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My heart goes out to all of the victims and their families. Patton Oswalt summarized best how I and many other people feel about this situation:

From the Huffington Post

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

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flacnvinyl, where is your evidence that a Muslim was responsible for this?
edit: That's right, you don't have any. Keep your personal hatred to yourself.

...any opportunity to throw a political punch as well...'blaming the left' for now wanting to ban all bomb components which hasn't even happen.

Yet.

But why go there immediately? Let's deal with the shock of the tragedy and let the investigation take it's course.

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LittleRockFitToTop
My heart goes out to all of the victims and their families. Patton Oswalt summarized best how I and many other people feel about this situation:

From the Huffington Post

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

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Duane in Houston
If I had to guess from the spotty reports coming in I'd say the odds are high that this was an Al Queda plot hatched in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan and carried out by foreigners (Saudi's etc.) trained in AQ camps in the Tribal Areas as well. What doesn't make sense is that we've let it be known to the Paks et.al.that any terrorist attack with origins in Pakistan would mean a possible U.S. invasion of the Tribal Areas and/or withering air bombing campaigns of the Tribal Areas. Because of such repurcussions the AQ leadership in Pakistan have, smartly, shied away from direct action on U.S. soil. This could be the start of something very big. All roads to islamic terrorism lead to Pakistan.

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Duane in Houston
If I had to guess from the spotty reports coming in I'd say the odds are high that this was an Al Queda plot hatched in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan and carried out by foreigners (Saudi's etc.) trained in AQ camps in the Tribal Areas as well. What doesn't make sense is that we've let it be known to the Paks et.al.that any terrorist attack with origins in Pakistan would mean a possible U.S. invasion of the Tribal Areas and/or withering air bombing campaigns of the Tribal Areas. Because of such repurcussions the AQ leadership in Pakistan have, smartly, shied away from direct action on U.S. soil. This could be the start of something very big. All roads to islamic terrorism lead to Pakistan.

Then again, 90% of all death casualties in the US are caused by Americans -either lone wolfs, people connected with the various extreme right parties or extremist Christian groups like the anti-abortion movement. These groups normally do not show up in the statistics as domestic violence is not part of what America sees as 'terrorism'.

Nobody knows who are behind the Boston bombing, but statistically chances are smaller that it is connected with any Muslim organisation than that it is domestic.

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LittleRockFitToTop
My heart goes out to all of the victims and their families. Patton Oswalt summarized best how I and many other people feel about this situation:

From the Huffington Post

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

Great read.

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LittleRockFitToTop
My heart goes out to all of the victims and their families. Patton Oswalt summarized best how I and many other people feel about this situation:

From the Huffington Post

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

Great read.

Brilliantly put and gives us all hope. I hate the feeling of turning into a hater. However, I still hope the perpetrators die a slow agonizing death. Can't help it.

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Duane in Houston
If I had to guess from the spotty reports coming in I'd say the odds are high that this was an Al Queda plot hatched in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan and carried out by foreigners (Saudi's etc.) trained in AQ camps in the Tribal Areas as well. What doesn't make sense is that we've let it be known to the Paks et.al.that any terrorist attack with origins in Pakistan would mean a possible U.S. invasion of the Tribal Areas and/or withering air bombing campaigns of the Tribal Areas. Because of such repurcussions the AQ leadership in Pakistan have, smartly, shied away from direct action on U.S. soil. This could be the start of something very big. All roads to islamic terrorism lead to Pakistan.

Then again, 90% of all death casualties in the US are caused by Americans -either lone wolfs, people connected with the various extreme right parties or extremist Christian groups like the anti-abortion movement. These groups normally do not show up in the statistics as domestic violence is not part of what America sees as 'terrorism'.

Nobody knows who are behind the Boston bombing, but statistically chances are smaller that it is connected with any Muslim organisation than that it is domestic.

Mathijs

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LittleRockFitToTop
My heart goes out to all of the victims and their families. Patton Oswalt summarized best how I and many other people feel about this situation:

From the Huffington Post

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."

But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem -- one human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.

But here's what I DO know. If it's one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we're lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in a while, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they're pointed towards darkness.

But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evildoers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We'd have eaten ourselves alive long ago.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, "The good outnumber you, and we always will."

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Duane in Houston
If I had to guess from the spotty reports coming in I'd say the odds are high that this was an Al Queda plot hatched in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan and carried out by foreigners (Saudi's etc.) trained in AQ camps in the Tribal Areas as well. What doesn't make sense is that we've let it be known to the Paks et.al.that any terrorist attack with origins in Pakistan would mean a possible U.S. invasion of the Tribal Areas and/or withering air bombing campaigns of the Tribal Areas. Because of such repurcussions the AQ leadership in Pakistan have, smartly, shied away from direct action on U.S. soil. This could be the start of something very big. All roads to islamic terrorism lead to Pakistan.

Then again, 90% of all death casualties in the US are caused by Americans -either lone wolfs, people connected with the various extreme right parties or extremist Christian groups like the anti-abortion movement. These groups normally do not show up in the statistics as domestic violence is not part of what America sees as 'terrorism'.

Nobody knows who are behind the Boston bombing, but statistically chances are smaller that it is connected with any Muslim organisation than that it is domestic.

Mathijs

Wow, you're pretty stupid. When was the last time a Christian group in Boston tried to blow up the marathon? Idiot!

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When was the last time a Christian group in Boston tried to blow up the marathon?

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When was the last time a Christian group in Boston tried to blow up the marathon?

I remember that pretty clearly... that was 2 weeks after Buddhists bombed a bus downtown.

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Duane in Houston
If I had to guess from the spotty reports coming in I'd say the odds are high that this was an Al Queda plot hatched in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan and carried out by foreigners (Saudi's etc.) trained in AQ camps in the Tribal Areas as well. What doesn't make sense is that we've let it be known to the Paks et.al.that any terrorist attack with origins in Pakistan would mean a possible U.S. invasion of the Tribal Areas and/or withering air bombing campaigns of the Tribal Areas. Because of such repurcussions the AQ leadership in Pakistan have, smartly, shied away from direct action on U.S. soil. This could be the start of something very big. All roads to islamic terrorism lead to Pakistan.

Then again, 90% of all death casualties in the US are caused by Americans -either lone wolfs, people connected with the various extreme right parties or extremist Christian groups like the anti-abortion movement. These groups normally do not show up in the statistics as domestic violence is not part of what America sees as 'terrorism'.

Nobody knows who are behind the Boston bombing, but statistically chances are smaller that it is connected with any Muslim organisation than that it is domestic.

Mathijs

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flacnvinyl, where is your evidence that a Muslim was responsible for this?
edit: That's right, you don't have any. Keep your personal hatred to yourself.

Yes, I have to agree...any opportunity to throw a political punch as well...'blaming the left' for now wanting to ban all bomb components which hasn't even happen. Always out to create a little more hatred.

Why can't some people can't just shut up.

Plenty of time to assign blame one it's actually established who actually is to blame.

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flacnvinyl, where is your evidence that a Muslim was responsible for this?
edit: That's right, you don't have any. Keep your personal hatred to yourself.

Yes, I have to agree...any opportunity to throw a political punch as well...'blaming the left' for now wanting to ban all bomb components which hasn't even happen. Always out to create a little more hatred.

Why can't some people can't just shut up.

Plenty of time to assign blame one it's actually established who actually is to blame.

There are also people blaming the right (not referring to anybody in this thread) so the blame game goes both ways as is usually the case when these things happen.

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If I had to guess from the spotty reports coming in I'd say the odds are high that this was an Al Queda plot hatched in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan and carried out by foreigners (Saudi's etc.) trained in AQ camps in the Tribal Areas as well. What doesn't make sense is that we've let it be known to the Paks et.al.that any terrorist attack with origins in Pakistan would mean a possible U.S. invasion of the Tribal Areas and/or withering air bombing campaigns of the Tribal Areas. Because of such repurcussions the AQ leadership in Pakistan have, smartly, shied away from direct action on U.S. soil. This could be the start of something very big. All roads to islamic terrorism lead to Pakistan.

Then again, 90% of all death casualties in the US are caused by Americans -either lone wolfs, people connected with the various extreme right parties or extremist Christian groups like the anti-abortion movement. These groups normally do not show up in the statistics as domestic violence is not part of what America sees as 'terrorism'.

Nobody knows who are behind the Boston bombing, but statistically chances are smaller that it is connected with any Muslim organisation than that it is domestic.

Mathijs

Can you give us an example of who causes the other 10%. You statement sounds like we are under attack everyday.