Boston Marathon

[Idt20082008"]

The only way to deal with them is to ensure that they undergo the full due process of law and sentence them accordingly. Civilised behaviour is what separates us from those who randomly seek to murder and destroy.

I actually agree with you, as well as with what nightmare said, and I am NOT suggesting we hurt innocent people, start bombing faraway lands, perform public beheadings or anything else that is really beyond the scope of the law. What I am suggesting or hoping is another way be found to deal with the cowards who do something like this, whatever it might be. I don't have any answers or ideas what this could be at all without going outside the boundaries of the law, all I do know is I'm tired of seeing what happened today being repeated over and over here and abroad. What can be done? Maybe nothing because anyone who would do this clearly doesn't fear for their own life, but some deterrent needs to be found before another 9/11 happens or worse....

[Prospero]

Civilised behaviour is what separates us from those who randomly seek to murder and destroy.

Summed up perfectly.

[robertlouis]

Summed up perfectly.

Thank you.

Meanwhile, the usual conspiracy theoridiots are out in force, and, on Facebook, some twisted bastards are even trying to turn the whole horror into a pro-gun argument. Beyond sick.

[Prospero]

Well bombs don't kill people.... so the logic is constant

[natina]

Authorities ID person of interest as Saudi national in marathon bombings, under guard at Boston hospital

Police clear the area at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.

Investigators have a suspect — a Saudi Arabian national — in the horrific Boston Marathon bombings, The Post has learned.
Law enforcement sources said the 20-year-old suspect was under guard at an undisclosed Boston hospital.
Fox News reported that the suspect suffered severe burns.
It was not immediately clear why the man was hospitalized and whether he was injured in the attack or in his apprehension.
The man was caught less than two hours after the 2:50 p.m. bombing on the finish line of the race, in the heart of Boston.


In addition, Boston police have surveillance video of someone bringing multiple backpacks to the blast site, according to CBS News.


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/nationa...9uC2PDGIjYBalO

[Prospero]

It is interesting how the advent of social media brings all manner of distortions to the public perception of events such as yesterday's bombings - with natina's posts a perfect example.
I was first alerted to this when i had a newsflash mid evening yesterday from the NYTimes on my Ipad - mere minutes after the blast. On twitter pictures and claims - and counterclaims - were flowing fast. For instance, the "additional bombing" - later proven to be nothing more than a fire. The erroneous claims of a Saudi arrested. Police later confirmed no one was in custody. And then of course jerk-off fools like a Fox comentator demanding that "all Muslims be killed' as a response to what remains an attack without any clear indications of a culprit. Twitter is terrific - if taken with a large pinch of salt. The actual "citizen journalism" it offers - feeds from people at the scene, footage, photographs - is remarkable.
But the distortions it produces, aided and abetted by the yellow press (The New York Post - a Murdoch owned gutter newspaper rather like his Fox operation) is harmful and repulsive.

Let the police find out who did this. let due processes of law run their course. All else is hysteria.

[BiBoyinBeantown]

I and mine are all OK, thankfully. I did know some people who went to watch the marathon today but thankfully they weren't at the finish line.

[GroobySteven]

I remember traveling in Boston in the late 80's and early 90's - it's a great city and great people marred by one fact that sticks in my head (I saw the same at the St.Paddy's Day parade in NYC). People openly collecting money to support the IRA.

I truly hope that in the aftermath of 9/11 and other terrorists attacks and what we've came to know about how these organizations work, that things have changed in both those cities and that all civilized people condemn terrorism no matter where sympathies may lie.

Changes happen through social pressure on politics - not on bombing civilians and especially not children.

[Willie Escalade]

Then we have THIS asshole...

[african1]

Now the speculation is very widespread.
on separate forums, people are blaming arabs, Muslims, white militias, North Koreans, Al Qaeda , anti Tax nuts, NRA nuts, racists, and others.

in a nutshell: Everybody.