Would you go to work if terrorists planned an attack on your workplace?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Poll question: Would you go to work if terrorists planned an attack on your workplace?

Let's say there was a specific warning from the US government that a terrorist attack on your workplace was imminent. Would you show up for work?

[Keebs]

1. No

The government would never be that 'honest'. These terror warnings are so generalized. If they actually pinpointed a location, then I might think twice about it being a real threat.

[Mojambo]

2. Um, no.

I want to meet the sucker who answers yes.

[kentuck]

3. And if they fired me, I would get a lawyer....

How can an employer force someone to walk into a building that has been declared a possible terrorist target ???????

[Birthmark]

4. Under such circumstances...

...the stockholders should form a Militia and protect their property. It's in the Constitution. It's the American thing to do! ;)

[CaTeacher]

5. A day off is always appreciated.

But I don't believe in "terrorists" I have more faith in the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus.

[Birthmark]

11. I'm not much on all these threats, either.

But I *do* believe in holding people accountable to the best of my ability. ;)

[libhill]

39. Oh, they're out there

all right - but of the domestic, Republican variety. The Moslems are nothing but a boogey man, a scape goat.

[The empressof all]

6. We need to take what the g-ment says seriously

I would advise that no one in NY, NJ, or WA go to work tomorrow. They are telling you your life is at risk. Stay at home!

[kentuck]

7. Exactly !

Who are you supposed to believe???

[The empressof all]

9. The republicans tell us we should trust them

They are telling us that we are putting our lives at risk by going to work on Monday. Folks in NY, NJ and WA need to stay home. The sky is falling.

In fact we should all stay home- those terrist could be trying to trick us-They may be hitting Chicago, Seattle, LA and Podunk instead.

Please for God's sake people, Save yourselves. Stay home with your families. Think about the children

[candy331]

17. Funny lol n/t

[libhill]

40. UH, HUH

And I just wonder if they'd be telling you that if Chimp was way ahead of Kerry in the polls - I seriously doubt it.

[rman]

45. there's no specific warning for an attack on your work place, is there?

just a general "terrorists want to attack big corporations"

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Nope.

Sure wouldn't. They want to play this game? I'll play along and not go to work. If enough people do that for long enough maybe business will start screaming about the friggin' warnings. AND, people should be reimbursed for having to miss work every time the Gov. gives a terror warning. (like that would happen :eyes:) They would think twice about throwing them around.

[IronLionZion]

10. I was just thinking about this

The place I work at is way too easy to bomb. There are three levels of parking garages underneath the whole business district! A few trucks full of explosives would kill more people than on Sep. 11

Scary. I just hope nobody wants to bomb this place.

[Generic Other]

12. "oh, the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof

through the night that the Mall was still there..."

[Lizz612]

13. No, with one possible exception

If I worked at a hospital (as I might someday) I would go there to help get the patients out. Otherwise, screw it.

[rube]

14. I wish I had a job to go to...

...but thanks to Chimpy, I've been unemployed for two + years.

[pinniped]

15. Depends on if I would get paid or not...

nah, j/k.

[daa]

16. Did the ATF

go to work when OK City federal bldg was bombed? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Not one of them.

[WoodrowFan]

24. BS

a total RW (far RW, like neo nazi) fabrication. Do you blame the Jews too?

bye bye

[guitar man]

27. Do you have any links for this

I have a freeper in-law who rails about this constantly and would love to drop some hard facts on her ass to shut her up.

[WoodrowFan]

28. came froma friend in ATF

came from a friend in ATF (on the beer side, not the gun side, and a good Democrat to boot). He said they were at work but escaped injury. (No, he wassn't there, he's in DC) Every site I find with a search comes up with a RW site ranting about "Klinton" and the New World Order or the jews or some such. Will have to look again.

Mark

[WoodrowFan]

29. Holy S**T is was on FREE REPUBLIC!

Found this on, of all place, Freek Republic. Am looking for the transcript online as well....

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b01a37a2b4d.htm

Total of 10 employees worked in the law enforcement office and 3 employees were inspectors:
Supervisor - Alex McCauley - there
Special Agent Luke Farney - there
Special Agent Donald Gillispie - Ponca City, testifying at a state arson trial
Special Agent Harry Eberhardt - there – left for a trial @ Federal Courthouse sortly before 9AM
Special Agent Mark Michalic – Not @ work yet
Special Agent Delbert Canopp - on his way back to OKC after picking up a witness for the Federal Grand Jury
Special Agent Tim Kelly - Ponca City working with Agent Gillispie doing the state arson trial
Special Agent Karen Simpson – with Canopp @ Federal Courthouse
Special Agent Darrell Edwards – not @ work yet – had worked late the night before
Inspector Vernon Buster – there
Inspector Jim Staggs – there
Inspector Bruce Anderson - out performing Compliance Inspection
Secretary Valerie Rowden - there

So, there were actually only 5 ATF employess in the building when the bomb went off:
Supervisor - Alex McCauley
Special Agent Luke Farney
Inspector Vernon Buster
Inspector Jim Staggs
Secretary Valerie Rowden
Severly Injured: Jim Staggs and Vernon Buster – spent extended time in hospital
Injured: Luke Farney and Valerie Rowden

[daa]

36. Here is one of many

ATF CLEARED OUT OF BUILDING?

While at least 10 ATF agents were at the Murrah Building moments after the blast <10>, it seems that the ATF office inside the building was empty at the time of the blast. The ABC program 20/20 (01/17/97) interviewed a man who, while looking for his wife at the Murrah Building, ran into an ATF agent who said that he had survived the blast because "We were tipped by our pagers not to come into work today."

That same individual, whose wife was injured in the blast, had been interviewed previously along with two other witnesses by NBC's affiliate in Oklahoma City, KFOR television (09/12/95). The second witness, the boss of the first, told KFOR viewers that he had overheard the account of the first witness just cited. The third witness, a rescue worker, had also been informed that there were no ATF agents in the building that day. All three witnesses spoke to KFOR, just as the first of the three spoke to 20/20, in shadow for fear of ATF reprisal. <9>


http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/okc/okcknwl.html

[daa]

34. What are you talking about

idiot.

[Baltimoreboy]

18. Of course I would

You live with the threat every day around here.

Fuck 'em.

[Name removed]

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[Baltimoreboy]

21. Because I would go to work?

You must be kidding. It IS a stubborn response.

I live around this crap every day. I just drove by added security near a couple sites in Montgomery County. It happens pretty often. Does that mean I should hide at home and be afraid to come out?

Never!

If I get real concerned, I could always move to Virginia where you can carry a gun openly.

[sandnsea]

22. Exactly

Which is why we know this "new threat" is bullshit. If they actually knew something specific there is no way they'd let anybody go to work and there is no way anybody would just shrug it off. I heard about the financial targets a couple of weeks ago. What's new? John Kerry and his rallys of 10-20,000 people? The economic slide that needs an explanation?

BTW, you managing to stay on this board is really a feat. My hat's off to you!

[Baltimoreboy]

46. I disagree

You can't shut down an entire sector of the economy based on a threat. You boost security and move on.

[VOX]

19. No, not if the gov't specifically named my workplace...

And I fully realize that I'm at far greater risk of being struck by lightning on an uncloudy day than being done in by "The Terrorists! The Terrorists! The Terrorists!"

That said, if the gov't was very specific about a time and place of "terrorist attack," and my presence interesected with that specificity, I'd stay away, because I simply don't trust my own government right now -- not with the cast of characters that are in place.

[LoZoccolo]

23. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Of course I can say this because most likely, they would have cancelled work in the real world anyways. Or my mom would call me up saying she was worried so I'd stay home just for her. But other than that, I think I might just be "crazy" enough to say "fuck the terrorists" and go.

[TexasSissy]

25. Yes, if they can't pinpoint a date. What am I gonna do,stay home forever?

[InkAddict]

26. Can you say AmeriKan

scabs from the coalition nations of the willing and the paid off would be delighted with additional temp jobs. Perhaps the go "Dutch" bankers didn't like Greenspan's bank getting a raise? Who says alchemy is pseudoscience?

[LWolf]

30. No. It wouldn't be a choice.

I'm a public school teacher. If there was a warning about a terrorist attack on my elementary school, school would be closed. If there was a specific warning about a terrorist attack in our general area, our whole district would close for the duration.

Not out of the range of possibility, since I live near plant 42 and Edwards Air Force Base.

[JPJones]

31. I would probably fly to Alabama or Nebraska. n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

32. Enforced patriotism.

In 1962 I was an 18 year old marine, in the air wing, stationed at El Toro, in Southern California. We were deploying to Japan for a year and our planes had been junked. We were to pick up the planes that were there. Then came the Cuban Missle Crisis a few days before we left. All the of the other squadrons at El Toro left for less likely targets of Russian nukes. We were the only squadron on the base.

Just to make sure that we did "come to work" we were literally locked in our barracks and MP's patrolled to make sure that all of us were dumb enough to stay at ground zero.

I still have a soft spot in my heart for Nikita Krushchev for being sane.

[JVS]

33. Any excuse to miss work is a good one.

The specific warning of attack on the workplace would qualify as excellent

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

35. No

I'm a mother, even if I didn't believe the threat, if it were THAT specific, I think I owe it to my child to stay alive.

[salin]

37. given the track record of this administration and "immenent"

I'd show up.

[libhill]

38. Hell no

I refuse to be used as a statistic for the Bushies benefit - fuk 'em in the ass -

[rexcat]

41. Damn tough question to answer since...

I have a home office.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

44. Me too.

I'd go camping if I was told that alQaeda planned to bomb my house. Or, maybe a motel room.

[Tight_rope]

42. Yes...I got bills to pay!

[jdj]

43. they have, it's called free trade and out-sourcing.

[Sahjhan]

47. Nope.

[Bridget Burke]

48. If my employers tell us non-essential folk to stay home, I will.

There's a procedure we follow when hurricanes, etc., threaten. I'd pay attention.

As far as unilaterally decided to stay home because of what some Republican mouthpiece is bleating--nope.