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The Boston Marathon Bombing and its Political Fallout

Boston, MA —The cowardly bombing of innocents here brought out the worst and best human behaviors putting them in the spotlight. We now seem to know what happened in that two young, male Muslim Jihadists used IED bombs against innocent men, women and children near the finish line of the 26-mile race. Despite real danger many fine men and women risked their lives to aid those who had their limbs blown off at the scene.   The medical community rallied to save all the lives and limbs they could.   The law enforcement community banded together identifying, locating and capturing suspects.   We really don’t know the extent of this sleeper cell of terrorists that carried out this horrible act.   We may soon learn more from the four surviving suspects taken into custody along with the items and computers seized by police. Terrorism by nature consists of random violent acts against soft targets.   Pretend preventive measures like TSA airline passe...

It was Social Media Not the Main Stream News Media That Reported First on The Boston Marathon Bombing.

Boston, MA —Times are changing faster than even the news productions experts could imagine.  Ordinary people are carrying smart phones and sophisticated cameras that can even upload instantly to sites like UStream .  Yesterday the bombing was covered from nearly every conceivable angle by hundreds of cameras shooting high-resolution images.  These images undoubtedly captured the criminals responsible for this mad and cruel act. There were numerous mainstream photojournalists on the scene shooting but for few if any live broadcast cameras their images were not broadcast or published until they were first transmitted to their electronic news gathering hubs for redistribution. Some people were uploading still and video images to Internet sites as they were actually happening.  One thing for sure the world will not have to guess what happened because of the massive presence of cameras.  Courts and the jury will also see many of these images as critical e...