THERE'S A TERRA ALERT, PEOPLE! Why aren't you ascared? Seriesly!

[Atman]

Come on! I'm series...on MSNBC right now... freeways in CA are shut down.

OOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!

This is HUGH!

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. freeways are shut down? Yuo kidding me right?

and this is a real terra alert?

Only reason I ask is... will have to calculate to cook dinner for hubby

;-)

[babylonsister]

30. Norwalk, CA nt

[Howardx]

73. im a few miles away

in lakewood. not scared.

[Darkhawk32]

85. Which freeway? The 105? Imperial Highway? n/t

[Dangerously Amused]

2. Oh Sweet Jeebus!

I am a-skeerded and a-fearded, truly I am!

[Richard D]

51. Damn,

Me too. The freeways here could get gridlocked if these morans don't open the freeways up.

[Beelzebud]

3. BE AFRAID OR YOUR GOVERMENT WILL MAKE YOU AFRAID!!!!!111oneoneone

[malaise]

4. ROTFL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[doublethink]

5. Yea 'State' run FAUX news broke this a little earlier ......

they are re-directing any 'Rove' talk to the 605 in Norwalk. So typical ain't it. Peace. :)

[Beetwasher]

6. Interesting, Rove Testifies Today, Terror Alert!

n/t

[The Magistrate]

10. What A Coincidence, Sir

What are the odds...?

[nadinbrzezinski]

45. With the bush administraion

100%

I know we are very cynical by now

[The Magistrate]

52. Indeed, Ma'am

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."

[jayfish]

62. With These Charlatans In Power?

They are actually pretty good. ...and they get better every day.

Jay

[Atman]

7. This is too funny...I'm not even joking!

The night after KO does his "nexus of terror" rundown, the day after the disastrous press conference, there is a terra alert in CA...and no one seems too ascared about it! LOL!

The first time I posted it, is sunk so fast off the page...LOL!

Great job BushCo...what'll we do if there's ever a real one?

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. hmm you mean I need to go check on MSNBC so I can calculate

cooking time?

Hey look on the real bright side, if this is real bad, Hubby may even be called in to work over time....

Yes I am now an unrepenting cynic

[CC]

19. And the same day

Olbermann was on Springer talking about the nexus of politics and terror.

If it weren't so damn sad it would be hilarious. Though doubt anyone stuck on the freeway would find it funny.

[FreedomAngel82]

39. LOL

Oh brother! I'll have to listen to today's Springer. :) Thanks for telling about Olbermann.

[Spike from MN]

79. Looks like Olbermann can add number 14 to his list. n/t

[mestup]

8. "suspicious package" found near Norwalk.

at Green Line Station.

[Skidmore]

14. Great, watch them blow up someones tofu.

[Atman]

18. Actually, I'd like to see that!

Kinda like Letterman dropping aquariums off the rooftop!

:rofl:

[joemurphy]

15. Jeez...UPS just delivered a suspicious package to my house!

...False alarm! It's a book I ordered from Amazon.com

[Atman]

31. OMG! FedEx just dropped off a box at MY house!

Could it be??? I was expecting a package, sure, but what if the evil terra'ists are inside? QUICK! CORDON OFF THE NEIGHBORHOOD!

[twaddler01]

93. oh crap

they found a box of soda bottles with a suspicious green color. I never thought Mt Dew could be so dangerous!!!! :sarcasm:

[joemurphy]

9. Figures -- Rove's testifying to the grand jury again today. n/t

[longship]

12. Popcorn time.

Who's afraid of this shit?

It's time to eat popcorn.
:popcorn: :popcorn:

[malaise]

20. Yep but one of these days

they will have to take it further than the threat because no one believes them anymore.

The coverage is hysterically funny - just noise on the TV - maybe we'll have a big boom in a few minutes. Who live in those neighbourhoods? Are they likely to vote next week?
Edit -sp

[McKenzie]

44. that thought has occured to me too...

"they will have to take it further than the threat because no one belives them anymore"

Jeez...frightening thought.

[longship]

54. The reason why nobody believes them

It's because they overreact to somebody leaving their lunch on a train platform.

[stop the bleeding]

13. Please, when will the pukes learn that this is getting

what happen to the boy who cried wolf?????

[cry baby]

16. Wolf...Wolf...

crying wolf again!

[Ron Green]

26. Yeah, unfortunately they're crying "Wolf Blitzer" n/t

[txaslftist]

77. "Wolfowitz!"

[longship]

17. Suspicious package found at train station.

The'll open it and find Krispy Kreme doughnuts

:donut: :donut:

[LSK]

21. really???

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051014/ap_on_re_us/terror_hoaxes

[splat@14]

22. Somebody is probably about to be indicted, or similar....red herring, n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

23. a suspicious package at a commuter train station - that is all it takes

to shut down a great american city.

What are we telling the world?

What are we teaching the terra-ists? See how easy it is to succeed, you don't even have to have bombs!. Empty wrapped boxes, with a note, "Thes is a bumb - due not tooch!"

what are we telling our children? that we are scared of our own shadows?

THIS IS ALL BULLSHIT. And, if real people wished us harm here, we would have been seeing much more of this.

A red bag. OOOO all of LA is at risk.
right.

[Walt Starr]

24. Are they trying to prop up the Gropenator, too? n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Lordly, lordly this is funny

by the way, yes they are looking for a package

makes you wonder we had a pipe bomb in lemon grove yesterday, and none of these idiots screeched to a halt... rovester was not in front of the jury though

[porphyrian]

27. Probably bird flu! Bin Laden! We're all gonna die!

Quick, defer all individual thought and responsibility to the nearest approved authority figure! You aren't patriotic if you aren't completely distracted!

[Marr]

Actually, we just call that "daytime" in California.

The freeways are always clogged up.

[Atman]

34. Actually, the freeways are EMPTY.

Not a single car on 'em. Everybody must have driven someplace to hide.

[mestup]

36. Did they have to interrupt a CA FREEWAY CAR CHASE to cover this package?

Seems like there's a freeway police pursuit once a day.

[Danger Duck]

28. Ummmm...

I'm having a problem with cookies?

[longship]

29. As usual, *everybody* but DU is overreacting!!

They've got the helocoptors, the bomb robots, and all the necessary entertainment elements. Made-for-TV movie coming in two weeks.

Utter BULLSHIT, this is.

[nadinbrzezinski]

37. now now the overreacting is the media circus

as a former EMS worker who once had the honor to be this close to a nice car bomb, (and thankfully remembered NOT TO USE My radio) I can tell you the cops are not over reacting.

It is SOP... now the media there... that is the over reaction.

You never know when you find one of those if this is a real bomb. So I don't diss the cops... now the media... absolutely and it is gonna be a mess this afternoon if they don't get that ahem determine in the next hour or so

[longship]

46. But it's not a bomb.

It's somebody's lunch, forgotten on the platform.

Yes, the police are overreacting.

[nadinbrzezinski]

53. No they are not

it is SOP when you find an abandoned package, 99.9% it is somebody's lunch... it is the other 0.01% that you have to worry about.

[longship]

61. Somebody needs to just toss it in the waste bin on the platform.

The lunch won't be good anymore having been in the warm sun all day.
:evilgrin:

[nadinbrzezinski]

65. As i said the problem is not that 99.9%^ of these calls

seem to be bogus or are bogus (and why the press should just not cover them)... it is that there are times you do find a real bomb.

I have seen it, a computer blown to bits after it was abandoned (the insurance was not gonna cover that one either), Heck my husband while in the navy saw an admiral's brief case go up in smithereens when he ahem forgot it for ten minutes ok.

Were either of these two items bombs? No... but procedure was followed because sometimes, rarely, they are.

I don't take the threat of terror as a joke, but I have been there done that...

And you know what? Most americans haven't, and when it comes to the bushies well they have abused it to the point that you are a cynic. Even if they were not around the cops would still respond, but if the press did not breathlessly cover each one of them... you'd never know about it.

Oh and a car in front of me that was full of C-4... yep, if it had gone off, I would have never even felt it

[longship]

72. I can't take this seriously. There's been too many Cry Wolfs.

This will only make people more afraid... afraid of what? People's lunch bags? This whole business plays into the neocon agenda to make people afraid.

What we are going to find out is that they brought a huge freeway to a halt, a mass transit system closed down, and disrupted a huge number of people's lives at a non-trivial cost for somebody's lunch box. I'll bet any amount of money that they have no coincidental threat, no reason to suspect this thing, independent of the fact that it is sitting on the platform.

The chance that this is a dangerous thing is immeasurable. By taking all this unnecessary action and disrupting a very large city, it makes people more cynical of these situations so when there is a credible threat in conjunction with a discovery like this, people will ignore it and then people will die who didn't have to.

This is ridiculous. They should have just tossed it away and been done with it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

75. People will ignore it until somebody dies

speak to a british citizen at and what he remembers from the troubles, or speak to an Israeli, perchance an Italian with the Moro Red brigade

the problem with the Bush administration chiefly, is that they have lost credibilty... but they started loosing it when they failed to educate civilians.

You see there was this teachable moment after 9.11 (and yes I am assuming the risk of external and INTERNAL terror is with us, chiefly internal) where people should have been told, what to look for... and that never happened

Instead what has happened is the use of terror to terrorize a population, state terror.

What you just saw on MSNBC happens all the time... hell yesterday they closed two blocks of Lemon Grove because they found what looked like a pipe bomb. Apart of the very local news, where this was significant... mostly happened in the middle of the day and on a main road, it never made it to the state level, let alone national.

Today's case warranted LA wide news, why? They had to shut out the freeway. It did not warrant national coverage... and the LA, well if they took care of it, as they did, fairly fast, we may even debate city coverage. It took the SD Sheriffs dept a tad longer yesterday.

That said, incidents like this happen a dime a dozen every day across the US.. they do... and they will continue to happen. They happen inside military bases all the time, as well as airports. Every once in a while... that car... or some years back they actually found a real doozey of a pipe bomb over here, they are real...

Oh and they also failed to educate you on other delivery means such as the USPS... I know what I am looking for... but again I have received the training.

As I said, don't criticize the cops. they did EXACTLY what they have to do every damn time... and they take it seriously every damn time, because you never know when that crank will go boom. Blame the media, blame the bushies, don't blame the cops.

[longship]

81. But this isn't Britain. It's certainly not Israel.

The London bombings were presaged by threats, and indications of threats. There were collaborative indications. Just like for 9-11, there was information that would have lead people to believe an event was imminent. I would bet my bottom dollar that this was not the situation in this case.

If we bring a city to a halt every time somebody leaves a backpack on a train platform we have let the terrorists win the war.

To make people afraid of everything is to let the terrorists win the war.

Giving significant national media coverage for every insignificant paranoia is to let the terrorists win the war.

I will not let these assholes--both in the administration and our enemies (how are they different these days?)--scare me. I refuse to be afraid of backpacks, suitcases, briefcases, or Barbie Doll lunch boxes. This whole thing is ridiculous. And people's paranoia about it plays directly into the terrorist's most heartful desires.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself.--FDR.

[nadinbrzezinski]

82. As i keep repeating over and over again

BLAME THE FUCKING MEDIA, not the cops

BLAME THE MEDIA, not the cops

BLAME THE MEDIA, not the cops

They did what hey needed to do, by SOP, the freeway is open now

BLAME THE MEDIA, not hte cops

BLAME THE MEDIA, not the cops

BLAME THE MEDIA, not the cops

The only moment it shold have become THE STORY, is if and when the cops find an actual explosive device larger than a pipe bomb, or when said pipe bomg goes off on the station and kills and maim people, not a second earlier

[spuddonna]

50. You're right - the media is the one over-reacting...

The police and other EMS workers are just doing their jobs...

What scares me is that now that people like KO are talking about 'crying wolf' so often, the * Admin. will DO something to scare the sheeple back into line... Then again, we've given up on trying to find Osama, so maybe he'll do the job for them for free... :(

[nadinbrzezinski]

68. Yeah that is what scares me, they will Op. Northwoods us

[spuddonna]

76. That's exactly what I fear...

These people are so damn power hungry, it's truly frightening...

[Atman]

38. They're already re-running the clips of the robot!

They ran out of terra in less than ten minutes! LOL!

[malaise]

70. The robot is too good

This is so unfair to citizens. This should be a crime. Why is the media playing along.

I really have to wonder if this is soem trial run for blackouts during the election. They couldn't really try this again after the last mess up.

Edit - spelling and add sentence

[Kikosexy2]

32. Terra!!...

Is Scarlett terrorizing Rhett and Ms. Melanie again?

[colbushwhacker_2000]

33. Why am I not surprised ?

Just how many more 'terra alerts' will we have over the next several days?

[FreedomAngel82]

35. Oh I need to run to my mommy!!

Gotta get my teddy bear too.

[HEAVYHEART]

40. I'm skeeeered!!

:scared:

[mongo]

41. OMG!111111 THIS IS HUGH!111111

[Atman]

49. Hey, don't mock...it's very series!

HUGH and SERIES...stop mocking the terra alerts, dammit!

[wryter2000]

56. This is SERIES!

TERRA-ISTS HAVE NO MORELS!!!11

[pacalo]

42. Does that mean the indictments are about to be announced?!

Yayyyyyyyy!

[ewagner]

88. This was

"just in case" the indictments were issued this afternoon.

[pacalo]

90. So we should expect another one next week. Will get out the duct tape.

:toast:

[wryter2000]

43. Someone tell Olbermann

He's keeping track of these.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

47. OH FOR GOD'S SAKE

geez.

[Walt Starr]

48. So when are they going to announce there was underwear

and an iPod in the backpack?

:shrug:

[TallahasseeGrannie]

55. I don't see anything on MSNBC online

I'm at work w/ no TV. Can you elaborate? What the heck is happening there?

[Marr]

57. This has GOT to be against some kind of law. Isn't this

"state sponsored terrorism"?

[Walt Starr]

58. These fucks are assuming it's a bomb in the commentary

Nothing like getting the trainwreck of a teleconference off the front lines, eh?

Watch, it's another bogus piece of crap distraction terra lert.

[Walt Starr]

59. These fucks are assuming it's a bomb in the commentary

Nothing like getting the trainwreck of a teleconference off the front lines, eh?

Watch, it's another bogus piece of crap distraction terra lert.

[Digit]

60. I am sooooo shocked! *NOT*

Quick, look over HERE!

[Rocknrule]

63. "Be afraid! You ALLLLLLLL taste so much BETTER when you're AFRAID!!!!!!!"

to quote Tim Curry in Stephen King's IT

[newyawker99]

86. Hi Rocknrule!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[longship]

64. The worst part of the whole deal

is that somebody might have to go without their macro-biotic lunch.

[Richard Steele]

84. They'll detonate it- cilantro EVERYWHERE! nm

[CottonBear]

66. Yawn. n/t

[Connie_Corleone]

67. Friday News Dump coming soon. nt

[Atman]

69. Good point...Maybe Fitzy is gonna hold a press conference

...but we wont see it because a robot in CA is extricating someone's lunch from a backpack.

[txaslftist]

78. Yep. Time to kill the weekend scandals.

[tandot]

71. Some freeper probably left a suspicious package to get the heat

of his/her beloved president. See...the news stopped talking about all of Bush's screw-ups...and is reminding us that we should live in fear and support Bush

[LibertyorDeath]

74. My Wife keeps finding

my suspicious package :)

Love it when that happens.

[txaslftist]

80. You know, one of these days they're going to have to ratchet up...

...and plant a real bomb. I bet they can get some British special forces, maybe dressed as muslims...

Wow, that's just crazy talk. They wouldn't do anything like that. That'd be, like, unAmerican. Like deliberately breaking the law by funding money to groups congress said you couldn't fund from drug dealers. I mean, that kind of thing might kill Americans. They'd never stoop to something like that.

No one would ever do anything like that.

I'm such a wacky, wild-eyed conspiracy theorist.

[Generator]

83. AKA Keith Olbermann's number 14/nt

[RB TexLa]

87. I haven't changed habits since Sept 12, 2001

After the first attack I did as many people did. I keep some cash in a secure place in the house I keep water bottled, and a supply of canned goods. I canceled a trip at that time and have greatly cut back on all travel since. I did not celebrate Christmas except as a spiritual event. There isn't anything for me to do when someone on TV says that people are supposed to jump, I've already done it.

I still keep the modest emergency supplies, I have not gone back to spending money as I did before Sept. 11. I'm not as concerned about massive organized attacks as I am about individuals doing things. It really doesn't take much for one person who hates the US to kill many people, it's only hard if they want to live through it. And harder if they don't want to get caught. But either way, regardless of what is or is not credible what is or is not politics, you just prepare once make sure it's all there from time to time and hope you are not where someone decides to blow themselves up.

[SillyGoose]

89. #14 right on schedule.

Hey, at least they are punctual. I give them an A+ for punctuality.

[Justice Is Comin]

91. You know the real irony of this,

terrorists and radical muslims who are planning something in the future have to be laughing their asses off. They don't even have to do anything anymore.

Bush has got America so scared with terror alerts, we spend millions to fend off terror which was never there. It's like vitamins, one a day.

[SillyGoose]

92. And you know what bothers me most about this.....

with this perpetual "cry wolf" syndrome, when its for real people will brush it off and chalk it up to another phoney alert.

Welcome to DU...I like your username. Let's hope justice is indeed comin' to those who deserve it.

:hi:

[twaddler01]

94. yeah, and when something bad happens

we are screwed...