Just in case you didn't know.....

[EvolutionRevolution]

I'm not one for conspiracy theories, not by any means, but this one smells fishy to me. A huge event, on the route of one of the most famous marathons, near the finish line, tons of cops everywhere. I haven't been to Boston, but I know how it is in NYC. Somehow someone managed to hide these things right on the route? Several of them? There were no check points? No dogs? No videos of the crowd, before during and after?

Let's hope the perpetrator doesn't turn out to be a cop who fooled everyone. (on the other hand, fairly common modus operandi for criminals, that one...).

I don't know, I hope my first instincts about this are wrong. But... if they are, we've really been putting up with a lot of excess security measures and loss of basic freedoms for no good reason.

If you look at independent security-centered information sources there seems to be a consensus that a lot of the so-called "security measures" are little more than "security theatre" serving to make the public feel safer while not actually mitigating the risks by much. Basically anyone with a desire to do harm could bypass the security measures with a little intelligence and do a lot of damage. It says more about the average intelligence of the average terrorists that they don't succeed than it says something about the security measures.

Actually underestimating the actual risks and overreacting on perceived threats is a pretty popular human passtime But then, fixing the actual risks is usually more complex and expensive than pretending to do something, and money is the only important thing. Apparently.

Back to the actual bombing, I fear that the death toll will rise...

[kink]

Shocking. What cowardly scum would do this, especially with children aroundl. Unreal.

[soniccj5]

They had the dogs checking for bombs when the winners crossed the line around 1PM, which could be why there were set off almost 3 hours later.

From what I heard family's from Newtown were in the VIP section near where the first bomb went off.

[romulus22]

Makes sense Reg. I just saw a headline saying that there they were small with no signs of high grade explosives.

I'm still curious to find out what exactly went off, how it got so close and undetected.

In my younger days my brother and I played with "bombs" a lot. We always used plane old black powder and used several types of casings. Big to small. Just from experience with what we played with it would be easy to sneak something small like what we made into a crowd. One of those tall solid color water bottles would easily blend in at such an event and could easily disguise something large enough to do quite a bit of damage.


That being said its almost impossible to stop sone idiots at an event like this unless they metal detected every single person. It's sad to know there are people out there sick enough to do stuff like this. And it's sad to know it will never be fully stopped.

[kaiser]

this hit close to home for me.
my stepbrother was there, right there, leaning against a garbage can that had a bomb in it. he and a friend decided to grab a beer, took 4 steps and boom!
he's a little scraped up, the lady next to him lost an arm. his friend is a local doctor so the two of them tried to help out as soon as they composed themselves.
needless to say he's pretty messed up right now.

[soniccj5]

this hit close to home for me.
my stepbrother was there, right there, leaning against a garbage can that had a bomb in it. he and a friend decided to grab a beer, took 4 steps and boom!
he's a little scraped up, the lady next to him lost an arm. his friend is a local doctor so the two of them tried to help out as soon as they composed themselves.
needless to say he's pretty messed up right now.

I am so sorry to hear about this.

[hawgfanman]

It's so disheartening when things like this happen. I pray that the police catch those responsible quickly.
On a side note, do the news shows really need to be showing the bloody aftermath over and over again? I just don't get the need to show the pictures of the bloody sidewalk.

[rc10johnny]

These people are realy SAD to hurt these people..on the other hand it is real easy to make a serious explosion out of general materials around the house..my .02 JohnnySr

[jwscab]

truly disgusting.

[MelvinsArmy]

this hit close to home for me.
my stepbrother was there, right there, leaning against a garbage can that had a bomb in it. he and a friend decided to grab a beer, took 4 steps and boom!
he's a little scraped up, the lady next to him lost an arm. his friend is a local doctor so the two of them tried to help out as soon as they composed themselves.
needless to say he's pretty messed up right now.

Wow! Glad to hear your stepbrother was lucky Pete.

EvolutionRevolution, I've seen some of that information too. Most notably the former head of El Al security saying how useless the TSA security system is. I've seen plenty of bogus measures myself living in NYC. Sorry to derail this topic, but my first reaction felt strange and I had to share.

[kaiser]

he was trying to help, ended up on yahoo...


edit: link to somewhat graphic picture.

http://sports.yahoo.com/photos/two-explosions-near-boston-marathon-s-finish-line-1366055187-slideshow/#crsl=%252Fphotos%252Ftwo-explosions-near-boston-marathon-s-finish-line-1366055187-slideshow%252Fboston-april-15-a-man-comforts-an-injured-woman-on-the-sidewalk-at-the-scene-of-the-first-explosion-photo-273201680.html

[uniquenamehere]

I have a co-worker who is is Boston now to run in the marathon... thankfully he was not injured.

I hope they find the cowards responsible...

[scr8p]

1 bitch terrorist dead - check

2 bitch terrorists dead -

[Hcp22]

Apparently two brothers that came to US as refugees in the 90’ from Chechnya

[Charlie don't surf]

I'm not going to surmise that I know the motives for this at all. However, in NC there are very strong connections between Palestinians and Soviets in underground economy, and the carbon copy of that throughout Costal VA and SC-



I'm glad that we are so tolerant of everyone that we allow ourselves to become opportunities for others