Dealing With Terrorists

A reader kindly provides this followup concerning Dwight W. Thomas, the North Carolina tobacco farmer who threatened to explode a bomb in Washington D.C. and threatened to kill any law enforcement officer who attempted to disarm him:

Dwight Watson of Whitakers, North Carolina, was being arranged Thursday in federal court.

Meanwhile, police said representatives from the Department of Agriculture agreed to talk with Watson about his complaints that federal policies are driving tobacco farmers out of business.

This is a disgrace. Why is the Administration appeasing this violent criminal (or, at a minimum, violent mentally ill man)? What's next, Eric Rudolph advising John Ashcroft on Supreme Court nominees? John Poindexter and Elliott Abrams advising the Administration on foreign policy?