The FBI has released an unverified tip that those people who “hate freedom” are planning on attacking shopping malls in LA and Chicago this season. Before you buy more duct tape, the FBI emphasized that “there is no information to state this is a credible threat”—but they felt they needed to share it “out of an abundance of caution.”
This is this writer’s first ever scare-orrist post! I was starting to think that the era of crazy death warnings from The Enemy were behind us, and here I was with a blog platform to help spread the fear. But now my job here is done.
“FBI warns of possible shopping mall attacks” [Reuters]
“L.A. terrorist threat discounted” [Los Angeles Times]
(Photo: Getty)
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No, this is complete BS. If they say “Uhh, it’s non-credible, but there are rumors that maybe someone might attack some mall sometime?” and then don’t do anything to stop it, and it happens anyway, everyone’s still going to be angry at them.
Just spreading the non-credible rumor, with no suggestions for people to do anything to protect themselves, won’t do anything to stop an attack. All it does is make people scared. I have to figure that’s the point.
And no one’s going to blow up a mall. Jeez. This is like that mentally ill guy that they tortured until he “confessed” to several fake and implausible planned attacks, which they then reported as “foiled attacks.” In fact, I’d bet money something similar is the source of this “information.”
Al Quaeda goes for symbolic targets in the US. My guess is that their next attempt will be on the White House or Congress, because that’s what they failed to hit on 9/11. And believe me, I don’t say that flippantly or want that to happen in any way. I have close friends in DC, and I worry about them every day.
It’s too late. The people who “hate freedom” are running the country.
Considering how crapifying our economy is going (dollar at an all-time low, subprime meltdown, rising gas prices), you’d think the government would be encouraging people to go shopping with the holiday season right around the corner. I’m not scared of stepping into a mall due to this latest propaganda scare, but I’m not much of a fan of going to the malls during the holiday season anyway. So I can now sarcastically tell people I ain’t stepping into a mall because al Qaeda could bomb the food court. Thanks for giving me the excuse to avoid the malls entirely during the important retail holiday season!
Even if they thought their cat was sending them telepathic messages that al-Qaida might bomb the mall, that would cause the powers that be to lose sleep. The consumer is 70% of the economy.
“Out of an abundance of caution” I must tell you that 40,000 Americans will die on our roads this year, it will probably get dark tonight and sometime in the next year it might rain. Puh-leez.
@Pinget: “I must tell you that 40,000 Americans will die on our roads this year“
Is that a threat? Because don’t think for one second that I won’t call Homeland Security to report you.
The terrorists have already won. They wanted to change our way of life, and with all of the government spying and making us afraid to leave our homes, they have succeeded.
I wonder why the continued Al Qaeda threats on our Office Supply stores doesn’t get more press? We can’t let them get their hands on our Post-It Notes!
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Wouldn’t the Mall of America be a better symbolic target for terrorists? PLUS it’s right by the airport…
The odds of dying from reading to many bad opinions on this site are much greater than dying from a terroist even if we had done nothing after 9/11 security wise.
I agree with you 100%. Those that complint about the alerts would be the first one in line saying “They knew and did not informed the public” if the whole thing goes south.@taney71: