Summary
An anti-Trump conservative summit in Washington, DC, was evacuated Sunday due to a “credible bomb threat” allegedly sent by an account claiming to represent Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader.
The threat, which named several high-profile attendees, remains unverified by police. Tarrio, who was arrested over the weekend, denied involvement and threatened legal action.
The event, an alternative to CPAC, featured prominent anti-Trump conservatives and ex-law enforcement officers who had clashed with Tarrio earlier.
DC tensions were heightened amid the CPAC gathering and related protests.
Phoned in bomb threats have never been credible since the IRA, but they were actual bombs that they wanted to actually warn civilians about. In any other case the officials in-charge of responding to the bomb threat by cancelling the event should be fired.
Man, my fascism bingo card is poppin lately!
Ah yes. When discourse and negotiation fail, harrass and threaten. How dare they have a contrary opinion?
Tarrio should be in a Supermax.
Florence ADMax SHU.
Pretty sure this catches a bigger headline than the event itself.
Should start doing that to their conventions, see how they like it.
Well it’s a crime so if you wanna risk a trip to prison, good luck. I’ll be cheering for ya. From waaaaay over here though.
I think they’re saying the anti-Trump conservatives should call them in on other conservatives.
Prepaid phone, buy with cash, hoodie, sunglasses, face mask, don’t walk like you normally do. Non-internet connected car. Don’t take phone with you.
Also if a credit card is absolutely needed buy a prepaid card with cash. Use a public computer somewhere to activate it. Also get one of the card that does not ask for personal information.
Put a pebble in your shoe or something that’ll make you naturally change your gait.
don’t walk like you normally do
Gonna show up doing one of these:
The modern black Klansman
And yet no bomb. Stop running.
And yet no bomb.
That’s only true until it’s not. Feel free to gamble with your own life. Don’t insist others do so with theirs.
So all maga has to do is call in a bomb threat each time their enemies attempt to meet at a location and that prevents them from ever meeting.
I mean, it’s brilliant. Some little old grandma could shut down the entire opposition from her living room.
We are fucked.
Didn’t they find out Harris was about 12ft from one of the pipe bombs at the capital but they just didn’t go off because the cell towers got overloaded do to all the people. So sometimes the bombs are even there… And you get lucky.
If you know they are willing to place bombs once, I imagine you should trust they’ll do it again
Kind of understandable comment, but in the most dick way possible. They do this all the time, and now there’s nobody to investigate and arrest them.
Pretty sick of people bowing to bullshit right wing threats. Those pussy ass bitches don’t have bombs.
Read the article again; it says “an account claiming to represent Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader”. This isn’t just right wing; this guy is a straight up far right fascist and could credibly toss a bomb at the summit.
Here’s a tip: real bombers don’t call in a bomb threat. They just do it.
This. They just do the work, and then if they feel like it they do a video or whatever claiming responsibility and whatever afterward. That’s how Al-Qaeda did it on 9/11/2001. They just hijacked the planes and hit the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, then Osama bin-Laden released a statement afterwards. He didn’t announce the attack beforehand. That day would have gone much differently if he had. But this isn’t like some comic book or Saturday morning cartoon where the villains go on some monologue about their fiendish plot before they do it.
That’s a dumb statement. Everyone in America has bombs with a quick trip to the hardware store and a few hours work. Bombs are not hard to make.
All they have are empty threats… and since no bombs are going off, that’s pretty good evidence they don’t have anything.
Creating a bomb leaves a trail and the FBI has a pretty good record domestically of finding where they’ve come from. Couple that with the fact that any time there’s a threat detected then will places evacuate. Anyone who would actually call in a threat, after placing bombs would only result in becoming hunted by the FBI, so on that point you’re right: these threats are always hollow. At least until people stop evacuating after receiving a threat. Once that happens it will increase the likelihood that real bombs will start being placed.
But to be clear, a lot of places do get bombed. In 2023 there were 320 bombings in the US. During the same year there were 3,203 threats. So, we’re looking at 0.1% … That would likely go up if people stopped taking the threats seriously.
EDIT: I’m not sure anyone noticed, but my math was off by a factor of 10, er 100. Sorry about that! Also, source: https://tripwire.dhs.gov/reports/298701
I’d like to know of some of the places on US soil that got bombed…. For political reasons.
I had meant to include my source: https://tripwire.dhs.gov/reports/298701
It doesn’t look like it specifies exactly where these bombings were, however it does break it out by state and under the Recoveries section it lists the various ‘target types’ for devices that were recovered (the majority being residential - though this includes more than just criminal bombing).
Might want to recheck your math there
That math says 10%. But regardless, I think the core of the argument really is that those who actually intend to plant bombs don’t make bomb threats. By the time you escalate to the level where you’re convinced blowing people to pieces is actually a reasonable course of action, you’re not likely to be giving warnings. You either want people dead, or you don’t.
Simply not true. Many organizations gave warning before bombing.
The Israeli military does that now, for example.
Looking to history, the IRA usually gave warning when they planted a bomb.
I agree, and I think a bomb ‘threat’ is actually just a way to disrupt things. I do think that if we started ignoring threats though, it would lead to an increase in actual bombings.
In 2023 there were 320 bombings in the US. During the same year there were 3,203 threats. So, we’re looking at 0.1%
Um… that’s 10%, not 0.1%.
There were less than 20 real bombing. There were over 320 bomb threats. I’d like to see where you got these numbers. They are off.
Am I missing something? 320/3203 is more like 10%
