{"id":5924,"date":"2015-02-23T07:07:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T12:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5924"},"modified":"2015-02-23T07:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T12:07:58","slug":"department-of-homeland-security-issues-warning-after-mall-of-america-terror-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5924","title":{"rendered":"Department Of Homeland Security Issues Warning After &#8220;Mall Of America&#8221; Terror Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-02-22\/department-homeland-security-issues-warning-after-mall-america-terror-threat\" target=\"_blank\">Department Of Homeland Security Issues Warning After &#8220;Mall Of America&#8221; Terror Threat<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>First it was ruthless snow (in the winter), then we got a port blockade (caused by well-paid US workers demanding even more), and now, unveiling the last pillar of the holy trifecta of economic disappointment scapegoats, earlier today the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, aka the &#8220;De(r)partment of Fear&#8221;, Jeh Johnson said that in a video the Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group al Shabaab called for attacks on US shopping malls, specifically citing the Minnesota mall, and that the agency is taking this threat against the Mall of America \u201cvery seriously\u201d and that people should be \u201cparticularly careful\u201d when visiting the mall in Minnesota. It was unclear just how being &#8220;careful&#8221; would protect one from\u00a0<em>ad hoc<\/em>explosive detonations and other mass murder event, but that&#8217;s a bridge the Department of Fear will cross when it gets to it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As cited by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/02\/jeh-johnson-mall-of-america-115396.html\">Politico<\/a>, &#8220;What we\u2019re telling the public in general is you\u2019ve got to be vigilant,\u201d Johnson said on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ve just revamped our \u2018If You See, Say Something\u2019 campaign at the Super Bowl \u2026\u00a0<strong>Americans should still feel that they are free to associate, they are free to go to public gatherings.\u00a0<\/strong>But it\u2019s critical that we have public awareness and public participation in our efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, don&#8217;t be too scared. Just scared &#8220;enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnytime a terrorist organization calls for an attack on a specific place, we\u2019ve got to take that seriously,\u201d he explained, \u201cSo, through our intelligence bulletins, through working with state and local law enforcement, through working with the FBI, we take this kind of thing very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department Of Homeland Security Issues Warning After &#8220;Mall Of America&#8221; Terror Threat First it was ruthless snow (in the winter), then we got a port blockade (caused by well-paid US workers demanding even more), and now, unveiling the last pillar of the holy trifecta of economic disappointment scapegoats, earlier today the secretary of the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,2290,301,3705,3706,3707,792,3704],"class_list":["post-5924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-al-qaeda","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-fbi","tag-mall-of-america","tag-shabaab","tag-shopping-malls","tag-terror","tag-terror-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5924\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}