Two explosions at US marathon

[TheGodlessUtopian]

i've not seen reports of deaths from the local media here, but have seen 'some people have lost limbs'

gonna get dressed and head downtown to see whats up

Please do not. Going out would risk yourself becoming involved in any future attack. My instinct would be to stay indoors.

[#FF0000]

At any rate I think the culprits are likely to be Right-Wingers (if it was a terrorist act). The conservative realm has been increasingly fired up over Obama's policies and I am sure the recent debate on marriage equality isn't helping their reactionary mind-set. I could be wrong but I have my bets hedged on them.

It's also Tax Day and "Patriots Day", so.

Who knows.

[B5C]

i've not seen reports of deaths from the local media here, but have seen 'some people have lost limbs'

gonna get dressed and head downtown to see whats up

Don't go. Curiosity may got you hooked, but we don't want see you on the injury or death reports if more attacks continue.

[Comrade Samuel]

Nice to see the gut-reaction on hearing that people have been injured, perhaps even killed, is 'maaaaan I hope this doesn't make the Left look bad!'

Real classy.

They at least have the moral high ground over fox news; I've heard 9/11 referenced about 3 times now....fuckers.

[Ele'ill]

This is depressing and makes me really sad, I don't like seeing or hearing about people getting hurt or killed. I think maybe the graphic photos and videos should have a trigger warning and spoiler tags. Politics aside I am always amazed at the people who stick around or quickly return to help people who are injured and I don't mean the cops or paramedics I mean regular folks. I've seen really bad situations where people either run away or they stand around staring and nobody does anything.

On a side note I think it must have really sucked for those last runners who obviously no longer had anything left and were all wobbly legged and probably delirious to suddenly have a literal bomb explosion right there as they were nearing the finish line. Of all things, actual bombs.

[Sasha]

It was 4 hours aftet the start so the moment most recreational runners where crossing.

Here there is talk about it maybe a TV crew generator anyway..

What is the significance of patriots day and tax day I hear being mentioned?

[B5C]

This is depressing and makes me really sad, I don't like seeing or hearing about people getting hurt or killed. I think maybe the graphic photos and videos should have a trigger warning and spoiler tags. Politics aside I am always amazed at the people who stick around or quickly return to help people who are injured and I don't mean the cops or paramedics I mean regular folks. I've seen really bad situations where people either run away or they stand around staring and nobody does anything.

On a side note I think it must have really sucked for those last runners who obviously no longer had anything left and were all wobbly legged and probably delirious to suddenly have a literal bomb explosion right there as they were nearing the finish line. Of all things, actual bombs.

I will add a spoiler tag for the image I posted earlier.

[B5C]

What is the significance of patriots day and tax day I hear being mentioned?

Today is the last day to file your taxes.

Patriots' Day (officially Patriots' Day in Massachusetts[1] and Patriot's Day in Maine[2]) is a civic holiday commemorating the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first battles of the American Revolutionary War. It is observed on the third Monday in April in Massachusetts[3] and Maine[4] (once part of Massachusetts), and is a public school observance day in Wisconsin.[5] Observances and re-enactments of these first battles of the American Revolution occur annually at Lexington Green in Lexington, Massachusetts, (around 6:00 am) and The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, (around 9:00 am). In the morning, mounted re-enactors (National Lancers - Massachusetts) with state police escorts retrace the rides of Paul Revere and William Dawes, calling out warnings the whole way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots'_Day

[RedAnarchist]

They've confirmed 2 dead, 22 injured.

[#FF0000]

What is the significance of patriots day and tax day I hear being mentioned?

Tax day is just when income taxes are due. Patriots Day is the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. They're not particularly significant days to anyone and I probably shouldn't have even brought them up seeing as it's just wild speculation for the motives of bombers that might not even exist.

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

They at least have the moral high ground over fox news; I've heard 9/11 referenced about 3 times now....fuckers.

What about the bombings in Yeman or the Pakistani tribal areas? Oh wait those aren't terrorist attacks, they are "freedom bombs".

[Ele'ill]

Here there is talk about it maybe a TV crew generator anyway..

you mean talk of it being accidental?

[Sinister Intents]

Don't know what the fuck to say about it.....

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

What is the significance of patriots day and tax day I hear being mentioned?

Radical elements of the libertarian movement have formed paramilitary groups and sleeper cells that number between 40,000 and 60,000 members. If they were to start an insurgency today would be the day and if they were to launch an attack they could probably wage a low intensity insurgency given their numbers, years of training, sympathizing elements in the army and military, and financial abilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_movement

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Fuck. I thought that someone (I think a 23 year old) having a cardiac arrest in the Brighton Marathon yesterday was bad enough, now this. Marathon running official unhealthy!

And yeah, I know this is the politics forum, but can we have some humanity instead of going into political chattering overdrive? As has been said, people have been injured and even killed, it's fucking tragic

[bricolage]

boston marathon are specifically referring to bombs, facebook post;

"There were two bombs that exploded near the finish line in today's Boston Marathon"

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Radical elements of the libertarian movement have formed paramilitary groups and sleeper cells that number between 40,000 and 60,000 members. If they were to start an insurgency today would be the day and if they were to launch an attack they could probably wage a low intensity insurgency given their numbers, years of training, sympathizing elements in the army and military, and financial abilities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_movement

Assuming these thousands of people were organized into tightly centralized locals which coordinated with each other prior to the launching of the insurgency. In any case the extent and reliability, and quality of this training and supply is speculation. In any case this scenario isn't something I would take seriously.

[RedAnarchist]

Alex Jones has already begun with the false flag crap.

[rednordman]

I remember watching the news when Breivik's attacks occurred and almost as soon as the news of the Oslo bomb broke, there was a woman who specialises in terrorism analysis or something going on about Islamic terrorists.

I remember it clearly, this Israeli terrorism 'expert' smugly boasted about his certainty that it was a Muslim extremist as if to say 'im sorry i know you want to look at all possibilities before you come to a conclusion, but it looks just like a...' how wrong he was.

[Ele'ill]

Is the finish line area like a VIP area cause if it was and if there are 'tickets' to be in that area this might have been a specific hit? Not to add to the wildly speculative borderline trolling cornucopia of red dawn/militia conspiracy fetishization that's slowly taking place in this thread. I actually doubt that an area devoted entirely to sweaty and vomiting runners who may or may not have also shit and/or pissed themselves would be only for the rich and famous.