<p>You may be right on the timing, alwaysamom, but I thought the order was given once they were identified on Friday morning, and lifted just before he was discovered in the boat? At least, that’s when we closed our Boston office, so I thought that we closed in response to police orders.</p>
<p>I’ve been reading with interest today the criticism by some citizens of the police for missing certain streets during the search process. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been to make logistical decisions in real time.</p>
<p>The carjacking was Thursday night, hayden.</p>
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While I think lessons should be learned, I really don’t like the tone of some of the armchair quarterbacking, especially when it’s directed to people who were putting their own lives on the line.</p>
<p>Well, I think that people whose homes were or were not searched do have the right to an opinion.</p>
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<p>Still thinking about this woman…hope they have considered the possibility that the Starbucks was not her first visit and that there could be other tainted bottles elsewhere. Scary.</p>
<p>alwaysamom, okay, thanks. In that case, I do empathize!</p>
<p>Regarding the arrests today, it looks like these geniuses, like so many before them, got tripped up by facebook:</p>
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<p>[3</a> more detained in Boston attack - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/boston-attack/index.html]3”>http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/01/us/boston-attack/index.html)</p>
<p>I believe that many people feel sympathy for the bomber, do so because he is a nice looking kid with tousled hair. Funny, nice, adorable…he could look and act like any of our kids or their friends. I suspect people would not have sympathy if he looked and acted like a white skinhead. Not remembering much sympathy for Jared Loughner after he shot Gabby Giffords. Our kids don’t look or act like him. Why should people be seduced to feel sympathetic and try to find excuses for him because of that? He still brutally murdered an eight year old and others, blowing off people’s legs. The suffering that he caused is tremendous, no matter what he looks like. The pictures show that he went along willingly, and had no remorse.</p>
<p>For those who still have sympathy for the mother. Really? I can understand initially, before much was known about her, how no parent could believe such a thing, that they would come up with any explanation. But as her actions and personality have come out, it appears as if she was a huge influence on her kids to do this. Haven’t heard her say a word about how terrible this was for the victims. I suspect it won’t be long before she’s saying she’s glad that they did it, and that Americans deserved it because of reason X and Y.</p>
<p>And some people will still feel sorry for her, no matter her involvement, because they really do believe that if we just didn’t do whatever X and Y was, people wouldn’t hate us. Of course we have to give everyone their constitutional rights, and dot every i and cross every t, we must do things the right way. But giving every possible excuse and sympathy to the people who do these things is something I just can’t understand.</p>
<p>Bombings like this happen because there is an attractive ideology to young Muslim men who are unhappy in their lives some how. It’s not our job to make their lives wonderful so they won’t turn out to be terrorists. It sounds like Mama’s attitude of arrogant entitlement and rage was the initial breeding ground for something like this to happen.</p>
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<p>Prison is only miserable to those who value their freedom like most people on this board do. There are plenty of people who enjoy the certainty afforded by prison or learn to enjoy that certainty. Prisoners get housing provided for them, food provided for them, and they have many opportunities to learn, socialize, have sex, and feel pleasure that are not available to dead people. That’s why the death penalty is the only penalty appropriate for someone who blows up 3 people and takes the arms and legs of many other people.</p>
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<p>Yes, and one photograph of him looks like it was taken 3 or 4 years ago, and I agree, he looks like an adorable young kid. When I would see that picture, I had to mentally balance it by remembering the interview with the young ballroom dance instructor who spoke with Anderson Cooper with her wrapped stub of a leg elevated on a pillow. :mad:</p>
<p>Watching CNN coverage right now. Kind of surprising at how many times they have described the 3 arrested young men as “stupid,” “moronic,” and “idiotic.” They may well turn out to be right, but still surprising to me in that I’ve always expected news to be factual, objective, and absent of emotion. And it’s early yet-these men may turn out to be far more involved in a purposeful manner rather than in a “stupid,” naive kind of way.</p>
<p>Wow, beautiful post, busdriver.</p>
<p>I am also perplexed by the sympathy for the bomber simply because of his nice-boy looks. (His college pic didn’t look that nice to me, however). Every mass murderer was once a sweet, innocent baby and the apple of his mother’s eye.</p>
<p>Hayden, alwaysamom is correct. I believe the shelter-in-place order was around 12:40 am when the Boston PD tweeted The Residents of Watertown asked to stay indoors. Do not answer door unless instructed by a police officer, last April 19, Friday at 12:43 a.m. <a href=“Shelter-in-Place Warnings for Boston Spread Through Social Media | Mashable”>Shelter-in-Place Warnings for Boston Spread Through Social Media | Mashable;
<p>It was around 11 p.m. on April 18, Thursday, when bomber #1 knocked on the carjacking victims passenger-side window. </p>
<p>Accdg to the stay indoors map, instructions for Watertown was to stay inside/business closed, no vehicle traffic allowed. The rest: Boston, Cambridge, Belmont, Waltham, Newton and Brookline were to stay indoors and business closed. [Map:</a> Residents told to stay inside - Boston.com](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/stay_inside_map/]Map:”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/stay_inside_map/) So, I suppose even if the carjacking happened around 7 a.m. Friday you can’t really blame the victim since vehicle traffic was still allowed in the Brighton section of Boston where the carjack occurred.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sick and tired of seeing that kid’s picture up there without it being posted next to the pictures of the 8 year old boy he looked right at and then killed. Let’s see that picture.</p>
<p>Let’s see the pictures of the families, or the people who are STILL in the hospital every time we see the his boy next door picture. </p>
<p>I don’t believe in the death penalty, but I don’t think we need more blather about the poor Chechen boy who became an American. He took the lives and limbs of other people. We need a mug shot.</p>
<p>Using that picture of the bomber is another attempt at media manipulation. It’s not the first time they have intentionally posted a photograph of a young man as younger than his actual age in order to fit a specific narrative.</p>
<p>Thanks, bay, usually people say that sarcastically to me. I do understand the sympathy for his looks, because I have fought against it. Like Nrdsb4, I’ve had to balance it by reading about the victims. He looks very much like some of my son’s friends, especially when I see the younger pictures. I’m sure many psychopaths are completely adorable, and it’s not unusual for some young people to have no compassion for others whatsoever.</p>
<p>People don’t seem to have these big questions about how someone could do such a heinous act when reading about drive by shootings that happen ALL THE TIME, and little innocent kids are killed by gangs. I think we’re just so desensitized to that, we don’t even think about it anymore.</p>
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That is an excellent point. I read an article yesterday about the outrage engendered by the refusal of one high school in Chicago to participate in a ball game in an area that the parents considered dangerous. All sorts of outrage except at the fact that there are, in fact, hundreds of kids actually being killed in that area. We really do seem desensitized to that level of violence on a daily basis. I wonder why that is.</p>
<p>Hard to believe that people are outraged because parents don’t want to put their children in danger. Apparently they think being PC is more important than these children’s lives.</p>
<p>Only if it’s somebody else’s kid, right?</p>