Thursday, March 06, 2008
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Explosion at Times Square Recruiting Station
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
10:10 AM
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Well, recruiting stations often come under attack from folks who support the troops, of course, but also happen to think they're Bush's "death pimps." if shown to be deliberate and politically motivated (which it will be), this dangerous escalation is nothing short of terrorism, so let's have no euphemisms. Thank God no one was hurt:
Police blocked off the area to investigate the explosion, which occurred at about 3:45 a.m., shattering the station's glass entryway. No one was injured. "If it is something that's directed toward American troops...(then) it's something that's taken very seriously and is pretty unfortunate," said Army Capt. Charlie Jaquillard, who is the commander of Army recruiting in Manhattan.
He said no one was inside the station, where the Marines, Air Force and Navy also recruit.
The headline assures us it was "small explosion," but:
Witnesses staying at a Marriott hotel four blocks away said they could feel the building shake with the blast.
"I was up on the 44th floor and I could feel it. It was a big bang," said Darla Peck, 25, of Portland, Oregon.
"It shook the building. I thought it could have been thunder, but I looked down and there was a massive plume of smoke so I knew it was an explosion," said Terry Leighton, 48, of London, who was staying on the 21st floor of the Marriott.
One wonders if it would be covered as a "small explosion" if anti-abortion zealots had bombed a clinic in a highly populated area of the county's most highly populated city. I think not.
Daily Kos diarists, as is their wont, suspect a right-wing plot.
It’s nothng [sic] new for the right to CAUSE or INCITE the violence, or to trigger arranged mob responses, and make sure it all gets pinned on the Left. And the right seems to be able to get the FBI and law enforcement to do this for them as well. Anarchy, chaos, property damage, physical harm, mayhem, murder, militarized police with massive crowd control equipment, are all ‘options’ the right are eager to use to shut down any potentially energizing movement.
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Interesting aspect to this--this bombing is apparently strikingly similar to a recent bombing of the Mexican consulate in New York--which I guess the media didn't really see fit to cover.
It piques my interest--I would think bombing the Mexican consulate would be a right-wing thing.
My feeling is that this is going to turn out to be not a right- or left-winger, but just and out-and-out conspiracy theory nutter. Or possibly a vet suffering from PTSD, who will promptly and roundly be thrown under the bus by right-wingers an declared a bad apple--since they support the war, NOT the soldiers. Soldiers they'll abandon them in a heartbeat if they do anything inconvenient, like suffer from the horrible psychological effects of war. |
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I realize animalgirl didn't go so far as to condemn the bombing, but I'll still give her the benefit of the doubt and say it sounds like animalgirl represents the "non-violent" wing of the peace activists.
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I think any radical act resembles terrorism, bombing abortion clinics, this event, ECO terror, any one who commits damage like this where it's possible for someone to be harmed should be treated as an act of terror on American soil. They shouldn't be treated any different than we do the middle eastern terrorist. Protest is one thing, this is different.
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