Bomb Hoax

For all the drama surrounding the set of "bombs" sent to prominent Democrats and CNN, this whole thing is a hoax.  Anyone who has ever been involved with a real bomb knows what one looks like, and the devices sent to various politicos do not qualify.  The FBI characterizes a cherry bomb in a mailbox as a bomb, and they show up in the national statistics on bombs, even as ridiculous as that is.  Even the New York Times recognizes that the device sent to George Soros wasn't a real bomb.  It was black powder, with apparently no detonator.  That does not even qualify as an explosive device.  It might go off if you strike a match and hold it close, in which case black powder can burn the person holding it.

I went to bomb classes to be able to recognize a bomb and have never seen a device that looked was a serious bomb that didn't have a detonator of some kind.  The recipients have played this to the hilt, notably CNN which evacuated to the street outside and used cell phones and cameras to "broadcast" like they had been brave little boys and girls.  Grim in the face of terror.  DeBlasio called this a "terrorist threat" that would never deter New Yorkers from their appointed rounds, or business.  Wow, how brave they are.   The Clintons and Obama never saw the devices but Chelsea Clinton thanked the Secret Service anyway, a nice gesture. 

A serious bomber knows his audience and how to get a bomb to them.  One of these bombs was sent to John Brennen at CNN and Brennen does not work for CNN.  They do research on where the people live and how they get their mail.  They pick people who are prominent, and Debbie Wasserman Shultz is not.   They make bombs that blow up, since that is the intent of most bomb makers.  Apparently, not all of them. 

If you want to know what a bomber does read the accounts of the Unibomber.   He knew how to make bombs and how to send them to his targets.  It took a long time to find him, and these guys will likely be arrested in less than the two weeks before the midterms.  This is farce, designed only to garner some sympathy for one political party.  Unless they are naive, very few will fall for it.