A threat of domestic terrorism in Boston?

[Nordic Fire]

Quoting Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/25/confusion_reigns_as_security_rules?mode=PF):


The Fox 25 logo was covered with blue duct tape, perhaps in response to the FBI warning issued last week that a radical group of domestic terrorists may target news vehicles. Most network and local TV news trucks were parked in a designated lot inside the hard zone, authorities said.
That reference to domestic terrorists really caught my eye. Perhaps I'm just being naive here, but what kind of people would hold such a grudge against the media that they'd resort to hurling "explosives or incendiary devices" (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/24/dems.main/index.html) at the press?

Anyone here from Boston? Are the security measures evident all around the city or just closer to the hard zone?

[BlackRain]

They are still trying sort out where the anthrax attacks against the media came from a while ago. Perhaps, they are just giving fair warning.

The term "domestic terrorism" could mean anything from environmentalists or anarchists causing trouble like in Seattle.

[Secret Squirrel]

Quoting Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/25/confusion_reigns_as_security_rules?mode=PF):


The Fox 25 logo was covered with blue duct tape, perhaps in response to the FBI warning issued last week that a radical group of domestic terrorists may target news vehicles. Most network and local TV news trucks were parked in a designated lot inside the hard zone, authorities said.
That reference to domestic terrorists really caught my eye. Perhaps I'm just being naive here, but what kind of people would hold such a grudge against the media that they'd resort to hurling "explosives or incendiary devices" (http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/24/dems.main/index.html) at the press?

Anyone here from Boston? Are the security measures evident all around the city or just closer to the hard zone?

I dont know if its a grudge against the media or just trying to convince the media it's supposedly in their best interest not to cover certain stories or events.

[BlackRain]

There is a history of media being assaulted by Democratic Convention members:


27 Aug 1968: TV newsman Dan Rather gets beaten up in front of cameras on the floor of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The reporter was trying to interview a delegate being dragged off the floor when the bruisers turn on him. "He lifted me right off the floor and put me away. I was down, the breath knocked out of me, as the whole group blew on by me... In the CBS control room, they had switched the camera onto me just as I was slugged."

[usa320]

Them little prick anarchists and wanna be communists that protest make the police's job of preventing REAL terrorists from attacking insanely difficult.

THey should tell them to go protest somewhere else.