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"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools
The Washington Post reports that all Los Angeles public schools have been closed for the day after a "'credible threat' of violence to students at numerous schools in the sprawling district, and a schools official confirmed that it was a bomb threat to the school district." According to the Houston Chronicle, a law enforcement official speaking anonymously with the Associated Press said that the threat "was emailed to a school board member and appeared to come from overseas. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation. The official says the threat was sent late Monday. Superintendent Ramon Cortines says the threat was made against students at many of the district's schools." The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school system in the U.S., is no picnic to close; the New York Times notes that the closure throws into disarray "the lives of millions of Angelenos — students, parents, teachers and other school staff members."
I'm not sure how this is being spun where you are, but think for a minute. 650,000 students are being sent home because of a "credible" threat. I might be convinced that a school was threatened, but the complete district of LA is bullsh$*. Someone is attempting to change the definition of the word "credible" here.
Before you "but the children", give me the percentage of terrorist activities or even bombings where someone gave warning.
No matter what though, you can bet your ass this will be used as propaganda to argue for more government and more freedom loss to the same.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
A threat that led to the closing and search of every public school? They should send some police over to the LA branch of the Federal Reserve, just in case.
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Unfortunately, extremists are learning they can create lots of chaos withOUT the grandiose 9/11-style plans, which often leave too many clues to hide. Many had speculated on this shift before, but it looks like it's now happening.
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An emailed bomb threat from overseas evacuates the entire school district of one of the biggest cities in the United States. When did Americans become such cowards?
During the six years of World War 2 were all the schools in Europe closed down? This is the ultimate in generating as much hysteria as possible. Next is a complete lockdown, anyone seen outside their house will be summarily shot, and as the cliche goes, survivors will be shot again.
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Sending in an email is much easier than pulling the fire alarm.
Are we overreacting? Has this been happening more since the ISIS scares in Paris?
Can we stop or control this better?
I know many call these "isolated incidents" but these incidents still cause major disruptions to the population. This incident alone is probably affecting hundreds of thousands of people if you include students, parents and businesses.
After the San Bernadino shooting that killed 14 people, we have shut down more than 900 public schools in the second largest city in america. terrorism isnt about killing people, or maiming them, or destroying property. terrorism is about undermining the authority of a target nations government. Its about making its populus too frightened to send their children to school, too worried to board a plane without massive security theatre, and too scared to accept immigrants into a nation that was founded and championed by immigrants. Today is a dark day not because of lives lost, but because we have effectively agreed to the premise of terrorism.
Good people go to bed earlier.
I hear the strange echos of conversations. People saying that if other people hand in their firearms then they will be perfectly safe from mass violence. People defending their use of firearm homicide statistics instead of using homicide statistics. People who said a couple in California with a garage full of pipe bombs wouldn't have killed anyone if they just didn't have black semiautomatic rifles.
ISIS, unlike other groups, has the reputation that allows them to alternate between threats and actual acts of violence. Either way, their goals are advanced. So long as they have enough actual acts of violence to keep up their reputation, the mere threat of ISIS mobilizing is enough to scare the shit out of people for good reason, and ISIS knows that.
Silly oversight...they made them gun-free zones, but not bomb-free! Someone needs to put up some signs, then this will all go away.
The Latest: NYC officials: We got same threat, call it hoax
Why are these NYC officials talking like a Native American stereotype?
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I believe the only proper response to this threat is to introduce common sense bomb control legislation.
As soon as it is realized by students in our anti-education culture that by bouncing a forged email through the right patch of overseas re-mailer geography, they can enforce a district-wide day off, then these will become a daily and national occurrence. I wonder if this is the kill-button for high-school in the US.
Why shouldn't L.A. kids get jihad days off?
Every time I see a fearful reaction like this I think back to what I heard one newscaster said near the end of live broadcasts of 9/11. I can't remember the exact wording of the quote and I haven't been able to find it posted online anywhere, but the meaning of the message is still clear in my mind. He said that the goal of terrorists is to change the lives of the population. To undermine our freedom and our ways of life using fear. Violence, destruction and killing are not the goal but rather just tools to reach their goal via fear. He said that we should not change how we go about our lives due to fear. If we do the terrorists have won.
Every time I see a reaction such as this I know that we did not take his message to heart. The patriot act, the TSA, mass surveillance, locking down and closing schools, push for increase gun control, freedom-stripping legislation, threats and discrimination against particular races/religions creeping towards the levels of WWII with Jews (and others) by the Nazis and Japanese/Germans/Italians by the US, and so much more. Knee-jerk reactions to everything, and reduction of freedoms throughout all out of fear. If we don't start to realize what is happening and take back our lives then the terrorists have officially won.
So called "lone wolf" asshole terrorist (klebold/Harris/etc...) usually warn in advance because they want the attention that is true. But usually those warning are specific, not "the whole LA basin" or whatever. Organisation on the other hand like islamist terrorist claim afterward because they want the operation to be sucessful. Thus for the flight downed in Egypt claims came afterward (claiming beforehand would make it more believable but far harder to pull off)- As such I would really really like to see the definition of credible and the threat given.
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Only by the warped grammar of 20th century newspaper headlines. An "and" would have been more appropriate, and if you're jammed up for space, and ampersand replacing the comma would have less confusing. But I sometimes think we now live in a world where confusing headlines are acceptable because everyone finds the reality of the news confusing.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Authorities in New York City said they received the same threat but quickly concluded that it was a hoax.
Really? Every time some punk sends a stupid email, you're going to shut down an entire city?
First, there is no reason to take this stuff seriously. US deaths by terrorism is still in the ballpark of people dying of lightning strikes. If you insist on taking it seriously, give a 10% annual bonus to any teacher with a concealed carry license plus appropriate training. Problem solved.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
Shutting down schools because officials receive Nigerian Prince scam. *And* they give the scammer their bank account details, because after all, 20 Million is on it's way!
Can't you wait until they get the calls telling them their windows machine has a virus, and ONLY the tech support dude with the indian accent can fix it?
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
the closure throws into disarray "the lives of millions of Angelenos — students, parents, teachers and other school staff members."
Sounds like a typical day in LA.
Jokes aside, really, our school district, which is closer to downtown than most is open (cause we're a corporated city). And that our old police chief--bratton said the current adminstration overreacted.
Only by the warped grammar of 20th century newspaper headlines. An "and" would have been more appropriate, and if you're jammed up for space, and ampersand replacing the comma would have less confusing. But I sometimes think we now live in a world where confusing headlines are acceptable because everyone finds the reality of the news confusing.
Please don't publicise your limited grammatical capacity to others who can, do understand elaborate headlines.
The public schools in LA are gun-free zones. So the threat is completely not credible in any way. We need to look further, perhaps the person who made the decision to cancel school stood to profit in some way. But treating the threat as serious is ludicrous.
maybe not extremist terrorist but some kids freaked up on adderall and some tricky exams happening on the day? Bit of tor or maybe a vpn and you have a credible threat.
You have a "can, do" attitude. I like that.
You are welcome on my lawn.
No, it fucking isn't.
""Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools"
According to the title, the bomb threat is "credible", and the bomb threat closes. Everything from the comma on is a language-raping jumble of shit.
The likely suspects are students. Students have been calling in bomb threats on their schools for many, many years. I remember a bomb threat one day at my elementary school in the late 1980s. 99.9% are false threats of course.
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See.... the issue here is they don't have their spam filter turned up high enough.
No e-mail, no problem
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Because, if we give up imperial measurements, the terrorists will have won!
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But, but, ... that's racist!
The Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest school system in the U.S., is no picnic to close; the New York Times notes that the closure throws into disarray "the lives of millions of Angelenos — students, parents, teachers and other school staff members."
So, are there protocols that make an exceptional event like this any easier to manage? Considering the nation's terrorism alert concerns, don't these incidentially function as 'duck and cover' terrorism drills?
LAUSD used to be much better prepared for attacks http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
So basically you are saying both sides are bad so vote Republican?
Do real bombers phone in the time and location of the bombs they plant? Has anyone ever in the history of the universe ever planted a bomb in a school, and then told the authorities that they have done so?
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So someone SWATed the LA School District!
The claim is this was a credible threat, where is the text of the email? What about this email made the threat credible, what differentiates a credible threat from a non-credible threat?
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"Email that appeared to come from overseas"?
So we're going to collectively shit our pants in fear every time Timmy wants to skip school, decides to Tor to the Netherlands, makes a fake Gmail account (seldombinlayd@gmail.com) and emails the principal that a jihad has been declared against the tyrannical usurpers of Al Gebra?
Got it, just checking.
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So commas can't be used to separate lists?
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Not without the use of the word "and". And that's not a list anyway.
You can't have a list of two items?
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Anyway, the title is in Newspaper Headline, not proper English. It has its own rules. For example, in the UK, tabloid headlines will often refer to teachers as "Sir" in headlines ("Sick Sir Shags Student") as it's nice and short, despite being forty years out of date.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
So "A car drives, carries, and transports people" is improper English because you can't have a list of verbs?
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Firstly the letter AFAICT was not encrypted. Secondly at best even in such a case you do it only shortly before the event ,1 a minute or two so that there is no time to react and no way to dispute your claim, no need of encryption, and some outfit used that method extensicely in the 80ies, like separatist basque, corse and IRA when they warned of their own explosives . The fact it was sent in clear so long in advance make it clear it was with almost certainty an hoax (come on a cell warning of an attack with 27 persons in a region ?). At least they did not put allah with a lowercase "a" like the hoax letter in new york did.
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