I lived in Beantown for 5 years, and I remember well the Marathon Madness on Patriot's Day. Thoughts and Prayers from all at Friends of Jake to those who have been affected by this senseless violence.
Via PoliticalAnimal: Dona Nobis Pacem, From Bach's mass in B-minor, performed by the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig.
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Prayers for Boston: recovery, justice---and mercy. Assuming this is terrorism, can we PLEASE not have another hysterical "Do Something/Anything!" decade like the Noughties? Locking up people for the wrong national origin, invading unrelated countries---all that BS?
All things considered, I'm still more afraid of a random wacko w/ an automatic weapon...
The news points out that this is often a week associated with domestic terrorism-- tax day draws out the anti-government wackos, the 19th draws out those who want to "memorialize" the Branch Davidian confrontation (Oklahoma City was on the 19th), and the 20th is often celebrated by neoNazis.
We shall see.
The 20th was Columbine.
Ruby Ridge is in there, too. 20 April was the bday of Das Fuhrer (would rather not type his name), hence the neo-Nazi commemoration.
FWIW, yesterday was really the 4th anniversary of the Tea Party movement (recalling that T.E.A. Party began as an acronymn for "Taxed Enough Already").
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