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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:07 PM Aug 2018

Security beefed up at Globe's downtown headquarters after threats

Source: Universal Hub



By adamg on Thu, 08/16/2018 - 12:36pm

Companies with offices at 53 State St., where the Globe is now headquartered, got a memo from building management today about unspecified threats called into the Globe:

Earlier today a tenant in the building, the Boston Globe, received several threats via phone call. Based on this threat the local and federal authorities have recommended some additional security measures for the property. For the remainder of the day you will see uniformed Boston Police officers in the lobby and around the property. There are very few specifics, but the threat was specific to later this afternoon.


The property is working closely with the authorities and we will advise all tenants of any updates or changes in this situation. The property is following all appropriate procedures and protocols.

The Globe today spearheaded an effort by American newspapers to fight back against Nazi- and Soviet-style attacks on the press by the president, who, of course, responded with a befuddled rant about free-speech collusion.

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Security beefed up at Globe's downtown headquarters after threats (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2018 OP
For Boston louis c Aug 2018 #1
Threats from patriotic Americans who love the Constitution DavidDvorkin Aug 2018 #2
How dare they promote freedom of the press in "Trump's America" world wide wally Aug 2018 #3
Anyone watch season two of the Handmaid's Tale? ehrnst Aug 2018 #4
Yep, I saw that. geardaddy Aug 2018 #5
Did Drumpt use an alias? kairos12 Aug 2018 #6
Trump's base supporters are narrowing down to a defacto7 Aug 2018 #7
In our community forum, Trumpers will respond to my posts to our reps. Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #9
Uh-huh. This move by the Senate hit a very big sore spot with the fascists. Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #8
proof positive azureblue Aug 2018 #10
Guess the Globe's leadership on that whole 'freedom of the press' thing struck a nerve... FailureToCommunicate Aug 2018 #11
from Jack London's 1908 novel, "The Iron Heel" DBoon Aug 2018 #12

DavidDvorkin

(19,477 posts)
2. Threats from patriotic Americans who love the Constitution
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 03:42 PM
Aug 2018

Or so they see themselves. This is no surprise.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
4. Anyone watch season two of the Handmaid's Tale?
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 04:07 PM
Aug 2018

June discovers out what Gilead did with the Boston Globe staff.




One of the show's more heartbreaking foreshadowings of current events came on June 28, when a gunman walked into the Capital Gazette newspaper in Maryland and killed five people. The war of words against the press from the White House, its propaganda arm Fox News and congressmen who've advocated violence against noncompliant reporters was weaponized. The gunmen's motives were reportedly personal, but in such a hostile climate, he must have felt emboldened.

Weeks before the tragedy, "The Handmaid's Tale" set two of its more powerful episodes in a newspaper office gutted by violence. It was the Boston Globe offices, a place where journalists like those shot at the Gazette furiously reported on the rise of Gilead until they too were silenced by gunfire. The fictional building's basement walls -- pocked with bullet holes and smeared with blood -- bore witness to their demise.

June discovered the scene in the weeks she'd spent hiding out in the building during her attempted escape to the free world of, wait for it, Canada. She fashioned shrines in the basement to those who'd been executed, and upstairs, gathered an assortment of their newspaper articles, assembling them in a chronological order that documented the rise of Gilead.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
9. In our community forum, Trumpers will respond to my posts to our reps.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 04:45 PM
Aug 2018

You can imagine the kind of responses they are. Name calling, no facts or false facts. They are incredibly uninformed or think others are, don't know which.

I don't bother getting into an argument or discussion with them. As I told one...it's futile to try to discuss facts and reality with a Trumper. When you supported incarcerating innocent children in cages because your leader said it was good, you became a lost soul. You are little more than a cult follower...discussions based on facts and reality are useless.

They need to be deprogrammed. I really think they are very much like cult followers. They are deluded. Conspiracy theories. End of the world. Everything Trump says is so. He makes no mistakes, commits no crimes. He sh*ts gold. He can even take innocent children, and they won't interfere. Trumpers are lost souls.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
8. Uh-huh. This move by the Senate hit a very big sore spot with the fascists.
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 04:41 PM
Aug 2018

That tells us what's important to them. Omarosa? Not so much. Attacks on the free press as the "enemy of the people"? CRITICAL to fascism.

FailureToCommunicate

(14,014 posts)
11. Guess the Globe's leadership on that whole 'freedom of the press' thing struck a nerve...
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 05:36 PM
Aug 2018

The only single nerve some reptile Trump supporters possess.

DBoon

(22,366 posts)
12. from Jack London's 1908 novel, "The Iron Heel"
Thu Aug 16, 2018, 05:39 PM
Aug 2018
The Appeal to Reason was a weekly, and its regular circulation amongst the proletariat was seven hundred and fifty thousand. Also, it very frequently got out special editions of from two to five millions. These great editions were paid for and distributed by the small army of voluntary workers who had marshalled around the Appeal. The first blow was aimed at these special editions, and it was a crushing one. By an arbitrary ruling of the Post Office, these editions were decided to be not the regular circulation of the paper, and for that reason were denied admission to the mails.

A week later the Post Office Department ruled that the paper was seditious, and barred it entirely from the mails. This was a fearful blow to the socialist propaganda. The Appeal was desperate. It devised a plan of reaching its subscribers through the express companies, but they declined to handle it. This was the end of the Appeal. But not quite. It prepared to go on with its book publishing. Twenty thousand copies of father's book were in the bindery, and the presses were turning off more. And then, without warning, a mob arose one night, and, under a waving American flag, singing patriotic songs, set fire to the great plant of the Appeal and totally destroyed it.


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