One thing I've learned from this subreddit: there is no such thing as a mistake or coincidence--every single, minute event has a hand and agenda behind it....and usually a nefarious one.

Imagine that, in a conspiracy sub no less.

Stop watching house of cards lol. I know it sounds edgy.. but let's be realistic here. Mistakes happen all the time.

I guess my sarcasm didn't come through........

You never really know in this sub.

You seriously believe that an alert like this can be sent out to the population without being checked off by multiple people?

No way. It's not like some neckbeard sitting at a computer can accidentally hit the wrong button and this gets sent out. If it was so easy, they could have also issued the retraction immediately.

I'm guessing cyber attack and now the cover up so they don't embarrass themselves. And that's a best case scenario.

"I almost got in an accident on my drive to work this morning. I often read about conspiracy theories. Could this be Deep State trying to tell me to stop investigating, that they'll do something more drastic if I don't stop digging?" - some people in /r/conspiracy

I doubt very many people will make a leap like that. That’s really more of a stereotype used by people to mock those who are interested in conspiracies, though I admit there might be a very rare random person who believes it.

Hence the modifier some people

Don't be a cunt.

I bet it was purely a political maneuver.

I'm currently in Hawaii and got the alert and the 38 minute later redaction of the alert. I can tell you first hand that my family was freaking out. The fear tactics work. No idea what the propose was, but I have a hard time believing any reports about human error. This is far too big to be a simple mistake.

This is literally Pearl Harbor 2. In the terror age, we don't even need a true attack, just the threat alone will rally anti North Korea support.

Although everyone can point to the department of defense, or whoever within the US issued the false flag, this sounds exactly like the modern version of the Hegelian Dialectic.

This is literally Pearl Harbor 2.

Yeah, an accidental alert is the same as an attack where 2,000+ people died.

"accidental"

Really? Gonna marginalize a message telling an entire island nation they're about to die? Perceived or actual that's some grey hair shit. Fuck off with your pith, lots of folks lots a couple years just now. I'm glad however you understand sarcasm, super helpful trait friend

Lost a couple years? From a warning? Are people in Hawaii this soft and pussified?

Yeah my co workers who was on their way to work said people started driving recklessly running red lights after the alert. Fuck civil defense for possibly ruining someone's life for this "false alert".

To send that out to so many people, including to TV channels and the 38 minute wait for the "false alarm" warning screams to me that this was far more than a mistake!

Maybe the goal is to cry wolf a few times so that when there actually is a wolf, no one will believe it?

Dunno who's idea it would be to sabotage the systems, though. Can't be anyone who would actually want those channels available in an emergency.

This. I guess some people don't understand how serious this situation is.

I have a hard time believing any reports about human error. This is far too big to be a simple mistake.

The more I think about it I feel the same way. If it was that simple to send out an alert like this scaring the hell out of an entire state you'd think that you could write a quick retraction and push that same wrong button within a few minutes to let everyone know it was a mistake.

There was training scheduled for today but things must have gotten screwed up as far as the alert.

https://i.imgur.com/SRBZl8q.png

Get out of here with your logical explanation.

I have soup. It's not great.

Just wait and watch for when the Olympics are over. Mostly just a lot of training/drills with the military.

I definitely see something fishy here.

My questions:

1.) was this really a “mistake”, or more something along the lines of a cyber attack or hack?

2.) if it was a cyber attack or hack, who was responsible? North Korea? CIA?

These are rhetorical, I do not claim to know the answer. I just want to connect the dots here, and these two questions were the main questions that went through my mind.

What if there was a missile and it was shot down?

That’s another question I’ve heard that would make sense. The question behind that though would be why the government would lie about it being a false alarm as apposed to claiming that they shot it down and saved the islands.

I guess to keep people in fear but then again, either scenario would scare. I have no idea

it doesn't work that way. Events don't happen to "distract us". even if nothing happens on the day the DOD audit happens, it still won't be top news. That's just how it works.

My question is are there alert drills ever? Like where I am from, in southern IL, on the second Tuesday (or something) if each month they sound the tornado alarms just to be sure it’s all good. Are there ever “just a test” type of alerts for this kind of situation being sent out?

If so maybe we can really chalk it up to error of pressing the wrong button. But if not I think it seems unlikely that it was just “human error”

In Hawai'i, we have the usual first work day of the month siren alarm tests. Couple months ago the state told us about testing the new nuclear warning sirens, in which they did.

We usually get the flash flood warnings during heavy rain. When hurricanes come by we get those warnings. Even the one time we had a tsunami there was text warnings. But NEVER a "test" for a ballistic missile through text.

Thank you for your reply!! Certainly makes things interesting then

Every Hawaiian representative was on air to talk tough ahead of elections.

False flag not a drill