Since when have terrorists been in the business of warning people before they attack them?
Over 1000 schools throughout Los Angeles, California have been closed down today after a single anonymous threat was made to a member of the school board via telephone.
LA Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines said the threat was made to students at the schools.
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Cortines described the message as a “credible threat” that targeted “not one school, two schools, three schools. It was a threat to many schools.”
He also said, “I want every school, every early education center, every adult school searched.”
The decision to close all schools was allegedly to ensure that everyone is “absolutely safe”.
Yet, we might ask a very simple question: When have terrorists ever warned anyone that they are about to try and kill them? As demonstrated here, such an act only foils the plan.
Why then, is this threat considered to be ‘credible’?
A society based upon fear allows for elites, those with political, economic, social, cultural, and even religious power, to exert significantly more control and dominion upon those under them all in the name of ensuring that everyone is ‘absolutely safe’.
It allows for a process of securitisation to take place, wherein security concerns always come before anything else; especially before democratic values and principles as we have witnessed in Western societies since 9/11.
Should authorities take preventative action to stop mass destruction from occurring? Absolutely. However, such action should only been taken when absolutely necessary, and not to further a political agenda that seeks to maintain a climate of fear and the implementation of a security state.
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