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Bomb threats are wrong, but is someone really going to bomb a library? And if they are really going to go through all the trouble to plant a bomb are they reall

Bomb threats are wrong, but is someone really going to bomb a library? And if they are really going to go through all the trouble to plant a bomb are they really going to phone ahead with a warning? Why are we taking these threats seriously?

l3mure 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph > His stated motive was an opposition to "the ideals of global socialism" and to "abortion on demand," both of which he claimed were condoned by the United States government. > At age 29, Rudolph perpetrated the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, which occurred on July 27, 1996, during the 1996 Summer Olympics. He made two anonymous 911 calls, warning about the bomb before it detonated.
anigbrowl 3y ago
Probably not, but planting real bombs and communicating threats has a long history as an asymmetric strategy. While bombings are somewhat unusual* in the US, they have occurred in the past, and politically motivated shooting attacks are so common as to be sadly normal. A neo-nazi went on a mini rampage in Florida last week, and also last week some guy in Southern California shot a clothing store owner because he disapproved of an LGBT pride flag displayed at the business. * But not that unusual. Here's a report outlining two overlapping bombing campaigns in California last year - one by an unstable tech worker, the other by a group of meth dealers in Fresno. https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/what-if-there-were-twin-bombing-campaigns-in-california-nobody-noticed/ https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/what-if-there-were-...
xboxnolifes 3y ago
> And if they are really going to go through all the trouble to plant a bomb are they really going to phone ahead with a warning? Yes, if the goal isn't murder. It's certainly not without precedent.
- MandieD 3y ago
  One example - the IRA bombings where they phoned in warnings, like Manchester 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing

l3mure 3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph > His stated motive was an opposition to "the ideals of global socialism" and to "abortion on demand," both of which he claimed were condoned by the United States government. > At age 29, Rudolph perpetrated the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, which occurred on July 27, 1996, during the 1996 Summer Olympics. He made two anonymous 911 calls, warning about the bomb before it detonated.

anigbrowl 3y ago

Probably not, but planting real bombs and communicating threats has a long history as an asymmetric strategy. While bombings are somewhat unusual* in the US, they have occurred in the past, and politically motivated shooting attacks are so common as to be sadly normal. A neo-nazi went on a mini rampage in Florida last week, and also last week some guy in Southern California shot a clothing store owner because he disapproved of an LGBT pride flag displayed at the business. * But not that unusual. Here's a report outlining two overlapping bombing campaigns in California last year - one by an unstable tech worker, the other by a group of meth dealers in Fresno. https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/what-if-there-were-twin-bombing-campaigns-in-california-nobody-noticed/ https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/what-if-there-were-...

xboxnolifes 3y ago

> And if they are really going to go through all the trouble to plant a bomb are they really going to phone ahead with a warning? Yes, if the goal isn't murder. It's certainly not without precedent.

MandieD 3y ago
One example - the IRA bombings where they phoned in warnings, like Manchester 1996: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Manchester_bombing