A bomb threat at the Sheriff Joe event here last night. Interesting reaction.

[proud2BlibKansan]

Here's an article. http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/13/2081824/kobach-brings-out-supporters-and.html

Apparently there was a bomb threat and the people inside attending the Sheriff Joe event were told there was a bomb threat and given the chance to leave.

They had found a box somewhere on the premises and determined later there was no bomb.

We were outside protesting. Across the street in two directions were baseball fields with games in progress. One to the south, directly across from where our protest group was standing and the other to the west. The parking lot for the venue was in between the protesters and that field. (Most of us had parked in that lot after being told we couldn't park in the venue lot unless we were attending the event.)

BOTH baseball fields were evacuated. The games were stopped and the people there were gathered behind the concession stands on each field. But the protesters were NEVER told there was a bomb!!

I wish I could draw a diagram but I'll try to explain in words. The 'bomb' was closer to the protest group than to either of the baseball fields. But we were never told there was a bomb threat. I was there until almost everyone had left and was hanging with the organizers and I am positive no one came out there and told them there had been a bomb threat.

They evacuated the baseball fields that were much farther away from the 'bomb' but they never told the protest group!!

After all, who cares if a bunch of immigrants and their supporters get blown up by a bomb?

My God, these people disgust me.

One of my friends who was there and who is Hispanic went inside and asked to use the restroom. He was escorted into the restroom and out the door when he was finished. We laughed at the time and teased him about getting a tea party restroom escort. But I am glad now cause they can't pin that bomb threat on him.

Yes, you bet I believe they would if they could.

[jzola]

1. It wouldn't be the first time Joe and his

Friends made something like that up. I don't believe there was a bomb threat at all,

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Of course there wasn't a bomb!

But they evacuated folks across the street who were farther away and didn't even tell the Hispanic group and their supporters that there was a bomb threat!

We saw the bomb squad van pull in. So we were still there when the bomb threat came in.

I don't know whether to be pissed off or to laugh. Just blows my mind.

[blondeatlast]

3. Interesting. All kinds of possibilities. In my mind, they KNEW it was bogus

but still, I'd think they'd at least have put on a show of evacuating you guys.

Any friendly media types in your area who might be interested in sniffing this out?

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. I'm emailing now

This is just so repulsive.

[blondeatlast]

5. If you get a bite, refer them to the reporters at Phoenix New Times.

(The links I PMed to you).

It's Joe's SOP but they can offer lots of info on the "threats" of the past.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. They are a sister publication to one here

Emailing both. Thanks!

[blondeatlast]

9. Gotta brag--the sisters sprung out of our Phoenix one. nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. Great paper

The only print media we have here that actually gives progressive causes any attention.

[hfojvt]

12. there was no threat

not in the sense that somebody phoned in a threat. They just found an unattended briefcase.

I suppose that must have been left there so security would think it might be a bomb, because I know people never lose things.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. That doesn't make it okay that the Hispanic group was not told about threat

I am pretty outraged about that. Of course it was a fake threat. But why not tell EVERYONE instead of just the groups you don't want bombed?

[hfojvt]

14. no it does not

but to me, the way the media called it a "threat" makes it sound like pro-immigrant groups or anti-Kobach groups are making threats when it was likely just a scatter-brain misplacing a briefcase, or a publicity stunt by a Kobach supporter.

[CBGLuthier]

6. That was not a bomb threat. A bomb threat is when someone

calls saying there is a bomb. This was a suspicious package which results in being nothing at all about 99.9% of the time.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. That doesn't discount the fact that they didn't tell the Hispanic group that there was a threat

That's the point of my OP.

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. kick

[Spazito]

15. Seems pretty blatant bigotry...

given everyone BUT the protest group were told about the "threat" and given the chance to evacuate. As you stated in your posts, it is not whether the threat was real or not but the point that everyone, including those further away from where the package was, were told and evacuated EXCEPT the protest group.

I don't see how this could have been anything but deliberate and that is totally disgusting.

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. It really is disgusting.

Life in red state hell. Some days I just want to bang my head into a wall.