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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
It just points out that liberalism is a mental disorder. I use the term 'liberalism' in the statist, neo-fascist way it is used now, not in the true meaning of the word. Unfortunately today's liberals...aren't.
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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