Personally,
I don't give a rat's ass if the Tsarnaev brothers are white. No one
who goes around throwing bombs and killing people for no reason is
ever gonna make it into my top ten list of favorite people on this
earth, anyway, regardless of their skin color or place of national
origin. Killing and mass murder have always been equal opportunity,
especially when this special brand of psychopathy as exhibited by the
brothers last week unfolds across our television screens.
For
some reason as yet unexplained, when guys like this throw a violent
temper tantrum in order to right the perceived wrongs levied against
them by society, innocents die. What happened last week felt like
international terrorism only because an IED(improvised explosive
device) was used. However, as the story unfolded it seemed to
indicate a different kind of thing, more Columbine than 9/11. Both
Columbine and 9/11 are terrorism, but different kinds of terrorism,
one recognized as such, the other not so much. In the psyche of
Americans, 9/11 is terrorism because of who did it, or I should say,
the skin color and religion of who did it. Columbine is still
considered boys acting out, read that white boys acting out, like
Newtown and a couple of dozen other high school killing incidents
during the past decade.
They
have the money, they have access to the guns and they have the
perfect hiding place, in plain sight, lost in any number of the
neighborhoods inhabited by the masters of the universe. These two
were so arrogant that they didn't try to run away until their
pictures hit the airwaves. Then it seems they decided to go out in a
blaze of glory, calling attention to themselves by killing a cop,
hijacking a car, reportedly telling their victim they were the
bombers and getting into a gun battle with police, complete with
assault weapons right out in the street. The story goes, that little
brother actually killed big brother by running over him with the get
away car as he lay in the street after being tackled by a police
officer, but not before he was able to call his mother and say good
bye. How very American of them. Up until they revealed themselves,
nobody knew who or where they were. Did they screw up and just
panicked? Didn't seem like there was a plan B for these guys.
It
sounds like a movie script or a scene straight out of Grand Theft
Auto the video game.
What
was new about this old scenario is the ease with which the police,
Feds and military locked down an American city and kept it that way
until they got their men. What we saw was practice implementation of
Martial law. What we saw this past week in Boston would have been
illegal prior to 9/11. The laws enabling this militaristic
mobilization went into effect 34 days after the twin towers fell. 34
days is how long it took for Congress to pass the Patriot Act and for
President Bush to sign into law.
Rather than repeal these attacks on
our civil liberties, our new President, Obama, has done everything in
his power to strengthen those powers, enabling full White House
control of the populace if and when it becomes necessary by using
militarized police forces backed up by real military. ( All you
second amendment, dooms day preppers, and apocalypse survivalists
with your 14-15 assault weapons and big ammo clips....good luck with
that when the shit hits the fan and the Feds come for your ass). But
I digress....
Little
brother crawled away from the gun fight only to be cornered hiding
in some guy's boat four blocks away. Wounded, police are now
speculating that even though they took him alive, he tried
unsuccessfully to shoot himself in the head, before police stormed
his hiding place. Jihadist tend to blow themselves up, not swallow a
bullet. Swallowing bullets is soooo, well... so American.
No
one really knows what happened with these guys, or where or when they
decided killing innocents was the play of the day. But having spent
most of their lives living in America, it would be a safe bet to
assume that their so called radicalization happened right here in the
good old USA and not some mountain region in Eastern Europe.
