Sheriffs and police in the state of Oregon are on high alert after at least six different departments with pro-Second Amendment leadership have received ‘suspicious’ envelopes filled with an unidentified white substance.
The first of the reported departments to receive the powder filled envelope was the Grant County Sheriff’s Department. Coincidentally Glenn Palmer, the Sheriff of Grant County has made himself very well-known in the gun rights arena. Palmer, who has spoken out against burdensome gun legislation, proclaiming that he would refuse to comply with orders that infringe on an individual’s right to keep and bear arms was hospitalized after coming in contact with the unknown substance Monday.
Here is Sheriff Palmer speaking out against gun control:
According to East Oregonian, “Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer was taken to the hospital a little after noon after opening an envelope addressed to him at the Canyon City sheriff’s office. The envelope contained a white substance and seconds later Palmer developed a physical reaction, including a rash on his arms, according to a county official at the scene.”
Umatilla, Jackson, Sherman, Wasco and Baker [Counties] also reported suspicious envelopes arriving at their offices, but no other reactions have been reported.
Palmer and two other people were taken to Blue Mountain Hospital in John Day for treatment and/or observation, according to a report from the Oregon Emergency Response System.
In Umatilla County, Sheriff Terry Rowan said a civil deputy on routine duties retrieved a letter addressed for Rowan from the Umatilla County Courthouse in Pendleton. The legal-sized letter had similar markings as the one found in Grant County, so the mail remained sealed and in a civil deputy’s vehicle parked at the sheriff’s office. The letter showed up about the same time the Grant County letter made an appearance.
Even more strange, this incident comes only 3 months after the Pentagon ‘accidentally’ shipped live anthrax to various private laboratories in at least 9 different state. At the time, the CDC (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) confirmed that the Pentagon had in fact shipped the live samples of anthrax to the following states:
- California
- Delaware
- Maryland
- New Jersey
- New York
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
Thoughts?