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B.See

(2,817 posts)
Sun Sep 15, 2024, 11:40 PM Sunday

Third Day of Bomb Threats Inspired by Trump Lies Sends Springfield Hospitals Into Lockdown

Third day of bomb threats inspired by Trump lies sends Springfield hospitals into lockdown - Salon
The threats, which already closed government offices and caused school evacuations, come as Trump pushes racist lie


Two hospitals in Springfield, Ohio went into lockdown on Saturday morning, as bomb threats plagued the town for a third day.

Officials at Kettering Health Springfield and Mercy Health’s Springfield Regional Medical Center placed the two healthcare facilities on lockdown after they became aware of bomb threats made early on Saturday morning, prompting a search of the premises before they could re-open.

Bomb threats shuttered schools and government buildings, including City Hall and DMV offices, on Thursday and Friday, with evacuations and closures disrupting town life.

The threats come amid an onslaught of racist smears against a community of Haitian immigrants in Springfield, promoted by Trump, his running mate JD Vance and other far-right figures. Haitian Americans across the country have warned that the rhetoric is leading to threats of violence against their community, an assertion Trump shook off on Friday.
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kimbutgar

(22,480 posts)
2. I hope the whole area goes for VP Harris in November.
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 11:44 AM
Monday

For the T-V ticket to use their city as a talking point to gin up hate for immigrants.

Botany

(71,785 posts)
3. You have some real hard core right wing assholes in that area and their bigotry and ignorance..
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 12:20 PM
Monday

… goes back for generations. WLW in Cincinnati has been spreading its toxic brain cancer for
80 + years long before Rush, Fox, the Internet, and others. And “Good Christian Pastors” have
indoctrinated the population with their filth too. These people will vote against their own best
interests time after time because Trump scratches their Christo Facsist itches. I know I live
here.

A bunch of the Charlottesville skinhead neo Nazis came from or had been in and around
Lebanon, OH (home of the Klan in Ohio) which is close to Springfield prior to their riot in
2017.

Magoo48

(4,989 posts)
4. How damaged security protecting our common welfare is can be gaged by the absence of any court or agency willing to stop
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 01:06 PM
Monday

them.

IronLionZion

(46,683 posts)
6. It's carefully planned and organized mental illness with no political agenda
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 03:44 PM
Monday

no terrorism here.

Made up BS about danger to his constituents is causing real danger to his constituents. No word from Vance or Trump to their supporters to stop terrorizing the people of Springfield.

Xavier Breath

(4,567 posts)
10. Not to detract from the seriousness of this issue
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 04:34 PM
Monday

but after being a lifelong resident of the area I just have to say that I cannot begin to summon the necessary words to express how totally weird this entire situation is. Springfield is the most boring, innocuous, vanilla (and many, many more synonyms) place you could ever hope to not visit. The fact that is now the epicenter for the political world, bomb threats, marching Nazis and is continually mentioned in national headlines is just too surreal for me to fully process. In a season of weird this is the weirdest weird.

B.See

(2,817 posts)
13. We haven't seen weird YET. Let Trump and his NAZIS
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 08:17 PM
Monday

succeed in seizing power in this country. It's going to get Nazi Germany "weird."

Some (of us) keep warning about it, while some don't believe it could happen in America.

Fact is, some of it has already begun.

FightFight

(13 posts)
11. List of Far-Right Attackers Trump Inspired
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 06:41 PM
Monday

For months, **Robert D. Bowers** had been spewing his anger in post after post on the web, calling immigrants “invaders,” distributing racist memes and asserting that Jews were the “enemy of white people.” The authorities said Mr. Bowers, 46, then killed at least 11 people in and around the synagogue,
**Days before the shooting, he wrote: “Trump is a globalist, not a nationalist. There is no #MAGA as long as there is a” — he inserted a slur for Jews — “infestation.”**

**Scott Leader and Steve Leader, August 2015**

On August 19, 2015, Scott Leader, 38, and his brother, Steve Leader, 30, attacked a homeless man in Boston who they wrongly believed to be an undocumented immigrant.

**“Donald Trump was right,” they told police, after beating the man with a metal pipe** and then urinating on him. “All these illegals need to be deported

**Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright, and Patrick Eugene Stein, October 2016**

On October 14, 2016, the FBI arrested three men — Patrick Eugene Stein, Curtis Allen, and Gavin Wright —** for plotting a series of bomb attacks against the Somali-American** community of Garden City, Kansas. Calling themselves “the Crusaders,” they had planned to launch, on the day after the November 2016 presidential election, what The Guardian said “could have been the deadliest domestic terror attack since the Oklahoma bombing in 1995.”

**Two of these three men were open supporters of Trump and were obsessed with anti-Muslim, anti-refugee conspiracy theories**. For Stein, according to a profile in New York magazine, Trump was “the Man.” Allen wrote on Facebook: “I personally back Donald Trump.” The trio even asked a federal judge to boost the number of pro-Trump jurors at their trial

**Bissonnette, January 2017**

On the evening of January 29, 2017,**Alexandre Bissonnette opened fire on worshippers** at the Islamic Cultural Center in Quebec City, Canada, **killing six of them and wounding 19**.

**Bisonnette, 27, was obsessed with Trump**: He searched for the president on Twitter, Facebook, Google, and YouTube more than 800 times between January 1, 2017, and the day of the shooting

**Michael Hari, Michael McWhorter, and Joe Morris, August 2017**

In March 2018, three alleged members of a far-right militia — Michael Hari, Michael McWhorter, and Joe Morris — **were charged in connection with the August 5, 2017, bombing of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. McWhorter is alleged to have told an FBI agent that the attack was an attempt “to scare” Muslims “out of the country.”**

**Back in 2017, Hari, who owns a security company, submitted a $10 billion proposal to build Trump’s wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.**

**James Alex Fields Jr., August 2017**

On August 12, 2017, a car crashed into a crowd of people protesting a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer. The alleged driver of the car, James Alex Fields Jr., has been charged with, among other crimes, hit-and-run and first-degree murder.

**Fields, according to a former middle school classmate, enjoyed drawing swastikas and talked about “loving Hitler.” The registered Republican, according to a former high school teacher, also adored Trump**

**Brandon Griesemer, January 2018**

On January 9 and 10, 2018, 19-year-old Brandon Griesemer allegedly made 22 calls to CNN. In four of those calls, the part-time grocery clerk from Novi, Michigan, threatened to kill employees at the network’s Atlanta headquarters, according to a federal affidavit.

**“Fake news. I’m coming to gun you all down,” he told a CNN operator. Again, sound familiar? Trump has spent his entire presidency slamming CNN as “fake news,”** singling out the network for criticism and abuse.

**Nikolas Cruz, February 2018**

On the afternoon of February 14, 2018, 19-year-old gunman Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in **Parkland**, Florida.

**According to an investigation by CNN, Cruz was part of a private Instagram group in which he “repeatedly espoused racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic views” and “bragged about writing a letter to President Donald Trump — and receiving a response.”** The Parkland School Massacre


KENTUCKY GROCERY STORE


**Gregory Bush Shot and Killed Two Black People at a Kentucky Kroger**

**Man who killed 2 Black People at Kroger tried to enter a predominantly black church minutes earlier, police say** Boy watched his grandfather get shot---The alleged shooter, Gregory Bush, has a history of violence and racism **He is also a fan of Donald J. Trump, Blue Lives Matter, and various conservative pages, per his Facebook likes**

Trump supporter: 'Next time, we might have to kill him' - Chicago Tribune

The **Trump supporter who was filmed sucker punching a protester during a rally in North Carolina said: "Next time, we might have to kill him."** (Inside Edition) ... Trump rally attendee in North Carolina charged with hitting black man ...



**Armed Trump Supporters March on Portland, Beating Up Opponents and Calling for Hillary’s Arrest**
**Led by a fringe Republican candidate, hundreds of far-right militants swarmed into Portland**, Oregon to fight ‘evil leftists.’ Cops seemed more concerned with antifa.
Aug 5, 2018

White supremacist told police he stabbed Timothy Caughman to death as ‘practice’ for larger race terror attack

**In March 2017, a then 28-year-old Mr Jackson traveled from Baltimore to New York City with the explicit plan to kill black men, police say**.

Cesar Sayoc, lost and angry, found his tribe with Trump

**Accused mail bomber Cesar Sayoc, a pizza deliveryman and strip club ... It was here that a homeless ex-male stripper and Donald Trump ...**In South Florida, where the sun shines year round, dreams and schemes grow like hothouse flowers**. **It was here that a homeless ex-male stripper and Donald Trump fanatic concocted a mass mailing of pipe bombs**


The McCloskeys in late June, when they stepped out of their St. Louis mansion barefoot, brandishing guns, to confront a passing crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters. Patricia gripped a small handgun with her finger on the trigger; her husband, in a pink Brooks Brothers polo shirt, held an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle. Yelling “Get the hell out of my neighborhood” and “Private property—get out,” the agitated couple waved their weapons at the marchers, who in return only pointed phones, recording the spectacle.--y? The couple was charged with felonies for their actions, but Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson had already pledged to pardon them if they were convicted.

The night after the McCloskeys addressed the nation, such a rando with a gun traveled to a protest site in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with another AR-15-style rifle—one he may not have been legally permitted to have. In videos from the scene, a suspect later identified as 17-year-old Kyle RittenhousPolice officers ignored people telling them Rittenhouse was the shooter and allegedly allowed him to pass safely through the crowd, still toting his weapone was plainly seen shooting three people, two of them fatally.

the FBI charged 13 members and associates of the Wolverine Watchmen group, which had participated in the protests, with having allegedly formed a plot to kidnap and possibly kill Whitmer. By the FBI’s account, the group bought and trained with firearms and explosives, surveilled the governor’s movements, and corresponded about their plan over several months.

On Thursday, Nov. 5, Philadelphia police arrested two armed men who were approaching the city’s convention center, where Pennsylvania’s final votes were being counted, most of them for Biden. The arrested men and their car—a Hummer with a QAnon sticker on the back windshield—matched the description of “a tip that an armed group from out of state was headed to the city’s vote-counting center,” according to the Washington Post. On Friday, Nov. 6, Philly police also announced they were investigating a bomb threat to the Fashion District of Philadelphia, which borders the convention center, only hours after CBS News reported that a man was being investigated for threatening a mass shooting in Los Angeles if Biden won.

B.See

(2,817 posts)
14. Many thanks, Fight, for your
Mon Sep 16, 2024, 09:02 PM
Monday

in depth summary of Trump/MAdGA acts of domestic terrorism.

It might be noted that in none of the above atrocities have we heard of apologies or disavowals or expressions of regret from Trump, the maga GOP, or their supporters and constituency.

On the contrary, assailants like Rittenhouse and the McCloskeys and the plotters of Gov. Whitmere's kidnapping (5 of whom had been acquitted) have been defended, even celebrated by the right.

Clearly, they have no compunctions about doing so.

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