Explosions At The Boston Marathon

Personally, it's sad that there were deaths/injuries.

But, at the same time, I do find it hard to have a huge amount of sympathy here. This is based on the historics of Boston, a place where during the 70's and 80's, there was a large proportion of places where you couldn't go unless you put cash into a bucket to help "the cause". This was basically a fund that went towards funding the IRA, a terrorist organisation.

The IRA used these funds, as well as their funds by other means, to procure weapons used in the murder of several civilians over a sustained period.

Trying to secure permanent change through violence is never going to be the answer. Obviously at this stage, it's still unknown who was involved in the Boston bombing, but the level of hypocrisy at times on the subject is amazing to see from the outside.

Personally I just think it's some nutty psycho with a mental disorder thought it'd be a good idea to do it there and then without even thinking.

Don't honestly believe it was some form of organization.

I don't know much about political quarrels of the usa, however I do think there must be some reason of that kind behind it, mainly because this wasn't just a raptus where someone went enraged killing people, it was actually carefully planned.

Unless it's some kind of "wannabe genius criminal", but that's normally something for movies rather than reality.

Might be related to the Oklahoma bombing, the anniversary for that is this week.

coincidence?

The bombs were made out of pressure cookers and full of ball-bearings. To me, that sounds like some angsty teen/young adult made a garage bomb and decided to steal the ball-bearing idea from the movie Swordfish. At risk of sounding insensitive, they didn't actually do a very good job of causing damage. I find it hard to associate such an amateur job with any organized terrorism or draw a connection to other bombings. Just catch the guy and throw em in a hole.

Oh, I wasn't implying it is a "professional", however given the preparation behind it I would imagine it bears some kind of meaning...maybe it's just trying to overthink it but dunno.

Wait wait wait! Speculation! Don't do that!

/sarcastic finger wag

Or I suppose it's okay today?

How many Irish died as a result of Britain's meddling in the affairs of Ireland? I could easily respond to your drivel by saying "If the English had stayed out of Ireland and indeed the rest of the world we would have peace in the middle east,there would have been no 9/11, no 7/7, no Boston Bombings"

If you wanna hijack an American tragedy to justify your own misguided perceptions of history, don't be British and blame history - cuz history sure as hell isn't on your side, MATE.

The current state of the world and the over extension of the American military is basically a mop up job after the mess the British left it in.

Lol what a load of crap the IRA were a bunch of murdering scum, blowing up places killing children. Look at Dublin and the Crumlin area now it's not much better, Fat Freddy Thompson and his drug gang killing people left and right over some silly feud since 2000, i guess thats the English fault aswell lol.

One could easily use the old British Empire Map as a guide to the world's most messed up nations today.
Australia being the exception where the Brits managed to completely obliterate the natural inhabitants of the land.

http://images.wikia.com/liberapedia/images/2/26/The_British_Empire.png

I'm not sure I follow. 30-40 years ago Boston had a heavy IRA presence; it does not anymore, yet they deserve no sympathy because the geographical location used to have that presence.

You see this kid? He is not an IRA supporter he is a young child with hope and a future which was stolen from him. I don't care what Boston did at one point or another the fact is innocent people were maimed and killed.

What has this thread become.

Sad part is his mother Suffered brain damage and his sister lost a leg in the explosion as well.. sick world we live in.

Italian news is saying Obama is receiving threats because of the bombing...is this serious?

Its always politics or business as usual till you see the victims. Poor child... I can't even begin to comprehend what his family must be going through.

He did get a letter with ricin but was thwarted by the offsite mail handling facility that handles mail for congress etc since 911

Conflicting reports on Boston bombing arrest

Or Not?

why dont they shut up? this isn't an episode of CSI and we don't need to know every single thing they discover.

The president gets a lot of threats about a lot of things...

I dunno if that was just WDSU "reporting something" because they didnt actually have much to say, but its a development i didnt see posted :<

Both are local news outlets here.

Believe it or not there are people interested in every single thing they discover so if you don't like it you can be the one that remains silent.

People interested don't need to know anything because as they learn what investigators find so do "the bad guys." You Junior Crime Fighters aren't going to solve this case. You don't need to see pictures of the bomb parts found, you don't need to know bomb parts with serial numbers have been found, you don't need to know they might have a perp on video. This is all very bad stuff for the public to know.

It's unlikely terrorism because there's no point in a terrorist attack if you don't take credit for it. You don't keep your role in terrorism a secret. They serve a political purpose. So if it is a lone wolf kind of sick freak they are just going to go to ground if they keep leaking everything they are finding out about them.

To clarify on Aman's point, it's bad for the police to release too much information because the less the public knows, the easier it is to find out if someone knows more than they should. The devil is in the details.

Police Deny Arrest

But who knows, supposed to be a media conference soon.

I don't think that just because someone hasn't taken credit for it yet that it's not terrorism. They could not be done yet, scarily enough. There's also the fear of the unknown they could be playing off of.

Or they simply don't wanna get caught.

Or its not technically Terrorism yet because of that :<

But yea, this guy is getting his spotlight and he doesnt quite want to ruin that by coming out and getting caught monologuing. He/She is prolly sitting in some house somewhere laughing his/her *** off while the news networks keep replaying the same video and showing the same pitures every 3 minutes.

The FBI thing can be seen here http://www.svtplay.se/video/1166441/fbi-om-explosionerna-i-boston

It's a Swedish site but it says it's available to all countries and I'm pretty sure the important parts will be in English.

Holy ***, we're in complete agreement. I'd add 'foreign' to that terrorism bit though as domestic terrorism need not have an announcement yet still have all the boons that terrorist attacks do towards furthering an agenda.

I need to look up at the sky tonight to see if we have a planetary alignment or something though.

IM PRETTY SURE HELL JUST FROZE OVER!