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[besada]

Mike McCaul (R-TX), House Homeland Security Chairman, is saying he had seen reports earlier that ball bearings were used in the explosions "indicative of international terrorism".

Or anyone who knows what a bouncing betty is.

 

[MThanded]

Other unexploded devices found elsewhere? Crap.

Cnn said that the commish said otherwise. I don't know who to believe.

 

[DemonNite]

stay strong Boston.

Pretty sure this is gonna have some effect on the London Marathon this coming sunday

 

[Camp Lo]

What was up with NYPOST saying 12 dead?

Isn't this the same magazine/paper that posts big foot pictures and shit?

 

[IHaveIce]

I really don't know what to say, aside from that I hpe everyone will recover.. eventhough I know not everyone wil

The only "good" thing Itry to tell myself is that not all bombs did explode...



And people should just stop with speculations. This isn't the time for hobby detectives. And not the time to discuss something as stupid as if this is considered terrorism or not.

This is the time to think about the victims, the time to think about your family and think about how this could happen everyday ( and in many parts of the world it does )

Big respect to all people who are able to help there.

 

[AkuMifune]

What was up with NYPOST saying 12 dead?

Probably got that from one of the early tweets, someone reported that.

With so much information flying around, they just pick and choose the ones that will drive traffic their way, hence higher body count even if it's the most questionable source.

 

[mj1108]

I have to say that Fox News showing the bombs exploding to the side while he was delivering his conference, and playing the audible of people screaming over his speech, was the poorest showing of news journalism I have ever seen.

Fuck my work for only showing Fox News.

Fox is just playing to their base with fear tactics.

 

[speculawyer]

Keep Calm And Carry On.

Condolences to the victim's families.

 

[RyanReedyMusic]

Was amazing to see moments after the explosions how everybody ran in to help rather than away. Boston folk are awesome.

Thats what I love so much about them too man. Its awesome to see people caring for others.

 

[strafer]

Holy shit. Terrible.

 

[Flek]

i dont understand why they think that the suspect might be among the wounded !?

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

So what's the new meaning? Muslim acts of violence? Violence against America perpetrated by non-Muslims is now no longer considered "terrorism" and our "war against terror" is now just a "war against Muslims"?

I mean if that's the case, that's pretty disgusting in and of itself.

I think while War on Muslims is the general blanket, War on Anyone Else is where we are now.

We live in a country where a top billboard singer says almost daily that he's going to kill the president, where a guy can go on news shows and say that if Obama takes away guns, he's going to start killing people. And nobody does anything about our nutjobs. Because second amendment and such.

 

[LordCanti]

Is all right in Boston at this moment? Hope this bad moment is over

It's not over till the person (or persons) that did this are captured or killed. There's no way to know if there is a secondary plot, which is why people are being advised not to congregate.

 

[Winterfang]

Holy crap at the video. Stunning... Why would someone do this? What do you accomplish?

Some people have a lot of hate in their hearts and it clouds their judgment.

 

[Meadows]

so where there 3 uncontrolled bomb explosions? Or just two and an unrelated fire?

 

[Vermillion]

Something of this magnitude is almost always ideologically or religiously motivated, so chances are that some organization or individual will step forward and take credit for it sooner or later. I have a hard time imagining this being the work of somebody who just wants to murder innocents and isnt interesting in sending message a concrete message.

Hm, possible. Whatever gets us a target faster. Panic will lead to both good and bad speculation, the latter based on race or ideology. And, well...

 

[Kreunt]

they look like black powder bombs. firey exposions, lots of white smoke.

 

[Maninthemirror]

so where there 3 uncontrolled bomb explosions? Or just two and an unrelated fire?

2 explosions

 

[ChiTownBuffalo]

i dont understand why they think that the suspect might be among the wounded !?

Might have had to be in close proximity to detonate devices, or wanted to be close to see carnage.

 

[B-Dubs]

so where there 3 uncontrolled bomb explosions? Or just two and an unrelated fire?

Just two and an unrelated fire.

 

[Bel Marduk]

What was up with NYPOST saying 12 dead?

Exploiting this to get clicks on their website? Perhaps to sell more copies of their ridiculous newspaper? The New York Post is garbage journalism. I wouldn't trust anything they say unless its been verified.

 

[Angry Fork]

Pretty much, Sandy Hook wasn't considered "terrorism" in media, Aurora wasn't considered terrorism. It's weird semantics that just seem to hurt the conversation in general.

If those shootings were done in the name of some kind of ideology they would have been called terrorism. There are slight, but important differences between 'ordinary' murder and something else.

'Instilling fear' in the general public is not a good enough definition on it's own, as any bank robber can be considered a terrorist in that case. It's clear there needs to be an ideological motive.

 

[maquiladora]

so where there 3 uncontrolled bomb explosions? Or just two and an unrelated fire?

2 + unrelated fire.

 

[Zero-Crescent]

omg the comment section is just a cesspool

I recommend following "Don't Read Comments" on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/AvoidComments

 

[RoKKeR]

6 children in hospitals.

 

[Vire]

Bone-chilling...

 

[ronito]

I dunno if we can say "ball bearings" = international terrorist. I'm no expert but I'd say chances are just as good as it being domestic than international

 

[The Culture Vulture]

i dont understand why they think that the suspect might be among the wounded !?

Very easily could have been injured detonating or fleeing from the device.

 

[Lucc]

damn, this is so scary..

 

[Duress]

I was talking about how it's always shitty things on the news these days.

Now this happens, and I'm completely pissed off. Stay strong Boston!

 

[Kaladin]

I have just been following the Boston Globe Live Feed:

http://live.boston.com/Event/Live_blog_Explosion_in_Copley_Square

It mixes reporters twitter and other sources.

 

[giga]

https://twitter.com/RedCross/status/323901009795629056

Some good news among all the tragedy. People, in general, are good.

 

[Komo]

wow, 107 injured and only 2 dead? let's just hope the death toll stays that low. definitely don't want the terrorist/s to feel any satisfaction for what they've done

 

[fallagin]

I have to say that Fox News showing the bombs exploding to the side while he was delivering his conference, and playing the audible of people screaming over his speech, was the poorest showing of news journalism I have ever seen.

Fuck my work for only showing Fox News.

Wow, fuck fox news. I hope that doing that hurts them BADLY, I hope they fucking just disappear from television.

 

[LuchaShaq]

Are you saying only middle eastern groups are defined as terrorists in America ? Thats fucked up.

If you go by the average American it's true and fucked up.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

How often did people try to sneak a bomb into the Super Bowl?

I think most people overestimate our security. There's an inevitable risk with such events and there's little one can do about it unless we restrict freedom. A society should take a stand against these attacks, should do its best to help the victims and find the culprits and should do what's best against this, keep up values which have helped Western societies grow.

I don't disagree, but the Super Bowl at least had checkpoints where they check bags, etc when you come in. I don't think a marathon does.

 

[MThanded]

Bone-chilling...

So the commissioner was wrong. I keep seeing this being said but the police said that was not true earlier.

 

[B-Dubs]

I dunno if we can say "ball bearings" = international terrorist. I'm no expert but I'd say chances are just as good as it being domestic than international

Anyone with internet access can do that. This said, I haven't heard any confirmation that ball bearings were added to the explosives.

 

[Bam Bam Baklava]

If you go by the average American it's true and fucked up.

And yet the media does nothing to stop this. They just fuel the fire.

 

[everyday math]

I wish they would stop showing the video.
It dousnt help.

 

[lenovox1]

i dont understand why they think that the suspect might be among the wounded !?

The police? They don't as far as we know.

 

[BillyBats]

Fox is just playing to their base with fear tactics.

STOP!! Other news outlets were doing the same.

Find these pieces of shit responsible! God Bless the victims.

 

[Ludicrous Speed]

Exactly. You can't sneak a bomb into the Super Bowl, Fenway, etc. One of the country's biggest marathons? A lot easier. Hopefully that gets harder to do now. What an awful day.

Uh, it would be almost impossible to stop something like this. I live a block from where the marathon goes by. How would the police stop anyone from just walking up to the barricades and detonating an IED? They can't.

 

[RiZ III]

To commit terror. The reasons behind may be political or religious ideology but first and foremost is to wound and/or kill as many people as possible and to strike utmost fear into the masses. To show that the terrorists cannot be ignored and will not go away.

Well that is my definition, I am not going to sit here and debate it. As I came here for the news.

Yea I don't argue with that definition, but that's not how it's defined legally. Or else all the random school shootings would be considered acts of terrorism too. But whatever, this is clearly terrorism.

 

[The Real Abed]

Call me ignorant but why would ball bearings mean terrorism?

 

[DieH@rd]

I wish they would stop showing the video.
It dousnt help.

Ratings.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Bone-chilling...

omg

 

[smokeandmirrors]

I dunno if we can say "ball bearings" = international terrorist. I'm no expert but I'd say chances are just as good as it being domestic than international

Apparently ball bearings are only outside the US, or so it would seem seeing some of the posts (AKA the congressman from texas...)

 

[shaowebb]

I just now found out about all this. Hadn't checked the news or anything and my God this is horrible. My heart goes out to you Boston. This is a horrible horrible tragedy.

 

[Gozer the Gozerian]

I have to say that Fox News showing the bombs exploding to the side while he was delivering his conference, and playing the audible of people screaming over his speech, was the poorest showing of news journalism I have ever seen.

Fuck my work for only showing Fox News.

To be fair this exact thing happened on my NBC feed except it wasn't just to the side they filled up the whole screen with the explosion video/audio mid-speech.