detention facility, where he has been held since last September on allegations of felony menacing, harassment and felony second degree assault on a peace officer, the complaint says.
According to the complaint, Ramsey admitted to mailing the letter, when interviewed by Arapahoe County Sheriff's Detective William Gallegos and U.S. Postal Inspector Luis Castrillion, both members of the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The package contained a letter addressed to Senator McCain which said, "IF you are reading this then you are already Dead! Unless of course you can't or don't breathe." The letter closes with "You're out of time Allahu Akbar," according to the complaint.
Though the letter was signed "Akeem Ramsey El," Ramsey apparently made no effort to hide his identity, including his return address at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility, with his correct name, "Marc Ramsey" and his jail ID number "07-13160."
Ramsey told investigators that his father "was in Vietnam during the same time as Senator McCain and that the government takes care of Senator McCain but hot his father who suffers from agent orange," according to the complaint.
The complaint states the letter was opened by the office manager at McCain's Denver campaign office, at which point a white powder fell out of the package onto her pant leg.
The office manager saw the first threatening line of the letter and immediately notified the political director and a staff member. The three drove themselves to the Sky Ridge Medical Emergency Room to be decontaminated.
19 people in all were decontaminated due to the suspicious powder.
August 22, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (46)
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Maybe this jerk hasn't read the history books. John McCain refused help to stay with his men. I'm sure NO'bama will spin this with a cheap shot. I hate liberals.
Posted by: Ken Stepp | Aug 22, 2008 7:03:58 PM
Idiots. Of course it was phoney.
Posted by: Jessica | Aug 22, 2008 7:07:40 PM
mccain votes for torture and against veteran benefits.
he continues cashing his social security, though, of course.
Posted by: mike | Aug 22, 2008 7:09:46 PM
They can kill you with undetectable amounts of deadly powder placed anywhere. What are you going to do spend your life in the ER? Man how people overreact.
Posted by: jazzcat | Aug 22, 2008 7:11:01 PM
1)Almost all of them were offered the same deal and refused, he is not special and he is not in any "history books".
2)Show me one link where Obama does what you accuse him of? Don't worry, I won't wait cause we both know it's not going to happen.
3)Why do you neocon's have so much hate for anything that doesn't march in goose step with your ideology. You are like children who wish their parents dead when they don't get ice cream, pathetic.
Posted by: Nathan | Aug 22, 2008 7:16:00 PM
Note to Ken Stepp: Your thought processes seem very murky. By the way, how was *your* military career?
Posted by: Mazcu | Aug 22, 2008 7:17:42 PM
Do John McCain or conservative republicans respect the moral foundations of this country? The U.S. Constitution was designed to protect the people of America from misguided government.
U.S. Constitution: Amendment I - Freedom of Religion
Right now, for the first time ever, your tax dollars are funding religious groups you may not agree with. To add insult to injury, conservative judges have ruled that taxpayers do not have a right to challenge this expenditure.
Amendment IV - Search and seizure
Under the guise of court action against abortion, Conservative republicans had John Ashcroft subpoena all the medical records of literally thousands of women just like you and members of your family. Conservative republicans are invading your privacy every day. Unfortunately for all of us, they don't appear to care about our U.S. constitution, or by extension, the people of our great country.
Amendment X - Powers of the States and People
John McCain and conservative republicans have tried consistently to overturn States Laws. They used your tax dollars to destroy the will of the people of Oregon, and the famous "Death with Dignity" law; they lost, but undoubtedly will try again. Conservative republicans and John McCain do not respect States Rights.
Amendment VIII - Cruel and Unusual punishment
Would you rather die, or support a government which supported and sanctioned torture? The founding fathers would rather have died, and in fact they were proud to fight and die for our government: A government which specifically outlaws cruel and unusual punishment for very important reasons.
John McCain and the conservative republicans have destroyed the moral foundations of our country. I urge you to keep this in mind in the coming election as we rebuild our nation together by voting Democrat.
Posted by: True Patriot | Aug 22, 2008 7:18:14 PM
Yes, McCain was real noble when it came to the code of honor between him and his fellow captors. It's just too bad that the marriage vows between him and his first wife weren't as important.
Posted by: Rick | Aug 22, 2008 7:18:16 PM
Posted by: castle | Aug 22, 2008 7:21:18 PM
HELLO :
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www.ObamaOsama.com
and
www.BarackOsama.net
Posted by: ObamaOsamaDotCom | Aug 22, 2008 7:27:26 PM
Ken,
You are the only one attempting to spin this as anything other than a sick act perpetrated against innocent office workers by an obviously disturbed individual. Or should I blame the anthrax attacks of 2001 against the so-called "liberal" media and two Democratic senators on you right wing neo-cons? How about another righty loser shooting people in a "liberal" church filled with children because some Republican businessman fired him?
Guess it only hurts when the shoe is on the other foot. When it happens to those you hate it must be a real laugh for you. Values voters? Puh-leeze!
Posted by: Gavrielle LaPoste | Aug 22, 2008 7:28:13 PM
Steppe is out of step....with reality. The moron has absolutely no knowledge as to whether the jerk who sent the powder is a liberal, a neocon or just someone with a perverted sense of what's funny. In fact, judging from his mindless hatred, he probably has more in common with Ramsey than against him.
Posted by: thorninurside | Aug 22, 2008 7:29:33 PM
Ken, from what I've read John sang like a canary shortly after being captured, and was isolated from other prisoners for most of the time he was in Viet Nam. Some have wondered why he was the heaviest POW to return to the States, but since McCain successfully had all of the POW debriefings sealed, we'll probably never know the truth. There's a good chance McCain even made propaganda films for them, but those were either destroyed or hidden away. Perhaps their destruction was part of the quid pro quo for McCain to push for the dropping of all sanctions against Nam.
BTW, think again if you believe that McCain was doing anything special by refusing to come home earlier than the other POWs; it's part of the military code. He would have been persona non Grata had he accepted, both in the military and in his family. He had no choice but to stay until the others were also released.
Posted by: Javalation | Aug 22, 2008 7:29:43 PM
ObamaOsama, do you really expect anyone other than your fellow Klan members to take you seriously, I mean really.
Posted by: Nathan | Aug 22, 2008 7:31:39 PM
Some of you are as bad as the convict sending death threats. You feel like appropriate comments about someone doing that are to spin more lies and hate about Senator McCain?
Javalation and Mike, you have heard a lot of hateful propaganda. Go read some reputable sources about Senator McCain. I don't care whether you vote for him or not, but don't propagate lies.
Posted by: Anna | Aug 22, 2008 7:40:48 PM
True Patriot,
Glad to see the left wing embracing the tenth amendment. Of course you probably wouldn't like it to apply to say abortion, i.e. let each state decide. Or perhaps the environment, social security, medicare, OSHA etc. I am pretty sure the constitution doesn't say anything about any of the above items. Of course many in the south will cheer your states rights argument, just as they have since the mid 1800's.
Posted by: Ajax | Aug 22, 2008 7:42:35 PM
Only a true idiot would use the deranged rants of an obviously disturbed individual to further a partisan agenda. Can you not imagine how insanely frightened those campaign workers were?
Yeah, you uber-libs are just overflowing with class and empathy.
Pathetic.
Posted by: Tim_CA | Aug 22, 2008 7:57:22 PM
I see this as just as a childless prank, not a felony!!! Where is this country going to!!!!! I hope Obamma the Osama doesn't get in and push for more of these stupid laws!!!!
Posted by: Tad Rybak | Aug 22, 2008 8:01:07 PM
Shouldn't mail from a detention facility be screened before it's sent?
Posted by: Andrew | Aug 22, 2008 8:03:57 PM
mccain stayed in nam because he was more afraid of the flight crew on the carrier than he was of the vietnamese--one of the worst pilots the navy ever had.
Posted by: rodney | Aug 22, 2008 8:05:06 PM
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