We can grieve and mourn the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
However, the ritual of loss--and of beginning a righteous search (as
opposed to a witch hunt where our Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters
are abused and harassed, while the White Right and the American militia
crowd is treated as de facto above suspicion) for those individual(s)
who committed this crime--should not interfere with critical thinking,
national introspection, or truth-telling.
I wonder how much better, or perhaps worse in some counter intuitive ways,
our world would be if the American people could be as upset about the
deaths from the bombing of the Boston Massacre, as those others which
occur almost everyday, all over the world--many of which are either
directly or indirectly done in supposed pursuit of "national defense"
and/or the the United States' "national security."
Last Comment: 3 people died and 153 or so were injured, many seriously, while 28 died at Sandy Hook Elementary and 30 youth die daily from guns in the streets of the US. If this is found to be Islamic terrorist there will be no stone unturned and talk of retribution for the bad guys. I think if it is home grown terrorism, it is just another gun nut proving there are other ways to kill without guns.
http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/chaunceydevega/boston-marathon-bombing-and-limits-human-empathy?akid=10333.294211.LLLRgS&rd=1&src=newsletter825861&t=13
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