Explosion at the Boston Marathon.

icerat said:
Did i hear that right? Very first question at the presser was if it was a "another false flag operation ... civil liberties .... blah blah blah"?
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Yeah, since the Gov. just glared & said "no", the morons will insist he's declared everything else a false flag while simultaneously lying about this not being a false flag.
 
AdMan said:
This is another view, and probably even worse. Should probably NOT be viewed by most people. I'm posting the link because the guy in the cowboy hat is a true hero, given what he's doing.

[qimg]http://i.imgur.com/I5LY4w9.jpg[/qimg]

He is Carlos Arredondo, an immigrant from Costa Rica and the guy in the picture in this article (safe to view):

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...n-marathon-tragedy-and-what-others-are-doing/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Arredondo
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What a shame. Really sad. Poor guy. Hope his family doesn't stumble on that photo.

Also, I have some buddies who are first responders (plus a family member) and these kinds of incidents take an emotional toll on the first-responders. It's not possible for them to process all that they're seeing. Plus their adrenalin's going. It's later on, when everything starts to quiet down, the bad thoughts and mental images start creeping in.

I don't envy them, but I say God Bless everyone of them.
 
Something that just came to me, the timing of the attack seems 'off'. It would make more sense (In so far as doing something like this would make sense.) to do it for maximum publicity/casualties (eg As close to the time the first runner crosses the line.)

So why wait for until the four hour mark, was it to get the bombs passed security, and is that 13 second timing (13 States?) between the blasts significant or as is much more likely just a co-incidence?
 
Just want to say, I'm sorry to hear about this atrocity. I hope the perpetrators are quickly apprehended and prosecuted.
 
The Shrike said:
This is an awfully sad start to the week, and for the good people of Boston, a tragedy that will forever be tied to an annual event that brings them great pride.
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Agreed. But I will bet my last dollar it will go still be done next year as usual.

I hope all injured parties have a full and speedy recovery.
 
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triforcharity said:
Correct. I've heard of runners taking their race belts off (race belts go around the waist to hold race numbers and sometimes small energy drinks/gels) and using it to help stop the bleeding.

Heroic. Just when you think you've lost all faith in humanity, you hear of stories like this.
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Also reports of people in Boston opening their homes to folks who are stranded with no hotel rooms.
 
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Skeptic Ginger said:
Neither were the Weathermen. I don't get your point. They are an active domestic terrorist group. You said all we have are individuals.
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And my comment was specific in regards to right wing domestic terrorists or groups (people were starting off with laying blame on right wing terrorists and the Tea Party for this incident). Abortion clinic bombers would be an example of this and if this had been in front of a clinic I would say that there's a good chance that they would be correct. There is a very tenuous connection between the right wing and this attack and that's only because of the date, however given that the targets had nothing apparent to tie them to the date the odds are that it's not that. If the target was a federal building or some historic location that would also indicate a possible right wing terrorist attack. This was a soft target of opportunity.

With the timing and apparently several other devices that didn't go off it points more towards AQ type terrorists. For all of their rhetoric the Tea Party doesn't have a history of violence and most certainly not anything even close to this.
 
StankApe said:
I don't think he meant that the doctors...etc at the abortion clinics weren't innocent but rather they were specifically targeted individuals based on a warped agenda. This differs from the truly random people who happened to be at the place where the bombs were put.

Unless of course we discover this targeted specific individuals, but this seems unlikely as hell.
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I know what he meant, but I also know the way he worded it was careless and hurtful, and that's what I said, "take a look at your word choice".
 
Graham2001 said:
Something that just came to me, the timing of the attack seems 'off'. It would make more sense (In so far as doing something like this would make sense.) to do it for maximum publicity/casualties (eg As close to the time the first runner crosses the line.)

So why wait for until the four hour mark, was it to get the bombs passed security, and is that 13 second timing (13 States?) between the blasts significant or as is much more likely just a co-incidence?
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Apparently the largest number of people are there during the middle of the pack crossing. Families and friends of the racers pack in to see them finish. As far as the timing goes that's just enough time to call one device, set it off and then call the next one. If I were to guess on anything that would be it.
 
Mudcat said:
Agreed. But I will bet my last dollar it will go still be done next year as usual.

I hope all injured parties have a full and speedy recovery.
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I was going to say that, but of course some people are dead and of those who were injured some have had legs blown off. Those people will never make a full recovery.
 
Graham2001 said:
Something that just came to me, the timing of the attack seems 'off'. It would make more sense (In so far as doing something like this would make sense.) to do it for maximum publicity/casualties (eg As close to the time the first runner crosses the line.)

So why wait for until the four hour mark, was it to get the bombs passed security, and is that 13 second timing (13 States?) between the blasts significant or as is much more likely just a co-incidence?
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Actually, if one wanted to time the explosion to maximize the chances of killing the most people, the timing was perfect. Last year the peak finishing time -- the moment when most runners per minute were crossing the finish line -- wasa little over four hours, pretty much the exact time the bombs went off. Over 40% of the total number of runners, alomst 10K or so, finished within 30 minutes of that time in 2012. So not only would you maximize the number of runners likely to get hurt, you'd also likely get a high concentration of crowd waiting for runners they know to finish. In that regard, the bombs were very well-timed.
 
dudalb said:
WHich is why I put in life imprisonment without parole.
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Nope. If he IS a terrorist, involved with a terror organisation, making him a prisoner will just make him leverage for a future hostage situation.

Just set up a good old-fashioned gallows in Copley Square... for a public hanging!! ;)
 
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Graham2001 said:
Something that just came to me, the timing of the attack seems 'off'. It would make more sense (In so far as doing something like this would make sense.) to do it for maximum publicity/casualties (eg As close to the time the first runner crosses the line.)

So why wait for until the four hour mark, was it to get the bombs passed security, and is that 13 second timing (13 States?) between the blasts significant or as is much more likely just a co-incidence?
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Perhaps because it was late in the race, the elite runners were over the finish line and gone, security may have been a little more relaxed. Maybe because the spectators, at that time, were mostly family and friends of the runners who were running for charity or personal best time, more children in the area. I'm just guessing at this and may be totally wrong.
 
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