Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

[A'isha]

Unfortunately, media speculation combined with normal police investigative techniques will add fuel to the CT ,nutjob, fire and you can bet your bottom dollar that the "false flag" crap is already being cried out across yee olde interwebz.

It is. There are plenty of links over in the CT forum.

And it looks like so far, the police and FBI have nothing solid, and are basically trying to follow every lead they can right now (the Saudi national wounded in the bombing, the recent BOLO, the Penske truck thing earlier).

 

[MattusMaximus]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/nati...nal-mile-was-dedicated-newtown-victims/64250/

What... the... frak... as if those poor folks hadn't been through enough already. Good grief

 

[MattusMaximus]

Alex Jones, Great Commander of the Tin Foil Brigade,chimes in,and it is exactly what you would expect from the King of the CT Kooks:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/alex...ration-fbi-behind-every-domestic-terror-plot/

That guy is an asshat of the highest order. I wouldn't shed any tears if he were to fall off a cliff.

 

[MattusMaximus]

Conflicting stories on the Saudi National.

My guess is that at this stage the authorities are questioning a lot of people, we just aren't hearing about any of them yet.

 

[lopeyschools]

Thanks those posters who answered my query.

Hope they catch the bastards.

 

[triforcharity]

I don't talk about my work here, but let's say that first responders are very near and dear to me.

I'm 100% with you on that.

 

[MattusMaximus]

Hmmms, could just be a case of running from big explosion while Arab.

This ^

We don't have any more information, so it's best to reserve judgment at this stage.

 

[A'isha]

What... the... frak... as if those poor folks hadn't been through enough already. Good grief

They're apparently all OK, at least.

 

[MattusMaximus]

Oooops.

But really, the need to rush to point this towards a particular political ideology is just immature, and sad.

Full disclosure: I had a knee-jerk reaction to want to blame the Tea Party, seeing as how this took place on Tax Day in Boston (my brain was going "Boston Tea Party"). But then I thought better of it.

Curse my tribal inclinations

I suspect that many people had similar reactions, who also thought better of it. Then there's the Alex Jones types.

 

[MattusMaximus]

They're apparently all OK, at least.

Physically. I suspect there's going to be a fair amount of mental/emotional damage.

 

[StankApe]

Full disclosure: I had a knee-jerk reaction to want to blame the Tea Party, seeing as how this took place on Tax Day in Boston (my brain was going "Boston Tea Party"). But then I thought better of it.

Curse my tribal inclinations

I suspect that many people had similar reactions, who also thought better of it. Then there's the Alex Jones types.

oh and you know those lunatics are hard at work, cobbling together as many unrelated statements from as many different sources as they can find into a unified theory of why this was done by Obama......

 

[A'isha]

Physically. I suspect there's going to be a fair amount of mental/emotional damage.

Yes.

 

[TJM]

No word on the other Sandy Hook folks though. I'm keeping them in my non-prayers.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showpost.php?p=9154198&postcount=260

 

[MattusMaximus]

I won't lose my faith in the human race just because a small minority of nutcases do stuff like that.

This ^

Also, just think of all the people (first responders plus good Samaritans) who ran into the carnage to help save people. I'm going to hold onto that fact.

 

[korenyx]

My guess is that at this stage the authorities are questioning a lot of people, we just aren't hearing about any of them yet.

I can't remember if it was on CBS or NPR but people in the hospitals are being questioned. The report said that bombers don't always get away from the explosion.

 

[MattusMaximus]

Now they are looking for a foreign black guy.

Link?

 

[NoahFence]

something good and useful NEEDS to be the final result of this incident. With FSM or God as my witness if we launch a 10-year useless war against somebody who had nothing to do with this I will jump off of a : bridge.

 

[alfaniner]

I am not afraid. I am very, very angry.

 

[applecorped]

Full disclosure: I had a knee-jerk reaction to want to blame the Tea Party, seeing as how this took place on Tax Day in Boston (my brain was going "Boston Tea Party"). But then I thought better of it.

Curse my tribal inclinations

I suspect that many people had similar reactions, who also thought better of it. Then there's the Alex Jones types.

You may be right. We'll find out soon enough. Hopefully.

 

[A'isha]

Link?

I haven't seen it online anywhere, but they're talking about it on the CNN broadcast. It was a dark-skinned or black man who tried to get into a restricted area about five minutes before the bombs went off and when he couldn't get in apparently "broke eye contact" and pulled a hoodie lower over his head, and may have had a foreign accent.