Report: First Daughters’ School Evacuated After Threat
Last edited Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:58 PM - Edit history (1)
Source: tpm
Sidwell Friends, the Washington, D.C. school attended by President Obama's daughters, Malia and Sasha, was evacuated on Thursday following a "phoned in threat," the Washingtonian reports...
UPDATE: Sidwell has given the all-clear signal, and students are returning to the campus, one parent tells the Washingtonian.
LATE UPDATE: The threat was unrelated to the first daughters, according to the U.S. Secret Service, the Hill's Daniel Strauss reports.
Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/first-daughters-school-evacuated-after-threat
This is a very short article right now. More details to come. And we thought the president had enough threats every day!
wicket
(14,901 posts)n/t
tbennett76
(223 posts)just reprehensible.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)and as the above posters have said sick.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:34 PM - Edit history (1)
... sick is the word I would use. Deranged sociopath also would work. However its is likely that someone who wanted to do the school harm would not warn in advance.
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)In the book The Gift of Fear, he specifically addresses phoned in bomb threats. They have to be taken seriously, of course, but the type of person who truly wants to do harm does not warn, they simply strike.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)and put him behind bars for a long time
TBF
(32,062 posts)this via their tv and radio programs - Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck for starters
Free speech is protected, but when violent acts result from specific speech it starts getting trickier ...
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)I'm sorry but I think the #1 complaint about our President is he's black...half black....whatever. The #2 complaint is he's liberal.
I know pundits like to get all serious and say, "Oh no...it's his policies...blah blah blah" Yeah, people do this over policies.
Like Janeane Garofalo said after the FIRST Teabagger rally: "Racism straight up."
nolabear
(41,984 posts)the worst of the madness. What's going on now is in itself unstable, rageful, paranoid. So those who wouldn't dream of going that far now find it easy to trip over the edge.
We really need to pull together to condemn anything like this. I hope we have the sense to do it.
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)3-4 times every school year at my local school..
we got so used to it , it was like having a drill
there was no reason for it either..
small town..
small elementary school..
Patiod
(11,816 posts)The other Junior High in our district was never subject to bomb threats - but the demographics weren't much different. I suspect someone at my school either called them in or had a friend do so to get out of tests or something.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)This is one of those times I actually want to believe in a Hell!!!!!
Brigid
(17,621 posts)What he doesn't realize is that he is in HUGE trouble if he is identified, even if he never had any plans to actually carry out a threat. The threat alone is enough for some federal time.
Caeser67
(156 posts)First TAGG, (yes a grown man named TAGG) Romney wants to punch the President of the United States, then his Daughters school gets a threat! Is this the game the Repuppetcans want to play to win the Presidency?
Expect Mitt Romney to say that his family was threatened in 3, 2, 1.
Leave the fing kids alone. You sick SOBs.
lynne
(3,118 posts)- Maybe coincidence? I always wonder if it's dumb kids wanting to get out early to enjoy the day.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)It doesnt necessarily have anything to do with the first family.
adigal
(7,581 posts)Some sicko who hates Obama did this, I would bet my mortgage payment on it!! The liberal media are tamping this down, so the mushy middle don't get dismayed at Republicans.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)niyad
(113,319 posts)greiner3
(5,214 posts)Uh huh.
That's to stop any copy Freepers!
EmeraldCityGrl
(4,310 posts)we have no clue what our President is dealing with on a daily basis.
President Obama will be my president for the next four years regardless
of what happens next month. His presidency is about so much more than
politics as usual. The next person that tells me both parties are the same
and it doesn't matter who you vote for is going to get more than they
bargained for.
Cha
(297,265 posts)school enough for evacuation and it was not directed at them?
At what then? A disgruntled student who got suspended?