freediver wrote on Apr 17
th, 2013 at 8:11pm:
Quote:Nevermind that so far everything about this incident indicates that it wasn't some guy named Ahkmed
Because of the low number of casualties?
No, not the number of casualties. It's the kind of casualties the bombs produced, where one of the bombs was placed, where and when the bombing took place that makes Islamic terrorists unlikely.
1. The bombs were designed to cause a lot of severe wounds low to the ground, like certain kinds of antipersonnel mines. The pressure cooker as an outer jacket makes sense for this, put your explosives inside, pack the space between the explosive and inner wall of the cooker with BBs, and the strong lid/upper pot goes upward while the sides burst and spray shranel relatively low to the ground. This is why there are so many amputees resulting from this.
Most IEDs we see in Afghanistan or the rest of the middle east are designdd primarilly for blast effects in order to kill as many as possible. Whoever did the Boston attack was looking to wound, not kill.
2. One of the bombs was placed very close to a tent set up for family and friends of the Hanford, Connecticut shooting. Could just be coincidence, but it does fit with the irea that tbis was an act of a domestic anti-government group, especially when you considet my next point.
3. The attack took place in Boston, MA on a local holiday called "Patriots Day" and on the last day of the US Federal tax season.
Boston is regarded by many to be the birthplace of the US War of Independence, Patriot's Day a holiday celibrating this, it was Tax Day, one bomb really close to a tendful of secondaty victims of a highly visable shooting incident that sparked a flurry of gun control legislation, and bombs design to wound instead of kill. Don't know about you, but to me that sure as hell does not sound like to MO of Islamic terrorists.
Quote: Quote:Sure I can. I just don't see a reason to do so when talking to bigots, the willfuly ignorant, and the intellectually dishonest.
Is not being banned a good enough reason?
Make ya a deal, Freediver. If you crack down on the rampant open racism, homophobia, and genetal bigoted assholery on this board I'll stop making fun of the bigoted assholes. Fair enough?