Things go boom

[LMNO]

I'd be very interested to read more.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Thanks all.

I can expand on that a bit if you'd like, Roger?

Please do.

[Junkenstein]

Recall the words of Gianfranco Sanguinetti, "The State has been declaring for years that it is fighting the R.B.'s, it infiltrated them several times without ever attempting to dismantle them, therefore the State makes use of the R.B.'s as a cover, because the R.B.s are useful to this State, therefore R.B. = the State."

Cain, Regarding the above is there a fools guide to spotting the difference between false flag ops and lone crazies?

I'm leaning away from it being anything Islamic or Religious in general as those groups tend to claim credit for their actions fairly swiftly. I'd figure in this day and age prepping your Youtube video and Press Propaganda will probably involve as much effort as the actual act.

I've still pretty much no idea what to make of all this.

I'm currently blaming Lance Armstrong. Seems about as good a guess as any.

[EK WAFFLR]

Cain, that was absolutely fantastic.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I pretty much missed this, catching up now.

Am I the only one to wonder if there was something super valuable in that library that won't be noticed now?

Everyone else seems under suspicion, I'd just like to accuse possible book thieves too.

Seriously though, glad you lot are OK.

Could be. There's some old stuff in there, as you can imagine. But I don't know how plausible blowing up the Marathon is for stealing a centuries old book. Especially if it was noticed missing in connection with the blast. You'd never be able to sell it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I pretty much missed this, catching up now.

Am I the only one to wonder if there was something super valuable in that library that won't be noticed now?

Everyone else seems under suspicion, I'd just like to accuse possible book thieves too.

Seriously though, glad you lot are OK.

Could be. There's some old stuff in there, as you can imagine. But I don't know how plausible blowing up the Marathon is for stealing a centuries old book. Especially if it was noticed missing in connection with the blast. You'd never be able to sell it.

It's plausible.  Setting off a bomb one on end of town to commit a crime on the other is an old trick.

But if your hear hoofbeats coming down the road, it's probably not a zebra, if you follow me.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I pretty much missed this, catching up now.

Am I the only one to wonder if there was something super valuable in that library that won't be noticed now?

Everyone else seems under suspicion, I'd just like to accuse possible book thieves too.

Seriously though, glad you lot are OK.

Could be. There's some old stuff in there, as you can imagine. But I don't know how plausible blowing up the Marathon is for stealing a centuries old book. Especially if it was noticed missing in connection with the blast. You'd never be able to sell it.

It's plausible.  Setting off a bomb one on end of town to commit a crime on the other is an old trick.

But if your hear hoofbeats coming down the road, it's probably not a zebra, if you follow me.

I follow. But the Library was right by the blast. I'm trying to think if the Library would even be open.

Actually, it wouldn't, since it was Patriot's Day.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Thanks all.

I can expand on that a bit if you'd like, Roger?

I'd like to see it expanded, too. I need to absorb every bit of it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Thanks all.

I can expand on that a bit if you'd like, Roger?

I'd like to see it expanded, too. I need to absorb every bit of it.

This

[The Good Reverend Roger]

One distressing thing:  Too many cops in military outfits.  The public needs to see cops that look like cops, not cops that look like soldiers.  It's all about the message sent.

Cops:  This was a crime.  We will solve it.

Soldiers:  This is some kind of military action. 

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Yeah. It's one more Threatening Thing on top of everything else.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

One distressing thing:  Too many cops in military outfits.  The public needs to see cops that look like cops, not cops that look like soldiers.  It's all about the message sent.

Cops:  This was a crime.  We will solve it.

Soldiers:  This is some kind of military action.

Good point. It legitimizes terrorism.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

One distressing thing:  Too many cops in military outfits.  The public needs to see cops that look like cops, not cops that look like soldiers.  It's all about the message sent.

Cops:  This was a crime.  We will solve it.

Soldiers:  This is some kind of military action.

Good point. It legitimizes terrorism.

Also, for all the grumbling people do about cops, for all the real abuses that cops indulge in, the fact remains that when shit goes sideways, people want cops.  Not soldiers, which implies a continuing environment of violence.

[Junkenstein]

Uptheenthed for more sweet, sweet Cain analysis by the by. More Cain enables more sense of fucked up occasions.

The library fire - I do doubt that any incidental fires were covers for other crimes, it just seemed worth raising as a possibility, I've got no idea about the contents of the library, just figured there was an outside chance. I would doubt anything stolen would be sold/resold though. More of a one hit permanent acquisition.

Possibly unrelated - Hearing random shit about this now being IRA related. No claim from any group as far as I know however and they tended to own up fairly quickly. It does have some of the hallmarks (Seems the bomb was a nailbomb, in a bin.) but little else. The target makes fuck all sense in that case too, unless someone really fucking hated plastic paddies. More information and less bullshit required really.


Edits. Edits everywhere for sense.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

This is pretty awesome http://bostonmarathonconspiracy.com/