Likely you never saw this video splayed across the national television screens, except once on NBC.
Boston Bruins vs the Buffalo Sabres, directly after the Boston Marathon bombing:
And when was the last time you actually heard our national anthem sung, at any sports event, with such vigor that the singer was drowned out?
God bless America; the last and best hope of the entire planet.
Because when America dies, freedom dies.
BZ
Now, might I suggest a curing of the body in pork for an undetermined amount of time.
Further, as many of us already sensed:
From the UKMirror.com:
The FBI was last night hunting a 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to the Boston marathon bomb brothers.
Police believe Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack.
More than 1,000 FBI operatives were last night working to track down the cell and arrested a man and two women 60 miles from Boston in the hours before Dzhokhar’s dramatic capture after a bloody shootout on Friday.
A source close to the investigation said: “We have no doubt the brothers were not acting alone. The devices used to detonate the two bombs were highly sophisticated and not the kind of thing people learn from Google.
“They were too advanced. Someone gave the brothers the skills and it is now our job to find out just who they were. Agents think the sleeper cell has up to a dozen members and has been waiting several years for their day to come.”
Copy that.
Hunt them and kill them.
BZ
Killed: MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, 26 (above).
Critically injured: MBTA Officer Richard Donahue, 33 (above).
Residence where suspect #2, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was located in boat (at left).
BZ
From Salon.com:
As we now move into the official Political Aftermath period of the Boston bombing — the period that will determine the long-term legislative fallout of the atrocity — the dynamics of privilege will undoubtedly influence the nation’s collective reaction to the attacks. That’s because privilege tends to determine: 1) which groups are — and are not — collectively denigrated or targeted for the unlawful actions of individuals; and 2) how big and politically game-changing the overall reaction ends up being.
This has been most obvious in the context of recent mass shootings. In those awful episodes, a religious or ethnic minority group lacking such privilege would likely be collectively slandered and/or targeted with surveillance or profiling (or worse) if some of its individuals comprised most of the mass shooters. However, white male privilege means white men are not collectively denigrated/targeted for those shootings — even though most come at the hands of white dudes.
Likewise, in the context of terrorist attacks, such privilege means white non-Islamic terrorists are typically portrayed not as representative of whole groups or ideologies, but as “lone wolf” threats to be dealt with as isolated law enforcement matters. Meanwhile, non-white or developing-world terrorism suspects are often reflexively portrayed as representative of larger conspiracies, ideologies and religions that must be dealt with as systemic threats — the kind potentially requiring everything from law enforcement action to military operations to civil liberties legislation to foreign policy shifts.
Right.
Once again, Caucasoids are fundamentally responsible for the consummate ills of the world, millions of years ago and now.
BZ
UPDATE: Counterterrorism officials found what they believe to be five additional, undetonated explosive devices around the Boston area, according to two people briefed on the rapidly moving investigation.
The devices—which are in addition to the two that exploded near the finish line of the marathon—were discovered over the course of a frantic inspection of suspicious packages, many of them abandoned as pedestrians, runners, and others scrambled away from crowded public streets. Each had been rendered inoperative or was in the process of being rendered inoperative, the officials said.
Roupen Bastajian, a state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when he heard the explosions.
“I started running toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor,” he said. “We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. … At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing.”
One explosion and then another obviously indicates terrorism. You can clearly hear the second explosion after the first.
I’m not certain of the facts yet — no one is — things are chaotic and it is early, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are unexploded bombs that failed to detonate. If this is a Middle Eastern-type planned event, then there would be secondary bombs rigged to explode or be triggered remotely in order to kill the first and subsequent waves of emergency responders.
It is now indicated that ball bearings were involved in the packing of the explosives.
From FoxNews.com:
At least two people are dead and 73 injured – including up to 10 with amputated limbs – after two bombs tore through the finish line of the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Police Department.
Authorities were guarding a person of interest at a local hospital, according to a New York Post report confirmed by Fox News. The person, who sources said was 20 years old, had severe burns, but authorities had not determined whether the person was a victim or a perpetrator. Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said during a press conference that no suspect is in custody.
The simultaneous explosions just before 3 p.m. and reports of two other unexploded devices found near the scene raised suspicions of a terrorist attack. Intelligence officials told The Associated Press two unexploded devices were being dismantled. Competitors and race organizers were crying as they fled the bloody chaos, while some witnesses reported seeing victims with lost limbs.
“Somebody’s leg flew by my head,” a spectator, who gave his name as John Ross, told the Boston Herald. “I gave my belt to stop the blood.”
Information also indicates the devices detonated not as the first persons were finishing, but later on in the race. They were placed not far from the finish line itself.
One dead victim is a child; other children are seriously injured. 176 total are injured.
After TWO days, Mr Obama finally labeled the acts as “terrorism.”
BZ