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What's the price of a free society? Lunatics running around loose: online threats have lead UC Hastings to shut down, just for today. What are the threats? Who's responsible? We don't know. What we do know is there are a lot of unhappy, unpredictable, desperately fragile folks in the world, some of whom have had the bad luck of being burdened with pain from which it may seem impossible to ever recover; and we can only hope that our compassion for their misfortune is never fully erased by our anger at their deeds.
Date: April 18, 2007
To: Hastings Community
From: Dean Nell Newton
Re: Security Threat
Dear students, faculty and staff,
Today we have received information from an internet discussion board regarding a copycat threat of violence to the Hastings community. We have met with representatives of the FBI and the San Francisco Police and in light of the advice they have given us, we have decided to close the law school immediately. Offices will reopen and classes resume tomorrow (Thursday) as usual.
We have also secured the Hyde Street entrance to the law school, so that the only entrance and exit to the 198 Building will be from the beach. The San Francisco Police is patrolling the area with special attention to the 198 Building and the Tower.
As a precaution going forward, we will have to require that all members of the Hastings community present their IDs upon entering any Hastings building. All visitors will have to show a photo ID and sign in.
Additional security will be present throughout the Hastings buildings. Please report any suspicious individuals or activity to security personnel on the first floor of the 198 building.
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Former G-man to be sued in '92 mob hit
By JOSE MARTINEZ
in Sarasota, Fla.
and WILLIAM SHERMAN
in New York
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friday, January 6th, 2006
A former FBI agent helped set up the 1992 shotgun murder of a Brooklyn mobster, a federal civil suit to be filed today by the gangster's widow charges, the Daily News has learned.
The agent, Lindley DeVecchio, pulled a surveillance team shortly before the
[SFist: We're truncating this particular comment, the nature of which is apparent within just the first few lines, in the interests of brevity. This would be once of those "compassion for misfortune" situations we were talking about.]
I hope to post evidence linking FBI agents to 911, the Oklahoma City bombing, the first World Trade Center bombing, the Kennedy-King assassinations and other crimes they were caught committing as a Death Squad posing as a law enforcement agency.
a species that hires bodyguards to protect it looses the ability to protect itself and is doomed to extinction
CRIMES COMMITTED BY THE F.B.I.
SUGGESTED READING LIST
Bari, Judi. TIMBER WARS. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1994.
The F.B.I. attempted to stop the political activity of Judi Bari and Daryl Cherney by exploding a
bomb under their car. Daryl Cherney and Judi Bari filed a Civil lawsuit against the FBI and Oakland police. A jury awarded them $4.4 million
[SFist: This one too.]
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They didn't even evacuate Hastings for 9/11.
I goto Hastings, and the interesting thing is that the threat seems more to indicate tomorrow as the target date, not today. And yet they evacuated today, but tomorrow plan to resume.
This is the message on the message board which constituted the threat:
www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=616215&mc=6&forum_id=2
Well, Steakfrites, the 9/11 attacks were in New York City & DC, not San Francisco. I don't really think evacuating Hastings was necessary.
In this case, though, better safe than sorry, I would say.
Evacuate was probably the wrong word. However, if you'll recall they closed all the streets around City Hall because they considered it a target. Hastings is right by City Hall and the Federal Building. So not only did you have a situation where nobody wanted to go to class because they were all glued to the television watching what was unfolding around the country, but it was impossible to get there even if you wanted to unless you lived within walking distance. It would have been nice if they cancelled class is all I'm saying. Although I suppose I should let it go since it's been almost six years.
Why is SFIST truncating comments?
Those were particularly low-value comments, beneath even our threshold for quality.
Their text still exists on our servers in case there is someday a compelling reason to restore them.