Attack on Boston Marathon

What a tragedy for the entire family from his mother who's suffering from brain injury to his little sister (who loved to dance) and now has lost her leg



In what has regrettably become an all-too familiar occurrence in America, the virulently mephitic members of the Westboro Baptist Church have announced that they plan to picket the funerals of those killed in yesterday's bombing attack on the Boston Marathon in an apparent attempt to make the actual perpetrators of the attack seem like decent human beings by comparison. They will fall short in this effort, should they even decide to follow through on their threat, but by golly, they are going to give it their best shot, if their Twitter feed from yesterday offers any indication.


If they really show up i'll be there to counter-protest


Hotwater

 

Wow you are a total bitch.
''shitty little countries''

 

Yeah, only a bitch would think that some countries are better places to live than others.

 

Oh did they now? How come that didn't work out so good then recently?

Is it all those filthy Non-Americans fucking up the game plan?

Sheesh ...

 

Because there is nowhere you can live that is totally without crime or anti-social people.

Nope. Race has nothing to do with it. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that the bomber will turn out to be a white American whose family has been here for generations. Criminals come from every ethnic group.

Boston is a very tolerant, multicultural city that is loaded with immigrants and old ethnic neighborhoods. If you look at the web sites where people are offering assistance to bombing victims, they aren't asking the victims' families about their political views, race, religion, or national origin. Everybody is being treated the same.

I'm proud of the way Boston locals are handling this situation. I can think of several major American cities that would likely not do so well.

 

Yup. A real goooood PATRIOT just like you and all the others who are trying to make America a better place.

Good luck with that.

 

now wait now, I don't think anyone on this thread has said that the lives lost or injuries sustained in the boston attack are more dear than those elsewhere in the world.

there seems to be a general acknowledgement here that bombings and loss of innocent lives happens in a lot of places, and it's always bad wherever it happens.

there also seems to be an acknowledgement of the fact that this attack was relatively minor compared to other events around the world. nobody here has been trash-talking Islam.

for the record, I think that Boston is a crap city. While there's plenty of good people in boston, it's also full of selfish, obnoxious assholes.

It hasn't really been acknowledged in the media very much, but one of the main reasons america is hated in so many Islamic countries is because of the us media. the media has become controlled by feminist militants who have been waging war through the airwaves not only in the us, but around the world. As I heard it put by an Islamic militant on a very brief news snippet, he said he was fighting because "white women are waging war on us". boston is one of the centers, if not the epicenter of, that militant feminist agenda. the attackers may not be Islamic in this case, and we don't know why they chose to attack boston, but in previous attacks, what the us media does has been a motivating factor.

we don't know who is responsible for these attacks, but whatever their reason, I don't see how hurting innocent people, or attacking people randomly who happen to be in proximity to a place you don't like, is going to solve anything.

I put up the picture of Richard Martin not because I think that his life was more dear than the lives of any other children who have been killed around the world, but because the theme of his drawing is the one that I think that we should take away from these attacks. "No more hurting people...Peace".

If the us just gets tough on terror again, if more of the rights of citizens are just taken away, not only will it not solve the problem, it will just allow our own government to become more of a problem.

fundamentally, if we want to stop terror attacks, one of the things that we have to do is stop giving people reasons to be angry enough to commit these crimes in the first place.

 

I have no idea what point you're trying to make. In what way can a homicidal maniac be just like me? Only in superficial ways that don't matter.

 

No, only a bitch would say ''shitty little countries''

 

What's your preferred politically correct term that means the same thing? Everybody knows that there are countries in the world where nobody permanently lives except for people who were born there and have no way out.

I think most Mexicans who live in America would agree that Mexico is a shitty country. They won't tolerate anything good being said about Mexico in their presence, and they can't wait to find a way to get their relatives into the US. They are some of the most pro-American people you could ever meet. They would know EXACTLY what I'm talking about here.

 

Whatever he meant, the idea that the deaths of many hundreds of thousands of (non-American!) civillians is just "politics" is offensive in the extreme.
Its exactly the sentiment that causes so much of the World (developed AND developing) to have nothing but contempt for American actions around the World.

But by your comments, you're making it clear that in comparison to your dear Americans, foreign deaths are extremely unimportant.

Its the timing of YOUR comments that are offensive NOT mine.
What about the shock of 40 odd Arabs who died because of YOUR country's war crimes, genocide and murder? This happened THE SAME DAY!

Give it a few days? Yeah, so the slaughter of vast numbers of people are mixed in with shite in 1 sentence about Justin Bieber's haircut? Why? Because they're guilty of not being American? ie when its abundantly clear America doesn't give a fuck!

Sorry, it doesn't work that way.

MY view might not fit in with the Fox News extreme American narcissism.
The rest of the World doesn't bow down and thank God America exists. We see it as a sinister bully of a country in its foreign policy. Guilty of millions of deaths, war crimes, even genocides. And thats ignoring the other forms of abuse America commits upon other states.

Anyone who thinks 2 isolated American lives in even remotely similar to 300, 000 or more innocent Arab civillians is utterly warped.

Its that kind of thinking that actually incites terrorism. And its the reason why most of the World doesn't have an ounce of sympathy for America.

The USA is the tyrant. Boston was well know for supporting Irish terrorists.
And Al Qaeda terrror was described by Bush Snr as a "freedom fighter"(US backed) against Russia and others. Americans are instant to "sacrifice" and justify other nationality's lives. Yet we never hear the end of it when America tastes its own perverse medicine.

Its events like this show how narcissistic, delusional and dangerous so many Americans are. Perhaps the Americans here would like to remember men, women and kids murdered by the Iraq invasion? NOPE.

No, too many Americans would rather use TWO DEATHS to justify the slaughter of whole cities. Whole cities that are guilty of being "not American"..

A truly sick and perverse way of looking at the World..

Quick calculation again...
A figure between 300, 000 and ONE MILLION divided by 2...

 

Amazing how someone can make such a long post and yet manage to say so little.

Also, I always find it interesting how many can accuse America and Americans of arrogance, yet then have the arrogance to claim they speak for the "rest of the world". Narcissism? Pot, I'd like you to meet kettle.

 

Apparently a suspect has been arrested: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/17/us/boston-blasts/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

Now the live broadcast on CNN is saying there are conflicting reports as to whether or not an arrest has been made.

 

Yeah, CNN and MSNBC have been saying opposite things about it for the last 15 minutes. They do both agree that there is video footage of a guy dropping off a package at the second blast location, and that's their prime suspect. It was picked up by a security camera at the street entrance to the Lord and Taylor department store, a part of the big shopping complex around the Prudential Center.

 

when we don't give a fuck in how our tax dollars created the sectarian violence in Iraq where terrorist attacks happen every other day, and exponentially more are killed in each attack, while one rare occurrence in the US is like OMG OMG OMG. Yes, it's terrible and atrocious when random innocents are targeted, but someone once said: "one sweet girl dies and everybody loses their minds, but dozens of soldiers or people in conflict zones die, it's just part of the plan." People should be exposed to the pictures of carnage and costs of our wars, but they're not. These people posting all these hotlines and expending tons of energy on how to help the situation in Boston know the logical fallacies, things like nationalism, but where's that energy and compassion when our own government is committing acts like this daily with drones, killing scores of children and innocents:
http://drones.pitchinteractive.com (these are very conservative estimates, excluding Afghanistan numbers) For comparison, that's 9 deaths per drone attack, with 366 attacks. That's three Boston attacks a day for 366 days, in terms of fatalities. Thats just the US drone program in Pakistan.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/8/headlines
So guess what, this shit is happening in far greater volume and frequency to other people all over. Why are you so suprised when it happens to you? Because you're privileged and shielded, some of you anyways(mostly white people), to live in the current hegemonic empire that is "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death" - Martin Luther King. I believe he said that 2 days before he was gunned down..
Obviously the suffering and death of those people is horrible and tragic, and let it serve as a reminder of what happens daily all over the world by YOUR government's hands. This thread makes me sick. Something terrible happens and all you folks can think of to do is, place blame arbitrarily, lash out at each other, and spread more hate around..

Go do something good for the world for once instead of filling it with rage.
Go outside. Plant some seed or something..

Boston Marathon explosion an act of cowardice on a billboard.. . http://on.aol.com/video/boston-unio...=maing-grid7|main5|dl17|sec1_lnk2&pLid=299764


It was not brave: like when we drop bombs from 35,000 feet or shoot missiles from 20 miles away..

looks like I picked the wrong day to wear my shemagh to the store..

For 15 years, the debate about depleted uranium (DU) and its detrimental effects on the health of veterans of the Gulf War of 1991, on the Iraqi people and military (and subsequently on the people of Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq during the second war) has remained unresolved. Meanwhile, the number of Gulf War veterans who have developed the so-called Gulf War syndrome has risen to about one-third of the 800,000 U.S. forces deployed, and unknown proportions of those involved in the subsequent wars. Uncounted civilians and personnel of other nations that fought in Iraq and other wars since 1991 have also been afflicted. The veterans have suffered from multiple serious physiological disorders and have received little or no official recognition, medical relief, or compensation!!!!.

pay back is a bitch,, isnt it? ..

More art to imitate..

The Family Guy/Boston Marathon Clip is NOT a Hoax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WQeqE943Uo"]The Family Guy/Boston Marathon Clip is NOT a Hoax - YouTube


Some Truth to Swallow..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSdRNDbB27E"]Boston Massacre is a BIG DEAL! #PRAYFORBOSTON - YouTube

 

yawn....

 

I think it was a smear against American values in general.
There does not seem to be a specific critique of anybody here.
More, the general (perceived) feelings within America.
Although, how dare anybody seem to value or raise the value of anybody within the U.S over anything else that occurs within the world.
It's a bit above posting pictures of squirrels, and perhaps he should be a little more nuanced.
I'd say, stick to posting funny pictures, because otherwise you come across as slightly nutty (too random and unfocused).

 

Pot. kettle?