“Homeland” TV Show Inspired Terror Hoax Costs Strapped California Taxpayers $29 Million
Similar threat received in New York dismissed as implausible
Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
December 16, 2015
Schools in Los Angeles reopened Wednesday following a terror hoax that prompted officials to cancel classes for 640,000 students.
“We believe that our schools are safe and we can reopen schools in Los Angeles Unified School District tomorrow morning,” school board President Steve Zimmer said on Tuesday evening during a news conference.
The shut down of the nation’s second largest public education system cost the state of California $29 million.
An email sent to Los Angeles and New York school officials on Monday threatened the use of nerve gas and pressure cooker bombs. The mention of nerve gas is believed to be a reference to a recent episode of “Homeland,” a Showtime television series about an al-Qaeda prisoner of war and a CIA officer suffering from bipolar disorder.
New York declined to shut down its school system in response to the email, which warned students “at every school in the New York City school district will be massacred, mercilessly. And there is nothing you can do to stop it.”
NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton dismissed the threat as implausible. “It was so generic, so outlandish and posed to numerous school districts simultaneously… that in fact it would be a huge disservice to our nation to close down our school system,” he said.
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