toldailytopic: What type of person commits a terrorist act like the one at the Boston
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Four possibilities that I can see:
1. Someone whose belief in a cause exceeds their regard for human life. I think we can agree that there are such people in the Tea Party, OWS, gun rights advocates, eco-terrorists, and all sorts of political or religious groups. Since the minimum number of people required to pull something like this off is one, I think they are all a possibility, though I doubt there's going to be a connection to a much larger group in any case.
2. A sociopath. Perhaps our mistake is seeing larger purpose where there is basically none. Perhaps this is a person who just likes to kill and to feel powerful.
3. An agent of a foreign state. We are in conflict with a number of countries to a greater or lesser degree. If North Korea or Iran had managed to get a loyal operative into the country, they would seem to have little reason to claim credit, for instance.
4. While I think if this were al Qaeda or some other religious/political/terror group, we'd have heard a claim of credit by now, else what would be the point for them, it is possible that they could be behind it.
My strongest candidate, and it really is based on very little, is a gun rights advocate, probably a militia member, with or without the blessing of the rest of the militia. The choice of a bomb, perhaps demonstrating that it is still possible to harm lots of people without guns, on the day that new background check legislation is gaining speed, seems suggestive, and the choice of doing it on tax day might align with a lot of these people politically. But this could really just be a Rorschach Test result.
Sounds like something an atheist from Great Britain would do.lain:
Or a Mormon from Uzbechkistan.
This Charming Manc
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How about some Northern Irish protestant after payback for what Boston Money did to his country in the 80's?
Sounds like something an atheist from Great Britain would do.
We need to look for someone wearing orange, a funny little bowler hat, and carrying a black backpack on the tapes. :think:
drbrumley
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noguru
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What do you have against Home Depot employees?
faramir77
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Someone educated in the modern-day Bail Temples that is the Govmnt Mandated Curriculum of the Godless Public School System.
Someone raised on Hollywood Media Programming values via Television.
Children born of deranged degenerates who themselves are victims of the afore mentioned.
Someone who went to Disney Land and never departed.
"Congradulations, gentlemen, your all we've come to expect from years of gvmnt training" -Agent Zed. Men In Black.
Someone raised on Hollywood Media Programming values via Television.
Children born of deranged degenerates who themselves are victims of the afore mentioned.
Someone who went to Disney Land and never departed.
"Congradulations, gentlemen, your all we've come to expect from years of gvmnt training" -Agent Zed. Men In Black.
That is an inflammatory and unseemly response!
I hate the deed! And I hate the doer of the deed!
And if it proves to be a white anglo-saxon protestant all of you liberals will get to hate him and by extension offer that as prove of how awful is America?
PureX
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America isn't "awful" because of things like this bombing. As horrible as it is, we do far worse every day.
I realize "binar" is a specious label but, what is it's definition?
Nuh-Uh...He only liked girls. :nono: