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Explosions reported near finish line at Boston Marathon [W:162, 896, 911]]

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No. Safety is an illusion.


However, staying away from large public events in major cities isn't a BAD idea...

With large crowds, how can they control something like this? Have we moved to a third world lawless country? People dead...people missing limbs? Horrible! :shock:
 
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the situation is SO fluid.

the media is reacting as it usually does, going NUTS over every little tid-bit of information and asking every stupid question possible.
 
Explosions reported near finish line at Boston Marathon

No credible claims of responsibility. We are obviously tracking this. What are the odds of tracking the explosive devices?
 
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You're never gonna be 100% safe. From the smallest of the micro-scale to the largest of the macro-scale, things are constantly trying to kill you.

Unbelievable! :shock:
 
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the situation is SO fluid.

the media is reacting as it usually does, going NUTS over every little tid-bit of information and asking every stupid question possible.
Not every stupid question. I'm certain there's a few no one has thought of yet. Wait. Is thought actually required to ask a stupid question?
 
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With large crowds, how can they control something like this? Have we moved to a third world lawless country? People dead...people missing limbs? Horrible! :shock:

The miracle is that we haven't had many more of these since 9/11. Bottle bombs from car windows at outdoor cafes...timed explosives at sporting events...in shopping malls. That has been the real miracle. Finding whoever did this quickly is very important to our country.
 
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Frankly I'm surprised that this is all that's happened since 9/11. I know that there have been many attempts, but this is the first successful attack in 12 years.

You forgot Fort Hood. But your suppose to forget Fort Hood, it was just violence in the workplace according to Obama as the Islamist yelled "Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar" as he murdered 13 and wounded another 30.
 
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Blitzer is saying NY and a couple other major Cities are beefing up security......I guess that's what he is trying to say.
 
Explosions reported near finish line at Boston Marathon

Hmm, on patriots day, in boston, where the original tea party happened.

This feels scripted to target a white "tea party" extremist that had linked up with "Alquaida".

This is tragic, and my condolences to all victims, and I do hope that im wrong. We'll see, if there are culprits found within the next 24 hours, odds are it will be a scapegoat, there would likely be very little evidence that would be gathered without some lab work.

That said, what would be the benefit of bombing a marathon ?!? Maybe someone pissed off because the organizers didn't allow the person to run?
 
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No credible claims of responsibility. We are obviously tracking this. What are the odds of tracking the explosive devices?

They said no Pre warning or none that has been discovered. Blitzer now reports 46 injured and some with critical injuries.
 
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Moderator's Warning:
Alright, this is a big story that's getting a lot of attention now so let me make this clear for the sake of the thread.

Moving forward at this time, this thread is for discussing the event that is occuring. SPECIFICALLY discussing the event that is occuring.

Anyone attempting to use this event to make political points about ANY other issue that isn't EXTREMELY related DIRECTLY to this event will be thread banned. Similarly, anyone derailing the thread by spending entire posts griping about what other people say, without actually discussing the story, will be thread banned.

Situations like this get everyone on edge and it's understandable. But lets keep this thread focused ON TOPIC. If you want to rant about someones reaction, you have the basement. If you want to make tangental political points, start a thread in a different section.
 
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The miracle is that we haven't had many more of these since 9/11. Bottle bombs from car windows at outdoor cafes...timed explosives at sporting events...in shopping malls. That has been the real miracle. Finding whoever did this quickly is very important to our country.

Yeah, I always wondered about that. It seems like over the past 12 years the terrorists have either been extremely incompetent or extremely lazy. Doing what happened today is not an all too difficult task.
 
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wondering how long it would take the CT people to jump all over this
 
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With large crowds, how can they control something like this? Have we moved to a third world lawless country? People dead...people missing limbs? Horrible! :shock:


No, we are not a third world country, and we are far from lawless. Generally speaking, most crime and violence has been trending downward for about 40 years.

However, there are always nuts, or fanatics, or politically-motivated extremists, who can justify to themselves the harm and killing of people we would consider "innocent" for their purposes, and short of a police state it is very hard to stop them all.

Personally I'd rather accept a certain level of violence than live in a police state.
 
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It appears no one has taken responsibility yet (unless the press is sitting on that pursuant to a law enforcement request), which is odd since terrorists tend to do that immediately to avoid some other group getting credit. The whole point of terror is to take credit.
 
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I do, actually.

I doubt either of those were anything different than this one other than the means of attack. Time will tell.
 
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Blitzer is saying NY and a couple other major Cities are beefing up security......I guess that's what he is trying to say.

I guess it's to early for Blitzer to blame the TEA Party.

But as soon as they have a suspect in custody and release his name. CNN and MSNBC will be making that claim as soon as they find out that there's someone with the same name who attended a TEA Party rally.
 
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LMAO thanks for the laugh!

So anyone with a beef can just set off bombs and kill or injure innocent people?? I thought Sandy Hook was unimaginable, but this? I hope they find the b******s! :shock:
 
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Hmm, on patriots day, in boston, where the original tea party happened.

This feels scripted to target a white "tea party" extremist that had linked up with "Alquaida".

This is tragic, and my condolences to all victims, and I do hope that im wrong. We'll see, if there are culprits found within the next 24 hours, odds are it will be a scapegoat, there would likely be very little evidence that would be gathered without some lab work.

That said, what would be the benefit of bombing a marathon ?!? Maybe someone pissed off because the organizers didn't allow the person to run?

Occams Razor never felt so blunt.
 
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Blitzer now reports 49 injured and again says some have critical injuries. Cops said it was well planned event or coordinated event. But thats not with the Feds or anyone else coming in to validate.

Edit: they are also Evacuating another JFK place in Cambridge Mass.....due to the Library getting hit.
 
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With large crowds, how can they control something like this? Have we moved to a third world lawless country? People dead...people missing limbs? Horrible! :shock:

Hi Lady P !!

IMO We are lawless 3rd world in some of the neighborhoods,

does'nt take much to get it out to the rest of us.

To me the best thing to do is to continue to do whatever you do.

If you want to go to a game,go. if you want to go to the park,go.

Worrying about these idiots isn't a good thing to do.
 
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So sad, can't understand this, just so awful. Prayers with everyone affected.
 
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Unless someone claims responsibility for the attack or some kind of evidence is found quickly (security camera footage of someone doing something etc.) it will take some time for the information to be compiled by the NSA and FBI if this was a foreign or domestic terrorist action to see who the possible culprits are and draw down the list from there.

Some people are being pretty disgusting in this thread, I'll say no more since Zyphlin has already covered it (and it's not my place) but my heart goes out to the victims today, especially those of the two deceased, hope we hear of no more....

And so let's all take a deep breath and wait for more information to become available.
 
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Not every stupid question. I'm certain there's a few no one has thought of yet. Wait. Is thought actually required to ask a stupid question?

they are trying their best. i'm listening to CNN and the Wolf.

CNN reporting nearing 50 injured, so i don't like saying this, but most likely there are more dead then just two.
 
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