Could Obama disrupt all the disruptors with a trick from the W playbook?

[NightWatcher]

Bush always deflected from problems with a TERRA TERRA TERRA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_M2E-IQNkg

Except this time, the Pres could use Crazy RW White People as the threat instead of Brown People

on edit: for the I thought, understood, :sarcasm:

[Arkana]

1. I'd start hating him if he manipulated that stupid fucking alert system

so he could get what he wanted. It was cheap when Bush did it and it would be just as cheap if Obama did it.

Fortunately, Obama made it pretty clear that he thinks Tom Ridge's system is a fucking joke.

[BlooInBloo]

2. 'A' for effort. D+ for quality.

[bobburgster]

3. Oh God! Not the notorious elevated terror threat upgrades...

[kirby]

4. How about this...

Dumbest
Dumber
Dumb

[SIMPLYB1980]

5. Not a good idea. But thanks for reminding me about

the stupid color coded threat warning.

[NightWatcher]

7. I think this is the longest we have gone in years without a terra terra terra

I was just thinking about this earlier today.
Feels nice to have a sane Prez.

[SIMPLYB1980]

8. Yep it's very refreshing.

Unfortunately the right wing is keeping the terror level high with their recent actions. I don't need some damn color coded terror alert to tell me that. All you have to do is look around.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. I know you are being sarcastic!

:-(

But I fear that he WILL need to. I think - just my humble opinion - that these people are 'gearing up'. I DO believe we have a dangerous element in our midst. And they've blown up a Federal Building before.

Not wimping out and being a cry baby here - but listening to Mark Potok of the SPLC - he's bang on. They've watched this shit for years. At the end of the day - they KNOW. The Southern Poverty Law Center knooooows.

[gleaner]

11. There were always

right wing terror driven plots against the U.S. government. People in the U.S. just never seemed to pay much attention to them until Oklahoma City.

I worked for a federal agency in the 1990s which was a magnet for bomb threats and acts of violence. Most of them were not publicized because the agency felt it would encourage people to copy the violence and egg the existing conservative militias on.

During the time I worked there, we got telephoned bomb threats. There were so many of them that you learned to simply lock up your case work, grab your purse and go to a designated evacuation area while the police with the bomb sniffing dogs checked out the work area. Then you would go back to work as if nothing had happened.

Once I was told there was a bomb in a mail room behind my work area, and there really was. The managers came out visibly agitated and told us to grab our stuff and exit down the staircases. They cautioned us against using the elevators, or running or yelling loudly to keep from vibrating the building. We went out quickly, but quietly and stood in the heat until the news helicopters started flying over and the agency sent us home to avoid attracting attention.

My work area was also tear gassed by someone who left cannisters in the restrooms and set them off. The building had a closed air circulating system and it was quickly taken up. Fortunately we had access to a balcony at the other end of the building to get outside so we could stand and cough over the railing. I thought I was going to cough up a lung. The police came and got us off expressing concern that someone may have driven us out hoping to shoot us. My adult and intelligent response was, "Shut up!"

Before I went to work for the agency the office I was assigned to was burned due to a large arson device which had been set to go off when the employees were present. Fortunately, it malfunctioned and went off early. The building was burned and gutted so badly that the agency had to seek space in a new building.

At the office where I worked, opening mail was restricted to one or two people. They were instructed to open the envelopes carefully because employees in other offices had been slashed by razor blades which had been stuck in the mail. They were told not to open the envelopes at one end and blow into them to open them because employees in other offices had been sent envelopes with strychnine powder in them.

The militias thought that killing a federal employee of any agency gave them status, and killing employees from enforcement agencies (like mine) gave them even more status. Their web sites were always there. I used to check them because at times I had business with people who adhered to the conservative hatred of the government.

A long way around telling you that this is nothing new. No one cracked down on them then, and now they are acting as if it were a completely new experience to see such hatred.

Still I would not like to see Obama behave the way Bush did. There are freedom of speech issues here, and we progressives kept reminding the Bushwhackers loudly and often of that when they were trying to silence us.

If the wingnuts get violent, trespass or engage in disorderly conduct they should be treated like anyone else who breaks the law in a public venue and be arrested. If they threaten violence or perform violent acts, same deal. But you have to wait for someone to commit a crime. You can't lock him up because you think he might commit a crime. That is what Bush tried to do. It was wrong for him to do it, and above anything else I do not want to be as bad as conservative thuggery, the New Wave.:tinfoilhat: I'll just sit here in my tinfoil hat to ward off the insanity waves which come from the conservatives and keep on pointing out any lie, contradiction or criminal behavior they choose to perpetrate. It might help someone else who reads it, and it is the best I can do under the circumstances without becoming as depraved as they are.

[theothersnippywshrub]

9. He should call OedipusTex and then announce that he had consulted

with former President George W. Bush but had decided against using the former president's tactics.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. Adelante posted this re statement from the SPLC on Militias

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6287686&mesg_id=6287686

[KakistocracyHater]

12. just rename Severe into Severe Stupidity, High to Highly Unlikely,

Elevated to Elevated Hypocrisy, Guarded to Guarded Facts, & Low change to.....