{"id":43951,"date":"2020-12-27T14:01:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43951"},"modified":"2020-12-27T14:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T18:05:48","slug":"the-nashville-blast-unlike-any-other-on-u-s-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=43951","title":{"rendered":"The Nashville Blast Unlike Any Other On U.S. Soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Nashville: A bomb blast unlike any other on American soil<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Andrea Widburg<br \/>\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n<p>[See UPDATE below.]\u00a0The facts about the Christmas morning bomb in Nashville are not complicated.\u00a0\u00a0What is complicated is understanding who set off the bomb and why.\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s because this bombing does not match any other bombs that have exploded in the Western world.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, the facts about the bomb are not complicated: early Christmas morning, someone parked an R.V. in front of the AT&amp;T building near Second Avenue and Commerce Street in downtown Nashville.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1342565893486899201&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2Fnashville_a_bomb_blast_unlike_any_other_on_american_soil.html&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1342565893486899201\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before it exploded, the R.V. began playing a recording telling people to leave the area:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1342521448414539782&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2Fnashville_a_bomb_blast_unlike_any_other_on_american_soil.html&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1342521448414539782\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note the precision of that announcement: if you can hear this recording, you are in the blast range.\u00a0\u00a0The person who prepared that bomb knew precisely how far the blast would carry \u2014 and how far the announcement would carry.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville police, upon hearing that announcement, went door to door telling people to evacuate:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1342520168514265093&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2Fnashville_a_bomb_blast_unlike_any_other_on_american_soil.html&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1342520168514265093\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doing so was extremely brave because there was no reason to believe that the announcement was honest.\u00a0\u00a0That bomb could have gone off at any minute.<\/p>\n<p>At least three people ended up in the hospital.\u00a0\u00a0The police also announced that they&#8217;d found human remains, although they have not stated whether they were from a victim or the bomber.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1342596533133455367&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Fblog%2F2020%2F12%2Fnashville_a_bomb_blast_unlike_any_other_on_american_soil.html&amp;siteScreenName=AmericanThinker&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1342596533133455367\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even if a person other than the bomber ended up dying, this bomb blast was not meant to take human life.\u00a0\u00a0The street would have been relatively deserted on Christmas morning, and the R.V. itself warned people to leave the area.\u00a0\u00a0I therefore doubt that this was Islamic terrorism because I cannot think of a single act of Muslim terrorism that did not have as its primary goal killing as many people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Oklahoma City bombing, this bomb did not target a government building.\u00a0\u00a0Despite\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ciber2th\/status\/1342573702332833792\">the usual Trump-haters<\/a>\u00a0conflating Trump-supporters and Nazis, this fact alone probably means that one of the vanishingly small numbers of actual white supremacist groups in America was not involved because those groups tend to be hostile to the government.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the usual anti-corporate bombing.\u00a0\u00a0To begin with, those are usually &#8220;message bombings (&#8220;don&#8217;t ship chemicals,&#8221; &#8220;don&#8217;t cut down trees,&#8221; &#8220;don&#8217;t build weapons to hurt third-world countries,&#8221; etc.).\u00a0\u00a0The destruction was also insufficiently showy for the Antifa crowd, which views violence as theater.<\/p>\n<p>The CNN connection is also unimpressive.\u00a0\u00a0While AT&amp;T owns CNN, if this was an anti-media bomb, why not just bomb CNN?<\/p>\n<p>In any event, this bomb had such delicacy.\u00a0\u00a0There is no evidence that I know of saying AT&amp;T suffered\u00a0<em>massive<\/em>\u00a0structural injuries.\u00a0\u00a0AT&amp;T did experience\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/local\/2020\/12\/25\/att-outage-internet-down-hours-after-nashville-explosion\/4045278001\/\">wireless and internet disruption<\/a>\u00a0(including 911 services, which were quickly reinstated), but the injury was still a pinprick compared to the immensity of the explosion and to a savvy bomb-builder&#8217;s ability to destroy infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In sum, it&#8217;s unlikely (although never impossible) that the bomb was Islamic terrorism, or anti-government, anti-corporate, or anti-media terrorism.\u00a0\u00a0In some ways, the bomb was so exquisitely done \u2014 a huge explosion that wasn&#8217;t meant to take any lives \u2014 that it seems like showing off.\u00a0\u00a0That is, it seems as though someone made a point that, if he really wanted to, he could have done much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Little, a former federal prosecutor, has written\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexLittleTN\/status\/1342586114771714048\">a lengthy Twitter thread<\/a>\u00a0speculating about the bomb.\u00a0\u00a0He covers the things that had already occurred to me, and that I wrote about, above, as well as some other things, such as a targeted attack by an overseas enemy.\u00a0\u00a0Because the thread runs to 67 tweets, I won&#8217;t publish it here, but you may want to check it out because Little&#8217;s observations are interesting and the questions he asks are important.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation is always enjoyable.\u00a0\u00a0And until the police and FBI investigate more (video cameras, debris, witnesses, etc.) or until the bomber makes a statement, all we&#8217;ve got is speculation.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s not enjoyable is realizing how seemingly easy it was for someone to do this \u2014 and again, I wonder if that wasn&#8217;t the message: Americans are vulnerable.\u00a0\u00a0This year has shattered their confidence.\u00a0\u00a0They are vulnerable to disease; to &#8220;fear itself&#8221;; to malignant and tyrannical politicians capitalizing on disease and fear; to the disruption of its political systems; and now, with the year almost over, there&#8217;s a stunningly competent bomber out there toying with us.<\/p>\n<p>Along with everyone else, I am looking forward to 2020 ending.\u00a0\u00a0I am dubious, however, that 2021 will be any better \u2014 and today&#8217;s bombing in Nashville gave the nervous and paranoid among us one more thing about which to worry.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: A reader located in Nashville writes to say that my sources were not accurate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>911\u00a0service, Internet (NOC), air traffic control\u00a0 ARE STILL KNOWN TO BE DOWN\u00a0(not as stated in the article as &#8220;quickly reinstated&#8221;). Moreover, while I can\u00a0not find authoritaive\u00a0comment, it is being reported that the blast also\u00a0took out the &#8220;First Net Switch.&#8221;\u00a0THIS IS HUGE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNPDNashville\/status\/1342565893486899201\">The RV that blew up in Nashville<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Metro Nashville PD.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/nashville_a_bomb_blast_unlike_any_other_on_american_soil.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/nashville_a_bomb_blast_unlike_any_other_on_american_soil.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville: A bomb blast unlike any other on American soil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}