Thread: Explosions Rock Boston Marathon

Well I wouldn't say minor when people have been killed and maimed

If you average out deaths from road accidents in America, they run to about 3 an hour. This is a non-event but most people are unable to put these things into any kind of sane context, which is why governments are so easily able to exploit them.

Keep them fearful approach that Bush did so well

All recent American presidents, with the possible exception of Carter, have done it.

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I think he meant minor compared to the shit that happens in Pakistan, Iraq and other places that are full of true believers...and happens so frequently it's barly newsworthy any more. Americans are just naturally inclined to fret a bit when people blow up stuff in their back yards....and are not so effected by goings on in other peoples back yards.

It's truly astonishing reading some to the bollocks posted on here concerning an event where the smoke has not even cleared yet. We might as well throw in the Cathholic dioceses of Boston as a suspect....they are mighty pissed over abortion and birth control you know....or maybe somebody was just pissed off at all these people running around and disrupting traffic flow.....or..maybe it was one of the usual suspects who are still preparing their victory speech and setting up the recording gear.....this place is getting almost as bad as Thaivisa.....

Originally Posted by MissTraveller

it is either the muzzies or local talent

Perceptive there MissTraveller.

You should get into profiling for the FBI.

Originally Posted by koman

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I think he meant minor compared to the shit that happens in Pakistan, Iraq and other places that are full of true believers...and happens so frequently it's barly newsworthy any more. Americans are just naturally inclined to fret a bit when people blow up stuff in their back yards....and are not so effected by goings on in other peoples back yards.

It's truly astonishing reading some to the bollocks posted on here concerning an event where the smoke has not even cleared yet. We might as well throw in the Cathholic dioceses of Boston as a suspect....they are mighty pissed over abortion and birth control you know....or maybe somebody was just pissed off at all these people running around and disrupting traffic flow.....or..maybe it was one of the usual suspects who are still preparing their victory speech and setting up the recording gear.....this place is getting almost as bad as Thaivisa.....

haha... true, yet kind of funny how people just jump all over a story like this since the media does.

I was thiinking that other news seemed to have went on the wayside like the car bomb in Iraq yesterday that killed 50+ people and injured 200+. The other about a US plane, just today, that bombed a village in Afghanistan, killing 30 at a wedding party. Tsk tsk.

Originally Posted by Mr Lick

Has he been sectioned yet?

You are joking right? They gave him his gun permit back..

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Originally Posted by Necron99

My prediction.
To make you safe there will be a nationwide rollout of surveillance cameras and a new department created to manage them.

There already is. You cant go anywhere in the US without being on camera now they just need a dept to manage all of them if there isn't one already in place.

The FBI has said there are "no known additional threats" in Boston following the bombing of the marathon.

At a news briefing in the city, officials said no bombs other than the two which exploded at the finishing line had been found.

Three people were killed, including an eight-year-old boy, and more than 150 injured by the bombs.

Doctors treating the wounded have said a number of people have had pellets and "nail-like" fragments removed.

Richard DesLauriers, the FBI agent in charge of the investigation, told reporters there was "no known imminent physical threat at any location where we might be conducting investigative activity right now".

He said police had received "voluminous tips" from the public, and urged people to co-operate with investigators.

"We will go to the ends of the Earth to identify the subject or subjects who are responsible for this despicable crime, and we will do everything we can to bring them to justice," he said.

The governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, said it was "important to clarify that two, and only two, explosive devices were found yesterday".

There were earlier reports that several unexploded devices had been found across the city.

Mr Patrick said all other suspect parcels had been examined and found not to be bombs.

Officials praised emergency workers and volunteers who had helped those injured, saying they had saved lives.

Speaking to reporters at a hospital where many of the wounded have been taken, one doctor said he believed the fragments had been inside the bomb.

He said some patients had more than 40 shrapnel wounds, and that several amputations had been carried out.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I bet the 'authorities' already know who it is.

If it was the fantasy Al Queda, then they would've notified the press straight away, as it fits their agenda.

It's probably sponsored by the Koch brothers, so they're all running around like headless chickens in the Pentagon trying to work out what the hell they should do and how they can pin it on a bunch of Saudi goat herders in Iraq.

It was probably fantasy Osama bin Laden's twin Ronald McDonald. When no one was looking the statues placed the bombs.

if it wasn't this saudi, this would have to be one of the bigger 'wrong place at the wrong time' situations in recent history.

REVERE — The roommate of the Saudi Arabia man whose apartment was searched by Boston Marathon bombing investigators today said he doubts his friend played a role in what Governor Deval Patrick today called a terrorist attack.

“I don’t think he could do that,’’ the roommate told the Globe.

The roommate described the man as a devout Muslim who is 20 years old and a fan of soccer. He said the man is from the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia.

The man is in Boston attending an English language school in greater Boston, the roommate said, who added that he last saw him on Sunday.

The roommate said law enforcement suddenly appeared at his door on Ocean Avenue late Monday night and asked him to step out of the unit. Police were still at the apartment this morning.

The Saudi Arabian man is at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, apparently being treated for injuries following the double bombing at the finish line on Boylston Street Monday afternoon.

An official briefed on the investigation said police had questioned the Saudi man about the bombing, but he has not been charged with any crime.

Last night, Boston police Commissioner Edward Davis said authorities do not have a suspect in the bombing.

‘I don’t think he could do that,’ says roommate of Saudi Arabian man questioned in Marathon bombings - Boston.com

What a sick fucking world we live in.

How can anyone do such a thing.

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You guys amaze me. After all the endless senseless mass killing in the US (and around the world), you think this has to be a muslim or someone with a reason you would know about in order to do this. This could be anyone and it could have even been done just for laughs. All this analysis of terrorism verses war is just idiocy. Like there are rules for anyone out there. They say the British redcoats that fought the colonists were killed easily because they marched in lines, waited to be told what to do and wore their moronic red coats. And some of you are desperate to link this to muslims because you really have been brainwashed by the right wing media. Then there are those who cry 'the horror, the horror!' Get over it this happens 5 times daily around the world and sometimes its perpetrated by the US.

Michael Moore and is usual BS blaming the Patriot Act movement and Tax day. The sad thing is the idiotic folks just might believe it!

Personally I would think its somewhat fool hardy by any one as yet to apportion blame or even say you suspect one group or another cos to do so reveals your biased politic leanings ,its still early days yet a the dust has hardly settled ,I see Allan Jones the Australian hard right TV mouth piece is trying to pin it on the left ,whilst here it would appear a few seem to put the blame on the Right ,me?, I ain't a clue so I will just await developments and say nothing rather than finish up with egg on my face ,every one will be wiser if and when the evidence of this terrible case comes to the light of day .

An aussie idot-

Alan Jones suggests 'left-wing radical students' link to Boston bombing


Broadcaster Alan Jones is facing an online backlash after suggesting on national television that "left-wing radical students" were behind the Boston Marathon bombings and that Australia should reconsider its intake of foreign university students in response.

Read more: Alan Jones Boston Bombing Comments

^Thanks for that Sabang ,whats he going to say if its proved a hard right group is involved, now he's painted himself into a corner?, what a bloody plonker !

^^ That's the point innit- plonkers of all stripes and colors are painting themselves into the Dunces corner, invariably speculating their own preconceived prejudice. Dunno why (nowt all to do I s'pose) but I'm quite interested to see who was behind this, and there is no credible evidence yet as to whom it might be, or why. But there will be, soon enuff.

Kids. Trenchcoat mafia stuff.


Terrible that an 8 year old boy was amongst the deceased. What goes through these people's heads.

Originally Posted by sabang

^^ That's the point innit- plonkers of all stripes and colors are painting themselves into the Dunces corner, invariably speculating their own preconceived prejudice. Dunno why (nowt all to do I s'pose) but I'm quite interested to see who was behind this, and there is no credible evidence yet as to whom it might be, or why. But there will be, soon enuff.

Yeah Sabang your answer makes a very valid point!

^Ah Yes ,The grand old conspiracy Theories! , seems like in many cases we are regarded as oddballs if we have an open mind!

feel for the parents of the young children
No parent should have to mourn for a child
hope the litttle girl pulls through

two points....

it's been two days...interesting that no one has come forward to claim responsibility.

the ATF is in charge of the investigation....shame that there hasn't been a director of the ATF since 2006. Thanks NRA!