EXPLOSION @ Boston Marathon

malikdagoat said:
Boston is notorious for prejudice and racism so it wouldn't surprise me a mention of a suspected bomber practicing Islam would result in a "us vs. them" mentality and all the "patriotism" resulting from his capture.
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Takin it back to the 70's I see. Like those college kids celebrating last night are all local descendants of those directly involved with desegregation 40 years ago. :lol:

You put Wladimir Klitschko's reach to shame with that one.
 
Malik, no jimmies rustled whatsoever. Does Boston have a history of racism and prejudice? I suppose. However i do not think that applies to Islam more so than it would in any other major city. Probably even less so. However thatd b throwing this thread way off course IMO . I respect your views and opinions and will leave it at that.
 
IMASOLEMAN18 said:
i think people feel sorry just cause of his age
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Ive been looking at his pictures, twitter, etc .. and im starting to feel bad for him because I really think his brother brainwashed him into doing all this..I know you cant judge too much from pictures, but he really does look like a regular kid. Look in his eyes, i see no hate..
 
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NikeAirForce1 said:
Quoting myself again. I have a problem with the supposed patriotism being displayed.

The terrorists are Americans. How does it make sense to be chanting USA and waving our flags right now?

What does chanting USA even mean? That Americans are somehow better than the rest of the world? How does that work when the the terrorists are American themselves?

That's why I say the "patriotism" seems misguided right now. We don't have all the information yet. We don't know the motives yet.

Now if the terrorists were known to hate America or something similar, then I would have absolutely no problem with the patriotism being displayed. But we don't know anything yet, and that's why this display of patriotism seems inappropriate.
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Chanting USA is showing support for the FBI, Boston PD, and countless others who sacrificed and put their lives on the line to help the city get back to a sense of normalcy after 5 days of utter chaos and terror. I have a sense of pride with my country after seeing a bunch of people working together to help apprehend these monsters who reigned terror on innocent people who were just out enjoying a beautiful day in Boston. We chant "USA" because we have pride. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with it and you could tell from looking at the faces of those who were on the streets last night, there was a sense of relief. People in Boston and other surrounding areas were essentially prisoners in their own homes due to the uncertainty and potential danger that was in their community. I'm sorry that you can't see beyond your own skepticism as to why people are elated, but there was good reason for the celebration last night. It's a shame it came at the cost of lives lost and injured people, but having everyone join together in this fight only confirmed how much I love this country. If I was there, I would have been right there on the streets chanting "USA" as well.
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Man...I said it like two or three times already. I have no problem with people celebrating the capture and death of the terrorists. I have no problem with people being happy about this. I really don't know how to say this in another way.

I have a problem with how people are celebrating.

Tell me why we didn't have USA chants and whatnot after the Chris Dorner/LAPD, Aurora, Sikh Temple, or Sandy Hook shootings?
 
MrONegative said:
NikeAirForce1 said:
NikeAirForce1 said:
PLVN said:
NikeAirForce1 said:
Chanting USA and waving flags seems inappropriate at this point.
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Condemning a community that's been living in fear for the past 24 hours for celebrating seems a bit more inappropriate to me.
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I didn't condemn anyone for celebrating.

I was saying how people were celebrating seemed inappropriate to me considering we don't even know the motives yet.
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Quoting myself again. I have a problem with the supposed patriotism being displayed.

The terrorists are Americans. How does it make sense to be chanting USA and waving our flags right now?

What does chanting USA even mean? That Americans are somehow better than the rest of the world? How does that work when the the terrorists are American themselves?

That's why I say the "patriotism" seems misguided right now. We don't have all the information yet. We don't know the motives yet.

Now if the terrorists were known to hate America or something similar, then I would have absolutely no problem with the patriotism being displayed. But we don't know anything yet, and that's why this display of patriotism seems inappropriate.
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The same way it makes sense to put down racists from Mississippi in the 60s.

As long as you can disassociate yourself from them, it's alright to plainly hate them, without looking around to see what might have caused people, like the people you know, to do such terrible things.

It's not an American thing.

It's a people thing.

People crave simplicity.

So those kids are foreign terrorists and America won. Open and shut case.
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Can't tell if you're being facetious or you're actually serious :lol:

The brothers are as American you,me, and any other American in this country. People may crave simplicity, but that doesn't make them right. To classify them as foreign terrorists would be factually wrong. To celebrate that would be even more wrong.
 
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There was no celebration/ USA chants after aurora, the sikh temple shootings or sandy hook because the suspects in those cases were killed or were taken into custody on the spot.

When there's 2 bombers on the loose in your city for 5 days who have already killed people and who are targeting the general innocent population and scaring the whole town, I would be happy as well when they get caught.

People were chanting USA because terrorist behaviour is not what America stands for, and the attacks were inspired from overseas practices.
 
How can anyone seriously feel bad for him? You make your own decisions, my sister could tell me it's a good idea to murder people and I'm not going along with I'd legit be reporting her ***

You don't doubt whether trying to injury thousands of people is the right thing to do?

I bet if one of the victims was a family member you wouldn't feel bad for this mass murderer
 
Rocky437 said:
There was no celebration/ USA chants after aurora, the sikh temple shootings or sandy hook because the suspects in those cases were killed or were taken into custody on the spot.

When there's 2 bombers on the loose in your city for 5 days who have already killed people and who are targeting the general innocent population and scaring the whole town, I would be happy as well when they get caught.

People were chanting USA because terrorist behaviour is not what America stands for, and the attacks were inspired from overseas practices.
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Repped
 
NikeAirForce1 said:
Can't tell if you're being facetious or you're actually serious :lol:

The brothers are as American you,me, and any other American in this country. People may crave simplicity, but that doesn't make them right. To classify them as foreign terrorists would be factually wrong. To celebrate that would be even more wrong.
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An American city became a military zone with a 24-hr curfew and you're mad that when that curfew was lifted, and the kid with the guns and bombs was caught...people were chanting USA at all of the police, agents, troops and national guard who came in full force to protect them all from this random violence that erupted in their neighborhood.

You don't know why people are chanting USA after having men in fatigues camping in their neighborhoods and searching their homes for this guy?

Okay.

This didn't happen in a vacuum for your misguided political correctedness.
 
NikeAirForce1 thinks along the lines of a social terrorist

Why he'd never do physical harm, he clearly dislikes America and what it stands for from his views

He's bordering on defending terrorism along with a few others and the clowns in the conspiracy thread
 
Rocky437 said:
There was no celebration/ USA chants after aurora, the sikh temple shootings or sandy hook because the suspects in those cases were killed or were taken into custody on the spot.

When there's 2 bombers on the loose in your city for 5 days who have already killed people and who are targeting the general innocent population and scaring the whole town, I would be happy as well when they get caught.

People were chanting USA because terrorist behaviour is not what America stands for, and the attacks were inspired from overseas practices.
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So there was no display of patriotism because law enforcement was more successful in those cases? That makes no sense. Are people chanting USA for the shortcomings of law enforcement in these cases?

And what about the Chris Dorner/LAPD thing?

All of the incidents I gave were acts of terrorism. But according to your criteria, people should have been chanting USA after every one of those incidents because American's don't stand for terrorism, right?

And at the time of the celebrations, people didn't have information that the attacks were "inspired from overseas practices."
 
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MrONegative said:
NikeAirForce1 said:
Can't tell if you're being facetious or you're actually serious :lol:

The brothers are as American you,me, and any other American in this country. People may crave simplicity, but that doesn't make them right. To classify them as foreign terrorists would be factually wrong. To celebrate that would be even more wrong.
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An American city became a military zone with a 24-hr curfew and you're mad that when that curfew was lifted, and the kid with the guns and bombs was caught...people were chanting USA at all of the police, agents, troops and national guard who came in full force to protect them all from this random violence that erupted in their neighborhood.

You don't know why people are chanting USA after having men in fatigues camping in their neighborhoods and searching their homes for this guy?

Okay.

This didn't happen in a vacuum for your misguided political correctedness.
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According to all reports, law enforcement was already leaving the area. The suspect was outside of the lockdown zone. The lockdown was no longer in effect. It was a random guy that found the terrorist. So no, I don't attribute the capture of the terrorist to law enforcement.

I can see why people would chant USA. But like I've said multiple times, it seems misguided because the terrorist is an American. We don't know the motives yet. It doesn't make sense to chant USA when we've caught an American terrorist.

USA chants and flag waving...And yet...the terrorist was an American himself? That doesn't make sense to me.

You don't think after this, people won't go right back to being dis-tru****l (distru****l is censored :lol:) of the police and the FBI?

Like I've said multiple times, people can celebrate this all they want. It's the misplaced patriotism that weirds me out.
 
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StillIn729 said:
NikeAirForce1 thinks along the lines of a social terrorist

Why he'd never do physical harm, he clearly dislikes America and what it stands for from his views

He's bordering on defending terrorism along with a few others and the clowns in the conspiracy thread
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:lol:

What have I said that was even remotely close to defending terrorism? I explicitly said that the killing of innocent people is wrong. Seriously. Point it out so that everyone can see that you're just talking out of your ***.

and what the hell is a social terrorist? lulz.
 
NikeAirForce1 said:
According to all reports, law enforcement was already leaving the area. The suspect was outside of the lockdown zone. The lockdown was no longer in effect. It was a random guy that found the terrorist. So no, I don't attribute the capture of the terrorist to law enforcement.

I can see why people would chant USA. But like I've said multiple times, it seems misguided because the terrorist is an American. We don't know the motives yet. It doesn't make sense to chant USA when we've caught an American terrorist.

USA chants and flag waving...And yet...the terrorist was an American himself? That doesn't make sense to me.

You don't think after this, people won't go right back to being distru****l of the police and the FBI?

Like I've said multiple times, people can celebrate this all they want. It's the misplaced patriotism that weirds me out.
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So the suspect was identified thanks to law enforcement . The suspect is lying in a boat bleeding out due to wounds he recieved from law enforcement . He is staying in one spot due to being pursued by law enforcement. Yet you dont attribute his capture to law enforcement. What is the matter with you fam? Bring that nonsense filled noise elsewhere.

Fenway just did a dope little tribute :pimp: The sox are wearing their home whites but with BOSTON across the front as opposed to RED SOX. Also rocking a B Strong patch. Clay on the mound :pimp:
 
NooEra said:
So the suspect was identified thanks to law enforcement . The suspect is lying in a boat bleeding out due to wounds he recieved from law enforcement . He is staying in one spot due to being pursued by law enforcement. Yet you dont attribute his capture to law enforcement. What is the matter with you fam? Bring that nonsense filled noise elsewhere.

Fenway just did a dope little tribute :pimp: The sox are wearing their home whites but with BOSTON across the front as opposed to RED SOX. Also rocking a B Strong patch. Clay on the mound :pimp:
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What?!? They did a tribute, I'm disgusted

How dare they do that, we must stay negative folks
 
NikeAirForce1 said:
According to all reports, law enforcement was already leaving the area. The suspect was outside of the lockdown zone. The lockdown was no longer in effect. It was a random guy that found the terrorist. So no, I don't attribute the capture of the terrorist to law enforcement..
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:lol:

You're stupid.
 
ok how long before the next huge US tragedy?

seems like these things coming back to back to back

Movie shooting
Sandy Hook
Chris Donner

now the Boston Bombers

I dont like all these killing crimes especially innocent people. These criminals need get on some Oceans 11 type crime where no one is harmed

My mom asked me "do you think this would be all over the news if it happened at the Essence festival or a black event"

hit her with the :stoneface: "no way maybe get a few updates and a scroll at the bottom of the screen"
 
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NooEra said:
NikeAirForce1 said:
According to all reports, law enforcement was already leaving the area. The suspect was outside of the lockdown zone. The lockdown was no longer in effect. It was a random guy that found the terrorist. So no, I don't attribute the capture of the terrorist to law enforcement.

I can see why people would chant USA. But like I've said multiple times, it seems misguided because the terrorist is an American. We don't know the motives yet. It doesn't make sense to chant USA when we've caught an American terrorist.

USA chants and flag waving...And yet...the terrorist was an American himself? That doesn't make sense to me.

You don't think after this, people won't go right back to being distru****l of the police and the FBI?

Like I've said multiple times, people can celebrate this all they want. It's the misplaced patriotism that weirds me out.
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So the suspect was identified thanks to law enforcement . The suspect is lying in a boat bleeding out due to wounds he recieved from law enforcement . He is staying in one spot due to being pursued by law enforcement. Yet you dont attribute his capture to law enforcement. What is the matter with you fam? Bring that nonsense filled noise elsewhere.

Fenway just did a dope little tribute :pimp: The sox are wearing their home whites but with BOSTON across the front as opposed to RED SOX. Also rocking a B Strong patch. Clay on the mound :pimp:
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I say the guy who actually found him deserves most of the credit.
 
PLVN said:
NikeAirForce1 said:
According to all reports, law enforcement was already leaving the area. The suspect was outside of the lockdown zone. The lockdown was no longer in effect. It was a random guy that found the terrorist. So no, I don't attribute the capture of the terrorist to law enforcement..
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:lol:

You're stupid.
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thought you left, bruh.

haven't seen any actual rebuttals put forth by you yet.

is it really that stupid to give most of the credit to the guy that actually found the terrorist?
 
NikeAirForce1 said:
According to all reports, law enforcement was already leaving the area. The suspect was outside of the lockdown zone. The lockdown was no longer in effect. It was a random guy that found the terrorist. So no, I don't attribute the capture of the terrorist to law enforcement.
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You're right. Some random guy climbed into his boat, pulled the kid out and brought him to the jail.

I can see why people would chant USA. But like I've said multiple times, it seems misguided because the terrorist is an American. We don't know the motives yet. It doesn't make sense to chant USA when we've caught an American terrorist.

USA chants and flag waving...And yet...the terrorist was an American himself? That doesn't make sense to me.
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It doesn't make sense to you, because in your mind, the police found this guy in the street, propped him up on the hood of their car Mad Max style, and paraded him around Boston before bringing him to jail. The Patriot Day marathon bombing never happened. The shootout in the middle of the night never happened. The National Guard, FBI, SWAT and all levels of New England police forces descending on Boston didn't happen. The 18 straight hours of lockdown and news coverage didn't happen. The gov't men in fatigues searching homes and patrolling neighborhoods didn't happen. None of that happened.

Just a regular police arrest of some kid who's not as Anglo as the stereotypical Boston kid, and all of the sudden the rednecks start chanting U-S-A.

I don't know what to tell you.

Does it make you sick anytime you hear people chanting USA? Cuz this wasn't "Bush calling it Mission Accomplished" chants of USA.
 
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