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applegrove

(118,492 posts)
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 09:55 PM Jan 2017

Jewish community Centers across the country have been receiving

Jewish community Centers across the country have been receiving tons of bomb threats - 20 today alone

by Walter Einenkel at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/18/1621948/-Jewish-community-centers-across-the-country-have-been-receiving-tons-of-bomb-threats-20-today-alone

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The centers reported at least three kinds of calls ― those that include human voices, those that include disguised voices and robocalls ― said Elise Jarvis, director of law enforcement outreach for the Anti-Defamation League. She confirmed that federal authorities have been briefed on the threats, but said they aren’t credible. “Typically, these kinds of threats are a tactic used to scare the community, to disrupt operations and terrify,” Jarvis told HuffPost. “It is an intense climate right now, between a spike in hate incidents post-election and a series of bomb threats targeting the Jewish community over the past couple weeks. ... These threats are not credible, but it’s important to take each one seriously.”

JCCs service entire communities of people in any area they are found. This means that they have programs for little children like daycare and preschool, as well as programs for seniors. Virtually any JCC you go to has a meaningful population of non-jewish community members as well, not unlike the YMCA has non-Christian members. This is how incomprehensibly stupid and hypocritical cowards like this are. They don’t care about anything or anybody.

People like Steve Bannon and Donald Trump that play on these misdirected people are in no small part to blame for stoking the fires of hateful and violent rhetoric and misinformed news.

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Jewish community Centers across the country have been receiving (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2017 OP
Someday they will make movies about this point in American History liberal N proud Jan 2017 #1
Too much money if excess wealth starts spending applegrove Jan 2017 #2
KNR Lucinda Jan 2017 #3
I posited this elsewhere. Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #4
Or maybe they are trying to keep the communities busy dealing with applegrove Jan 2017 #5
That could be a possibility too. Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #7
Maybe they are just training a jack boot army of trolls and getting them to applegrove Jan 2017 #9
when Trump doesn't deliver on his promises , there will be scapegoats JI7 Jan 2017 #6
YUP! Behind the Aegis Jan 2017 #8
Disgusting LeftishBrit Jan 2017 #10
Happened here in Palm Beach County yesterday. scarletlib Jan 2017 #11

liberal N proud

(60,332 posts)
1. Someday they will make movies about this point in American History
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 09:58 PM
Jan 2017

And they will not look kindly on this time period.

applegrove

(118,492 posts)
2. Too much money if excess wealth starts spending
Wed Jan 18, 2017, 09:59 PM
Jan 2017

Last edited Wed Jan 18, 2017, 10:50 PM - Edit history (2)

money on robotcalls to threaten bombings of any one group. I bet you the hate groups responsible were funded by some alt righter millionaire who hardly pays any taxes, and will pay even less under Trump.

Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
4. I posited this elsewhere.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 01:29 AM
Jan 2017

Perhaps this is a "trial run" of sorts. First, they need to gage just how upset people are, and extrapolate how upset they might be should it come to pass; which, IMO, is most would not give two shits. Second, just like a dry run, perhaps they are evaluating response times and security in regards to these threats. This is, of course, reliant on the people being responsible are actually higher ups and are actually organized to some extent. However, while I won't dismiss the aforementioned, the most likely is a small, somewhat disorganized group which is trying to scare Jews out of sheer pleasure, or possible as a reminder of where they believe our place really is. So, while I agree with the ADL, I am not discounting something much larger may be happening and an Americanized Kristallnacht is in the works.

applegrove

(118,492 posts)
5. Or maybe they are trying to keep the communities busy dealing with
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 01:32 AM
Jan 2017

threats while they attack on another flank.

Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
7. That could be a possibility too.
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:55 AM
Jan 2017

Depending on whom they are really preparing to attack, doing this to Jews won't really distract many people at all.

applegrove

(118,492 posts)
9. Maybe they are just training a jack boot army of trolls and getting them to
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 03:49 AM
Jan 2017

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call in a bomb scare on a dare is how they own the souls. Then the novice trolls are blackmailable. I mean if you get someone to do robotcall bomb scare to multiple Jewish community centers that is lots of jail time. Quite a bit of leverage. Who knows. But it seems to be part of a machine run or inspired by psychopaths what ever the purpose.
Grooming sadists online seems to be how Dylan Roof got lured into racism and then killed all those people. George Zimmerman seems to be an icon for them in all his calculated assurance that he did nothing wrong. What do you call something online? It is not so much a machine as it is organic in function. Possibly a coagulation: dead souls getting together? Is it directed or self initiated but spread? Not good to traumatize anyone let alone the already traumatized. But you are right it seems lost in the news. There are so many stories every day that the salient does not get covered. Only Trump and his antics. I think it is a plan to tribalize the USA again in the end and create a pile of victims in the process. I wish the MSM would do more stories on that. How the alt right has harnessed testosterone that had nowhere to go. And what we can do about it. I have to wonder if Obama had not been sabotaged by republicans and allowed Keynesian spending if there would have been more jobs and marriages and busy family lives for this sick army who now terrorize Jewish people today. And I wonder if they knew that. Or if people like McConnell got more resentment and unhappiness than they bargained for.

Behind the Aegis

(53,921 posts)
8. YUP!
Thu Jan 19, 2017, 02:56 AM
Jan 2017

And who is personal adviser?!?! Hmmm...could it be a Jew?! Yeah, I just how far the incoming disaster-in-chief would allow it to go, given his daughter is one of the "tribe" too.

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