{"id":11615,"date":"2013-04-16T09:32:40","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=11615"},"modified":"2013-04-16T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:42:11","slug":"i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2013\/04\/16\/i-read-the-news-today-oh-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"“I read the news today, oh boy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking over the bits and pieces of commentary on the bombing blast of the Boston Marathon, and naturally no one heeds this comment from President Obama: \u00c2\u00a0“People should not jump to conclusions before we have all the facts<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

And I get the feeling with this “Who’s behind the Boston Marathon bombings? 4 theories<\/a>” carp… and the inclusion of #3 “The Government” — in a case where I can pretty well safely say that … it ain’t “the Government” \u00c2\u00a0… this is something of a victory for Team Paranoid Fruitcake. \u00c2\u00a0Note, for the record the first question lobbed to the Governor of Massachusetts was for someone covering in the Alex Jones Media Empire– certainly now on the trail to get to this moment in a Persecution Complex. \u00c2\u00a0Currently the reason would be to advance a gun control bill, I suppose, and then further measures advancing into the surveillance state. \u00c2\u00a0[I look over the prison planet website, I see they fixate on a Family Guy episode, the equally pointless to speculate but just as feasible as Islamic Terrorist “Tax Day protest” nutcase by Christ Matthews, “roof guy” image that even if it turns out to be nothing will become conspiracy fodder for generations to come, and Yep! \u00c2\u00a0Pride that their guy got in the first question Patrick Deval’s press conference!)<\/p>\n

The bloviaters of the Fox News ilk, for some stupid reason taking issue that “Obama didn’t use the word ‘Terrorist’! \u00c2\u00a0Terrorist has a specific, if probably broad and not pin-point, meaning. \u00c2\u00a0(Ie: “Terrorism Experts” do not put Ted Kaczynski as a Terrorist somehow deciding that his stated political purpose amble away from political purpose too much; I tend to regard him as a Terrorist). \u00c2\u00a0 Your initial statement has to peg it to “tragedy” — clearly is (unless you want to nitpick and go to the Literary definition of the word, and I can assure you no one is in a mood to do so — and by now we’ve gotten to evolving definitions from word usage.) \u00c2\u00a0[More to the point I’m always shaking my head with the word ‘cowardly’ is used in moments like this, but I know that arguing that is atonal against the backdrop of a tragedy.]<\/p>\n

We can not preclude #4 “a criminally insane lone wolf”. \u00c2\u00a0Indeed, from the hallmarks of the tragedy that seems to be what this — somewhere mixed with “2. Right-wing militia types” — but most likely astray from being\u00c2\u00a0actual right wing militia<\/em>. \u00c2\u00a0See 1996 Olympic bombing, which is what this resembles. \u00c2\u00a0And my hazy speculation lands about here.<\/p>\n

As for number one… landing over to\u00c2\u00a0“Does Peter King know something we don’t<\/a>?” \u00c2\u00a0He is a Congressional figure on the House Intelligence committee, after all. And he’s also an ideologue that will fit facts into his War on Terror. \u00c2\u00a0The reason he gives is specious. \u00c2\u00a0He notes al Qaeda writings on targeting American Sporting Events. \u00c2\u00a0(I myself sort of slept through the fact that there was a Boston Marathon going on). \u00c2\u00a0This is where we land back to people who like to point back to early reports of Muslim suspects in conjunction with the OKC not as grounds not to jump to conclusions, but as an salvo in the War Against Islamo-Fascists the Government is hiding for politically correct reasons — or something like that. \u00c2\u00a0(I can never quite make out the reasoning<\/em>.) \u00c2\u00a0Specious reasoning, until there’s more known or unless Peter King can offer something more than “had to be done by experts”, as\u00c2\u00a0the reason Islamic Terrorists would go for a bombing at the Boston Marathon is the same reason anyone else — the criminally insane lone wolf or the right wing militia types (or, I suppose, hypothetical Left Wing Revolutionaries) would: \u00c2\u00a0you get the images that will replay on the teevee in perpetuity. \u00c2\u00a0As it goes, one hallmark of Islamic Terrorists organizations seems to be their desire to quickly claim responsibility for their acts — so we’ll see if someone breaks off from this early declamation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking over the bits and pieces of commentary on the bombing blast of the Boston Marathon, and naturally no one heeds this comment from President Obama: \u00c2\u00a0“People should not jump to conclusions before we have all the facts.” And I get the feeling with this “Who’s behind the Boston Marathon bombings? 4 theories” carp… and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11618,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11615\/revisions\/11618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}