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2013-04-15, 21:56 | Link #27482 | |
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Read this: http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost...ostcount=27476 What I expect to happen, if they do find the person directly responsible for this (I hope they do), is that they'll have him in custody, grill him for answers, and then he'll rot in prison for some time. If it is a domestic terrorist, surely he'll get the death penalty. If it is someone part of an international terrorist group, like a Muslim extremist group, well, they are completely screwed for sure.
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2013-04-15, 21:57 | Link #27483 |
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So... instead of two people dead... I see news of three now... including an 8-year old...
Anyways, I've been 1 year 4 months since my last road race. That's due to injury and fear of re-injury. Due to that, I've been somewhat... mixed, as that absence from running made me feel somewhat disconnected from the running community. However, I am easily brought back in reflecting my own running experience; and the true reason why people do all this marathoning. This was supposed to be a day of celebration, chock full of triumphant moments - especially at this Boston race, where many have to qualify even to enter. The rest go through the charity program, which often involves a lot of money. Looking back at my most recent finish - I'd be extremely upset if someone robbed me of that moment. Well, many were robbed here. And three died - who were spectators. During the times when I spectated the finishing - even there I was feeling it. So, this whole marathon feel rubs on people, who didn't run it. Yea... this whole situation... it pisses me off.
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2013-04-15, 22:11 | Link #27484 |
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Yeah, in the last few years, I've started to feel more negatively about evil crimes and acts of injustice in the world. Six or seven years ago, I wouldn't have said the things I said in the previous page (not like what I said was all that bad). I probably wouldn't have written anything venomous, even if just a bit so. When the Virginia Tech shooting happened, I thought it was terrible, but I didn't say anything hateful about the perp.
But I'm becoming kind of bitter about low-life people doing low-life things. Mounting on top of that is frustration from other injustices, whether it be from governments, corporations, and so forth.
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2013-04-15, 22:40 | Link #27486 |
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This is screwed up.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...boyfriend.html Pregnant woman kills her three young children and then herself. :-\
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2013-04-15, 22:57 | Link #27487 |
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Oh, dear...
Was there really no one else for her to get support from before even thinking of doing something like that? That surely reminds all of us on the importance of having an extended network of friends and family members for support and acting as a safety net before doing anything reckless. |
2013-04-15, 23:16 | Link #27489 | |
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2013-04-16, 04:16 | Link #27491 | |
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2013-04-16, 05:01 | Link #27492 |
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Equally disgusting are the Internet ghouls and trolls seeking to exploit the incident for their own ends, for greed or attention: dozens of URLs have set up, purportedly for installing fake charity sites; some sick fuck circulated the picture of the purported victim of the bombing, before deleting the source account.
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2013-04-16, 05:07 | Link #27493 |
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After blast horror, many Bostonians extend kindness to runners
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93F05K20130416 Boston hospitals scramble to care for wounded after blasts http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...93F04O20130416
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2013-04-16, 08:21 | Link #27494 |
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Meanwhile, in other parts of the world where the value of life is clearly not regarded highly by most of us.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...n-wedding.html 30 dead after a US bomber accidentally raised a large part of a village. Different articles I know, but I found it interesting nonetheless ( I wasn't able to find an NY times article on this). " BOSTON — Two powerful bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday afternoon, killing three people, including an 8-year-old child, and injuring more than 100, as one of this city’s most cherished rites of spring was transformed from a scene of cheers and sweaty triumph to one of screams and carnage. " "At least 30 members of an Afghan wedding party were killed and many more wounded when a U.S. plane bombed a village in the central province of Uruzgan today, Afghan officials and residents said" The people of Boston certainly didn't deserve this.. but this is daily life in much of the world. When all these people say "My thoughts go out to you, Boston" where 3 people died, its as if they affirm that no thought will be given to the large stretches of the world where terrorism and bomb-blasts are an everyday affair, not to mention some foreign power bombing the shit out of your small village for literally no reason. and no thoughts are given to them, no one even blinks when these innocent, war-torn miserable people are killed everyday. |
2013-04-16, 08:30 | Link #27495 | |
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Although, it illustrates a good point. With those two damn "Bush wars", some of our bombers have bombed many innocent civilians, with the damage and amount of casualties being just as bad or worse than this Boston tragedy, and the U.S. government just labels it as "collateral damage". Just more injustice in the world. Quote:
It could be a so called 'Islamic terrorist', that is certainly a possibility. Perhaps one of those "lone wolf" types the government has warned us about. I, however, suspect that the terrorist is a domestic terrorist. I suspect that primarily, and suspect it is a Muslim extremist secondly.
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2013-04-16, 09:20 | Link #27497 | |
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Where do you think people like the Taliban and other terrorist groups hide out in? They hide in civilian villages on purpose. This is why unfortunately there are civilian causalities in these type of wars. In this case you have someone (and of course we have no idea who it was) who deliberately set bombs in a place where they knew many innocent people would be. It was on purpose to make some type of statement.
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2013-04-16, 09:29 | Link #27498 | |
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Oh, here is another 10 last month. http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/13/world/...tan-air-strike |
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2013-04-16, 09:31 | Link #27499 | |
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And who said anyone is cheerfully writing off civilian causalities? Terrorism attacks and civilian casualties of war are not the same thing. If you want to complain about how the uS handles civilian casualties that is one thing but to compare it to deliberate terrorism attacks is ridiculous.
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