Out of Pod Experience

What news org. are you getting this from? Everything I'm reading says otherwise.

just watch it for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtnMS3bb_O8

Do they expect an army of policemen to attend every public event?

Sounds like you have an abundance of armchair expert analysts in the US.

Multiple perps who also look nothing like your media reinforced stereotypical terrorist.

Yes and yes.

Certain political, social,and media forces have sold a bill of goods to the Common Man that there should be no risk, that if they were willing to grant certain powers to the government, that all would be made safe and cozy.

When reality intrudes, as it always does, those same Common Men first blame the government, only to be told that they hadn't yet surrendered *enough* power to the government, and it will only need just a liiiiitle bit more of their power and freedom to make everything safe again. It's called 'Security Theater' and this country has some of the worlds formost actors in that theater of the absurd.

It's not the Left only, nor the Right only. People who wish to control the lives of others can be found in each camp. Indeed, the camps are sick mirrors of each other. All this enabled by the fact that the American 'Common Man' is a lazy swine, politically-speaking. So long as his slops trough is full, he will continue to await the day when public servants become the masters.


Multiple or single, organized or lone-wolf - the average citizen doesn't know enough to wipe his backside when it comes to security OR investigation. They want everything to be a TV show or movie, with magic all-seeing eyes and forensics. And they want everything wrapped-up and done in under ninety minutes so they don't have to miss their favorite 'reality' show.

As the IRA said, we only need to get lucky once.

These people are always the most isolated or insular in society i find. The same with most armchair hotshots.

Truly FDR was right when he said the only thing to fear is fear itself. 3 people dead is very low and a credit to the responders. How many people in boston were killed yesterday in car accidents?

Of course as Silens said a little bit more freedom will be sacrificed for security and its sad.

I live in a country that has been wracked by terrorism with suicide bombings but really it didnt change our lives. I wasnt here in the bad days of the early 2000s when buses and restaurants were exploding but the people managed to develop a strong skin and change their thinking that made most people very realistic.

Americas relative national naivety is both a great asset and a negative as then people go nuts over things like this and dont see themselves spiting themselves.

Honestly id like to take every armchair patton and give them a rifle and see how it feels to have a cold hard dose of reality.

3 this time, I daresay the perps are underachievers compared to 9/11.

Why bother cowering in fear when you can continue as usual with a spot of common sense in hand. I always thought our response to terrorism was the wrong direction, by all means tighten security but ceding over lumps of rights for safety? Whose safety, seems like our MP's used a chunk of that safety over the expenses issue.

The bomber will always get through.

Boston o7

Aye, come together in defiance of this. Unfortunately many more seem to be adamant to blame those protecting them more than the perps themselves.

Civic duties noted to be learned from in this : First Aid is something that should be taught in schools and need to find a class for myself... Only 3 dead, that ladies and gentlemen is what happens when competent medical assistance is sitting right ontop of a terrorist attack.

Graygor, I wish I could give your posts in this thread more +1s.... Well said. Kirjava & Rain6639, likewise.
Indeed, well done to all for remaining civil and thoughtful.


I was raised by a warrior and soldier. I learned that life isn't safe, but that it has to be lived anyway. So many have been protected so thoroughly that they've lost all contact with reality - Success leading to failure. It's long past time to take the padding off, and allow people to get bruised and bloodied as they grow up.

I was pretty sure those bombs were low-explosive, and news trickling out seems to confirm. This was a very efficient attack, if the intent was to create maximum fear from minimum resources expended. Targeting could hardly have been better, and if you mean to spread fear, body count is far less important that maximum pain and horror. Multiple devices are reported to have failed, not unexpectedly - home-brew bombs tend to be very unreliable. This could've been radically worse, and now we've got hard evidence.

Someone, or some people had best dig themselves a deep hole, and pull it in after themselves. Boston is a city that doesn't forget, and there's an awful lot of concentrated vengeance coming...