Springfield Bomb Threats Linked to Right-Wing Conspiracy
Bomb threats targeting Springfield, Ohio, facilities are likely linked to a baseless right-wing conspiracy theory targeting Haitian immigrants in the city, mayor Rob Rue said Friday, as local schools closed and evacuated for a second day.
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"The Springfield City School District said in a statement to Forbes that Roosevelt Middle School was closed, while Perrin Woods Elementary and Snowhill Elementary were evacuated, citing unspecified information from Springfield police.
It is not immediately known which buildings were targeted in Friday's threat, though there were no other threats to Springfield City School District facilities, school officials said.
Springfield officials said Thursday "multiple facilities" were targeted by a bomb threat, including city hall, Fulton Elementary School and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, among other facilities, and every Clark County, Ohio, building was closed out of "an abundance of caution."
The threat included disparaging claims against Haiti and a baseless conspiracy theory championed by former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance that Haitian immigrants in Springfield are eating local pets, USA Today reported."
' This is what happens when your Party's Presidential Candidate is a Criminal Traitor... his Nazis aren't Standing By anymore, they are Standing Up.
#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-13 03:29 PM | Reply
"John Legend, a Springfield, Ohio native, denounces false claims about migrants and pets, asks grace for our "Haitian brothers and sisters
The singer-songwriter is speaking up after baseless claims spread online, amplified by former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, about Haitian immigrants supposedly eating people's pets. have spiraled out of control. Legend was born in Springfield in 1978.
In a nearly six-minute long Instagram video posted Thursday, Legend denounced those claims and urged people to show grace for our "Haitian brothers and sisters." "
www.cbsnews.com
#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-13 03:35 PM | Reply
"Springfield mayor seeks help not hate' as more bomb threats close schools, offices
Email threat Friday targeted several City Commissioners and a city employee; Roosevelt, Perrin Woods, Snowhill and Cliff Park schools shut down"
www.springfieldnewssun.com
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Trump doesn't even need to be holding a gun to shut down schools... all he needs to do is lie about a city, and his Proud Nazis will do the rest.
#3 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-13 04:50 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2
It boggles my mind that the republican nominees for President and Vice-President are stoking this terrorism, and we act like this is normal.
#4 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-09-14 12:34 AM | Reply
Seems to me that there's a lawsuit here. If I were a parent I'd consider talking to a lawyer about the suffering my kids are going thru because of these bomb threats and if these bomb threats are coming from what people like Trump and the Ohio AG are saying, then this makes them liable.
#5 | Posted by prius04 at 2024-09-14 12:38 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
And again, the people he are targeting are legal Asylum seekers who went through the appropriate processes. They fled violence, intense poverty, countless natural disasters, gangs, many problems that are directly tied to Haiti's history of colonial rule. These are innocent people who, by all accounts are hard working and productive members of society.
------- is targeting them with the most foul lies imaginable. His behavior is beyond abhorrent. He is targeting a powerless group. Terrorizing children.
This is the leader of a national party.
Where are the republicans to condemn this violence?
#6 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-09-14 12:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4
I would just like to thank Ohio for improving Florida's position in the craziest state competition.
#7 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-14 01:05 AM | Reply | Funny: 3
#6 | Posted by truthhurts
Well, they're all frightened of getting bomb threats, aren't they?
#8 | Posted by Zed at 2024-09-14 08:38 AM | Reply
This is the leader of a national party. Where are the republicans to condemn this violence? #6 | Posted by truthhurts
Republican politiicans will not condemn this, because for them this is campaign strategy about the Senate and the Supreme Court, stupid:
On September 10, Vance told his people to "keep the cat memes flowing," even though--or perhaps because--the rumors were putting people in his own state in danger. Trump repeated the lie at the presidential debate that night, claiming, "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there." . . .The widespread ridicule of Trump's statement has obscured that this attack on Ohio's immigrants is part of an attempt to regain control of the Senate. Convincing Ohio voters that the immigrants in their midst are subhuman could help Republicans defeat popular Democratic incumbent senator Sherrod Brown, who has held his seat since 2007. Brown and Montana's Jon Tester, both Democrats in states that supported Trump in 2020, are key to controlling the Senate. Two Republican super PACs, one of which is linked to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), have booked more than $82 million of ad space in Ohio between Labor Day and the election and are focusing on immigration. Taking control of the Senate would enable Republicans not only to block all popular Democratic legislation, as they did with gun reform after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, but to continue to establish control of America's judicial system. So long as their judges are in place to make law from the bench, what the majority of Americans want doesn't matter.
Trump repeated the lie at the presidential debate that night, claiming, "In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats. They're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there."
. . .The widespread ridicule of Trump's statement has obscured that this attack on Ohio's immigrants is part of an attempt to regain control of the Senate. Convincing Ohio voters that the immigrants in their midst are subhuman could help Republicans defeat popular Democratic incumbent senator Sherrod Brown, who has held his seat since 2007. Brown and Montana's Jon Tester, both Democrats in states that supported Trump in 2020, are key to controlling the Senate.
Two Republican super PACs, one of which is linked to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), have booked more than $82 million of ad space in Ohio between Labor Day and the election and are focusing on immigration.
Taking control of the Senate would enable Republicans not only to block all popular Democratic legislation, as they did with gun reform after the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, but to continue to establish control of America's judicial system. So long as their judges are in place to make law from the bench, what the majority of Americans want doesn't matter.
IOW, this is a very cynical ploy to do whatever it takes for the Republican power to maintain power, American citizens and immigrants be damned.
#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-14 09:43 AM | Reply
*the Republican party to maintain power
#10 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-14 09:43 AM | Reply
Why is it so important to Republicans to control the Senate? Heather Cox Richardson continues:
Controlling the country through the courts was the plan behind stacking the courts with Republican nominees and weaponizing the filibuster to stop Democrats from passing legislation. In March 2024, in Slate, legal analyst Mark Joseph Stern noted that McConnell "realized you don't need to win elections to enact Republican policy. You don't need to change hearts and minds. You don't need to push ballot initiatives or win over the views of the people. All you have to do is stack the courts. You only need 51 votes in the Senate to stack the courts with far-right partisan activists ... [a]nd they will enact Republican policies under the guise of judicial review, policies that could never pass through the democratic process. And those policies will be bulletproof, because they will be called law.'"
So, yeah, maybe some Republican politicians, espeically on a local level, are afraid of bomb threats, but I really don't think that is what is motivating the JD Vances and Ted Cruzes of the world. The ends justify the means, so stoking and using racism to achieve your political ends is well worth the cost someone else will have to pay.
#11 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-14 10:01 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3
IOW, using racism to obtain your political ends is not a bug but a feaure in the Republican party. Interstingly, the far-right's racism playbook is not unique to the US:
From 30 July to 5 August 2024, far-right, anti-immigration protests and riots occurred in England and Northern Ireland, within the United Kingdom. This followed a mass stabbing in Southport on 29 July in which three children were killed. The riots were fuelled by false claims circulated by far-right groups that the perpetrator of the attack was a Muslim and an asylum seeker, in addition to broader Islamophobic, racist, and anti-immigrant sentiments that had grown leading up to the protests. The disorder included racist attacks, arson, and looting and was the largest incident of social unrest in England since 2011.
Following the stabbing, there was incorrect speculation online about the name of the suspected attacker. Misinformation and disinformation, including false claims about the suspect's identity, nationality, religion and immigration status, were circulated on social media by high-profile far-right accounts. . . The false claim that the perpetrator was named "Ali Al-Shakati" is believed to have originated from the X (formerly Twitter) account of an anti-lockdown campaigner and gained a greater audience when repeated by the website Channel3Now, a website known for spreading fake news. Russia was accused of being behind a deliberate disinformation campaign, and as of 5 August, the National Crime Agency and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology are investigating such claims.
en.wikipedia.org
Here we have fake news sites like Fox and NewsMax that support the Republican party, and Republican politicians who are running for the highest offices in the land who are promoting "the deliberate disinformation campaign." God help us.
#12 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2024-09-14 10:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians www.nbcnews.com
... The woman behind an early Facebook post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout. "It just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen," Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday....
"It just exploded into something I didn't mean to happen," Erika Lee, a Springfield resident, told NBC News on Friday....
#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-09-14 11:57 AM | Reply
JD Vance posted what he thought was roasting cat.
The internet ate him for lunch:
Clearly chicken you weirdo': People respond to JD Vance sharing video he claims shows migrants grilling cats Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator JD Vance continues to stoke outrage against foreign-born members of his own constituency, sharing video footage with his 1.9 million social media followers that he claimed showed African migrants in Dayton, Ohio "eating cats" " but instead appears to show nothing more than poultry cooking on an outdoor grill. Backlash was swift, with replies ranging from, "I find it strange that a self-professed hillbilly' doesn't know what whole chickens look like," to, "HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT CHICKENS LOOK LIKE WITH THEIR LEGS ATTACHED YOU ---- -------." Oliver Alexander, an open-source intelligence analyst, weighed in, sharing images of plucked chickens looking remarkably similar to whatever was being grilled in the video. "Clearly chicken you weirdo. Dude's never seen chicken that wasn't dino-nugget shaped," he wrote.
Republican vice-presidential candidate Senator JD Vance continues to stoke outrage against foreign-born members of his own constituency, sharing video footage with his 1.9 million social media followers that he claimed showed African migrants in Dayton, Ohio "eating cats" " but instead appears to show nothing more than poultry cooking on an outdoor grill.
Backlash was swift, with replies ranging from, "I find it strange that a self-professed hillbilly' doesn't know what whole chickens look like," to, "HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT CHICKENS LOOK LIKE WITH THEIR LEGS ATTACHED YOU ---- -------." Oliver Alexander, an open-source intelligence analyst, weighed in, sharing images of plucked chickens looking remarkably similar to whatever was being grilled in the video. "Clearly chicken you weirdo. Dude's never seen chicken that wasn't dino-nugget shaped," he wrote.
#14 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-09-14 06:39 PM | Reply
Hold Fat Donnie Hitler personally responsible.
#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-09-14 09:51 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1
Is Trumpy inciting violence on our streets again?
What is wrong with that weirdo?
Yes he needs to be held accountable. As any other American citizen would be.
Inciting violence is a crime.
Inciting violence is defined as encouraging or urging someone to commit a crime, such as a riot, that could cause public alarm or terror.
The First Amendment protects the freedom to express views, but it doesn't protect speech that incites violence or lawlessness. Incitement is different from simply expressing beliefs or advocating ideas.
#16 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-09-15 01:04 PM | Reply
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