In the summer of 1996, the world converged upon Atlanta for the Olympic Games. Under the protection and auspices of the regime in Washington millions of people came to celebrate the ideals of global socialism. Multinational corporations spent billions of dollars, and Washington organized an army of security to protect these best of all games. Even though the conception and purpose of the so-called Olympic movement is to promote the values of global socialism, as perfectly expressed in the song Imagine by John Lennon, which was the theme of the 1996 Games even though the purpose of the Olympics is to promote these ideals, the purpose of the attack on July 27 was to confound, anger and embarrass the Washington government in the eyes of the world for its abominable sanctioning of abortion on demand.

The plan was to force the cancellation of the Games, or at least create a state of insecurity to empty the streets around the venues and thereby eat into the vast amounts of money invested.

This makes me feel ill. You just can't imagine it. A marathon is full of runners trying hard, often for charity, in the culmination of months of hard effort. The finishing line is packed full of people who are there to do nothing but support and wish well.

I mean, really, what the fucking shit.

Horrible. Sounds like there were some bombs that didn't go off too. I bet the organisers of the London Marathon are checking their arrangements now.

This is the anniversary week of the Columbine massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Virginia Tech massacre, the Bay of Pigs, and Waco.

Most of those things are because Patriot's Day is associated with militia groups.

BBC reporting that one of the dead is an 8yo child.

Fucking Hell

It's horrible, felt sick when I heard it yesterday

and today? first hoax pictures on FB, "This girl died, share this for respect" random child doesn't know her face is plastered all over FB.
Who starts these things? I know the people sharing are gullable, but at least well intentioned...

I despair at not only the people who start these things, but also the people who believe and "like" them.

So, apparently, there has been an earthquake in Iran today that's killed at least 100 people so far, but all you hear about on the news is the Boston Marathon.

Fuck you, the media.

So, apparently, there has been an earthquake in Iran today that's killed at least 100 people so far, but all you hear about on the news is the Boston Marathon.

Fuck you, the media.

Indeed.

I'm afraid that I feel that this is currently overreported unless and until there is a second bomb.

ter·ror·ism
/ˈterəˌrizəm/
Noun
The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims.

Question: At what point does a murderer become a terrorist? Is is to do with motive, method, or results?

I am guessing method.

Murder in my mind is a specific target. I mean you could blow up a room of people to kill some one. Or sniper a line of folks to get one.

If you just want to kill folks, then it is terrorism.

UK Terrorism Act 2000:


(1) In this Act "terrorism" means the use or threat of action where- (a) the action falls within subsection (2), (b) the use or threat is designed to influence the government or an international governmental organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public, and (c) the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious, racial or ideological cause.

(2) Action falls within this subsection if it- (a) involves serious violence against a person, (b) involves serious damage to property, (c) endangers a person's life, other than that of the person committing the action, (d) creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public, or (e) is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system.

(3) The use or threat of action falling within subsection (2) which involves the use of firearms or explosives is terrorism whether or not subsection (1)(b) is satisfied.

It's horrible to hear about this sort of thing, and any time someone deliberately causes loss of life its terrible.

Explosions with this or a higher level of deaths and injury have been happening in Iraq and Afghanistan on a regular, for a very long time pretty much weekly, basis, and got little to no coverage. White anglosaxons>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>dusky people, clearly.

Doesn't that cover pretty much every 'serious' violent act?

I don't think that is particularly fair. I've said this before, here, and I'll say it again, although it was better last time:

Many more people are likely to have been to Boston, or know somebody from the US than they are Iraq or Iran.
They can relate to teh culture of the Americas a lot better than they can to that of the Middle East, everyday life there is something they can picture.

Something like this happening in the US is going to create a lot more interest here than something like this happening in a place where they have little to no idea about. I don't think it is to do with relative value of lives, but the reasons above.

"They're not like us, so they don't matter".

"They're not like us, so they don't matter".

Yes - the defining point is section 1(c). All that makes a difference between a murderer and a terrorist is the motive.

For most, that's exactly right. How many years of scenes from the Middle East in the aftermath of a bombing have we had? When the average Joe sees a muslim grandmother wailing and beating her chest in grief, do they think "poor woman, what an awful thing to have happened"?

Law aside,

is it not more the aim than the motive? You're attempting to create a climate of fear (terror, if you will) for political ends. Blowing up a bus full of schoolkids and assassinating a politician could have the same political motive, but the objective of the former is to cause others to be in fear for their lives, and the objective of the latter clearly isn't.