I pit the goat felching douchenozzle(s) who blew up the Boston Marathon

[BrainGlutton]

@Gagundathar

Whoever is responsible for this reprehensible act should NOT have whatever idea they wish to trumpet be brought to the forefront of our media consciousness. We should ignore them. Find them, prosecute them and then punish them by shunning them and whatever ideas they thought were worth more than the lives of the three people who have died.

Of course, the public can’t shun those ideas unless it knows what they are . . .

[BrainGlutton]

@Loach

If this turns out to be the act of a random nut job with no specific political affiliation but a psychosis driven hatred for the government some of you will be falling all over yourself saying “See Teaparty!”

Well? We already have, for instance, Jared Lee Loughner, who satisfies both conditions – dunno if he’s ever actually been to a Tea Party rally, but it’s not an unfair brush to tar him with generally speaking. Timothy McVeigh belonged to no actual militia, but he was still a result and expression of that movement.

[Debaser]

@Merneith

A proper investigation includes both gathering forensic evidence and questioning the circumstances of the event. In this case, one of those circumstances is that it happened on Tax Day. Another circumstance is that it happened in Boston, a city historically associated with tax revolts.

Bolding mine.

How? To whom should the FBI and police direct their questions about the “circumstances of the event”?

It may turn out that those circumstances are coincidental - but we won’t know unless someone investigates. It would be irresponsible of the investigators to ignore those circumstances because some people don’t like the implications.

Bolding mine again.

What, specifically do you want someone to investigate? What circumstances?

The police should be looking at evidence: Video of the event, pictures taken by the crowd, physical evidence of the explosions, etc.

It sounds like you are suggesting that they lean their investigation in a certain direction based on assumptions because of the tax day/Boston circumstances. Is this the case? If so, I respectfully disagree.

They should go where the evidence leads. No one should be thinking “Since we know this is probably a home grown terrorist, I’m only going to be looking for one.” That wouldn’t be good police work.

[Debaser]

@Loach

If this turns out to be the act of a random nut job with no specific political affiliation but a psychosis driven hatred for the government some of you will be falling all over yourself saying “See Teaparty!”

Yes, and many in the media along with them.

[tagos]

Well, that’s the trouble with using dog-whistles. You never know what dog is going to prick their ears up.

[ElvisL1ves]

@Debaser

It was an example. Nothing more. It could have been anyone who did this attack. My position on that has been consistent.

Except for your blaming AQ anyway.

Admitting you don’t know something isn’t the opposite of fighting ignorance. Making a guess based on your existing biases is the opposite of fighting ignorance though.

Another comprehension problem on your side. Dismissing someone as crazy is claiming you *can’t *know their motivations, that they don’t matter anyway, more than simply admitting you don’t. That’s the opposite of fighting ignorance.

Having explained that to you twice, there won’t be a third time.

Why not? I’m simply pointing out that just like it could be a domestic right winger, it could also be an international terrorist group. It’s not that hard a concept to follow.

You’ve been pretty clear about being sure of something contrary to the evidence and experience. No, that’s not hard to follow, though.

I already did once upthread, but here you go again:

Wrong. I’m betting that way, based on the evidence, but you’re claiming, falsely, that I’m insisting those are the facts. I’ll give you credit for a simple cognitive deficit, though, since that’s on display elsewhere. Your partisan hatred is your own problem, though, as is your integrity.

Loach, how much of the Tea Party is *not *driven by “psychosis driven hatred for the government”, and how is it unfair to draw the connection?

[Fear_Itself]

@Loach

If this turns out to be the act of a random nut job with no specific political affiliation but a psychosis driven hatred for the government some of you will be falling all over yourself saying “See Teaparty!”

The Tea Party prides itself on being decentralized with no political affiliations. So if it turns out to be a random nut job, it doesn’t exactly rule out the someone with Tea Party sympathies. If they say they are Tea Party, they are, even if no one else claims them.

[skdo23]

@asterion

They’ll have my Ishtar when they pry it out of my region-unlocked DVD player.

LMFAO! Please tell me that I’m not the only one who got this.

[Debaser]

@ElvisL1ves

Except for your blaming AQ anyway.

This seems to be where any conversation with you ends up. You are accusing me of something that isn’t true. You have no cite of me blaming Al Qaeda for the attack because I’ve done no such thing. You’ve made this accusation twice anyway.

What is it that causes you to just make things up and post them?

Do you really just wish it were true so much that you think you can post the words in my mouth and make it so?

I’ll repeat from my very first post to the thread:

@Debaser

The bombing is turning out to be quite the Rorschach test for some people. Right now we don’t know who did this. It might be foreigners or US citizens. It might be one person, or it might be a group. It might be Al Qaeda or it might be a random lunatic.

But as that link shows, some people hate Muslims so much that they rush to blame and judge them.

Here on the SDMB many people hate the Tea Party so much they rush to blame and judge them.

It’s too bad. It really sucks that people can be so partisan as to be blinded by it. The lack of self awareness is just astonishing.

That you somehow interpret this to be me blaming Al Qaeda for the attack is simply astonishing.

Even for you.

It’s either a blatant and obvious lie or it’s a failure of reading comprehension of epic proportion.

[kaylasdad99]

@Debaser

The bombing is turning out to be quite the Rorschach test for some people.

And what picture shows up for you?

[kaylasdad99]

@Debaser

This isn’t analogous to an abortion clinic bombing. Not even close. The Boston Marathon is a huge international event. Anyone could choose it as a target.

Is it analogous to the Atlanta Olympics bombing?

[Gangster_Octopus]

My concern is that is a Muslim tax protester.

[kaylasdad99]

@ElvisL1ves

But why would they pick that, out of many international events? You can handwave and deny the obvious symbology if you like, but that doesn’t help you.

@Ludovic

I’m sure there are plenty of Boston police looking into the symbology behind this as we speak

Well, it’s not that far to Cambridge, and I’m sure they have Robert Langdon on speed-dial.

[Drunky_Smurf]

ElvisL1ves is fucking retarded and is so busy being joyfull that people have died and been injured that he is masturbating over the thought that this was a TEA party member.

You really enjoy stroking your dick over the thought of dead people in your hopes that a TEA party member did this aren’t you? You sick fucking son of a bitch.

[ElvisL1ves]

@Debaser

You have no cite of me blaming Al Qaeda for the attack because I’ve done no such thing.

Except for your bringing them, and *only *them, up as being at least as likely as what the evidence, slim and circumstantial as it is at the moment, actually points to.

Maybe someday you’ll learn what this “adult responsibility” stuff is all about. I’m not holding my breath, though.

ETA: Having Drunky Smurf endorse you really does not help you all that much, ya know.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@kaylasdad99

And what picture shows up for you?

Tits.

[ElvisL1ves]

I don’t even need the ink blot for that.

[Broomstick]

@skdo23

LMFAO! Please tell me that I’m not the only one who got this.

No, you weren’t, I had a good laugh over it.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

@Drunky_Smurf

ElvisL1ves is fucking retarded and is so busy being joyfull that people have died and been injured that he is masturbating over the thought that this was a TEA party member.

You really enjoy stroking your dick over the thought of dead people in your hopes that a TEA party member did this aren’t you? You sick fucking son of a bitch.

You should lie down or something before you get a stroke.

[Debaser]

@ElvisL1ves

Except for your bringing them, and *only *them, up as being at least as likely as what the evidence, slim and circumstantial as it is at the moment, actually points to.

This is a lie.

You know it’s a lie.