Flyers warning of nuclear annihilation show up in Portland

  • Flyers warning of nuclear annihilation and Allah being an alien are being placed on cars in Portland, Maine 
  • Police say they can’t do anything about flyers being distributed around the city
  • One flyer contends Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike
  • The other suggests that Allah is an extraterrestrial being that feeds off of prayers 
  • Residents say the flyers read like foreign policy analysis until they go off into anti-semitic tangets about Israel

Police say they can’t do anything about flyers being distributed around a Maine city that warn of imminent nuclear war and extraterrestrial involvement in international politics.

South Portland police say the flyers began turning up Wednesday evening, distributed on car windshields parked at a local mall.

The Portland Press Herald reports there are two different flyers being circulated; one that contends Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike and another that discusses the dangers of extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs.

Flyers warning of nuclear annihilation and Allah being an alien are being placed on cars in Portland, Maine

One flyer contends Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike (Pictured: Vladimir Putin October 12, 2017)

One flyer contends Russian President Vladimir Putin is threatening a pre-emptive nuclear strike (Pictured: Vladimir Putin October 12, 2017)

Sgt. Adam Howard says they are ‘fantastically crazy,’ but there is nothing that elevates the flyers to a hate crime, according to ABC affiliate WMTW 8. 

‘It’s more conspiracy theory than anything else,’ he added.  

The other suggests that Allah is an extraterrestrial being that feeds off of prayers (Pictured: South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins)

The other suggests that Allah is an extraterrestrial being that feeds off of prayers (Pictured: South Portland Police Chief Ed Googins)

He says they would like to learn more about the person distributing the flyers for the purposes of public safety.

One of the flyers suggests that Israel would become the world’s next superpower if the United States and Russia engage in a catastrophic nuclear war. 

One South Portland resident, Skip Stahl, said that the flyer read like foreign policy analysis until the screed goes off into an incoherent tangent over the Jewish state. ‘It definitely struck me as anti-Semitic,’ Stahl said 

The other flyer suggests that the Islamic deity Allah is an extraterrestrial life form that feeds off of human prayer.   

‘It’s basically hate speech masquerading as political commentary,’ Howard said. 

South Portland police have urged residents to contact police if they come across more flyers, have concerns, or can identify the person distributing them, according to the Press Herald.  

Residents say the flyers read like foreign policy analysis until they go off into anti-semitic tangets about Israel (Pictured: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu October 17, 2017)

Residents say the flyers read like foreign policy analysis until they go off into anti-semitic tangets about Israel (Pictured: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu October 17, 2017)

 

 

 

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