breaking CNN....entire DC school system on lock down bomb threat

[ElsewheresDaughter]

thats all she said....:shrug:

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

1. link here - WTOP News

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=181043&nid=25

[dixielib]

3. Email came before 6 am...

why were children allowed to go to school????

[donco6]

5. Was that when it was READ, or received?

That's all I can figure.

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. It's all part of

"No Child Left Behind" </sarcasm>

From the article:
Mayoral spokesman Tony Bullock says the threat is likely to be a prank, but officials have to assume that it is not.

According to the FBI, there were actually two threats. The first came in an e-mail, while the second was a phone call to D.C. police. The FBI says it's standing by to assist. Its agents will not accompany D.C. police during the initial walkthroughs, but will respond as needed. The FBI will be involved in trying to find out who sent the threats.

TWO THREATS? And kids sent to school and now being kept there. Is more like an "Every Child Held Hostage" initiative. What were they thinking???????? :wtf:

on edit:
Welcome to DU, dixielib :hi:

[dixielib]

8. Thanks Angel

And another part of the article:

"It's not a homeland security issue, at least it doesn't appear to be," Bullock tells WTOP.

What constitutes a homeland security issue if not 5 schools of kids? How many are involved, 500, 5,000?

[Katarina]

11. I wondered the same thing

If 5 possible bombs planted in schools isn't considered a homeland security issue just what the hell is then? :wtf: If I were a parent in that situation I would be furious.

And welcome to DU dixielib! :hi:

[bkcc]

9. email??

What kind of a moron would send an email?!?
Why would you send an email to alert someone to a potential terrorist act when email is so easily traced?

This sounds like it's either something done by students, or by someone who isn't worried about being caught.

[0007]

29. I thought school was out for spring break?

[Bertha Venation]

2. PANIC IN THE STREETS

PANIC! NOW! YOUR PrESIDENT DEMANDS IT!

LATEST BREAKING NEWS: BOMB THREAT TRACED TO WHITE HOUSE

[tlcandie]

4. NOT evacuating the schools?

If I were a parent I would be pissed! I would want my child out even IF it were a prank, period!

[mobuto]

7. Its exam week

for many in DC schools.

I'm sure that's a complete coincidence. ;-)

[tlcandie]

10. You willing to take that chance?

More power to you. NOT me! I don't care if it is fake or not. I remember whole buildings being evacuated and locked down regarding senators, congress critters, etc., but not schools! Makes you go hmmmmmm

[Mike Daniels]

15. What's to go hmmmm about?

The DC government is like any other city government and they are the ones choosing not to cancel or automatically evacuate the schools.

I may be wrong but I would think the federal government can not just override a city decision to not evacuate the schools unless the decision is in violation of a federal statute

[mobuto]

17. Actually it could

Congress has absolute authority over the District. It can order just about anything it wants. That's how Congress impounded the results of a DC referendum to decriminalize medicinal marijuana, and how Orrin Hatch is trying to overturn DC's effective ban on firearms.

Moreover, if DHS asked any school district in the country to shut down for a terror threat, it would.

[Mike Daniels]

26. Effective ban on firearms?

Oops, I forgot about that marijuana issues and I live in that area. I think I read somewhere that it would have cost like 1 cent per vote to count the results and that someone offered to pay the cost and Congress refused. Guess, I'm wrong on that statement.

However, I have to laugh at your claims that the DC ban on firearms is even close to effective in terms of keeping people from getting shot and killed. To be honest, if there wasn't a gun ban I don't think that statisitically significant more people would be getting killed than are now given that the shootings taking place are predominantly gang and drug related as it stands now.

[mobuto]

27. Not what I said

Its a fact that DC law effectively bans firearms. By that I meant that while it is technically possible to own a firearm, you're really not going to be able to since licenses are required and they aren't available. Is the ban itself effective? Partially. The biggest problem, of course, is that Virginia's gun stores are just a ten minute drive away. But none of this was the point of my post, which was simply to emphasize that Congress controls DC absolutely and overturns the will of DC voters with rather alarming regularity.

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Another news article

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/8227669.htm

<snip>
"It's being handled as a local, one-time prank, and students are being kept inside under the shelter in place policy," District of Columbia Public School spokeswoman Prenell Neeley told The Associated Press.

:wtf: is the "shelter in place policy"??

Also has made Reuters news and is showing up in media oulets all over the world.

[Spentastic]

14. Shelter in Place

Duck and Cover anyone?

[Katarina]

19. Found this on FEMAs site

<snip>
SHELTER-IN-PLACE means to stay indoors -- in homes, schools, businesses, or public buildings. It includes additional precautions such as turning off air conditioners and ventilation systems and closing all windows and doors. Shelter-in-place can be used when there is little time to react to an incident and it would be more dangerous to be outside trying to evacuate than it would be to stay where you are.
http://www.fema.gov/rrr/csepp4.shtm
_____________

Little time to react to an incident?? They knew about this since 6am. Seems to me they had plenty of time to react. I wonder if someone called a bomb threat into Bill Frists office, would he be following shelter-in-place? :puke:

Edit to add link.

[DulceDecorum]

20. Certainly he would.

Isn't that what Bush did at that school on September 11?

[Katarina]

24. You think?

Was a bomb threat called into that school on 9/11? He knew he had nothing to worry about.

[NashVegas]

13. Putting Schools on Lockdown

In itself seems like terrorist activity.

"Hey kids, guess what? We've got a bomb threat."

"Shit, I'm getting outta here."

"Er, no, sorry. Now try to concentrate on that pop quiz in front of you."

[FlaGranny]

16. Same old stuff, I guess.

We used to get bomb threats in high school back in the 50's.

[Whoa_Nelly]

23. And the 50s

is exactly where the current administration and company would like to see the US rolled back...Women have no rights to their bodies, same-sex attracted people are bad, renew the Cold War, FCC in essence trying to get back to couples on TV having separate beds. If BushCo had its way all the way, everything that has brought progressive and positive change in the US since 1960 would no longer exist, including civil rights.

However, there's a major difference when using comparisons of what happened in the 50s and what's happening in 2004 regarding this bomb threat. Daily life and idle threats just ain't the same.

[bushisanidiot]

18. What a Minute! I thought capturing Sadaam Hussein Was Going To

make us safer!!

[DulceDecorum]

21. Blame Spain

This is what happens when you try to appease that type of people.
You find your children threatened by WMDs in your nation's capital.

[mobuto]

22. Well, the Spanish Government is blaming ETA

Absent proof, as usual, the Spanish Government has decided to blame ETA for the DC school bomb scare. ;-)

[donsu]

25. there was also 2 bombs in Va that went off

there is a thread here in breaking news

a car bomb went off but a bomb on the roof of the car did not.

[aquart]

28. What car bomb?

LINK??????

[htuttle]

30. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=432038&mesg_id=432038