Well I was wondering why nobody called in a bomb threat and here someone
did.....now how did the FBI know this was NOT a real threat?
Look at Oklahoma - FBI and BATF and a Judge stayed home that
day.......they seem to know the real thing when it comes along - but yet
the closed down this one place because of bomb threat?
Something little strange here......but then they had their expert who
said the Unabomber was a self educated man, which was to be taken as
implied insult - and the guy they arrested was a Harvard Professor?
Tell me - had you known about this bomb threat and had you been a
delegate and there was rioting in the streets, wouldn't you have liked
to know about it?
Those people in Oklahoma - it would have been nice if at the least, the
mother's could have left their babies home that day.....
Strange, is it not - a bomb threat called and nobody listened?
Saba
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Feds make arrest in Democratic convention bomb hoax
Saturday, 19 August 2000 18:54 (ET)
Feds make arrest in Democratic convention bomb hoax
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Federal agents used high-tech scanning
devices to search for a possible bomb during the Democratic National
Convention and to track down the caller who allegedly phoned in the
threat, which was later found to be a hoax, the Los Angeles Times
reported Saturday.
Lawrence David Meyers, 56, was arrested by the Secret Service on
Thursday night at his home in Santa Monica and arraigned the next day on
two felony counts of phoning in a bomb threat on the opening day of the
Aug. 14-17 convention.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said Meyers reportedly used a cellular phone
to make two calls to 911 emergency operators Monday claiming to have
planted bombs at the Staples Center, the site of the convention, and at
the Record-Gazette newspaper in the Southern California town of Banning.
Federal authorities said Meyers is a member of a radical group called
the American Revolutionary Party.
The calls were reported to the federal command post at the convention
center, which was checked for explosives on Friday, a day after the
convention ended, the Times said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon Wright told the Times that agents at
the command post decided it was not practical to attempt to evacuate the
crowded arena and instead used high-tech bomb detection equipment to
hunt for explosives while the convention was in session. At the same
time, the Secret Service began using other sophisticated equipment to
trace the source of the calls.
Wright said Meyers had a call-blocking function on his cell phone,
allegedly to avoid detection.
Although no bomb was found, Meyers faces 20 years in prison. Meyers,
who was free on bail Saturday, has denied making the threats, and said
he called 911 last Monday only to report debris on the highway.
"We consider him to be a danger to the community ... because of the
gravity of a threat to an event like the DNC, where the president and
vice president ... are present, in addition to the 20,000 people
attending," Wright said.
There had been reports circulating inside the convention hall Monday
and throughout the week that a call of this nature had been made, but
these could not be confirmed.
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