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Jewish community Centers across the country have been receiving tons of bomb threats - 20 today aloneby 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 arent 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 its 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 dont 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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liberal N proud
(60,332 posts)And they will not look kindly on this time period.
applegrove
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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.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,921 posts)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)threats while they attack on another flank.
Behind the Aegis
(53,921 posts)Depending on whom they are really preparing to attack, doing this to Jews won't really distract many people at all.
applegrove
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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.
JI7
(89,240 posts)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.