SPJ Airplay event gets shut down by a bomb threat.

[Luigi]

The Society for Professional Journalism attempted to hold a panel discussing the issue of ethics in journalism raised by the gamergate movement. However, gamergate detractors called in a bomb threat and the event had to be evacuated. The SPJ Airplay twitter hashtag then trended worldwide. Here is a video from the event:



Here is an article on the event:

https://reason.com/archives/2015/08/18/ ... play-gamer

The conference was also livestreaming around the world and here is what was recorded before the bomb threat:



And for good measure, I also found an article written by a journalist who has recently investigated GG:

http://risemiaminews.com/2015/08/how-th ... ight-back/

[Edge Guerrero]

- Cound't security try to prevent those things from happening?

[Luigi]

They never want to take a risk on something like that because even if it happens only 1/100 times, that still 1 time where people die.

[Edge Guerrero]

They never want to take a risk on something like that because even if it happens only 1/100 times, that still 1 time where people die.

- Ahh, now i understand.^^

[Canuckster]

Ahh I get it.


Did they close down the school when the suitcase clock kid was from?


Didn't think so.

[Luigi]

Not sure what youre getting at, but Id say a bomb threat against a political gathering and a kid with a homemade clock suitcase are non-equivalent.

[Luigi]

I just googled the whole suitcase clock thing and found an interesting analysis:

[Canuckster]

Not sure what youre getting at, but Id say a bomb threat against a political gathering and a kid with a homemade clock suitcase are non-equivalent.

Yeah, a school full of innocent kids or a political gathering with a scumbag politician who likely. Hasn't had the truth pass his lips in decades, worth taking out some of the Proles to get rid of one cancer if u ask me.

[Daglord]

I just googled the whole suitcase clock thing and found an interesting analysis:

damn. infowars gets is (almost) right. can't disagree with anything in that video. wouldn't have watched otherwise. thanks luigi.

I can sum up this whole clock charade in :20.



infowars did get a couple things wrong, but minor details.

- it was a pencil case, not a briefcase. doesn’t really make much difference in intent, but def size difference. & the kid is still claiming he "invented" a clock among other things now (CPU boards, bike).

- he actually plugged it in during English class after being told to put it away & intentionally set the alarm to go off. this is almost ALWAYS left out & only came to light after he admitted it in an interview. I'll see if I can find it again.

- he was very brief to the police during questioning & evasive in his answers.

- his sister had been suspended from the same district before because "some girl said she was gonna blow up the school", but info on that is protected under a privacy act that the sudanese parents won't agree to release.

[Daglord]

and I could be connecting imaginary dots here, but...

The NASA shirt, Muslim outreach initiative and staged psy-op "to make the Muslim world feel good about its contributions to science and mathematics" ?

"When I became the NASA administrator, (President Obama) charged me with three things. One, he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math; he wanted me to expand our international relationships; and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering."

this entire thing could be dissected on so many levels. but, imho, there is definitely something @ play here. it's too obvious & people are still buying/exploiting it.