AITOOW wonders if the president will redact his pejorative comments on the Patriot's Day bombing if he finds out it was planted by The Weather Underground or was detonated to advance the civil rights agenda? Has anyone asked his good friend Bill Ayer's what he thinks of the action? When will the calls for background checks and limits on pipes and nails begin?
Other things I was reminded of while watching the coverage - Money spent on prevention is a palliative. Cops have no clue (blow up dropped back packs), jump to conclusions (arrest a poor Saudi kid), only succeed if the public hands them evidence (cell phone video) or the criminal gives up or they experience dumb luck or arrest a patsy. Broadcast networks will milk this for all it's worth. They will also create some goofy graphic and theme song to market it. Newscasters will act like the cops they get their info from. Experts will speculate that every possibility is plausible because they don't (and couldn't) have any information at all. Politicians will use the opportunity to push forward their agenda items. People will accuse the most familiar perpetrators with crime because they don't know of many/any others.
It was a little weird that no one talked up the tax angle. It was one of two or three (hatred of US by outsiders, copy cat crime, hatred of paying taxes/hatred of US by insiders) plausible story lines. See if they involve the Iranians in it. Then we know it was a ploy to bomb them.
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