-Caveat Lector- http://www.tampatrib.com/mt110913.htm 11/9/99 -- 1:09 AM Man denies threatening with poison By ACE ATKINS of The Tampa Tribune TAMPA - A Seminole Heights man charged with threatening two Colorado judges makes a first appearance in federal court. As James Kenneth Gluck was led into federal court Monday, he denied sending threatening letters to two Colorado judges or plotting biological warfare in his Seminole Heights home. Gluck, 53, said that kind of alchemy - turning peas into toxic gas - is impossible and that his religious rights are being violated. Whisked away by FBI agents, he was unable to explain the connection between his faith and allegedly having the ingredients to make what agents call ``the third most toxic substance known to man.'' Saturday, Tampa police sealed off a block of Central Avenue and called in a team of specialists from Washington, D.C., to search for the poison ricin in Gluck's home. One milligram of 100 percent ricin taken orally can kill an adult and has no known antidote. The poison is made from castor beans and rosary peas that grow wild in Florida. In the home he shares with a Florida Orchestra violist, at 4018 N. Central Ave., agents say they found ingredients for the poison, several antigovernment books such as the ``Anarchist Cookbook'' and a black-powder pistol and rifle. Monday, Gluck sat before U.S. Magistrate Mary S. Scriven, rocking in his chair and smiling. Sometimes he flippantly answered the judge's questions. Special Agent Kerry Myers, a weapons of mass destruction expert and bomb technician for the FBI, took the charges more seriously. ``He threatened military force and to kill approximately 10,000 people,'' Myers said. A letter was received by a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals on Sept. 21 concerning one of Gluck's cases. In August 1997, a judge in Jefferson County, Colo., ruled against Gluck for illegally storing metal, wood, plastic and junk on his property, according to a report in the Denver Rocky Mountain News. In 1989, Gluck was fined $274 for illegally possessing a dead barn owl. He later hung the owl's body on a tree and said he had ``consigned the owl back to nature,'' the report states. The September letter to the judge praises the Columbine High School shooting and the way the incident ``shook authority.'' It states that anyone with knowledge of explosives could easily take down the Jefferson County Justice Center with only a pickup truck. The letter mentions ricin last as ``a quintessential American weapon for `making a killing' (literally) without any responsibility because it cannot be determined who used it and it cannot be determined where it came from.'' The letter was signed ``James Kenneth Gluck'' and had a postscript: ``Welcome to the New Year 5760 Judge Taubman, and to the 21st Christian century, and to the weapons of that century.'' Details of the second letter were not available. FBI spokesman Brian Kensel downplayed the arrest. ``This is actually a pretty routine case,'' he said. ``It's just a different choice of weapon. Usually they threaten to blow up or strangle. This is just a modern twist.'' Gluck is being held without bail. Ace Atkins covers law enforcement and can be reached at (813) 259-7800 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
