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On 09 Jan 2022, Molly Bolt <mollythebolt666@gmail.com> posted some news:dcdb8b64-ab93-46fb-9467-06e81a8892aan@googlegroups.com:

This ugly woman needs to get her own political house in order before
worrying about other countries.

A Canadian woman was sentenced Thursday in Washington to nearly 22 years
in prison for mailing a threatening letter containing the poison ricin
to then-President Donald Trump at the White House.

Pascale Ferrier, 56, had pleaded guilty to violating biological weapons prohibitions in letters sent to Trump and to police officials in Texas,
where she had been jailed for several weeks in 2019.

Her defense attorney Eugene Ohm said Ferrier had no prior criminal
record and is an "inordinately intelligent" French immigrant who had
earned a master's degree in engineering and raised two children as a
single parent.

But in September 2020, prosecutors said Ferrier made the ricin at home
in Quebec and mailed the potentially deadly poison derived from
processing castor beans to Trump with a letter that referred to him as
"The Ugly Tyrant Clown" and read in part: "If it doesn't work, I'll find
better recipe for another poison, or I might use my gun when I'll be
able to come. Enjoy! FREE REBEL SPIRIT."

The letter from Ferrier, which also told Trump to "give up and remove
your application for this election," was intercepted at a mail sorting
facility in September 2020, before it could reach the White House.

She was arrested trying to enter a border crossing in Buffalo, N.Y.,
carrying a gun, a knife and hundreds of rounds of ammunition,
authorities said. Investigators also found eight similar letters to law enforcement officials in charge of the Texas jail where she was held
after she refused to leave a park area as it closed.

In a winding speech, Ferrier told the judge in Washington, D.C., that
she considers herself a "peaceful and genuinely kind person," but gets
angry about problems like unfairness, abuses of power and "stupid
rules." She spoke about feeling like she had done little to support her
values while her children were young, and considered herself to be an "activist" rather than a "terrorist." She expressed little remorse but
said, "I want to find peaceful means to achieve my goals," she said.

U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich handed down the 262-month sentence outlined in a plea agreement with prosecutors, which also would expel
Ferrier from the country once she is released and require her to be
under supervised release for life if she ever returns.

The judge noted a "real disconnect" between the Canadian grandmother who
has worked toward another degree while behind bars and the crimes
Ferrier pleaded guilty to. She pushed back on Ferrier's framing of her
actions. "That isn't really activism," she said. "I hope you have no
desire to continue on this path."

Prosecutor Michael Friedman said the sentence was an "appropriately
harsh punishment" that sends a clear message.

"There is absolutely no place for politically motivated violence in the
United States of America," he said. "There is no excuse for threatening
public officials or targeting our public servants."

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/ricin-letter-trump-pascale-ferrier-sen tenced-22-years-white-house/

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