That's simply crazzee. A few bad apples, I won't hold it against the bars of the Northwest, Big D. LOL.
But I would have thought, if anything, it would have been more of a Timothy McVey anti-government type who checked out of the military with a few screws loose and thinks the UN is invading the US. Those types seem to go for the extreme solutions like public floggings.
Whatever happened to our homegrown anthrax mailer? I gotta say, not surprising at all.