Earlier I was reading through the Twitter account of the now apprehended suspect and what is most striking is just how normal he is. Every one of his tweets could have been attributed to a completely normal teenager, he couldn't be more generic. It's strange how Twitter offers an insight into his life... but really it doesn't show anything. When someone blew people up in the 90s the news would report they're crazy, we'd all accept it and move on but now with platforms like Twitter we can see how this could be any one of us, maybe we're all one shitty situation away from doing terrible things. Unnerving.
Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apprehended Alive
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#22So who gets to be his lawyer?
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#23Thank God. While I'm honestly not concerned about the man's well-being - that 8-year-old boy should be alive in his place - I am very curious as to why they did this.
They come from a very Islamic country and it's been said that they'd recently started wearing traditional Muslim clothing--a switch from the european clothing they'd been wearing for most of their lives. It's easy for kids to become obsessed with a cause... even if it's a terrible one. Basically, all signs point to this being just another religious extremist attack.
The big question is to what degree it was organized, or whether the older brother's social problems (inability to connect etc.) so alienated him that he just seized on the most empowering role model he could think of, an Islamic rebel. Chechnya is a country that has been ruled pretty poorly by Russia at it's not so long ago that Chechen Muslims were seen as heroic freedom fighters in the west.
In short, it's unclear whether they were actually involved with any organized jihad groups or just developed a personal obsession with the ideas and copied the methods.
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#24Thank God. While I'm honestly not concerned about the man's well-being - that 8-year-old boy should be alive in his place - I am very curious as to why they did this.
I wonder if he'll talk. If he is treated like a normal citizen, he doesn't have to say a single thing to the officers conducting the investigation.
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#25The ending to The Blues Brothers seems prophetic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2quc-iQ96R0 To edit and elaborate: they shut down a large portion of New England, affecting millions of people. Amtrak service, for example, was suspended north of New York City at 12:30pm today. Private taxi service in the Boston Metro area shut down until 11am. Other public transit, such as the T, shut down for most of the day. People…
* they shut down a large portion of New England*
No, "they" really didn't. Life was pretty much normal outside of 128.
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#26Now that the full audio[1] transcript of the police scanner is available, I'd be interested in whether police ever actually mentioned the the two other individuals that everyone seemed to think had done it.
[1]https://soundcloud.com/producermatthew/scanner-audio-from-wa...
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#27Did they ever figure out the motive of James Holmes?
I'm wondering what ever happened with that.. any reason WHY?
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#28Earlier I was reading through the Twitter account of the now apprehended suspect and what is most striking is just how normal he is. Every one of his tweets could have been attributed to a completely normal teenager, he couldn't be more generic. It's strange how Twitter offers an insight into his life... but really it doesn't show anything. When someone blew people up in the 90s the news would report they're crazy, w…
Some of the people I regularly follow on Twitter were literally in disbelief over hearing this about someone they thought they knew - "please take him alive" they pleaded.
It was awful to see someone be so wrong about a person, as it became more and more certain that he was indeed one of the people involved in the bombing.
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#29For me this will be the enduring image of the manhunt: http://i.imgur.com/lV7CMQA.jpg Even if there's a manhunt, shelter in place order, and an officer with an assault rifle on every corner, life will go on.
I don't understand what this is an image of. The quality is very poor, is this because its a crop of a much larger image?
I'm assuming from the long white dress that this is a photo of a wedding.
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#30For me this will be the enduring image of the manhunt: http://i.imgur.com/lV7CMQA.jpg Even if there's a manhunt, shelter in place order, and an officer with an assault rifle on every corner, life will go on.
I don't understand what this is an image of. The quality is very poor, is this because its a crop of a much larger image?
It looks like a crop of an image in a park where a bride and her bridal party are having their picture taken while the groomsmen wait off to the side.