Les Jones

News > Future CNN "Undecided Voter" Takes Hostages at Clinton Campaign Office

CNN - Two hostages freed at Clinton campaign office:

Shortly before 2 p.m., police officers were gathered across the street from the office, some kneeling behind police cruisers with guns drawn. Witnesses described the man as in his 40s with salt-and-pepper hair, WMUR reported. It is believed he was still inside the Clinton office at 3:20 p.m.

Other people were caught up at the start of the hostage situation. A woman with a baby was released by the hostage-taker early on, she told a witness, Lettie Tzizik, who spoke to WMUR.

"A young woman with a 6-month or 8-month-old infant came rushing into the store just in tears, and she said, 'You need to call 911. A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape,' " the Web site reported.

Clearly we need to send in a UN weapons inspection team, attempt to dissuade the hostage taker with trade sanctions, investigate the root causes of his actions, and develop a peace plan that gives him part of the state of New Hampshire. Clinton needs a timetable for withdrawl. If he doesn't give up by 8:30 we should redeploy the SWAT team to Pizza Hut in time for the football game.

(I kid. He's released all of the hostages and it's doubtful he has a real bomb.)

LATER: Police have taken the man, Leeland Eisenberg, into custody. The "bomb" was a set of road flares. This proves we never should have believed his claim to have weapons of mass destruction. The peaceful resolution illustrates that force is never required when responding to threats.