UPDATE: All who are concerned about loved ones in the Boston Marathon, here’s a link where you can see where they last checked in.
Two bombs have gone off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, with reports of numerous dead and scores more seriously injured.
Images coming out of Boston are graphic, so click carefully on Twitter links.
As with any tragedy unfolding live, initial reports differ in the number of dead and injured.
It’s not known who or what group might be responsible for this horrific act of terror, and police report there are no “credible claims of responsibility” at this point.
However, police reportedly have a “person of interest” in their custody and images of someone leaving backpacks near the site of the bombs 20 minutes before they went off.
We will update this post as confirmed facts come in.
Pray for Boston, its courageous first responders and the victims of this senseless act of violence.
UPDATE 2: Boston police confirm at least two killed, including an eight-year old. The injured count also continues to climb as reports from local hospitals come in.
Boston Marathon Toll rises even higher. More than 120 treated at 7 local hospitals.
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) April 15, 2013
My money is on a false flag attack. Expect CNN tell you shortly that this was a gasoline and gun powder bomb. Get ready for new, extreme checks and controls on gun powder. Gun control legislation is failing. If they can't ban the guns, they're going to take away a key component of ammunition.
Wait, citizen. Our database says you're trying to buy more than two boxes of ammo in a month. Clearly you're building a bomb. Please put your hands up and come with us. Stop resisting, citizen!
Trying to order an 8lb keg of powder for reloading? Sorry citizen, purchases of that size are limited to ammunition manufacturers that have been licensed and submit to federal oversight.
You should also expect to be searched and ID'd any time you get on public transportation of any kind, as well as a TSA presence and metal detectors at sporting events or any other public event with over 1000 people. Random stop and searches anytime in public.
You look suspicious standing next to that trash can. Was that half a hot dog or a bomb that you just put in there? Papers please, citizen.
I have said repeatedly for the last few months, that I have not seen the like of extreme antigovernment rhetoric on the internet, the radio, tv and newspapers since the Murrah Building bombing in OKC. A lot of the same events going on. The gun control bills in the news, causing a lot of anti government rhetoric similar to the assault weapons ban rhetoric back right before McVeigh. ( A lot of anti government talk due to Waco ( I think it was the second or third anniversar of Waco.)
There's a lot that says domestic attack. Its Patriot Day, Tax day, the gun control bill is in the news, Boston is the home of the famous Tea Party during the days of the Revolutionary War era. The possible third attack on the JFK library ( if it has been confirmed).
Of course it could be a foreign attack. Anything is possible with those guys. Sad day either way. Thank goodness there were already national guard present for the marathon and lots of police and EMT's. Oraters to Boston.