JJ Husker Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 They will try to cripple us with fear; they will fail. Our courage and spontaneous ability to forget the risks to help your fellow human will always win out. And when the smoke finally clears and the person or people responsible are caught, they will feel the full fury of the American people and the American justice system. It's sad that we live in a world where violence is always a possibility; where just your average every day person has the ability to create dangerous weapons. But for every one person who hates, there are hundreds of thousands who care and are good. We saw that yesterday. It matters because if this was done by an international group, panic will set throughout the United States. If its domestic, like I strongly believe given to my reasons earlier, people will be worried, but not as much. People will just want justice. You don't see people scared to go to the theater, the mall, or to school, but had one of those events been done by an international terrorist, you would see more panic, and a lot more fear of people doing these things. I think you're reading way too much into this. Nobody is panicking over this bombing. Maybe if it was the first time or the second time or the third time this had happened there'd be more panic, but today... we're getting inured to this kind of thing. Al Qaeda? Big whoop. We're already raining hellfire missiles on them across the globe. Nobody is scared of al Qaeda today. We all realize they're still plotting and planning and they'd love to pull off another stunt, and if this is them then OK. But nobody is living their life in fear because of al Qaeda. They've gone from the boogie man to a nuisance. If it's a home-grown nutjob, meh. We're all pretty familiar with people like this now, again sad to say. Nobody is going to be more or less afraid if the perp was American or foreign. You're still going to see people in large crowds, people at baseball games today or other large sporting events. Sure, in the backs of their minds they'll be thinking about terror, and "What would happen if...?" But this event won't cause any more panic or terror among the people. I think it'll have the opposite effect. We're saddened and angered by such things, but every single time a bomb goes off it provides us with yet more examples of how brave people really are. One minute those folks were milling about, doing minor crowd-control work or loafing due to inactivity, the next minute, one or two seconds after the bomb went off, all the pictures show the backs of police, medics, hazmat, even ordinary citizens. Not running away from the explosion, running towards it. Look at all the citizens in those pictures without shirts. Ordinary people giving anything, everything they have on them without question or hesitation to help complete strangers. That's why "terrorism" will ultimately fail. Not because we're incapable of being afraid, but because we're stronger than our fear. +1's to both of you. Very well said. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 The amazing thing is next season you will still hear people bitch because purses and other bags have to be checked before entering events like Husker games. 1 Link to comment
carlfense Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 The amazing thing is next season you will still hear people bitch because purses and other bags have to be checked before entering events like Husker games. They already check purses and other bags before entering Husker games . . . Link to comment
StPaulHusker Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 The amazing thing is next season you will still hear people bitch because purses and other bags have to be checked before entering events like Husker games. They already check purses and other bags before entering Husker games . . . 1 Link to comment
carlfense Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 The amazing thing is next season you will still hear people bitch because purses and other bags have to be checked before entering events like Husker games. They already check purses and other bags before entering Husker games . . . Good catch. +1 Link to comment
Count 'Bility Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 The amazing thing is next season you will still hear people bitch because purses and other bags have to be checked before entering events like Husker games. I have harsh words for them kind of folks. That is all. Link to comment
GSG Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 This guy took some pics right above the first explosion. Here's his story: http://deadspin.com/i-watched-the-marathon-bombing-from-above-these-are-my-473591429 Link to comment
GSG Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Nice story here: http://deadspin.com/heres-a-nice-thing-that-one-couple-did-after-the-marat-473790255 Link to comment
zoogs Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 I think you're only going to be worried about living in fear if you've been watching the news too much. Too many hours with nothing real to say, so they start throwing around colorful words and emotional expressions like it's their job. I forget if I got this link from this thread or not but figured it's worth posting again in any case: Where are all the terrorist attacks? Link to comment
beanman Posted April 16, 2013 Share Posted April 16, 2013 Coincidence? http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/tainted-letter-intercepted/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 Link to comment
beanman Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t2#/video/us/2013/04/16/intvw-boston-revere-roommate.whdh Link to comment
beanman Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/al-qaeda/9998886/Boston-Marathon-bombs-al-Qaedas-Inspire-magazine-taught-pressure-cooker-bomb-making-techniques.html Link to comment
QMany Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 http://www.telegraph...techniques.html Might help to include a quote or description instead of some random link. Still, I'll play ... Downrange American military personnel and the civilian contractors they work with also return home with the technical know-how to create these devices. Sinister knowledge isn't proprietary to an ethnic or religious group.... Improvised shrapnel munitions, whether they are staged in a pressure cooker or not, are easy to build with online directions or books for sale at gun shows. http://gawker.com/5994791/here-is-video-of-a-pressure+cooker-bomb-exploding-and-here-is-who-knows-how-to-build-them Link to comment
beanman Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 http://www.telegraph...techniques.html Might help to include a quote or description instead of some random link. Still, I'll play ... Downrange American military personnel and the civilian contractors they work with also return home with the technical know-how to create these devices. Sinister knowledge isn't proprietary to an ethnic or religious group.... Improvised shrapnel munitions, whether they are staged in a pressure cooker or not, are easy to build with online directions or books for sale at gun shows. http://gawker.com/59...w-to-build-them I'm guessing by your bolded statement that you're assuming I was trying to claim that this bombing was from a specific ethnic group? I was just posting links with latest stuff I had found. This link was on Jester's twitter page. Just thought I'd share it since it carried some interesting info and since folks probably don't want to be googling "How to build a pressure cooker bomb" right now. Link to comment
zoogs Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 http://www.cnn.com/v...e-roommate.whdh Shame on those journalists man. Link to comment
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