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Here is a quote from VP Biden:

“The purpose of terror is to instill fear,” he said. “You saw none of it here in Boston. Boston, you sent a powerful message to the world.”

A complete shutdown of the city and house to house searches with police in full body armor unnecessarily evacuating people isn’t a fearful reaction? The whole thing was an exercise in overreaction and fear.

“Well-known letter writer” is no different than “commenter on a public blog.” Such activity is good reason to suspect someone. (Everyone here take note!)

SKP @ 1: +1

Here’s the story:

http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2013/04/jersey_city_man_arrested_on_tr.html

He appears to be this Mykyta Panasenko (there’s only one listed for the U.S. and Canada):

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mykyta-panasenko/21/4a3/92

Deport all the mathematicians! (@ 8)

Yes!

Okay, that’s a bit rich. After right-wingers spent considerable effort digging up info on the previous suspect in the ricin case, noting how he was a Democrat and how the media was ignoring that angle … whoops.

Turns out the new suspect is a former GOP candidate for the Mississippi House of Representatives named J. Everett Dutschke. Number of those same right-wingers I’ve heard mention this or correct their previous assertions: zero.

So that doesn’t smell so good.

As previously noted, Boston Mayor Tom Menino gave aid and comfort to the Islamoterrorrists in getting land for their Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) mosque.

Now excerpted from Bombers’ Mosque In Boston A Factory For Terrorists:

USA Today, on the other hand, did look at their mosque — the Islamic Society of Boston — and found “a curriculum that radicalizes people,” according to a local source quoted in the paper’s investigation. “Other people have been radicalized there.”

In fact, several ISB members and leaders have been convicted or suspected of terrorism, including:

• Abdurahman Alamoudi, the mosque’s founder and first president, who in 2004 was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism as al-Qaida’s top fundraiser in America.
• Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT scientist-turned-al-Qaida agent, who in 2010 was sentenced to 86 years in prison for planning a New York chemical attack.
• Tarek Mehanna, who in 2012 was sentenced to 17 years for plotting to use automatic weapons to murder shoppers in a suburban Boston mall.
• Ahmad Abousamra, an ex-mosque official’s son, who fled the country after the FBI charged him with conspiring with Mehanna to kill Americans.
• Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a mosque trustee and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader banned from the U.S. after issuing a fatwa that OK’d killing U.S. soldiers.
• Jamal Badawi, a former ISB trustee who in 2007 was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a plan to funnel $12 million to Palestinian suicide bombers.

The election and re-election of this traitor as mayor of Boston since 1993 dilutes any sympathy that one may have for the electorate regarding whatever has resulted from Menino’s treachery.

1. I suppose it should concern us all that the stock market (too often seen as an indicator of national economic health) is so fragile that it can be thrown off by a tweet. This reminds me of the computer glitch that led to the brief crash in 1987 – or the bad day for stocks in 1992 that was blamed on then-Vice President Dan Quayle spelling potato wrong.

2. If the Boston bomber guy was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction, does this mean that the Defense Department could have said “We told you so” if a pressure cooker had been found in Iraq?

Carl (@16), before or after we invaded? If after, you’re missing the point.