Its either that or a disturbed domestic individual. Im not suggesting anything yet...we shall see. And what would be your response, were you a national leader? Turn the other cheek?
What utter nonsense.
If it's domestic it has to be a disturbed individual?
If it is not domestic it has to be some foreign country?
Sheesh Phat, think!
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
I'm not sure - one commentator was saying that the marathon was a classic terrorist target - lots of innocent people, he seemed to think that a solo loony is more likely to have a personal target - tax office, teacher, local car wash that damaged his car, president.
Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
It is so cowardly and pathetic to target people who are innocent. Whom ever perpetrated this will either do it again or be caught.
They have a system that works and now will be bolstered to do it again.
This I fear is the start of a serial bomber. Lets hope our FBI earns their paychecks this month and gets this kook.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
one commentator was saying that the marathon was a classic terrorist target - lots of innocent people, he seemed to think that a solo loony is more likely to have a personal target - tax office, teacher, local car wash that damaged his car, president.
Perhaps the commentator has forgotten about (or perhaps never heard of, it was 17 years ago) Eric Rudolph, the man who plead guilty to bombing the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and who hid out in the North Carolina mountains.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
I'm not sure - one commentator was saying that the marathon was a classic terrorist target - lots of innocent people, he seemed to think that a solo loony is more likely to have a personal target - tax office, teacher, local car wash that damaged his car, president.
Well, the solo loony with a gun often just goes for as many people as possible. Did the mall shooter have a grievance against malls, or was he just looking for abundant targets? And terrorists, as I pointed out, would tend to go for a target of symbolic importance. I could be wrong, but on balance it's a lone nut.
And as someone's pointed out, a terrorist group would take credit. Terrorists typically have a cause that they want to proclaim and/or demands that they want to be met.
Perhaps the commentator has forgotten about (or perhaps never heard of, it was 17 years ago) Eric Rudolph, the man who plead guilty to bombing the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and who hid out in the North Carolina mountains.
Sure, he was just guessing from what he thought was the balance of probabilities.
There was also talk of the difficulty in setting two bombs (and there's talk of more) and that the target was also in a pretty secure location (the end of the marathon which was well policed and searched.)
But everyone is still speculating.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
I understand that. My point is that the very little of the speculation is worthwhile.
There was also talk of the difficulty in setting two bombs (and there's talk of more
Well, today's word seems to be that no other bombs were found.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree; ‘That the intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how the heaven goes.’ Galileo Galilei 1615.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
I have the AP phone app. It came across the wire that one of the bombs was a pressure cooker that did have ball bearings for schrapnel in it.
"You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
This is how bad this is. I went out Monday night and bumped into some firefighters I know. They said one of the dead was an 8-year-old boy from Dorchester who had gone out to hug his dad after he crossed the finish line. The dad walked on; the boy went back to the sidewalk to join his mom and his little sister. And then the bomb went off. The boy was killed. His sister’s leg was blown off. His mother was badly injured. That’s just one family, one story.
This quote from the Boston paper that ooh-child cited:
quote:And we are left with this unnerving proposition: If it was home-grown, it was probably an aberration, the work of a lunatic. If it was foreign inspired or sponsored, we will never feel safe again in our own town.
President Obama asked the rest of the country to pray for Boston. But we need more than prayers. We need answers. We need peace of mind, and we’ll never have that again on Patriots Day. Ever. Because somebody came here on our Patriots Day and launched their own revolution.
Tell me why I am being irrational and not thinking. Anyone who would do such a thing ...lets just say that justice is demanded at this point.
Tell me why I am being irrational and not thinking. Anyone who would do such a thing ...lets just say that justice is demanded at this point.
Well we simply have no idea yet about who did it or why. What you said was "Its either that or a disturbed domestic individual. Im not suggesting anything yet...we shall see. And what would be your response, were you a national leader? Turn the other cheek?"
Your post says that who ever did it must be "disturbed" if it was domestic.
It could well be "disturbed" and foreign.
It could be quite reasonable and logical and domestic.
It could be the act of someone seeking justice.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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