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alp227

(32,025 posts)
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:58 AM Oct 2012

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!
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These people are sick! wicket Oct 2012 #1
That is tbennett76 Oct 2012 #2
How frightening Liberalynn Oct 2012 #3
Your right... iandhr Oct 2012 #5
Correct. This was for attention/publicity. The perp got it, unfortunately. Butterbean Oct 2012 #23
Fucking baggers. They really do dream about growing up and being just like the Taliban one day. bullwinkle428 Oct 2012 #4
+1 L0oniX Oct 2012 #17
I hope they find the sick dude who did this bucolic_frolic Oct 2012 #6
Well they can start with the sickos that are inciting TBF Oct 2012 #8
But of course Racism is not involved.... AlbertCat Oct 2012 #7
Oh hell. The insane ones are being triggered. Ideally the world should be stable enough to contain nolabear Oct 2012 #9
you know, this happened iamthebandfanman Oct 2012 #10
It happened constantly at mine as well Patiod Oct 2012 #19
This is just plain, fucking EVIL!!!! LongTomH Oct 2012 #11
Some idiot is sitting on a broken-down sofa in his parents' basement laughing. Brigid Oct 2012 #12
Just Plain Evil Caeser67 Oct 2012 #13
OMG Blueprogress Oct 2012 #14
Another high school about 30 minutes away also evacuated due to bomb threat - lynne Oct 2012 #15
This happens in all kinds of schools. Marrah_G Oct 2012 #16
I don't believe it was unrelated at all!!! adigal Oct 2012 #18
Anybody seen Tagg Romney??? thelordofhell Oct 2012 #20
some people (and I use the word advisedly) are beyond despicable. niyad Oct 2012 #21
"The threat was unrelated to the first daughters..." greiner3 Oct 2012 #22
We all know what this is. I said after the first debate EmeraldCityGrl Oct 2012 #24
Yeah, that makes sense.. A Threat to the First Daughters' Cha Oct 2012 #25

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
5. Your right...
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:08 PM
Oct 2012

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)
23. Correct. This was for attention/publicity. The perp got it, unfortunately.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:41 PM
Oct 2012

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.

TBF

(32,062 posts)
8. Well they can start with the sickos that are inciting
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:15 PM
Oct 2012

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)
7. But of course Racism is not involved....
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:14 PM
Oct 2012


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)
9. Oh hell. The insane ones are being triggered. Ideally the world should be stable enough to contain
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:26 PM
Oct 2012

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)
10. you know, this happened
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:30 PM
Oct 2012

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)
19. It happened constantly at mine as well
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:45 PM
Oct 2012

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)
11. This is just plain, fucking EVIL!!!!
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:31 PM
Oct 2012

This is one of those times I actually want to believe in a Hell!!!!!

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
12. Some idiot is sitting on a broken-down sofa in his parents' basement laughing.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:34 PM
Oct 2012

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)
13. Just Plain Evil
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:36 PM
Oct 2012

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.

lynne

(3,118 posts)
15. Another high school about 30 minutes away also evacuated due to bomb threat -
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:47 PM
Oct 2012

- Maybe coincidence? I always wonder if it's dumb kids wanting to get out early to enjoy the day.

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
16. This happens in all kinds of schools.
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:49 PM
Oct 2012

It doesnt necessarily have anything to do with the first family.

 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
18. I don't believe it was unrelated at all!!!
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:25 PM
Oct 2012

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.

EmeraldCityGrl

(4,310 posts)
24. We all know what this is. I said after the first debate
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:45 PM
Oct 2012

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)
25. Yeah, that makes sense.. A Threat to the First Daughters'
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:50 PM
Oct 2012

school enough for evacuation and it was not directed at them?

At what then? A disgruntled student who got suspended?

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