Two bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon

[Ride & Dive]

Originally Posted by TMI Guy

I'm curious as to how you think we might be encouraging this type of thing. Unless we want to give up our essential liberties and live in a police state, there's always going to be a risk that some a**hole is going to do something crazy. And unless you're pretty high up in state or local law enforcement or employed by a three letter federal agency, you have no idea what kind of intelligence gathering, threat assessment and counter-terrorism operations are going on to keep us safe.

Suffice to say we have made significant changes to our policy on intelligence gathering

[P-3 Guy]

Originally Posted by Ride & Dive

Suffice to say we have made significant changes to our policy on intelligence gathering

Changes that possibly "encouraged" what happened in Boston today? Like what?

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by Ride & Dive

Suffice to say we have made significant changes to our policy on intelligence gathering

It was a tragedy lets leave it at that and not turn this thread about it into a pissing contest.
I think we can all agree that our current government has issues and needs fixing, this thread isn't about that, but what happened at the marathon.
TMI from past experience I have learned the best way to stop it is to ignore the comments and move on.

[jetlag100]

Brothers from Wakefield, Mass., were victims. Each one of them lost a leg. May have been one of them, you saw..........

[dt5150]

awful, just awful. a disgusting act of senseless violence on innocent people. my thoughts and prayers are with the folks in bean town today.

[HellRaZoR004]

Originally Posted by jetlag100

Brothers from Wakefield, Mass., were victims. Each one of them lost a leg. May have been one of them, you saw..........

I'm so sorry - I saw some of the pictures last night and wish I hadn't. This type of act will change many peoples lives and I hope for the best.

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by HellRaZoR004

I'm so sorry - I saw some of the pictures last night and wish I hadn't. This type of act will change many peoples lives and I hope for the best.

Is that for a month the media will run the same news over and over again making sure none of us forget it. I've already talked to a couple of others this morning that say enough is enough, unless there is new information why make those who knew someone who was injured of worse relive this by running the same pictures and video across the TV screen.

[Chaselady]

For those who can't take anymore....shut off the TV. But we should all be thankful we live in a country where information is forthcoming.

[Belmont Resident]

Originally Posted by Chaselady

For those who can't take anymore....shut off the TV. But we should all be thankful we live in a country where information is forthcoming.

Ya, but the media are vultures. Did you happen to catch some of the questions on Fox. Oh and what about the guy who lost his son while his wife and daughter are both in the hospital? Ya the road had to be taped off to prevent the vultures from invading his privacy. It is pathetic what lengths the media will go to get a story in this day. In many cases what they report is found to be unfounded.