Explosion rocks Boston Marathon

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RetroGrouch said:
Rob Ford did it. Hell he gets blamed for everything anyway.
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Explains it perfectly.. He prolly was angry at the runners for making him look bad.(weight):p what better target for his frustration then going after the skinny ppl(marathon)

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Here's an interesting quote i came across when reading an article about yesterday's events:

"They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy," said Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train.
 
Paul1000RR said:
Here's an interesting quote i came across when reading an article about yesterday's events:

"They can give me a cavity search right now and I'd be perfectly happy," said Daniel Wood, a video producer from New York City who was waiting for a train.
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Make sense I guess in some way

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It was Sadam, oops nope we blamed him for other stuff then killed him.
It was Ghadafi, oops he is dead.
It was Bin Laden, nope he is dead too.
Hold on we will drum up some new guy to blame so that we can go and invade, got to keep the economy going.

For all we know it could have been the same type of person that bombed the Atlanta Olympics.
It could be a few teens/young 20's wanting to do something and they learned how from the web.

It could be many things.

* In recently US unclassified tapes, Nixon was on tape trying to convince the Vietnamese leader to keep the war going, he did not want to end it. In short he was colluding with the "enemy". That is called treason. The new President chose to leave it alone and let it go.

The US is just reaping what they sow. It is sad that innocent people are hurt and killed. Twenty little kids were slaughtered. It is said that each little kid had no less than 5 bullet holes in them. Yet, they are still arguing over something simple as implementing a proper background check for the person buying the guns and the persons within the home having access to the weapons.
Your car insurance is higher when your Insurance company knows that you have someone that has a drivers license under the age of 24. Their reason is, well that person has access to drive the car so we have to cover that potential in the event that they do drive your car. So, they still can't agree to implement a simple background check.

What are they waiting for, 40 dead kids? I am sure the same question was asked after Columbine, what are they waiting for 20 dead kids.

You created a violent society mixed with greed and low eduction standards coupled with improper childcare and resources.

Call it an odd observation but when there is no war there is some kinda of major "attack" within.
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/16/boston-marathon-explosions-notes-reactions

Just the first point:
(1) The widespread compassion for yesterday's victims and the intense anger over the attacks was obviously authentic and thus good to witness. But it was really hard not to find oneself wishing that just a fraction of that compassion and anger be devoted to attacks that the US perpetrates rather than suffers. These are exactly the kinds of horrific, civilian-slaughtering attacks that the US has been bringing to countries in the Muslim world over and over and over again for the last decade, with very little attention paid. My Guardian colleague Gary Younge put this best on Twitter this morning:


Juan Cole this morning makes a similar point about violence elsewhere. Indeed, just yesterday in Iraq, at least 42 people were killed and more than 250 injured by a series of car bombs, the enduring result of the US invasion and destruction of that country. Somehow the deep compassion and anger felt in the US when it is attacked never translates to understanding the effects of our own aggression against others.

One particularly illustrative example I happened to see yesterday was a re-tweet from Washington Examiner columnist David Freddoso, proclaiming:

Idea of secondary bombs designed to kill the first responders is just sick. How does anyone become that evil?"


I don't disagree with that sentiment. But I'd bet a good amount of money that the person saying it - and the vast majority of other Americans - have no clue that targeting rescuers with "double-tap" attacks is precisely what the US now does with its drone program and other forms of militarism. If most Americans knew their government and military were doing this, would they react the same way as they did to yesterday's Boston attack: "Idea of secondary bombs designed to kill the first responders is just sick. How does anyone become that evil?" That's highly doubtful, and that's the point.

There's nothing wrong per se with paying more attention to tragedy and violence that happens relatively nearby and in familiar places. Whether wrong or not, it's probably human nature, or at least human instinct, to do that, and that happens all over the world. I'm not criticizing that. But one wishes that the empathy for victims and outrage over the ending of innocent human life that instantly arises when the US is targeted by this sort of violence would at least translate into similar concern when the US is perpetrating it, as it so often does (far, far more often than it is targeted by such violence).

Regardless of your views of justification and intent: whatever rage you're feeling toward the perpetrator of this Boston attack, that's the rage in sustained form that people across the world feel toward the US for killing innocent people in their countries. Whatever sadness you feel for yesterday's victims, the same level of sadness is warranted for the innocent people whose lives are ended by American bombs. However profound a loss you recognize the parents and family members of these victims to have suffered, that's the same loss experienced by victims of US violence. It's natural that it won't be felt as intensely when the victims are far away and mostly invisible, but applying these reactions to those acts of US aggression would go a long way toward better understanding what they are and the outcomes they generate.
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The rest http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/16/boston-marathon-explosions-notes-reactions
 
shahfaisal said:
You really need to watch the video... Nothing resembling anything close to a weapon not even a knife... These guys come up with things they think they saw to justify criminal activities..... I will try to find a link when I get home....

It is against the Geneva convention to shoot on identified unarmed Combatants forget civilians

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if you watch the video, there are clearly people carrying rifles and an RPG. That group was armed.
it's unfortunate that the journalists were killed, but that's the risk they take travelling in the open with an armed group.

it's a war zone. people get killed, including journalists.
 
BusaBob said:
if you watch the video, there are clearly people carrying rifles and an RPG. That group was armed.
it's unfortunate that the journalists were killed, but that's the risk they take travelling in the open with an armed group.

it's a war zone. people get killed, including journalists.
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bob i posted the video in one of the earlier posts please watch it before making the comments.
 
Well, AP are reporting an arrest. So we may well know soon enough.
 
BusaBob said:
if you watch the video, there are clearly people carrying rifles and an RPG. That group was armed.
it's unfortunate that the journalists were killed, but that's the risk they take travelling in the open with an armed group.

it's a war zone. people get killed, including journalists.
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Depends on what video you watch. There is the 17 minute video that infowars (or whatever crackpot agency) put out that edits out the weaponry and the 30 minute video that shows it.

Regardless, the second engagement was a bad shoot no mater what anyone says but for the first I agree..... You go in embedded with armed insurgents and you reap it.

Still don't know what Iraq has to do with Boston but whatever.
 
I was going to blame the obese people for bombing the Boston Marathon, but I could be wrong.
 
D23 said:
Depends on what video you watch. There is the 17 minute video that infowars (or whatever crackpot agency) put out that edits out the weaponry and the 30 minute video that shows it.

Regardless, the second engagement was a bad shoot no mater what anyone says but for the first I agree..... You go in embedded with armed insurgents and you reap it.

Still don't know what Iraq has to do with Boston but whatever.
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US bombed their streets the bombed back if it were them.

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UOTE=Fiery254;1984627]Well, AP are reporting an arrest. So we may well know soon enough.[/QUOTE]

False alarm, unfortunately
 
D23 said:
Depends on what video you watch. There is the 17 minute video that infowars (or whatever crackpot agency) put out that edits out the weaponry and the 30 minute video that shows it.

Regardless, the second engagement was a bad shoot no mater what anyone says but for the first I agree..... You go in embedded with armed insurgents and you reap it.

Still don't know what Iraq has to do with Boston but whatever.
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The video I posted up shows the reporter was not with any armed group. He was actually their to interview tribal elders

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shahfaisal said:
The video I posted up shows the reporter was not with any armed group. He was actually their to interview tribal elders

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That flying fortress full of American hillbillies shouldn't even be there. Making a game of blowing people, in their own country, to bits is a travesty. I know people with that knuckle dragger (sorry HD riders, no offence) mentality. The answer to everything is bomb + pave. Totally lacking in decorum and social skillz. Kind of ironic that when they finish tours of duty their own government throws 'em on the scrap heap.
 
BNKN said:
That flying fortress full of American hillbillies shouldn't even be there. Making a game of blowing people, in their own country, to bits is a travesty. I know people with that knuckle dragger (sorry HD riders, no offence) mentality. The answer to everything is bomb + pave. Totally lacking in decorum and social skillz. Kind of ironic that when they finish tours of duty their own government throws 'em on the scrap heap.
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Wow!
A serious contender for post of the year.

Well said with a nice 360 view.
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