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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:58 AM

alp227 (20,444 posts)

Report: First Daughters’ School Evacuated After Threat

Last edited Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:58 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

Source: tpm

Sidwell Friends, the Washington, D.C. school attended by President Obama's daughters, Malia and Sasha, was evacuated on Thursday following a "phoned in threat," the Washingtonian reports...

UPDATE: Sidwell has given the all-clear signal, and students are returning to the campus, one parent tells the Washingtonian.

LATE UPDATE: The threat was unrelated to the first daughters, according to the U.S. Secret Service, the Hill's Daniel Strauss reports.

Read more: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/first-daughters-school-evacuated-after-threat

This is a very short article right now. More details to come. And we thought the president had enough threats every day!

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25 replies	Author	Time	Post
Report: First Daughters’ School Evacuated After Threat (Original post)	alp227	Oct 2012	OP
These people are sick!	wicket	Oct 2012	#1
That is	tbennett76	Oct 2012	#2
How frightening	Liberalynn	Oct 2012	#3
Your right...	iandhr	Oct 2012	#5
Correct. This was for attention/publicity. The perp got it, unfortunately.	Butterbean	Oct 2012	#23
Fucking baggers. They really do dream about growing up and being just like the Taliban one day.	bullwinkle428	Oct 2012	#4
+1	L0oniX	Oct 2012	#17
I hope they find the sick dude who did this	bucolic_frolic	Oct 2012	#6
Well they can start with the sickos that are inciting	TBF	Oct 2012	#8
But of course Racism is not involved....	AlbertCat	Oct 2012	#7
Oh hell. The insane ones are being triggered. Ideally the world should be stable enough to contain	nolabear	Oct 2012	#9
you know, this happened	iamthebandfanman	Oct 2012	#10
It happened constantly at mine as well	Patiod	Oct 2012	#19
This is just plain, fucking EVIL!!!!	LongTomH	Oct 2012	#11
Some idiot is sitting on a broken-down sofa in his parents' basement laughing.	Brigid	Oct 2012	#12
Just Plain Evil	Caeser67	Oct 2012	#13
OMG	Blueprogress	Oct 2012	#14
Another high school about 30 minutes away also evacuated due to bomb threat -	lynne	Oct 2012	#15
This happens in all kinds of schools.	Marrah_G	Oct 2012	#16
I don't believe it was unrelated at all!!!	adigal	Oct 2012	#18
Anybody seen Tagg Romney???	thelordofhell	Oct 2012	#20
some people (and I use the word advisedly) are beyond despicable.	niyad	Oct 2012	#21
"The threat was unrelated to the first daughters..."	greiner3	Oct 2012	#22
We all know what this is. I said after the first debate	EmeraldCityGrl	Oct 2012	#24
Yeah, that makes sense.. A Threat to the First Daughters'	Cha	Oct 2012	#25

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:59 AM

wicket (14,868 posts)

1. These people are sick!

n/t

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 11:59 AM

tbennett76 (223 posts)

2. That is

just reprehensible.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:02 PM

Liberalynn (5,547 posts)

3. How frightening

and as the above posters have said sick.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:08 PM

iandhr (2,244 posts)

5. Your right...

Last edited Thu Oct 18, 2012, 06:34 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

... sick is the word I would use. Deranged sociopath also would work. However its is likely that someone who wanted to do the school harm would not warn in advance.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 05:41 PM

Butterbean (463 posts)

23. Correct. This was for attention/publicity. The perp got it, unfortunately.

In the book The Gift of Fear, he specifically addresses phoned in bomb threats. They have to be taken seriously, of course, but the type of person who truly wants to do harm does not warn, they simply strike.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:06 PM

bullwinkle428 (11,384 posts)

4. Fucking baggers. They really do dream about growing up and being just like the Taliban one day.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:18 PM

L0oniX (17,334 posts)

17. +1

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:10 PM

bucolic_frolic (708 posts)

6. I hope they find the sick dude who did this

and put him behind bars for a long time

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:15 PM

TBF (18,403 posts)

8. Well they can start with the sickos that are inciting

this via their tv and radio programs - Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck for starters

Free speech is protected, but when violent acts result from specific speech it starts getting trickier ...

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:14 PM

AlbertCat (10,450 posts)

7. But of course Racism is not involved....

I'm sorry but I think the #1 complaint about our President is he's black...half black....whatever. The #2 complaint is he's liberal.

I know pundits like to get all serious and say, "Oh no...it's his policies...blah blah blah" Yeah, people do this over policies.

Like Janeane Garofalo said after the FIRST Teabagger rally: "Racism straight up."

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:26 PM

nolabear (14,710 posts)

9. Oh hell. The insane ones are being triggered. Ideally the world should be stable enough to contain

the worst of the madness. What's going on now is in itself unstable, rageful, paranoid. So those who wouldn't dream of going that far now find it easy to trip over the edge.

We really need to pull together to condemn anything like this. I hope we have the sense to do it.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:30 PM

iamthebandfanman (6,744 posts)

10. you know, this happened

3-4 times every school year at my local school..

we got so used to it , it was like having a drill

there was no reason for it either..
small town..
small elementary school..

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:45 PM

Patiod (11,511 posts)

19. It happened constantly at mine as well

The other Junior High in our district was never subject to bomb threats - but the demographics weren't much different. I suspect someone at my school either called them in or had a friend do so to get out of tests or something.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:31 PM

LongTomH (3,996 posts)

11. This is just plain, fucking EVIL!!!!

This is one of those times I actually want to believe in a Hell!!!!!

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:34 PM

Brigid (10,552 posts)

12. Some idiot is sitting on a broken-down sofa in his parents' basement laughing.

What he doesn't realize is that he is in HUGE trouble if he is identified, even if he never had any plans to actually carry out a threat. The threat alone is enough for some federal time.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:36 PM

Caeser67 (127 posts)

13. Just Plain Evil

First TAGG, (yes a grown man named TAGG) Romney wants to punch the President of the United States, then his Daughters school gets a threat! Is this the game the Repuppetcans want to play to win the Presidency?

Expect Mitt Romney to say that his family was threatened in 3, 2, 1.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:37 PM

Blueprogress (64 posts)

14. OMG

Leave the fing kids alone. You sick SOBs.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:47 PM

lynne (2,954 posts)

15. Another high school about 30 minutes away also evacuated due to bomb threat -

- Maybe coincidence? I always wonder if it's dumb kids wanting to get out early to enjoy the day.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 12:49 PM

Marrah_G (22,413 posts)

16. This happens in all kinds of schools.

It doesnt necessarily have anything to do with the first family.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:25 PM

adigal (4,703 posts)

18. I don't believe it was unrelated at all!!!

Some sicko who hates Obama did this, I would bet my mortgage payment on it!! The liberal media are tamping this down, so the mushy middle don't get dismayed at Republicans.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:14 PM

thelordofhell (3,809 posts)

20. Anybody seen Tagg Romney???

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:46 PM

niyad (24,127 posts)

21. some people (and I use the word advisedly) are beyond despicable.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 04:54 PM

greiner3 (3,959 posts)

22. "The threat was unrelated to the first daughters..."

Uh huh.

That's to stop any copy Freepers!

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:45 PM

EmeraldCityGrl (4,308 posts)

24. We all know what this is. I said after the first debate

we have no clue what our President is dealing with on a daily basis.

President Obama will be my president for the next four years regardless
of what happens next month. His presidency is about so much more than
politics as usual. The next person that tells me both parties are the same
and it doesn't matter who you vote for is going to get more than they
bargained for.

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Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:50 PM

Cha (124,546 posts)

25. Yeah, that makes sense.. A Threat to the First Daughters'

school enough for evacuation and it was not directed at them?

At what then? A disgruntled student who got suspended?

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