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Message 1358755 - Posted: 20 Apr 2013, 2:21:54 UTC

Per Blurf's request, a place away from the tribute & condolences thread to post other stuff about the bombing or the bombers.

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Message 1358756 - Posted: 20 Apr 2013, 2:23:34 UTC

We put people in jail who yell jump at people standing on a bridge. When are we going to put radical preachers in jail for telling people to go out and murder in the name of a deity?

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Message 1358758 - Posted: 20 Apr 2013, 2:26:10 UTC - in response to Message 1358756.  

We put people in jail who yell jump at people standing on a bridge. When are we going to put radical preachers in jail for telling people to go out and murder in the name of a deity?


Good question!
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Message 1358780 - Posted: 20 Apr 2013, 4:51:29 UTC

I am afraid that what happened in Boston is going to be hard to prevent in the future unless the American public becomes willing to forfeit most of the personal freedoms we have enjoyed for 237 years. I just hope the crazies never get hold of anything more devastating than what has already been used.
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Message 1358787 - Posted: 20 Apr 2013, 5:10:33 UTC - in response to Message 1358780.  

Bob -- I agree with you on this -- stuff happens -- and soft targets are just that -- soft targets.



I am afraid that what happened in Boston is going to be hard to prevent in the future unless the American public becomes willing to forfeit most of the personal freedoms we have enjoyed for 237 years. I just hope the crazies never get hold of anything more devastating than what has already been used.

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Message 1358811 - Posted: 20 Apr 2013, 6:34:24 UTC - in response to Message 1358780.  

I am afraid that what happened in Boston is going to be hard to prevent in the future unless the American public becomes willing to forfeit most of the personal freedoms we have enjoyed for 237 years. I just hope the crazies never get hold of anything more devastating than what has already been used.

Our government already proposes to let them all loose.
Against the wishes of the vast majority of the population.
But, that's Obamacide at work....you see, they freaking get to vote, too.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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Message 1358812 - Posted: 20 Apr 2013, 6:38:37 UTC

MS, and here I thought you were more of a libertarian uber alles guy, yet I am hearing KGBishness here.
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Message 1359131 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 0:47:51 UTC

A catch-22 situation for the police?

Manhunt over



Tomorrow, that very same officer may be called a pig & spat upon, or maybe shot at or even injured.

It does make one wonder!
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Message 1359152 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 2:06:42 UTC

Somebody please explain what the hell has America done to the chechens blow the Kemlin up there the 1's whom went into that country not the west

Nuke the whole bloody area from kakistan to Iran to stuff it Afganistan then that's 1 less problem for us to worry about

Fatkim well he's next on the list
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Message 1359153 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 2:15:20 UTC - in response to Message 1359152.  

hey guys I just defended America oh no wot am I doing !!!!!!!
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Message 1359166 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 4:33:22 UTC - in response to Message 1359153.  

hey guys I just defended America oh no wot am I doing !!!!!!!

Nah, you have just insulted a lot of Australians by making it look like yours is the average intelligence of a person from there. ;-)

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Message 1359174 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 5:36:10 UTC - in response to Message 1359166.  

Gary you naghty boy you ....heheh
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Message 1359181 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 5:58:30 UTC - in response to Message 1359166.  
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I can see it now, if Bush were still President:

Sir, it turns out the terrorists in Boston were Czechens.

Reply: Well then, lets bomb Prague.

Actually -- more likely if Palin were the boss.
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Message 1359182 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 6:06:05 UTC

Good 1 baz
still I can't get my head around why ? Not like these guys where still in the country , they had a education so ............
And why the west what did we do ...
Or was that the prob we didn't do anything over there .....crazy only other option !!!!!
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Message 1359187 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 6:11:17 UTC - in response to Message 1359166.  

hey guys I just defended America oh no wot am I doing !!!!!!!

Nah, you have just insulted a lot of Australians by making it look like yours is the average intelligence of a person from there. ;-)

Hehehe, I was about to comment that it is difficult to decipher exactly where Glenn is coming from with his slaughtering of the english language.
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Message 1359203 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 6:45:59 UTC - in response to Message 1359182.  

Glenn, what seems to be the case (seems it is all rather speculative) is that the older brother became radicalized over time (heaven knows the Russians provided a great deal of impetus for Chechen radicalization), and that radicalization moved toward Islamic radicalization for the older brother, and he carried his younger brother along with him.

In the US there is at least some potential for Islamic radicalization as there is a fair sized Islamic population and you only need a handful. Of course there is an even larger potential these days for reactionary right wing radicalization and there are way too many groups organized and organizing in that turf.



Good 1 baz
still I can't get my head around why ? Not like these guys where still in the country , they had a education so ............
And why the west what did we do ...
Or was that the prob we didn't do anything over there .....crazy only other option !!!!!

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Message 1359204 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 6:47:32 UTC - in response to Message 1359187.  

Bob is not slaughtering the English language -- that isn't his native language, he speaks and writes Australian.


hey guys I just defended America oh no wot am I doing !!!!!!!

Nah, you have just insulted a lot of Australians by making it look like yours is the average intelligence of a person from there. ;-)

Hehehe, I was about to comment that it is difficult to decipher exactly where Glenn is coming from with his slaughtering of the english language.

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Message 1359325 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 12:04:08 UTC - in response to Message 1359204.  

Ahh your all getting used to my Australian .....

But Baz I was born in pommy land only went to school there for first 4yrs rest good ol ooozzie public schooling
man thhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhis keyboard is pissing me off dam it stop doing that
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Message 1359343 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 12:38:38 UTC - in response to Message 1359336.  

Nuke the whole bloody area from kakistan to Iran to stuff it Afganistan then that's 1 less problem for us to worry about

That is not a realistic answer to it all, and I suspect that you know that. We don't yet know the reason behind the Boston bombings, but I suspect that this is probably about right.

According to media accounts, Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, were Muslims who recently gravitated to a radical strain of Islam, going so far as to post Anti-American, jihadist videos on social-media sites. Both are thought to have as-yet-unprobed ties to a radical Muslim cleric hellbent on the destruction of the American way of life.




And, alas, would take us into the same gutter those we despise come from.


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Message 1359347 - Posted: 21 Apr 2013, 12:49:42 UTC - in response to Message 1359336.  

true and yes , but only saying wot we where probably all thinking
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