Terrorism in 'Murica (aka The Homeland)

Sort-of-islamist should have hyphenated for clarity

Yeah, thank god it's not worse than it might have been. But we're not in a stage where stuff is ordered from on high, this may have had a certain motive, but how do we react to this dispersed, autonomous ideology?

http://gizmodo.com/explosion-reported-in-manhattan-cause-unknown-1786763151

I don't react. I keep moving, quickly.

So they said definitely intentional, second unexploded bomb similar design to Boston marathon bomb (design can be found on internet), checking for links to NJ race pipe bomb but so far no link to (international) Islamic terror.

It's remarkable that no one died, it was a really powerful bomb. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/19/nyregion/new-york-explosion-chelsea.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-ab-top-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

Luke McConnell, who was visiting from Colorado, was headed toward a restaurant on West 27th Street when the blast occurred.

“I felt it, like a concussive wave, heading towards me. Then there was a cloud of white smoke that came from the left side of 23rd Street near Sixth,” Mr. McConnell said. “There was no fire, just smoke.”

Witnesses said they could feel the explosion from several blocks away. Daniel Yount, 34, said he was standing on the roof of a building at 25th Street and Avenue of the Americas with friends.

“We felt the shock waves go through our bodies,” Mr. Yount said.

Seems like ISIS loners. They really underperformed this time, thank god. nypost fwiw: http://nypost.com/2016/09/18/there-will-be-more-chilling-911-call-after-the-chelsea-explosion/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunch_of_Guys

lol come on

5 people taken into custody

http://abc7ny.com/news/multiple-people-taken-into-custody-in-connection-with-chelsea-explosion/1517053/

another explosion in NJ: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nyc-explosion-fbi-cops-investigate-vehicle-interest-n-y-new-n650306?cid=sm_tw

Shit.

Suspect named for the Chelsea bomb, 28 yo Afghanistan born naturalized us citizen of NJ.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2016/sep/19/us-authorities-investigating-new-jersey-explosive-devices-live-updates

home raided

iPhone extreme alert during Monday morning commute is one way to change the dialectic

I know this is 'letting the terrorists win' but I am strongly tempted to call out today

The NJ stuff is happening about 10 minutes' walk from my apartment.

Hell, if them winning is you taking a personal day then fine, let them have this one.

Personally, I feel like the 'letting them win' thing is more applicable if bombs go off in NY and NJ and you decide to stay home with the curtains drawn even though you live in Wichita. But if there's danger of subsequent events in a place where shit has already gone down, it's only natural to be cautious.

Did it just now. My boss was cool about it.

Sounds like NY and NJ are handling this very professionally and thoroughly, but then, I don't have TV. Maybe TV is hysterical. Probably so.

When is TV not hysterical.

Big Bang Theory?

I don't have tv either. I think they'll handle this well but I'ma give them a day to find the rest of the cached fucking bombs.

Xpost Oh shit, multiple meanings not intentional.

XD

Fp'd for microaggression

Now you're definitely letting the terrorists win.

making people's phones play a siren sound is not "handling it very professionally" imo but i guess it's not boston-level insanity

coming home from manhattan over the weekend while cops ran around in the subways yelling F IS CLOSED F IS CLOSED POLICE ACTIVITY GO HOME makes a fella nervous for sure

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CsuXx-LWIAAgyjw.jpg:small

lol

suspect captured in Linden NJ after firing at a cop

Nice

Just seen film of him being taken away on a stretcher.

https://twitter.com/ItsTonyNow/status/777892751757180928

tbf i imagine they're checking for weapons?

P sure that's a direct transcript.

They're checking for embedded cellphones.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fj1HFuaZrD0/ThJdI2QpQPI/AAAAAAAACgQ/esATtrnuZeo/s1600/PDVD_108.BMP

Maybe, given their constraints, they are implementing thus far extra-legal tickle torture tactics to get him to talk. They are going to get some stubbly SWAT dude to blow raspberries on his tummy until he spills the beans.

Disturbing new details in alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer

New filings claim there was a Plan B the militiamen had drawn up, that involved a takeover of the Michigan capitol building by 200 combatants who would stage a week-long series of televised executions of public officials.

There was also a Plan C -- burning down the state house, leaving no survivors.

"economic anxiety"

Look, an armed coup is totally a reasonable response to not being able to get a haircut.

give me wings, or give me death

Look, an armed coup is totally a reasonable response to not being able to get a haircut.

Also gotta love that their backup plans were just as outlandish. Plan D was to hijack the Space Shuttle and pilot it into the Mackinac Bridge.

iirc that was actually Plan E, Plan D was to poison this year's crop of Traverse City cherries and hand deliver them to everyone at the statehouse.