April 19, 2012
Oh my. Destruction visited upon US by Chechnya, and, I must confess, I don’t know much about US involvement with Chechnya…quick research on our relationship with the country seems to suggest that we should be pretty “tight” with them – as they’ve been a pain in Russia’s ass for quite-a-few-years-now…
Unless something purely Islamic motivated the 2 brothers…and I know that’s where Bill Maher headed with this – which finally caused me to tire of Bill Maher (and here I thought I might devote an entire column to the verbal pugilist) – because the fellow doesn’t understand the concept of the dialectic: he pulls like a bulldog in one direction.
The original Boston Massacre occurred on May 5, 1770; when American colonists intimidated British soldiers with verbal taunts and threw things at them (what ‘things’ does one throw in 1770?) to-the-point that the Redcoats fired upon the colonists without orders: killing 3 immediately, with 2 additional fatalities later.
I must say that the detective work in this Boston Massacre was pretty damned impressive (reminding me I must never do anything against the law – cuz they will get me) – though one wonders why the authorities didn’t check the boat? And the parade of vehicles utilized in the manhunt through the street reminded me of Caesar coming home from some foreign campaign — with his trophies marching before him and his legionnaires behind. It was a bit over-the-top and I shudder to think of the tax dollars invested in the effort – think of the things we could do with that money…
Now I finally realize why pictures in our newspapers of bombs, drones, suicide bombings and/or roadside bombings are delivered to us in black-and-white. Color shows the blood too clearly. When I opened my beloved Times on Tuesday, April 16th – and saw all-the-blood in a Boston Street – well, my Cheerios did not taste the same. Yes, yes – I know that if I went to the Internet – I could taste the blood more sweetly – but being old-fashioned (as many of US still are), I see that our newspapers are still being sanitized for US.
So when the fertilizer plant blew up in Texas, I was hoping for some more color action from this, rather shocking, event: a town leveled by a nearby plant and 14 dead. Is this any-less-an-event than the recent Boston Massacre? I know this will go down as an accident and doesn’t parallel the Boston murders in anyway except for an explosion: but it begs the question of how many other American towns are at-risk due to a close, hazardous, capitalistic enterprise? I always knew the sea water at San Onofre was radioactive – but it was just recently (in-the-last-5-years-or-so) that someone finally checked it to verify what I have been saying for years!
I even had the opportunity to hear a shrink interviewed on the radio who suggested that we can expect more such Bostonian behavior from our disenfranchised youth – who apparently have nothing to live for — except injuring others. I mean, these two brothers probably thought they were going to get away with this – that they were going to outsmart the collective brain-trust of the public and every damned investigative agency in-the-country.
So now I hear talk of Islamic radicalization and whether the older brother was radicalized here or in Chechnya? Again, I don’t know too much about Chechnya – but I do know that Boston was the cradle of the American Revolution…