Arrest in US bombing case

The Washington Post reports:

A lone fingerprint and a set of misspellings helped point FBI agents to a Florida man with a long criminal record now charged with mailing homemade bombs to prominent critics of President Trump — a politically charged case that has roiled the run-up to next month’s congressional elections.

Cesar Sayoc, 56, a former pizza deliveryman, strip-club worker and virulently partisan supporter of the president, was arrested Friday and charged with a string of crimes in connection with the homemade pipe bombs sent this week to former president Barack Obama, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and others.

What he tried to do was terrible. He should be sent to prison for a very very long time. It’s fortunate that no one was actually killed. It would have been very easy for not just one of his targets to be killed, but postal staff, or family members etc.

It is a good reminder that no good comes from one side of politics trying to portray the other side as evil. Civility is a good thing, and we are fortunate we have that in NZ.