All LA schools are Closed Right Now Due to Possibe Terrorist Threats

[Jaskalas]

Wait...

Christmas season...
School that's still in session...
Bomb threat...

Call in John McClane. It's all a ruse though - they're going to blow up a ship full of scrap metal, while stealing billions in gold.

+ Points for reports of it coming from Germany.

 

[Drako]

If someone wants to blow up a bunch of kids, would they really send a warning email? :hmm:

 

[BonzaiDuck]

If someone wants to blow up a bunch of kids, would they really send a warning email? :hmm:

Exactly.

For Jaskalas: Exophase made the observation that the initial IP address discovered could mask another source elsewhere. Even if they need NSA, they'll eventually sort it out.

It could be news-addicted, politically focused adolescents.

It could be an angry political supporter of any of some few candidates.

It could be some crackpot who had no thought about the "when" but enough of an agenda to pretend Jihadi.

It could even be . . . an extremist!

But putting it all together so far, my bet is only #2.

Oh! How about this? A liberal, who wants it to appear . . . that a Rightie-kook . . . perpetrated a hoax . . . to make it look like a Jihadi threat.

There's a hoax for you! Satisfied, BoberFett?

Of course, they'll eventually locate the perp. So it boils down to whose limited presence of mind is capable of doing what, with which and to whom.

 

[IronWing]

Back when ABC had Afternoon Specials, stuff like this didn't happen.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Back when ABC had Afternoon Specials, stuff like this didn't happen.

And Lawn Darts. Always remember the Lawn Darts.

First they came for my Lawn Darts, and I did not speak out...

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Back when ABC had Afternoon Specials, stuff like this didn't happen.

To my experience, getting your first TV was a status symbol if you were barely lower-middle-class and a young family. I think many may have had to call a TV repairman once every month or so.

There were three national network stations, a handful of local independent broadcasters.

There where shows like "I Led Three Lives." "The Big Picture." "Dragnet." "Highway Patrol." You got Edward R. Murrow or some counterpart. Walter Cronkite. Eventually Huntley-Brinkley, and then PBS probably appeared in the '60s-- I honestly don't remember precisely.

The media were so new, people soaked it up like sponges. Probably no less in reading the papers. But even in the papers, somebody chose the frontpage pieces and the size of all the headlines.

Some sort it out as two schools of journalism: objective journalism, and advocacy journalism. I think there has been a divergence.

Go back and study your central-European history following the Great War. And the Depression. Goebbels. Harold Lasswell. Orson Welles and the "War of the Worlds."

But that's the perspective. And it is not a trivial thing. Not in our history, nor in other histories.

 

[BoberFett]

If it were a jihadi, there'd be school-kid body-parts all over the campuses. If it entered anyone's mind, it would've been a knee-jerk reaction before all the facts were in -- which I could understand. But obviously, the perpetrator(s) wanted the public to THINK they were jihadis, because they tried to identify themselves as such in their communications.

And timing? The morning before the big debate. Oh! Wow! a hoax perpetrator, trying to look like a Jihadi . . . . didn't think of that! C'mon!

You can "know," "deduce," "suspect," . . . . "believe." Believing only gets you a dime for a cup of coffee.

And there's no way it could be a Democrat trying to blame a poorly disguised hoax on Trump, right? No Democrat would never undertake dirty tricks to sabotage the enemy, huh?

Maybe it's you Bonzai? Maybe you called in the hoaxes so you could blame it on Trump supporters.

HOW DEEP DOES THE RABBIT HOLE GO!?!?!?


Edit: I saw your later post. Yep, it could be anybody. But you've already made up your mind, so discussion is pointless.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Well, I'm watching now . . .

GRAHAM: Jihad! Jihad!
SANTORUM: ISIS! ISIS!
PATAKI: Mosques! Mosques!

CHORUS: Obama! Obama! Crap! Crap! Sellout! Weasel!

Honestly, BoberFett -- I'm not sure whether it was Professor Plum with the Candlestick in the Library . . .

But that last theory -- just a bit farfetched for someone who can't spell "Allah" properly. Two many levels of deception.

So I'll stand pat and see what the authorities discover.

 

[disappoint]

Word is Jeb Bush will win the GOP nomination.

Word is Jeb! will get the romcom nom.

 

[ivwshane]

And there's no way it could be a Democrat trying to blame a poorly disguised hoax on Trump, right? No Democrat would never undertake dirty tricks to sabotage the enemy, huh?

Maybe it's you Bonzai? Maybe you called in the hoaxes so you could blame it on Trump supporters.

HOW DEEP DOES THE RABBIT HOLE GO!?!?!?


Edit: I saw your later post. Yep, it could be anybody. But you've already made up your mind, so discussion is pointless.

Right out of the gate Republicans are already referencing this hoax threat in the CNN debate.

It must be nice having a base that's so easy to predict and manipulate.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Right out of the gate Republicans are already referencing this hoax threat in the CNN debate.

It must be nice having a base that's so easy to predict and manipulate.

Christie jumped right on it.

But no mention of any deductive logic about the unraveling facts.

"Our school children will live in terror for the rest of their lives!" Or something like that.

I even want to think that it's the "terror network" toying with the election. I think they think America is funny -- that democracy is ridiculous. And I think these clowns are the biggest three-ring circus the Baghdadi Bunch have to watch on the TV. When the TV is broken, they do their own wet-work.

But those guys wouldn't work it this way. Like Mickey Rooney said in "Baby Face Nelson:" "I woulda killed those kids!"

The Clowns are ridiculous; they've even got support from folks the FBI has been watching for years. But they wouldn't go that far.

Christie is really hyping the hoaxes with his sob-stories, though.

I don't expect to hear one of them say these threats this morning were hoaxes. But everybody else has concluded so.

It's pathetic.

 

[ivwshane]

The Republican party is the biggest propaganda arm of ISIS in my opinion.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

The Republican party is the biggest propaganda arm of ISIS in my opinion.

The morning's LA Times today 12-16-15 reported that FBI had traced the source of the threats to a German IP address, noting that another source and location might be behind it. We knew about the German IP yesterday, but the Times confirms our speculation that FBI needs to dig deeper.

So some additional observations, and then I think this thread will die.

1) The threat targets, LAUSD and NYC schools, cover congressional districts and precincts that have some of the highest concentrations of Blue voters (registered Democrats) in the nation. You can think of others: Seattle, Bay Area and Chicago come to mind.

CONCLUSION: the target audience of the hoax was the entire national electorate, but its focus was a large number of Democratic voters (and parents) who felt the angst more than any.

2) The contrary decisions made by DeBlasio and Garcetti (or the LA School Superintendent) would seem to logically follow from New York's 911 long-standing experience following 911, as opposed to milder terror attacks and attempts on LA (such as the 2002 LAX attack). Add to that the proximity of the San Bernardino attack.

But one cannot suggest that the choices derived from political orientation of decision-makers. DeBlasio and Garcetti are both Democrats.

3) We certainly got what we'd expect from the debates. The discussion for both debate segments focused on ISIS, mosques, terrorism and more attempts to diminish the Obama administration.

but
4) The only candidate who hyped his palaver and beefed up his beef with the morning news of the hoax yesterday was Governor Christie. ( The only one as I recall, and I'd have to review the recordings again.) Soon thereafter, Rand Paul dropped "Bridge-gate" back in Christie's lap.

Even Christie's staff in the governor's office of New Jersey would have been smarter than to instigate the school terror attack. But they were responsible for Bridge-gate.

FBI needs to discover the originators of the hoax. I think you could charge them with terrorism under the statutes, and a pile of other crimes. And I don't care if they were teenagers looking for a day off from school.

So I'll end this with my message to the perpetrators, teenage prankster or angry voter-gone-rogue as it may be. The script-line comes from "Scent of a Woman," set in the prep-school assembly hall:

"And Harry! Trent! Jimmy! . . . . Wherever you are . . . F*** you, too!"