Saturday, April 20, 2013

BloggeRhythms 4/20/2013

Media everywhere today is flooded with stories, data and information regarding the Boston marathon tragedy. The subject itself is something about which I have no real expertise, and there are far better sources of input than I could ever offer.
 
However, while watching news reports all week, and the final capture taking place this morning, a series of questions arose in my mind about the entire scenario.
 
Fully realizing that the cold-blooded murder of three innocent human beings, one an eight year old child, and injuries to more than 180 others is of catastrophic proportion, I have to ask: What did these deranged, maniacal perpetrators actually accomplish?
 
Although it’s certainly true that they shut down a major city for almost a week, Boston is not only already up and running again, it’s people are closer together and tighter knit than they’ve been in years. Perhaps, ever.
 
Security in other major cities will now be raised to an even higher level than exists now, already extremely tight, while the monitoring of public events will increase as well.
 
Beyond that, laws will be amended to allow closer scrutiny and actions against persons of interest in any kind of potential terrorist activity anywhere in the nation, making it far more difficult for others planning any kind of harmful action.
 
Furthermore, now that it’s known that perpetrators of this sort may wait for many years, during which time they keep a clean slate, before taking any kind of purposeful action, foreigners now will face increased surveillance as a deterrent.
 
So, as I said at the outset today, although this kind of situation is considerably beyond my understanding or level of knowledge, if I could come up with the preceding list of future precautions, which likely doesn’t even scratch the surface of what experts will accomplish, it seems to me that these two animals in Boston set their cause back considerably by their actions.
 
And although “terrorist“ is the term used to describe them, it seems to me the situation’s actually the reverse. Because the nation’s population not only isn’t terrorized, on one hand it’s elated that the two have been stopped. And on the other it’s angry, resentful and enraged, looking for ways to retaliate and prevent horrors like this in the future. So, in the grander scheme of things, I think these two in Boston have set their compatriots back considerably across the nation, likely the complete and utter opposite of what they wished to accomplish.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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