State Senator Slams Trump After Son's JCC Pre-K Gets Bomb Threats

[Synecdoche Trope]

Source: Rolling Stone

By Tessa Stuart
9 hours ago

On Monday morning, the Levine Jewish Community Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, received its third bomb threat in two months. This time, administrators were used to the drill. They didn't even evacuate – just had law enforcement sweep the premises and went along with their day. State Sen. Jeff Jackson, whose son Owen is enrolled in pre-K at Levine JCC, learned about the newest threat on Twitter while in line for lunch at Chipotle.

That's how routine bomb threats have become at Jewish Community Centers and the preschools many of them house; more than 100 such threats have been received at JCCs around the country since President Trump took office.

"We've had three bomb threats in the last five years, and they've all happened in the last 60 days," {Sen. Jeff} Jackson, a Democrat who represents North Carolina's 37th district, tells Rolling Stone. "Find me the person who thinks that's a coincidence."

He places the blame squarely at Trump's feet. "Only one big thing has changed in American society in the last 60 days that would have any connection to this whatsoever," he says.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/state-senator-slams-trump-after-sons-jcc-pre-k-gets-bomb-threats-w469638

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But hey, it was just Jews toppling their own headstones "to make people – or to make others – look bad," as our Great Orange Leader hath proclaimed, right? Right?

[Cha]

1. But, hey the m$m deems him "presidential"

Link to tweet

[Mc Mike]

2. dRumpfenfuhrer's nazi fanboys are cowards.

Always going for soft targets. Never proving how brave they are in any way that could get them hurt personally.

[chelsea0011]

3. Terrorizing a JCC with pre-school children? Sounds about right for his crowd.

[Orrex]

4. We call them terrorists.

Trump calls them his base.

[meow2u3]

7. That sums it up perfectly nt

[DK504]

12. And he is really roots those tourists out.

'Cause they really love 'Merica.

[wildeyed]

5. Jeff Jackson is an up and comer for the Dem Party.

Keep an eye on that one....


I was actually AT the JCC when the most recent bomb threat happened. Didn't even know until I left that there was a problem.

[blm]

14. whoa..scary times

glad to have Jackson speaking out for us

[wildeyed]

15. It's weird.

I have been a member for ages. The police have always walked through occasionally and they have a visible and active security team. But there are now two police cars parked out front at all times. I cut through the campus on foot sometimes. I even know some of the security team. But they are clearly tracking me (or anyone on foot) now. I try to stay away from buildings if I am not actually entering one, just to make them more comfortable.

Members I chatted with are not scared. They ARE mad at Trump for insinuating they were calling in threats on their own temples.

[blm]

16. He insinuates it because accepting responsibility is unheard of for him.

He's pure evil and he will give his white extremist supporters all the room they want to terrorize their perceived enemies because he sides with anyone who sides with him.

[wildeyed]

18. It's true and people are already dead as a result.

All of his fear-mongering and lies incite the more unstable and unhinged of his supporters. Trump thinks he is in control, that he is using them, but he is not. You cannot pick and choose when you enable racists. Mob mentality takes control and things go off the rails fast.

[ananda]

6. But it's just a false flag conspiracy ..

.. designed to make 45 look bad!

Shure shure.

[IronLionZion]

8. After Bowling Green, Atlanta, and Sweden

our President can't speak out against the attacks on Jewish community centers or the murder of Indian engineers, or the mass murder in Canada because liberal snowflakes have bullied him into silence.

Remember him condemning this in his speech to Congress? Me neither.

[pecosbob]

9. How is it

that the FBI knows what books I check out at the public library yet they can't trace these simple cell phone calls?

[Sunlei]

10. would think if trumps 3 main 'homes' got 1,000 bomb threats by 'robo-call' they'd trace those calls.

[Solly Mack]

11. Always evacuate. You have just told the haters you no longer bother to evacuate.

That you've become so accustomed to the threats, you no longer get the kids and the staff outside to safety.

Always evacuate.

Sooner or later, a bomb will go off.

And those domestic terrorists making the threats - and any domestic terrorists reading the paper - now know you don't evacuate.

Please - don't allow yourself to become so inured at the lack of bombs found because it only takes one time - one bomb - to kill everyone in the building.

Yes, it's a hassle. Yes, it can be like choosing to live in fear or not letting the haters get the best of you.

But you can't take the chance that there won't be a bomb eventually. You can't.

Trump has gotten the haters so pumped up they are liable to do anything.

Please - evacuate. Please.

[blm]

17. You should post this on his FB page, Solly.

I agree with you.

[Solly Mack]

21. I'm not on FaceBook but if you are you can post it.

I am worried about them letting people know they don't evacuate. Some idiot with actual bomb-making skills could bring the building down.

[blm]

13. This is the same Jeff Jackson who we followed during that "Snow Day" a couple years ago. He's smart

and he's a veteran and he has great political instincts as well as being telegenic.

The NC version of Pierre Trudeau.

[h2ebits]

19. Not a good response

I have two grandchildren in a JCC daycare center. In January, they were evacuated due to a bomb threat.

I think that ignoring the threat and going on about their day was/is a very bad thing to do. THIS TIME it was a threat. Maybe not the next time.

Perhaps the perpetrators are just hoping for this result--keeping the kids in place while sweeping the building. Next step--actual bomb.

Additionally, it is now "advertised" by the news that they didn't evacuate. The hate and anger is omnipresent and we must remain on high alert.

I'm so sorry to read about this.

[Bengus81]

20. Remember...they don't protest and break windows.....

Nah...just bomb threats,desecration of cemetery's,shooting people in cold blood in a bar,driving around in the pickup truck drunk and pointing shotguns and threatening blacks.

Nah....pure as the driven snow.

[Initech]

22. Yeah breaking windows and looting is so much worse!

[Initech]

23. HEY MSM, THIS IS TERRORISM! REPORT IT AS SUCH YOU COWARDS!

[uponit7771]

24. +1, they're not only being cowardly they're helping normalize him !!