Breaking on CNN: Washington Monument being evacuated

[meganmonkey]

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Park Police have evacuated the Washington Monument.

D.C. police received a telephone threat to the Washington Monument. The National Mall area near the monument has been evacuated. A source said that the threat has limited credibility.

Constitution and Independence avenues have been closed, as well as 15th and 17th streets.

Authorities will search the area near the monument will be searched.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/5071852/detail.html

[sabra]

1. The Washington Monument has been evacuated, according to local TV reports

http://www.cnn.com/

The Washington Monument has been evacuated, according to local TV reports in the nation’s capital.

[tatertop]

4. Perhaps a Zarqawi sighting!

[Debau2005]

My goodness...

when the poll numbers drop the "terra" alerts increase. Must be that new math!

[recycledindi]

2. duh

oh good god. the assministration is in trouble & rubble and terra pops up everywhere. not just the first time. This is the 13 coincidence. Hmmmmm

[Maine-ah]

36. the thing is, even a bomb being dropped on the capitol wouldn't

make chimpy's ratings go up. It just further proves the fact that we are no more safer now, than we were before. My prediction would be his numbers dropping for doing such a shit-ass job on national security.

[smirkymonkey]

65. Somebody had compiled a list once of "Terra Alerts" and the

events that preceded them, usually some kind of scandal in the Administration or negative economic reports, etc.

Does anyone know where that can be found? I didn't bookmark it unfortunately but it was someone here at DU who posted it.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. I'm a-scared!!!

:scared:
:scared:
:scared:
:scared:
:scared:
:scared:
:scared:
:scared:

The terrists are going to bring down a huge stone monument! (yeah... right)

What bullshit!:grr:

[meganmonkey]

5. Well, it looks phallic, so let's just blame the Clenis!

:P

[Cooley Hurd]

9. Snarf! At least CNN is saying the threat is of "limited credibility..."

I love to laugh at their inane attempts to frighten me.
:rofl:

As per Jon Stewart: "Do they really think we're retarded???"

[Rhiannon12866]

46. I don't know about you, but that soda can scared me to death!

And I have yet to realize what the effect of this new terrifying threat is going to be on me! Yikes!
:scared::nuke::scared:

[Cooley Hurd]

47. BOO!

Duck and cover!!!!!! :rofl:

[0007]

50. Here is the WMD This would have wiped out half of midtown Manhattan

[Cooley Hurd]

52. HA!!!! I love baked beans, but...

...I could NOT, in good conscience, buy THAT product! :D

[Rhiannon12866]

56. Oh, no!!! It wasn't Pepsi, was it?!! I don't think that they ever said...

Coke is one thing, but Pepsi already scares me on a regular basis because of their attempts to take over the world...
:scared::scared::scared:

"Is Pepsi okay?" "NO!!!":grr:

But at least it wasn't diet...:shrug:

[bunny planet]

14. LOL

It's all the Clenis's fault. Everything forever and for all time is all the fault of the Clenis.

[MadisonProgressive]

35. The Clenis does seem to pop up at the most inconvenient times!

[Zhade]

17. That reminds me of a scene from Futurama (yes, I'm a geek):

[meganmonkey]

28. Ha ha!

I love that show! Good call!

:toast:

[Zhade]

34. Me too. I'm just a big geek.

Loved your write-up about the arrests, btw. I'd have "celebrated" afterward myself.

Cheers!

[meganmonkey]

44. Thanks!

[HuffleClaw]

62. oh man thats a good one.

classic hilarity. that show rocked.

[Zhade]

64. Hey, OT, but I was wondering - your name, is it from Harry Potter?

If yes, it's clever.

[ET Awful]

6. What, was someone drinking a Mountain Dew? . . . or was it a Pepsi? n/t

[tatertop]

10. Cheney has had enough: Mountain Dew means marshall law!

[Debi]

25. Does everyone who drinks Pepsi products hate America?

[dean_dem]

31. No...just their teeth.

[calico1]

7. OMG!

More bubbly soda? :scared:

[lonestarnot]

Someone pooped on the lawn!

KKKarl had a fear crap.

[dkofos]

8. So much for fighting them over there

Caution West coast!!

[Overseas]

49. You said it !! THat's the bottom line !!

Someone should go out there with a huge banner--
SO MUCH FOR FIGHTING THEM OVER THERE !!

[twaddler01]

11. HMMM......

no news yet anywhere on news.yahoo.com about this......

[meganmonkey]

13. Yep - and the banner at CNN is gone....

:shrug:

[UpInArms]

12. Marketing Terror - the specialty of this mal-administration

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/12/schneider.iraq

September 12, 2002 Posted: 7:50 PM EDT (2350 GMT)

excerpt:

What's the political convenience? Strategist Dick Morris spelled it out in a recent column: ``Polls show that only one issue works in Bush's favor: terrorism.''

Does Morris think the president is, as they say, ``wagging the dog'' to divert attention from other issues?

``He doesn't need to wag the dog,'' Morris writes. ``He just needs to talk about wagging it to make the impact to keep control of Congress.''

<snip>

...White House chief of staff Andrew Card told The New York Times last week, ``From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.''

...more...

[superconnected]

26. yes, but he can let a terrorist attack happen.

so wagging this dog is a scary one considering we know he want's us to be obedient out of fear.

[daleo]

15. I wonder how Rove's testimony went today?

Not that well, I'm thinking.

[Debi]

16. ENOUGH KARL....JUST GO TESTIFY!

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[meganmonkey]

18. Link to VIDEO:

http://nbc4.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=187148

(well according to the site there is breaking video here but all I can see are ads :shrug: )

[twaddler01]

19. JUST CAME IN

WASHINGTON - The Washington Monument was evacuated Friday after a bomb threat was called in to local police.

U.S. Park Police Sgt. Scott Fear said the call came in at 2:24 p.m. EDT and the monument was evacuated a short time later. Bomb-sniffing dogs were called in and two blocks between Constitution and Independence avenues were closed off.

:: some more ::

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051007/ap_on_go_ot/washington_monument

[meganmonkey]

20. Yet another example of DU getting the news before everyone else

:toast:

[dave123williams]

21. It's particularly vulnerable...as a target.

One guy in a vest could bring the whole thing down.

[brentspeak]

22. Doesn't Karl Rove know crank-calling is against the law?

[goforit]

55. ROFLMAO!!!!!

:bounce:

[superconnected]

23. the terrorist threats will continue...

And you better dang well start looking scared or they'll turn up the heat.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

24. Lousy day to visit

Pouring rain as I write.

[Southpaw Bookworm]

33. You got that right.

Though the current state of the monument is sad enough: all fenced off and surrounded by barricades. No more flying kites on the lawn.

[Minstrel Boy]

27. I think Wolf phoned it in himself

so he'd have something he likes to talk about all afternoon.

[Roland99]

29. Good fvcking grief

:eyes:

[LoZoccolo]

30. Karl Rove should have known they caught the last guy to do this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mayer

Karl, just turn yourself in already, before you get in more trouble!

[MadisonProgressive]

32. yawwwwwnnn.....

Wake me up when the 'terra alert' is over.

[MadisonProgressive]

37. False alarm! Just a bottle of Fanta Orange!

[Debi]

38. The new face of terrorism

[Zhade]

39. "Don't touch The Rex's Orange, biatch!"

NT!

[Debi]

40. Get back in line you damn liberal media hounds....

[Zhade]

43. That made me grin.

Someone needs to do one of him as the Hulk...

"BUSH SMASH!"

Sadly, all too true.

[NuttyFluffers]

61. Curse you, infamous Orange Plus! and sidekick, the Fantanas!

america's nemeses! citrus flavored soft drinks!

so... don'cha wanna, wanna fanta, don'cha wanna, wanna fanta, don'cha wanna... :evilgrin:

[pinniped]

41. Anti-obelisk fanatics.

.

[NYC Liberal]

42. Chimpy heard about the terra alerts in NYC yesterday, soooo...

he just had to have his own! Couldn't let anybody outdo him.

"WOW, that still works?? Get me Chertoff on the phone!"

[Rhiannon12866]

45. As my friend just said, the real danger here is the panic that they're

causing! First the soda can, now this! We get it, already! You don't want us to think about Rove and DeLay! We get it!!!:grr:

[drb]

48. "And it's gonna be reeeeel skeeeery!"

[saddemocrat]

51. It's a good thing...

that this war on terror has made us so much safer :sarcasm:

[u4ic]

53. Sgt Fear

is that Karl Rove's new pseudonym?

[goforit]

54. Mihop in the making again?....37% approval hits below the belt.

[IndianaGreen]

57. Everytime there are bad news for Bush, there are terra alerts!

These people have zero credibility left!

[geniph]

58. Indictments? Oh, wait, LOOK OVER HERE! SHINY!

BRIGHT SHINY NEW TERRA ALERT! Don't look at that man being hauled off to testify before the grand jury, don't look at the man being indicted for criminal conspiracy, don't talk about the insider trading, look, SHINY! SHINY! Unspecified threat from unconfirmed source at undisclosed location from unknown (but REALLY SKEERY) persons!!!

Give me a fucking BREAK.

[sofa king]

59. I swear, this town is just like High School. .

I'll bet it was some jerk in Homeland Security looking to get an early start on a holiday weekend, calling in a bomb threat.

[yo-yo-ma]

60. we haven't seen such "terror" tactics

since the election

therafter were gone the orange alerts -- now (with poll numbers falling)
suddenly we have a new offensive in the war on terror -- a more specific form of engendering mass hysteria - vague threats and evacuations (nyc + dc) --

[classics]

63. Restoring the 'sense of urgency to the war on terror'.

Didnt Bush actually just say that a few days ago in a speech?

Totally transparent.

[survivor999]

66. Yes, that is exactly right. And all this talk about deadly flu...

Makes me very nervous about a coincidental flare of a 1918-like avian flu in a blue state.

[Tight_rope]

67. Aren't these people going over board now...Damn!

It's like damn you have undoubtedly told us that KKKarl Rove is guilty. What next an actual explosion. Oh yeah! We had on in SE Texas one Wednesday at a chemical plant that makes plastics. I'm sure * and the gang were behind the whole thing. It was just so obvious.