Sunday, April 21, 2013

Names

I'm already tired of the people who say: "Don't even speak their names!"

Please- can you even pronounce their names, the names of the Boston bombers? They don't exactly roll off the tongue the way our American terrorist's names do.

Lanza. Loughner. Holmes. Klebold. Harris. Rudolph. McVeigh. 

Tamerlan and Dzhokahar Tsarnaev?

Are you fucking kidding me? I can't spell their names without looking two, three times and I'm not about to commit it to memory. The newspersons have to do that but, I don't. It is sad that the victims names, though committed to history, are in few peoples memories beyond their families. That's the way that goes.

We do need to know why these assholes did this. If you're looking for a good reason, you'll never find it. However, it is important to know if they did this for their religion, for kicks or to impress Jodie Foster. This is why most people were hoping the younger one would be taken alive. Answer questions. Then we can kill you.

It was unprecedented, in modern times at least, to shut down an entire city to search for terrorists but, bombers can cause such a reaction. The last thing a city needs after one bombing is people gathered in places where more bombs could go off. Take away the targets, you render any other bombs pretty much useless. And there were more bombs. These assholes definitely had more mayhem in mind. Boston did all they could to cheat them while they figured out how to beat them. Much will be made of the millions of dollars lost to the business's that day but, happily, we'll never know what the loss of life could have been.

And, of course, there had to be conspiracies out of the gate. On Monday, dickhead Glenn Beck will reveal White House and Saudi involvement in the bombing. He's given the White House the entire weekend to own up to their involvement. Or, he's given himself the entire weekend to come up with a reason the Saudis would work with the White House, something they haven't likely done since- oh- September of '01? No one said there would be a good reason.

We can't help but know the names of these scumbags. Mark David Chapman murdered one of the greatest singer/songwriters of all time but, John Lennon lives on in the hearts, minds and history of millions while Chapman rots in jail. Shouldn't certain scumbags be reminded by society that such heinous acts result ultimately only in their own death and/or historical dishonor? You'd think they would have gotten that by now.

1 comment:

Marge said...

More dickheads were given a platform over at Reddit where the trolls decided to play out their conspiracy theories by naming anyone with a tan as a potential suspect. Including this kid

Reddit manager Erik Martin V V V

"On Monday, Reddit general manager Erik Martin apologized for the "dangerous speculation" that "spiraled into very negative consequences for innocent parties."

In a blog post, he specifically apologized to the Tripathi family "for the pain they have had to endure."

"The Reddit staff and the millions of people on Reddit around the world deeply regret that this happened," he said.

"We all need to look at what happened and make sure that in the future we do everything we can to help and not hinder crisis situations," Martin added.

Martin's post was written before the student's body was found."