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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
MLK was right. Violence solves nothing and breeds more violence.
1The Boston explosions sound like a demented domestic crapsack acting out his delusions. See the guy over in Norway (??) who bombed a part of Oslo before going out to the island and shooting kids. Global terrorists would have let you know immediately if not sooner of their responsibility. Due to their egos, they would have taken out at least a city block. And they would not have used pipe bombs filled with ball bearings and C5. Bad cess to them all. I am so proud of those people who ran to help instead of running away, and the other people who came out of their buildings to offer water, coffee, and whatever to the first responders. That’s courage and class.
2One thing that truly makes me furious (and frightened for them), is that I saw a long news article last night on Achilles International flying in members of the Wounded Warrior Project (the ones I saw were all double amputees) to run in the Marathon. Were they blown up yet again? Or just traumatized by the fact that explosions are going off here at home in a place that they thought was safe?
I agree with Maggie. I’ve been betting these were domestic terrorists.
I’ve been praying really hard for the victims. I’ve been praying extra hard for Jesus to help me love the people who set the explosives. I just don’t understand them. And, like Maggie, I thank God for all the people who are helping others, whether it is their job or if they are just acting like neighbors. They are all heroes.
3As much as I would like to conveniently blame someone, my personal opinion is that this is the time to just wait for the facts.
4I realize this is just conjecture, but my brother who spent time in Vietnam said the blasts looked like those from C4, an explosive that was used a lot by the military over there. It’s probably available over the internet now.
5What was scary to me was that they ran the last mile of the race in honor of the Sandy Hook victims and there were a bunch of the survivors there. I pray none of them was hurt.
I wish nobody had been hurt or killed, but reality bites and there were victims. I pray that our President and the Federal government keeps it’s word and captures the killer or killers.
6My heart aches for the victims and their families.
7For those of you who like to read, try MacLaren’s book WHY DID JESUS, MOSES, THE BUDDHA AND MOHAMMED CROSS THE ROAD? The whole book is about getting along with people who believe differently. I do hope that they, whoever they is, find out who’s behind the bombing in Boston and do something to stop their activities. It made me think of those young people who were holed up in that house wasn’t it in Philly? making bombs, a long time ago. Like when I had little kids. The books that got me through the fear of the 1960s was CHRONICLES OF NARNIA.
8“It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” -MLK
What scares me about that quote is that I can see the human race going for the latter.
9Marge Wood, the group you probably mean was called MOVE. They were generally a black liberation and back-to-nature group. When the mayor decided to drop a bomb on their rowhouse to end an armed standoff after an eviction attempt, 11 people were killed, five of them children, and 65 homes burned down. It was widely considered to have been a bit of an overreaction. That was in 1985. Or maybe you mean a different group.
Attacking the World Trade Center and Pentagon makes some sort of sense, but why attack the Boston Marathon? As a symbol of America, or just a place to kill a lot of people and dominate the news? Only a sick [word omitted] could do this.
10Tweet from NYCEMS:
11NYC EMS Website @NYCEMSwebsite 1m
To all First Responders stay safe. Remember Hitler’s Birthday, Waco, the Oklahoma City Bombing & Columbine all happened this week in April.
Stay safe. Thanks to You All.
April is a deadly month for the US. Virginia Tech also happened in April.
God Bless our First Responders, and keep them safe.
It is also tax day. That tends to set some folks off, too.
12I am glad Fran’s people are OK.
My daughter is too.
Close enough to hear the bombs and close enough to where the bomb was detonated that they were directed to stay away from their office windows.
Could not get in touch with her by cell phone.
The worst thing anyone can hear after a thing like that is the cell phone ring and then nothing.
I am praying for all those that were hurt and injured.
Are they voting on the gun legislation this week?
13My heartfelt prayers go out to the victims, and their families. My heartfelt sympathy goes out to the family of that precious 8 year old boy, who was there to cheer his daddy on.
So…. the acts of these cowards have claimed at least one child. Maybe more.
My gut feeling is that those who are investigating this horrible tragedy, already have a handle on who is responsible.
Lord knows, unfortunately, there have been enough of these things, all over the world, for experts to know…… what group of people favor…. what kind of killing device.
There is a special place in hell for them, after their trial, sentencing, and whatever follows.
@Diane… first thing shut down was cell service. They couldn’t risk that the things were being detonated by cell phones.
Something remote was doing it.
Cowards, killing and maiming innocents anonymously, by remote devices. Takes no courage whatsoever to do something that vile. Cowardly B*****ds.
14That’s the right word, Miemaw: COWARDS!
15A flash. An explosion. Death & mayhem follow. So horrible, but it is a risk we accept as a free and open society. No one who was there and indeed none of us will be the same after. That is also something we need to think about when we direct drones or soldiers to create a flash, an explosion, death and mayhem that kill the “target” and anyone unlucky enough to be nearby. The rule of law is both our weakness and our strength. Once we abandon the moral high ground of the rule of law for safety, security, expediency, we are only left with weakness. Making sure that as a nation our actions are just will give us more security than increasing the power of the police state. Find these people. Try them in court. Send them to jail forever. But first close Gitmo. Today.
16I’m betting it is domestic in nature, some military/survivor type who doesn’t like to pay taxes, thinks Boston is full of granola eating health freaks who vote Democratic. No one stepping forward to take responsibility for this… just some mole in a hole clutching his assault rifle, thinking he pulled off a coup for the upcoming vote on gun legislation. Keep stirring the pot for the NRA so more people think they’ll be safer with their own concealed weapon permit and automatic pistola and super sized magazine. Stay tuned. It’s still April, afterall, and Hitler’s birthday is about 3 days from now.
17Remember the bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta the summer of 1996? The news media focused early on Richard Jewell, a former police officer & off-duty security guard simply because he cleared the area after seeing an unattended backpack, which saved many, many lives. He later sued several for libel, but died soon after settlements were reached almost 10 years later.
That green backpack was placed there by Eric Rudolph, who managed to avoid capture for 5 years and now sits in a federal prison in CO serving several life sentences. Why did he do it? Because he’s a psychopathic who believes he is morally justified to violently oppose abortion!
Now that case alone should remind us to hold our horses & not speculate who or what group, if any, is responsible for this outrage. Could be damn near anyone with an agenda the rest of us cannot get our minds around… so we rage about as well as mourn the outcomes.
Those who were injured or lost loved ones will need extra funds, so someone please send JJ a link whenever a list of banks are published.
18I was mad on 9/11, but this time it’s my town — my neighborhood, even — and I’m FURIOUS. Intellectually, I agree with MLK. Viscerally, I’d like to tear the perpetrator’s throat out. With my teeth, as long as I had a toothbrush handy.
19Yes, Eric Rudolph, McVey, Kazinsky and so many of the other “worst of the worst” are just up the road from me in Florence, CO at Super Max … the Federal Prison here! It’s a scary looking place with poisoned razor wire all around the perimeter walls! If and when the perps in Boston are caught, they’ll probably end up out here. Fremont County has the largest accumulation of prisons in the entire U.S. The very first Territorial Prison is here, as well. I think it is used as a hospital now for the prison population out here.
20No one knows yet who has done this, but yesterday was a confluence of events that is very suggestive.
A town that was the center of the Patriot movement.
That was the site of the original, real Tea Party.
On the day celebrating the first battles of the Revolution.
In a town that is the center of liberal ideology.
On the day when the IRS is collecting taxes.
In an event celebrating international amity.
It’s easy (although, again, not certain) to extrapolate that someone saw this as an irresistible alignment of the stars, a sign from beyond, to make a statement.
JMHO
21I’m a Bostonian. Most every one I know was away from the site, but a friend was right near it. She’s fine, but she’s close to the family of the child who died. The child whose mother is still in perilous condition and whose sister (the child’s sister) is also gravely wounded.
The child was from Dorchester, the tight-knit neighborhood portrayed in Gone Baby Gone. It’s a racially, economically, socially diverse neighborhood made up of lots of smaller neighborhoods, filled with longtime native Bostonians, immigrants, new people of every stripe.
I was raised in the burbs. But I come from Dorchester stock.
Bostonians as a lot tend to be tough. We’ve had our troubles, plenty of them self-inflicted, but we’re resilient, and we don’t scare easily. We face death daily on the highways, since the use of the directional when changing lanes is considered a quaint old custom and not an obligatory warning to other drivers. Why ruin the surprise? We’ll get through this, then go to Dunkies for a refill. (Real Bostonians will suffer Starbucks when necessary, but we love us our Dunkin Donuts.)
Chip, I’m thinking what you’re thinking, though it still is too early to tell for sure. It’ll all come out soon enough.They’re gonna find out who did this.
I hope for the sake of the rotten goat-turd who did this that the media doesn’t flash his photo on TV when he’s hiding out in some bar in Dot. Or Southie. Or Charlestown. There won’t be enough of him left for a DNA test.(Me, I’d prefer to see him rot in prison, waiting for street justice to catch up to him from another inmate. A lifetime of waiting for that is pretty damned nasty, and I can live with that.)
Keep a good thought for everyone who’s hurting around here, would ya, friends?
22A friends child(adult) lost both legs and his wife lost her foot, because they wanted to see the marathon. There is nothing we can say or do to ease this, just as another friend is in agony because her son in his first year of college(19) was set upon by strangers and badly beaten (jaw broken in three places, tooth lost) without health insurance and medical costs through the roof.
23The violent, disjointed “rape” culture of, land, people, the instant communication and the lack of manners, family and rule of law is reaping more of a whirlwind than most know how to survive–it has always been thus, it was after the miracles of science got the devastation of diseases under some control that we thought we could stop worrying, only to have the dis-ease of how to live with one another become the next huge problem. Equal in the eyes of our creator in no way means we all get to have the same things, and the TV has pretty much raised expectations so far out of what can be achived that discontent and rage is so common it’s an epidemic exploding into everyday life of “normal” (actually amazingly blessed if your life is “normal”) people causing devastating grief.