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A few minutes ago, phones across Hawaii received the above emergency alert about a "ballistic missile threat inbound," but according to state officials it isn't true. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii's [governor] David Ige and the state's Hawaii Emergency Management Agency all chimed in on Twitter to confirm the alert is false. It took 38 minutes before a second alert reached phones, confirming that the first one was a mistake.
Honolulu police confirmed in a post that "State Warning Point has issued a Missile Alert in ERROR!," while Buzzfeed reporter Amber Jamieson tweets that one EMA employee said it was a part of a drill. US Senator from Hawaii Brian Schatz said the "inexcusable" alert "was a false alarm based on a human error" while the National Weather Service called it a "test message."
The governor said on CNN that "It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button."
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/13/hawaii-missile-eas/
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @04:15PM (5 children)
I'm trying to follow the logic, but some dumbass pushed the wrong button and panicked everyone but because they were fearful already, it's somehow Trump's fault. I'm thinking that the people who are too crazy and extreme for San Francisco politics must be moving to Hawaii. The Clinton News Network should also be commended for working overtime on their propaganda war. Goebbels would be proud.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @08:41PM
It is ALL Trump's fault! A warning like this did not seem quite legit, (cell phone alert, but no EMS announcements on radio or TV, no newly restored "you're all going to die" wavy emergency sirens), but the fact that Trump is the POTUS made that alert at least plausible. The Panic is ALL Trump's fault, and by extension, the fault of all you fuckers who voted for him. I hope your city is the next to get an exercise like this.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Joe Desertrat on Sunday January 14 2018, @10:47PM (2 children)
Because Trump's dick waving contests with the leaders of North Korea have again brought us to this point?
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Monday January 15 2018, @02:51AM (1 child)
What does someone pressing a button at a shift change have to do with North Korea?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:28AM
Well, you see, the Cold War is over. INCOMING BALLISTIC MISSILE! Where do you suppose it would be coming from? New Zealand? Iraq? Tahiti? China? Burma? No, there was only one plausible source of an attack, and that is what caused it to be a plausible warning, and it is only Trump's precedency that has made it so. In fact Hawaii has only re-instated some of it's cold war Emergency Messaging system because of Tromp's policy toward North Korea.
(I guess it could have been one of ours, with a malfunctioning guidance system, possibly launched from a sub, or Alaska. But the basic rule of friendly fire is that it is not, and the second is that it almost never is anticipated. )
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15 2018, @03:43AM
I wonder if he still keeps around Harry Truman's old sign [wikipedia.org].
The President is supposed to have ultimate responsibility for even something like this. We'd thought that we put the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation behind us, but then he goes into a dick waving contest with North Korea. Other presidents have dealt with North Korea's posturing in more delicate ways than saying shit that makes them feel like they might just have nothing to lose, and making the threat of nuclear annihilation as credible as it had been in the days of the Cold War.