Harvard Law School instructor and civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has been cc’d on some three dozen emails containing bomb threats this year. Caraballo, a transgender women, says the emails are aimed at LGBTQ-supportive “school districts and neighborhoods and have targeted large and small allied businesses and individuals,” though no evidence has been found linking any of the threats to actual explosive devices.
Reports LGBTQ Nation:
Since April, Caraballo has been sharing the emails with the FBI but says she’s frustrated with the agency’s lack of action.
“I don’t know how seriously they’re taking this,” Caraballo said. “It’s absolutely terrorism, that’s exactly what this is. Even though they’re not going through with it, people can be traumatized.”
In December, Caraballo shared a thread on Twitter, now called X, revealing a connection between posts by Libs of TikTok and other online hate peddlers to an earlier series of bomb threats against Boston Children’s Hospital. She says that’s why she believes the “hoax bomber,” as the Daily Beast calls the person, is notifying her of their actions.
“It’s either one person or maybe three or four people on a Discord,” Caraballo speculates. “You can’t rule out that it’s not some kind of foreign operation either.” …
While the “hoax bomber” has so far not followed through on any of their physical threats, Caraballo calls the actions another kind of danger.
“It’s corrosive to democracy and it corrodes public institutions and public trust. Beyond the immediate terror and fear and anxiety, the wide-scale campaign of this is corrosive to public institutions, and that’s what worries me long-term,” she said.
Read the complete LGBTQ Nation story here. Read the Daily Beast story here.
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