This is very, very scary. Has someone (a lone person or a group of people) started a bombing campaign against perceived “leftist” enemies?On Wednesday morning, an explosive package was intercepted at the Washington D.C. home of former President Barack Obama. It was not immediately disclosed if the package was similar to the ones sent to Soros and Clinton.
This is what comes of endless talk about bogeymen and “socialists” and “leftists” being enemies of America, and all that.The incessant conspiracy-minded talk about George Soros leads to things like this: It’s kind of like that nut case who went into that pizza place in Washington with a gun and fired it (or that brave patriot exercising his Second Amendment rights, depending on your point of view). The whole looney Pizzagate thing. Enough crazy talk about bogeyman and someone crazy will believe it. And act on it. Not that I’m attributing any responsibility for this incident to you, of course. I’m not.
I couldn’t agree with you more. What is happening is horrific.This is what comes of endless talk about bogeymen and “socialists” and “leftists” being enemies of America, and all that.
Some crazy, somewhere, will believe it.
Right. Which is, of course, where CNN broadcasts from.Suspicious package also sent to time warner building in NY.
Good point, may well be. You can’t put something past some people.Why do you think that is nonsense? It has certainly happened many times before.
Which people? Who are you talking about? Do you have a theory about who’s behind these bombs?You can’t put something past some people.
Bombs are notoriously hard to make well. That’s why when combating terrorism governments focus so much on tracking down the bomb-makers who know what they’re doing.What is interesting here is that there are three bombs and none of them worked.
That’s interesting, San Francisco also had a bad bombing in 1916.Makes me think of the anarchist bombings of the early 20th Century
en.wikipedia.org
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1919 United States anarchist bombings
The 1919 United States anarchist bombings were a series of bombings and attempted bombings carried out by the Italian anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani from April through June 1919. These bombings led to the Red Scare of 1919–20. In late April 1919, at least 36 booby trap dynamite-filled bombs were mailed to a cross-section of prominent politicians and appointees, including the Attorney General of the United States, as well as justice officials, newspaper editors and businessmen, including J…
Also referenced in Bill Bryson’s book “One Summer”