Got a weird phone call today

[hermetic]

A woman's voice, recorded, started telling me how we here in Idaho are about to be invaded by Syrians. At the time I was quite busy so I just said, "WTF?" and hung up. In retrospect, I should have stayed on the line to hear more and maybe who was calling. I don't have caller ID right now.

Where did they get my phone number, other than the phone book? Anyone else get one of these? I would like to find out who is behind this. And where they got the money to pull this off.

Anyone?

[djean111]

1. Some Syrian refugees are going to be settled in Idaho and South Carolina.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/2/s-idaho-refugee-center-expecting-influx-of-syrian-/?page=all

http://www.westernjournalism.com/state-dept-sending-hundreds-of-islamic-refugees-to-idaho-and-south-carolina/
(the comments are quite the read - the Muslims are coming t kill us!

[hermetic]

2. Oh yeah, I know about that

But why did they call ME? And who are THEY? Who sold them my phone number? Someone obviously spent some $$ putting this together so I would really like to know who is behind it. It damn well better not be with my tax dollars. If I can find out, I will be writing to the local papers and calling them out on it. Just looking here for anyone who might know more.

Thanks for your reply.

[TexasProgresive]

3. They use auto dialers that dial xxx-xxx-xxx0 and then xxx-xxx-xxx1 and so forth.

They don't need your number. We used to get these calls at my office where all the numbers were sequential. They'd hit the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so forth.

[djean111]

4. It probably does not take much money to make autodialed phone calls.

You were probably not singled out, you likely just answered the phone, and so were given the message. An auto-dialer just rolls through a range of phone numbers. Lots of businesses use them, so they do not waste time dialing and waiting to see if someone answers, on an individual basis.

I do think someone is trying to stir people up in order to attack the refugees or deny them shelter.

[hermetic]

5. Right. Clearly

Still, I want to know who they are. Threatening groups need to be reported to the authorities, just like they warned me. These people are clearly more dangerous, and heavily armed, than those poor refugees. I have no doubt that everyone is on alert over this. Just looking to uncover some covert group, if that's what it is. Actually, I'm pretty sure I know who is behind it. Shahram Hadian, pastor and failed Washington gubernatorial candidate.

He doesn't live in Idaho, pays no taxes here, but some churches in small towns love to wine and dine him and listen to his hate-filled rhetoric and then make stupid decisions about laws.
Just doing what I can here in the interest of intelligent thought and compassion. And if some Syrians blow up my town, I'll eat my hat.

[djean111]

7. Oh, you are right to report it - I am just saying that I doubt you were individually targeted

or that anyone sold your number - they likely just got a range of numbers in your area.
Yes, hopefully you can at least make people aware of what is likely being plotted. Sickening. And a lot of people would have just hung up and done nothing else.

[Hoppy]

6. "WTF,?" perfect response !

[Mbrow]

8. It might be he GOP,

The Idiots in Idaho Falls have bought that bag of garbage hook,line and sinker. they put this crap in the post register
and I've written several letters to the editor about how screwed up their belief system is.

[IDemo]

9. Here you go:

White supremacist group sends recorded phone message to Idaho residents

An out-of-state group blanketed the state with a recorded phone message Saturday espousing its defiantly racist, whites-only agenda.

The American Freedom Party’s 48-second call ends with an invitation to support the party’s 2016 presidential candidate, visit the party’s website or call them. A lot of Idahoans did call, but mostly to complain, the party’s chairman said Monday.

“Some people don’t like it, well that’s too bad,” said chairman William Johnson, a corporate lawyer in Los Angeles. “We don’t like the direction this country’s taken. They can sit through a 45-second harangue by our party telling them why the white race is dying out.”

The “robocall” says that Idaho is “in the national news” over Muslim refugee resettlement and Hispanic immigration, and for Boise Mayor Dave Bieter’s “laying out the welcome mat” for immigrants — a reference to a July 25 column the mayor wrote that appeared in the Idaho Statesman. Coinciding with Jaialdi, last week’s festival of Basque culture and heritage, Bieter’s column praised ethnic diversity and the contributions of immigrants.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2015/08/03/3922860_white-supremacist-group-sends.html?rh=1