Manhunt Going On In Watertown, Massachusetts Right Now

First of all, Farmerman, the victory we are celebrating is not a victory in the made up "War on Terror". It is a victory of us as a community being able to overcome a tragic act of violence keeping our character and values in tact as a great city

I am celebrating that we as a community stood together and dealt with a tragic event with dignity and pride

I can see their point of view; have not (yet) changed my mind on appreciating the effort to perimeter the area.

They may try to wrap themselves in some sort of ideology in order to borrow some kind of "legitimacy," but really all they wanted to do was kill people in order to get fame and attention.

Terrorists routinely tip their hands.

If you want one example of hard proof of the CIA's involvement in this, and their approach to it, dig up `The Sabotage Manual', that they were circulating throughout Nicaragua, a comic-book type of a paper, with visual explanations of what you can do to bring a society to a halt, how you can gum up typewriters, what you can pour in a gas tank to burn up engines, what you can stuff in a sewage to stop up the sewage so it won't work, things you can do to make a society simply cease to function.

Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror. This is a technique that they're using to traumatize the society so that it can't function.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/StockwellCIA87_2.html

A perfect citizen. Just the kinda guy you want to put on a jury, upholding that rule of law that America is famous for.

Terrorists routinely tip their hands.

U.S. intelligence officers worked over Vietnam for a total of 25 years, with greater and greater involvement, massive propaganda, deceiving the American people about what was happening. Panicking people in Vietnam to create migrations to the south so they could photograph it and show how people were fleeing communism. And on and on, until they got us into the Vietnam war, and 2,000,000 people were killed.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/StockwellCIA87_1.html

Ive been in wartime situations involving the types of terrorism that was demo'd in Boston on Mon. All I can say from experience is that it doesnt "Go away" once theyve figured out how you work. The "good guys" winning isnt even the issue in terrorism. Its a repeated slogging and inconveniencing of a large group of people to make a point. Killing isnt even the goal, discomfort to as many as possible is.

Not such a bad thing for people to feel proud about themselves and their community, but it can be overblown.

hey neither deserve nor should expect the applause of the nation as we honored the citizens of NYC.

APRIL 19, 2013
DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV, LOST AND FOUND
POSTED BY ADAM GOPNIK

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And it was an American story, too, in what could only be called a hysterical and insular overreaction that allowed it to become the sole national narrative. I happened to be in London on 7/7—a far more deadly and frightening terrorist attack—and by 7 P.M. on that horrible day, with the terrorists still at large (they were dead already, but no one knew that) the red double-decker buses were rolling and the traffic was turning and life, though hardly normal, was determinedly going on. The decision to shut down Boston, though doubtless made in good faith and from honest anxiety, seemed like an undue surrender to the power of the terrorist act—as did, indeed, the readiness to turn over the entire attention of the nation to a violent, scary, tragic, lurid but, in the larger scheme of things, ultimately small threat to the public peace.

The toxic combination of round-the-clock cable television—does anyone now recall the killer of Gianni Versace, who claimed exactly the same kind of attention then as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did today?—and an already exaggerated sense of the risk of terrorism turned a horrible story of maiming and death and cruelty into a national epic of fear. What terrorists want is to terrify people; Americans always oblige.


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/04/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-is-found.html

"What terrorists want is to terrify people; Americans always oblige."

we are a fearful people, which makes it easy for the elites to manipulate us. coincidence? I think not...fear is constantly peddled through the media on purpose. we simply lack the education and the foundations of self to resist the propaganda.