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Terrorism, Another Perspective
Note: May 27, 2022: This post contains background and statistics on mass shootings in the United States of a type similar to recent events in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York.
The Boston Bombing of 2013
The tragic bombing in Boston demonstrates again how quickly and completely media, government and law enforcement can spin the terrorist card. Along with the deployment of well over a thousand City, State and Federal police, mass transit was shut down, businesses were closed and nearly a million residents of the area told to lock themselves in their homes until the suspects could be captured. During the depth of the manhunt, the situation was best described by a Boston police officer who stated, “we are operating in the fog of war”.1
Boston: “The Fog of War” (Photo: MetroDCPhotography)
The hunt was on for two inept, ideologically driven brothers, both US citizens suspected of having set off crude bombs that killed three and seriously injured dozens more, created a media frenzy that quickly spead around the world. The difference in these killings from the tens of thousands of killings which occur each year in the United States is that the Boston suspects were Muslim, their weapons of choice were crudely made bombs, and, the event being defined as an act of terror.
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