Politically correct epistemic closure counterattacks Boston Marathon bombing reality

Legal Insurrection   "Once again, the “reality-based community” can’t handle reality

"Beginning Monday there had been a non-stop attempt to pin the blame for the Boston Marathon on “right-wing” and Tea Party supporters." 

...".Now the emerging narrative is that these killers were not part of a vast foreign conspiracy but isolated “lone wolves” who became disenchanted with American society, who were not fully integrated into society, who were unhappy with their lives here and thus became radicalized."....

PAT CONDELL: Progressives are not liberal, progressives are ‘halal’ (approved by Islam)

BareNakedIslam   “Statistically speaking, one in four Swedish women will be raped by a Muslim…and every one of them can thank a progressive journalist.”
 

Where Did Your Tax Dollar Go?

Heritage   "It takes taxpayers 6.1 billion hours—or 51 hours per household—to complete all the required filings. That’s more than six full eight-hour working days per household!

"The compliance burden comes on top of the direct financial cost of $3.5 trillion in federal spending. In 2012, Washington collected $20,000 in taxes for every household in America. But Washington spent nearly $30,000 per household."

 

The Mainstream Media and the Moore-Maddow-Matthews-MSNBC axis

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Michael Moore’s Continuing Epic Fail -Tweets Sympathetic Comments About Dzhokhar And Tamerlen Tsarnaev. This is nothing new for Moore: Christopher Hitchens: The lies of Michael Moore.

NPR: Hitler's Birthday Might Have Motivated Right to Bomb Boston Marathon   "The thinking, as we have been reporting, is that this is a domestic, extremist attack and officials are leaning that way largely because of the timing of the attack. April is a big month for anti-government and right-wing individuals. There's the Columbine anniversary, there's Hitler's birthday[.]"
They can always retract the comment or continue with updated info later; the words are out there into the minds of people who like believing that sort of thing. TD

Viewers Abandon MSNBC During Boston Bomb Coverage   "The Monday cable news ratings are in and as expected, the events in Boston made viewership surge as Americans were hungry for the latest information on the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon. However, as the Hollywood Reporter notes, the numbers mostly surged for CNN and Fox News while MSNBC was left in the dust:"

Wait just a pea-picking minute here; Obama had 50 million+ votes in November, so why wouldn't MSNBC have 50 million+ viewers?

While at the same time over at Fox: Fox's Chris Wallace Asks: Perhaps Boston Residents Would Have Liked Firearms During Tsarnaev Manhunt?

 

More sweet irony

The Muslim terrorist is being treated at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital.

Were you wondering what the left had to say about events of the last two days?

The Left's Spin on Boston Marathon's Chechen Terrorists
"So, Chechnya is a breeding ground for Muslim youth who "know only conflict" and are merely acting out their heretofore suppressed hostilities. That doesn't make the Brothers Tsarnaev much different from inner-city youth in Chicago, Detroit, Newark, East St. Louis, and many other Democrat-dominated snake pits -- sorry: cities -- who "know only conflict." "

New York Times Shows Sympathy For Boston Terrorists…

"The sympathetic portrayal of the men — who murdered three civilians, including a child, wounded 180 people, murdered one unsuspecting police officer and wounded another officer — was met with quick condemnation on social media networks."

 

Michael Moore: Boston Cowering In “Fear” Of Just “One Teenager”…  "So he wants people to defy the police and roam the streets while a psychotic jihadist who most likely has suicide vest strapped to his body is on the loose?"

Apparently, the attack on the Boston Marathon is due to global warming; says Governor Cuomo.

How would the left deny this point that Rush makes? 

"If it turns out that a Muslim bombed the Boston marathon, everyone in the media will circle the wagons and say, 'This is not because of Islam. This is a lone bad actor, lone wolf,' and remind us the vast majority of Muslims denounce this kind of terror.  However, if it turns out that whoever did this has either a real or imagined connection to conservatism, everyone in the media will unite to denounce the whole group. There will not be the same treatment."

If you live in the Boston area and feel you need a firearm, forget it

This all came to mind while thinking of people in the Boston area afraid of carjacking and home hostage situations. Think of the security the bomber must feel there is not much chance of encountering a person who is carrying a weapon.

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Boston Globe  "In 1998, Massachusetts passed what was hailed as the toughest gun-control legislation in the country. Among other stringencies, it banned semiautomatic “assault” weapons, imposed strict new licensing rules, prohibited anyone convicted of a violent crime or drug trafficking from ever carrying or owning a gun, and enacted severe penalties for storing guns unlocked."
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"But the law that was so tough on law-abiding gun owners had quite a different impact on criminals.

"Since 1998, gun crime in Massachusetts has gotten worse, not better. In 2011, Massachusetts recorded 122 murders committed with firearms, the Globe reported this month — “a striking increase from the 65 in 1998.” Other crimes rose too. Between 1998 and 2011, robbery with firearms climbed 20.7 percent. Aggravated assaults jumped 26.7 percent."

MIT Students Post Moving Tributes To Police Officer Murdered By Islamic Terrorists… 
"MIT has identified the officer shot and killed on Thursday evening as Patrol Officer Sean A. Collier, 26, a native of Somerville, Mass.
"Collier responded to a disturbance on campus and died Thursday night after two men fired gunshots at his vehicle. Collier was shot several times in his vehicle around 10:30 p.m. Thursday. He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. [...]"

The language of terror

Charles Krauthammer  "Terrorism is speech — speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. The 19th-century anarchist Paul Brousse called it “propaganda by deed.” Accordingly, the Boston Marathon attack, the first successful terror bombing in the United States since 9/11, was designed for maximum effect. At the finish line there would be not only news cameras but also hundreds of personal videos to amplify the message."
"But what message? There was no claim of responsibility, no explanatory propaganda. Indeed, was it terrorism at all?"

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The use of the word complicates things for this administration in this way:
"To use the word terrorism, meaning deliberate attack, would have undermined the blame-shifting and raised exactly the questions — about warnings ignored, inadequate security, absence of contingency plans — that have dogged the administration for months."
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"Yet Obama couldn’t say the word. This is no linguistic triviality. He wouldn’t be tripping over himself to avoid any reference to Islam if it was insignificant.
Obama has performed admirably during the Boston crisis, speaking both reassuringly and with determination. But he continues to be linguistically uneasy. His wavering over the word terrorism is telling, though in this case unimportant. The real test will come when we learn the motive for the attack."

From Arutz Sheva in Israel comes this appropriate cartoon:

Some background on Chechen Muslims:  RUSSIA: 2004 Beslan School Massacre by Chechen Muslim terrorists

 

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Chris Wallace Links Bombing Suspect Manhunt To Gun Debate: How Many In Lockdown Area ‘Might Like A Gun’?

" “All the people in that Watertown neighborhood, hiding, doors locked,” Wallace began. “How many of them, do you think — and worried that this guy might get into their home, maybe take them hostage — how many of them, do you think, might like a gun? To be able to protect themselves and defend their homes.”
"“That feeds into the gun debate that we’ve had here in Washington,” Wallace asserted. He noted it will be one of the many issues they’ll be discussing on Fox News Sunday."

Photo of the Day – Coexist Bumper Sticker on Car Terrorists CarJacked

Potluck   Irony alert.

From the comments to this post:

"Would someone please explain to me just “Who” these idjits wanted to COEXIST with?"

1 of 2 Muslim Chechen suspects in Boston bombing killed (Updated)

Those who remember the murder of the Breslan children know these people are devoid of any conscience or compassion.

UPDATE: Boston Jihadi bomber's Dad Warns "Hell Will Break Loose" if Son Dies  "More threats from father of Boston jihad bomber. The elder Tsarnaev insisted that "his sons were innocent" -- according to jihadic doctrine, he is. His father refers to his devout son who killed, mutilated and maimed women and children as a "true angel.""

AP "WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that all but paralyzed the Boston area."

Killed

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"The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings. They lived near Boston and had been in the U.S. for about a decade, an uncle said."

Boston Jihadi bomber's Facebook page: Islam and Bombs

Here is the Facebook page  Note the two Islam links under "Noteworthy Pages" and the bomb underneath "send a gift."


Dead bomber 'didn't have a single American friend'   "One of the brothers from Chechnya suspected of bombing the Boston marathon once declared he “didn’t understand” Americans and had no American friends, despite living there for up to ten years."

 Boston Marathon victim Jeff Bauman helped identify bombers  "Jeff Bauman, a man whose legs were blown off during the Boston marathon bombings, and whose image was seen round the world, helped identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the dead suspect."
...."It has now emerged that Mr Bauman helped the FBI identify a suspect's photograph, telling the investigators that he looked in the eyes of Tamerlan Tsarnaev as he planted the bomb."

From Mother Jones: Did Boston Bombing Suspect Post Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube?   "A user by that name has posted a video to his YouTube playlist extolling an extremist religious prophecy associated with Al Qaeda. It is not clear yet whether the user is the same Tsarnaev as the deceased suspect."

Pictured just feet from the man who 'killed him': Chilling image shows eight-year-old Martin standing beside Boston bomb suspect moments after 'he planted explosive'

"Martin had been waiting to give his father a big hug to congratulate him for finishing the race, but was blown up when the twin blasts ripped through the city centre on Monday."  Read more

Bombing Suspects’ Uncle: They Do Not Deserve To Live On This Earth

Boston Bombing Victim in Iconic Photo Helped Identify Attackers

Bloomberg  "Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him."

 

April 18 (Bloomberg) -- Kevin Knierim, a former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, and Larry Compton, operations manager at Forensic Video Solutions, talk about FBI's release today of pictures and video showing two men suspected in the April 15 terrorist bombing in Boston. They speak with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg West." (Source: Bloomberg)

Just before 3 p.m. on April 15, Bauman was waiting among the crowd for his girlfriend to cross the finish line at the Boston Marathon. A man wearing a cap, sunglasses and a black jacket over a hooded sweatshirt looked at Jeff, 27, and dropped a bag at his feet, his brother, Chris Bauman, said in an interview.

Two and a half minutes later, the bag exploded, tearing Jeff’s legs apart. A picture of him in a wheelchair, bloodied and ashen, was broadcast around the world as he was rushed to Boston Medical Center. He lost both legs below the knee.

“He woke up under so much drugs, asked for a paper and pen and wrote, ‘bag, saw the guy, looked right at me,’” Chris Bauman said yesterday in an interview.

Those words may help crack the mystery of who perpetrated one of the highest-profile acts of terror in the U.S. since the 2001 assault on New York City and the Washington area, one that killed three people and wounded scores.

While still in intensive care, Jeff Bauman gave the FBI a description of the man he saw, his brother said. Bauman’s information helped investigators narrow down whom to look for in hours of video of the attack, he said.