These people are conspiracy theorists. They are just waiting for the conspiracy to take shape.
Starting from the bombing with a very chaotic situation involving tens of thousands of people. Throw in a news media last week in an absolutely desperate frenzy for ANYTHING to post on their websites, and you get a lot of weird, irrelevant, bad, incorrect and confused timelines with varying info of varying accuracy out in the world.
Then add paranoid conspiracy theorists of the anti-Police, anti-Government, anti-Muslim, pro-Muslim, pro-gun, anti-gun on and on and these people desperately trying to shape a narrative (that is already riddled with inaccuracies anyway) to fit their ideological needs.
Then to top it all off you have the police and legal authorities trying to actually build a legal case against the remaining terrorist and anyone who may or may not have helped him, and therefore wanting to keep a lid on what goes out in public, especially the more accurate stuff...
...and you have for me the PERFECT STORM OF BULLSHIT that means I can no longer read anything online about this whole case.
Iknow who did the actual bombing, I’ll wait a few months to find out what else is known about why, how and who helped them. But the lunacy of people who want there to be an elaborate hoax somewhere in here, frankly scares me.
Its funny you say “chaotic.” I am sure for the folks running away, it was pure chaos.
My wife is on the emergency response team for her urban hospital. As she watched the scene, she pointed out what everyone was doing “right.” It was simply an example of well trained professionals that they got these people to the hospitals quickly and properly prepped.
I understand and appreciate what you mean by “chaotic” situation. I am merely pointing out that all of the drills folks hear about in the conspiracy world, really do take place, and the death toll would have been significantly higher had there been true chaos amongst the medical first responders.
OK...48 hours later the police first responders were just digging the SWAT team stuff a little too much. I live about 80 miles from Watertown and the cops in our city were pestering the Emergency Response manager to let them go “help.” He just looked at them and asked, “Help do what? It seems they got plenty of people in a 20 block area to search.”