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:
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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louis c
(8,652 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,477 posts)Or so they see themselves. This is no surprise.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)June discovers out what Gilead did with the Boston Globe staff.
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.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Chilling.
kairos12
(12,861 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)very specific type.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)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)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.
azureblue
(2,146 posts)that Trumpnuts are Nazis or Klansmen.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)The only single nerve some reptile Trump supporters possess.
DBoon
(22,366 posts)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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