THIS CAN BE SAID ABOUT EVERY SPORTING EVENT, and you only have to be right once to look prescient
Duh. Terrorists tend to hit places with relatively low security and high political/societal feedback.
The Boston Marathon is not just a race, it’s an annual media event, and, gee, people tend to congregate near the finish line, because they want to see who wins.
So, yes, pretty obvious target. Protecting it, entirely different problem, unless you insist on a TSA-level body cavity search before entering the finish area. . .
And you can bet they'll get lotsa help from Obomba, Boston Mayor Menino, Secy of State Kerry, and Gov Deval Patrick (who obstructed govt dissemination of the Tsarnaev's welfare $$haul). Read on.
BOSTON MAYOR MENINO (hands down, the dumbest mayor in the US)
"Just call me Mayor Stupid."
WAIT FOR IT---yet another stupid remark from Menino, and I quote.....the Boston bomber brothers "acted alone" says Menino.
STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES Boston Mayor Menino (he was the stupid-sounding one at the presser held after the marathon bombings----in the wheelchair---injured in auto accident) should be rigorously scrutinized ---- possibly charged with aiding and abetting terror against Americans. Menino handed Islamics a $2 million piece of land for $170,000 to build the Boston Mosque.
MENINO'S MOSQUE
The Phoenix | November 24, 2008 | David S. Bernstein / FR Posted by Prospero
EDITED/EXCERPT Most Boston locals concede that getting anything of substance accomplished in Boston is a Herculean task. Residents have all but embraced the principle of civic inaction with a perverse kind of local pride. In the end, "who you know" is probably more important than what you are trying to do.
STRONGARM MAYOR And there is no doubt that little is accomplished without the approval and support of the mayor, Thomas M. Menino.
So it is with the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) near the intersection of Tremont Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. Better known as the Roxbury mosque, the ISBCC has been in the works for more than 20 years. A few weeks ago it finally opened its doors for prayer five years late, millions over budget, and still far from complete.
While the story of the building of the Roxbury mosque may not be worthy of a Hollywood epic, it does contain the stuff of a good television drama: (with Mayor Menino aiding and abetting) community intrigue, religious conflict, media controversy, foreign money, suspicions of extremist ties......and once-cocksure public officials, who (like Menino and then-Sen Kerry who once gave Islamics serial BJ's) have since retreated into a zone of silence.
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Bombers worshipped at Islamic Society of Boston's mosque.---built w/ strongarm sap-happy Menino's govt authority.
Kerry's "credentials," presented to Ohaha when the Secy of State job became available.
Islamic jihadist motivation that drove the Boston massacre is a non-starter in the WH.
Not photoshopped--actual pic.
NeverGore Notice: The State of Georgia is vulnerable to tornados in May.....
Now, if a tornado touches down this month, everyone was warned....
Boston Bombing Ping!
I want to know why everyone overlooked the muzzies and focused on “homegrown extremists”.
I expect you could identify a lot of what’s wrong with our government with the answers to that question.
...warned Boston police that homegrown extremists...
The report was wrong then.
Soft target,
low tech/highly destructive weapons
callous disregard for human suffering
A Pickup Truck bomb could easily do profound damage to
any school/hospital/business
Scuttle a houseboat with the hold full of explosives
up stream to to a dam
Small charges, if used in unison,
can take down the electric grid
One could, with a little imagination,
do a lot of damage with little personal risk
It's 10 wonders more of this has not occurred
I think it’s a little unfair to blame anybody for failing to intercept an attack like this one. There’s ~always~ a memo somewhere in the forest of memos that somebody wrote warning of the exact thing. Two brothers, with no prior offenses to take notice of, and keeping mostly to themselves... There just aren’t many ways to stop them ahead of time.