Update January 18th: Arrest made in the graffiti incident—bored twentysomething confesses, bomb threats appear to be stunts too, but those responsible have not yet been identified, according to this report.
Update: Jerry Gordon got the scoop and posted it at New English Review. An arrest was made today in this case. I’m sure we will have more news tomorrow on the motives of this Tysons employee.
I didn’t even tell you about the first bomb threat, here, but over the weekend the controversial Shelbyville, TN chicken plant got another bomb threat.
This is what News Channel 5 from Nashville is reporting:
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn.- For the second time in less than a month, a terror threat is made at a mid-state plant.
Shelbyville Police say a bomb threat was made Saturday night at the Tyson Plant. They say the threat was written in graffiti on a wall inside the plant.
This is not the first time this has happened. At the end of December, someone also used graffiti to make threats against employees at the plant.
For the earlier graffiti (reportedly “all americans must die”) terror threat that the feds were called in for, go here. Tysons has still not released what exactly was written in that pre-Christmas event, nor whether a woman’s bathroom had been set on fire.
Meanwhile, the ‘Welcome to Shelbyville’ propaganda film has been selected by the US State Department to be shown around the world.
The documentary film is meant to show how a southern redneck Bible-belt town can learn to live with Somali refugees who have come to work at Tyson Foods. I told you more about that Saturday, here.
Last evening I happened to see a Fox News critical report of this State Department program that is apparently sending films around the globe that are showing the world our dirty linen at a huge cost to taxpayers. Searching around for a link to this story, the only thing I found quickly was this AP story by none other than Matthew Lee. Longtime readers will remember Lee as the reporter who each month at the end of the Bush Administration pounded Bush and the State Department on not bringing enough Iraqi refugees to the US fast enough.
Here is what Lee says about the State Department’s multi-million dollar propaganda film series of which ‘Welcome to Shelbyville’ is a part.
The “American Documentary Showcase” series is funded and organized by the State Department’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. It brings “award-winning contemporary American documentaries to audiences around the world to offer a view of American society and culture as seen by independent documentary filmmakers,” according to its website.
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The department said that this year’s selections, chosen by the University Film and Video Association and independent international group of filmmakers, educators and students, explore topics ranging from civil rights and the treatment of military veterans to environmentalism and freedom of the press.
More later, I don’t think this issue is going away.