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Posted on 04/19/2007 11:44:57 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
A Web designer was charged Thursday with posting on his own site a bogus threat to kill 50 San Diego State University students, then alerting a TV station to try to draw publicity, the FBI said.
Cristobal Fernando Gonzalez, 32, was faces one felony count of making a threatening communication through the Internet.
His parents said outside the federal courthouse that he was remorseful.
"I hope it doesn't ruin his future," said his mother, Diana Gomez.
A 12,000-student school district in Yuba City, Calif., about 35 miles north of Sacramento, was locked down Thursday as authorities searched for a man they say threatened to dwarf the Virginia Tech attacks, in which gunman Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people and himself.
In Michigan, police said they arrested a former Kalamazoo Valley Community College student who posted Internet messages praising the Virginia Tech shooting. Officials closed the college's two campuses through the weekend.
_ A high school student in Federal Way, Wash., near Seattle, was arrested after authorities said he brought three loaded guns and extra ammunition.
_ A 20-year-old man in Bismarck, N.D., was charged with saying on a blog that the Virginia Tech massacre was funny and that he had plans for a school shooting rampage.
_ A high school student in Fort Smith, Ark., was arrested after police said he scrawled a message on a classroom desk saying he wanted to "be a hero" like Cho.
_ In St. Augustine, Fla., a 14-year-old high school student was charged with threatening in an e-mail between friends to top the Virginia Tech massacre by killing 100 people, a sheriff's spokesman said.
_ Students received threatening text messages at Kearney High School in Kearney, Neb. that said things like "Don't go to school tomorrow." The school called off classes for Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
and, the school in LaVerne CA, which is closed tomorrow...
“A 20-year-old man in Bismarck, N.D., was charged with saying on a blog that the Virginia Tech massacre was funny and that he had plans for a school shooting rampage.”
How do you go on a rampage in North Dakota?! j/k
“How do you go on a rampage in North Dakota?! j/k”
Cows and outhouses hardest hit.
The decision and rationale by NBC and FOX to now “pull back” the Cho video is utterly ludicrous. It is ALREADY out there, ON THE INTERNET!!!! There is no PULLING BACK, you FREAKS!
“The decision to run this video was reached by virtually every news organization in the world, as evidenced by coverage on television, on Web sites and in newspapers,” NBC said in a statement. “We have covered this story—and our unique role in it—with extreme sensitivity, underscored by our devoted efforts to remember and honor the victims and heroes of this tragic incident.”
This was evidence toward a crime, and they didn’t care. Posting the video has resulted in copy cat threats around the nation. What point did it serve? the B.S. about airing it so that people could understand why it happened makes absolutely no sense. Are the american people a bunch of psychiastrics sitting around waiting for a case to happen. the video being televised was a crime, and if blood result from it, NBC and others that aired it should be shut down. Why give gasoline to possible psychotic “fires” burning around the nation? Utterly contemptible. I guess ratings is what it is all about to the newsies. They just do not care, nor should we care about them, but condemn them.
There needs to be a nationwide boycott of NBC advertisers....anyone here watch NBC? Hello...anyone?
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Thanks for the ping, Karl. I couldn’t find anything more about the LaVerne High School. Maybe the community is too small.
CALGARY/AM770CHQR - Calgary police are investigating a threat at David Thompson Middle School in Acadia.
It was written on a washroom wall on Tuesday and parents received a letter about it Thursday.
The letter tells them that police have been at the school and that it would be understandable if kids were kept home Friday, the anniversary of the Columbine shooting.
But it also says students are not in jeopardy.
Results 14,710 (stories) in the last hour for school threat
There will be no school at Bonita High School
on Friday, April 20
Due to an emergency situation, we are canceling school Friday, April 20. School will resume on Monday. The District Office phone line (909.871.8200) will be open at 6:30 a.m. if you have further questions.
_ “In St. Augustine, Fla., a 14-year-old high school student was charged with threatening in an e-mail between friends to top the Virginia Tech massacre by killing 100 people, a sheriff’s spokesman said. “
Rigggggght.
Rigggggght.
A plumbing problem, undoubtedly.
Yikes, that’s a lot of threats. How long do you think this will last? Until next week? Two weeks? A month? Until school is out?
While NBC might be held culpable for prompting the lion’s share of these threats, I think that the incident in Virginia was too big and covered too intensely, by all forms of the media, to not have caused the surfacing of attention seeking copycats.
I have never been able to understand why,in the wake of some terrible event, there are those who find it thrilling or funny to do something overtly provocative. The list of those arrested, as found in this post, seem to run the gamut from school kids to those who are certainly old enough to know better. Makes me wonder about the overall mental health of the country.
There was the following line in Cho's manifesto.
The number of you descendants of Satan that I have killed is nothing compared to what my People - my Brothers Sisters and (unreadable) that you #$%#&$ - will do. They will be influenced by my framework ...
The manifesto and the text captions to the images makes it clear that Cho intended to inspire revolution. This should have been obvious to NBC and they should not have aired this data.
And if they catch any of these ‘children,’ what will they do with them? Hard, hard, wrist slap?
My TV is off and I share the disgust that all the media trumpeted this senseless and brutal act.
However, if there had been a news blackout, the conspiracy theories would by now have taken over the Internet and the airwaves. There is no *win* in any action taken by the media.
IMO, too many of our kids have been brainwashed into finding all acts of gratuitous violence, especially those perceived as being anti-authority, worthy of emulation. How can we even assess something as nebulous as the mental health of a nation when the inculcation of the past 35 years is now embedded in the national psyche? I have read posts on other sites where people took Cho’s side because he ranted against “the rich.”
One specific post I read sympathized because his sister was “forced” to attend Princeton (average tuition $45k/yr) because the family could not “afford” Harvard.
Add in the reality TV shows and YouTube and it appears the young people are only interested in how they can become instantly notorious.
FNC had almost a week of non-stop VT coverage. It isn’t only NBC. What would the conversation be if NBC had simply turned the Cho material over to the LEO?
She hopes someday he will move out of her basement. Poor baby, he is such a good boy.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Bomb threat closes Texas State University until 6 a.m.
Texas State University has closed this morning because of a bomb threat. University and San Marcos Police are on the scene investigating. Students, faculty and staff are asked not to come to campus until after 6 a.m. Those on campus are asked to stay in their residence halls or places of business until after 6 a.m. Check with the Statesman for more details.
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