I can't help feeling that some pro-gun nutters are responsible for this.
After all, the Marathon was in honour of the Newtown victims wasn't it?
I really, really hope not. I'm sure many hearts the world over would break if that were the case.
Then again, as posted earlier, it is a bit of a coincidence it is on the day that a missile launch from NK was predicted, as it is the birthday of the founder of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, The Day of the Sun.
I can't see how anyone in the gun lobby would think bombing a charity event would help their cause. Maybe an attack on a federal building, but not a fun run. The aim was obviously to kill and maim innocent people, and there is only one group who are head and shoulders above the rest at committing such atrocities. They are the obvious suspects in my opinion.
Just a quick question, how did someone plant devices around the City after the police did there checks orginally and how did this person evade police that bit i don't get
There are hundreds of thousands of people milling around watch ing the marathon...most of them wearing backpacks and/ or carrying bags................how can the police search everyone along a 26 mile route? Most spectators would be watching the race, and someone leaving a bag on the ground would go unnoticed
I'm watching the Livewire newsfeed and it looks like there won't be answers for some time. I can't imagine what the people who were at the scene are going through.
With a government like that of the USA, you would want guns too. The founding father's recognised the danger which its people could be under so its why they were given that right.
Its not as if the USA is a civilised country, it is politically corrupt, more overtly so than ours (With the three main parties all wanting to sell off state assets and public services so their rich mates can get richer!)
Just a quick question, how did someone plant devices around the City after the police did there checks orginally and how did this person evade police that bit i don't get
The fact that it's multiple devices suggests it might not necessarily be the work of one person. If the police have done all their sweeps, you may well have had a situation where 3 people planted 3 devices at the same time as they'd know that the security sweeps would have been completed.
If it was a single person, I think the odds of at least one device being found beforehand would have been quite high.
I can't see how anyone in the gun lobby would think bombing a charity event would help their cause. Maybe an attack on a federal building, but not a fun run. The aim was obviously to kill and maim innocent people, and their is only one group who are head and shoulders above the rest at committing such atrocities. They are the obvious suspects in my opinion.
There are some so-called "truthers" who think Newtown never happened at all and that it was a government conspiracy to justify disarming the population. One bloke who helped out that day got attacked in the street and called a child molester by these nutjobs. Truthers might see the Newtown families as complicit in a government conspiracy to disarm them, and attacking them might seem a clever way to expose the "truth" they believe in. Also, using bombs is significant as the attackers, if it is pro-gun-nuts, didn't use guns to kill.
An edit on your post with the link. It's not hard, there is an edit button but you only have 30 mins to edit.
and don't put "do not click if easily upset". Those images would upset and shock anyone who clicked on them. I'd be worried if someone clicked on that image and felt nothing.
Now edit your post with the link!
we need these pics to ramp up hatred and support for anyone's ass we need to kick for doing this. more graphic images = more support when the US government goes after whoever(person/country/organization) did this
I have the same numb feeling I had watching tv news coverage of other terrorist attacks unfold. I hope everything is secured down and controlled and this doesn't turn out to be a chain of attacks.
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The police confirmed it.
Quite.
Could be the loyalists, remember Monaghan and Dublin?
There are hundreds of thousands of people milling around watch ing the marathon...most of them wearing backpacks and/ or carrying bags................how can the police search everyone along a 26 mile route? Most spectators would be watching the race, and someone leaving a bag on the ground would go unnoticed
I haven't seen them show anyone who's had their legs blown off.
It was just reported in the news from a press conference the boston police did live.
It was stated in the Boston Police news conference..with few details
Looked like bombs to me, at least the one on the pavement. Lots of flame though, so probably some domestic nutjob with some home-made explosives.
As if!!!
Nobody who legally owns a gun has ever done anything!
It is the FBI which has been responsible for domestic terrorist activities over there!
Also don't forget the fast and the furious scandal!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
With a government like that of the USA, you would want guns too. The founding father's recognised the danger which its people could be under so its why they were given that right.
Its not as if the USA is a civilised country, it is politically corrupt, more overtly so than ours (With the three main parties all wanting to sell off state assets and public services so their rich mates can get richer!)
It's just been said in the news conference with the State Governor.
The fact that it's multiple devices suggests it might not necessarily be the work of one person. If the police have done all their sweeps, you may well have had a situation where 3 people planted 3 devices at the same time as they'd know that the security sweeps would have been completed.
If it was a single person, I think the odds of at least one device being found beforehand would have been quite high.
There are some so-called "truthers" who think Newtown never happened at all and that it was a government conspiracy to justify disarming the population. One bloke who helped out that day got attacked in the street and called a child molester by these nutjobs. Truthers might see the Newtown families as complicit in a government conspiracy to disarm them, and attacking them might seem a clever way to expose the "truth" they believe in. Also, using bombs is significant as the attackers, if it is pro-gun-nuts, didn't use guns to kill.
That's my theory, if it is pro-gun nutters.
and I am worrying, as I am doing three half-marathons this year in UK, thoughts for people in Boston.
No but I've seen some other not so nice footage so just thought I would say as it can be rather upsetting.
That would be why no one is texting me back, then.
we need these pics to ramp up hatred and support for anyone's ass we need to kick for doing this. more graphic images = more support when the US government goes after whoever(person/country/organization) did this
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/15/boston-marathon-explosion-live
Horrifying.