On the recordApril 24, 1996
Rodney Hamrick, who is in prison for threatening the life of Ronald Reagan, threatened to blow up a Federal courthouse, a judge, the NAACP headquarters, and an airplane. Then he went beyond and he sent a bomb in the mail, that did not explode, to the U.S. attorney that had convicted him. He was naturally convicted. But a three-judge panel at the Fourth Circuit Court overturned the decision by saying, since the bomb did not detonate, it was not deadly. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker. I believe that these three judges must have received a defective mail-order law degree from Sears Roebuck. Something is wrong when Gorbachev gets slapped in the face in Russia while campaigning and they call it an assassination. In America, a prisoner sends a mail bomb and it is treated like a misdemeanor. If that does not explain it all, I do not know what does.
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