Disagree With Your Political Opponents? Just Call In A Bomb Threat At Their Meetup

Submitted by Mastodon on Sun, 2015-05-03 19:19

Article here. Excerpt:

'What I missed was not only an event with Breitbart London‘s Milo Yiannopoulos, AEI fellow Christina Hoff Summers, and journalist Cathy Young in the same room; but also a bomb threat from the “tolerant” crowd. Yiannopoulos, Summers, and Young are among the conservative and libertarian journalists that have been promoting the #GamerGate movement, which claims to support ethics in gaming journalism and says that gaming development and journalism has been hijacked by the social justice warrior crowd.

"Police arrived on the scene at approximately 12:15am, just over three hours after the meetup had kicked off. The evacuation began immediately, causing particular difficulty for the event’s two disabled attendees, who had to be carried down from the second floor. The other floors of the bar, which were occupied by regular customers, was also evacuated.

Attendees were initially told by the bar’s staff that there was a fire drill, but the presence of dozens of police officers including a K-9 bomb squad van suggest that the call had more to do with bomb threats that had been made against the event earlier. Police at the scene would not comment on the reason for their investigation, although more details will become publicly available in due course."

The bomb threat came after Salon columnist and #GamerGate opponent Arthur Chu tried to get the venue, Local 16, to cancel the meetup.'

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Possibly it is simply bad timing on his part. He may have had nothing to do with the bomb threat. Regardless, if the police are looking for their first suspect and this article describes the only direct attempt to stop the meeting via appeals to the venue owners, etc., then Chu is probably talking (or has chosen not to) to police at this moment. Bad day to be him regardless of whether or not he was involved.

Lesson: play nice. Once you start trying to shut down the exercise of free speech via one means, should it fail, you become suspect #1 for when less acceptable means get employed, even if you had zilch to do with it.

As more news surfaces, I'll post it.

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Submitted by Matt on Mon, 2015-05-04 05:13

so....
when will we stop insulting feminists by calling them "feminazis"? and call them what they really are? " Terrorists !"
...

http://menshaven.wikifoundry.com/

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Submitted by ErikaLancastor on Mon, 2015-05-04 13:49

unlike feminists, terrorists usually don't have as much facial hair, have much better personalities and apparently believe there are lots of pretty virgins left who aren't lezbo feminists.

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Submitted by daveinga on Wed, 2015-05-06 02:35