LOL

The Post is, and always has been, a joke. 4chan has somehow been wrong more than the Post. Lol Nate.

I think what I really need at this point is for just ONE MORE person to poast the pix of the suspects on Facebook. Cuz seeing them only 257 times just isn't enough to reach fat dumb Americans.

Story about the kid slandered by NY Post:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-...mbing-suspect/

IDs are being checked to get into the crime scene area. They appear to be allowing people that live/work in some of the places inside.

I think the missing Brown student is interesting. Especially considering the lengths at which the FBI were taking to find him (20 state manhunt the last month for a missing college aged kid?).

I was going to go through each part individually, but I'll over the whole thing as a whole. First, I don't trust the MSM holistically, nor do I trust the FBI holistically either, but what alternatives to this are there? Reddit and 4Chan have put the most manpower into this and they came up with, " This guy looks scary" and the guy that "looked scary" WENT TO THE POLICE STATION TO CLEAR HIS NAME. The fact he responded on Facebook means he's streets head of even the average American in terms of accountability. But even Reddit put more effort into it than the Infowars types who say some scary guys that looked vaguely militaristic and concluded it's all a false flag operation, or maybe a cover up by the government and Saudi Arabia or whatever makes white middle class gun nuts feel safe at night.

I don't trust the FBI completely but this chronic cynicalism that manifests itself as permanent skepticism boarding on conspiratardism is just as debilitating as complete belief in the USA.

Wouldn't the FBI have made that connection and not had to ask the public for names?

Yes, we were discussing the more broad case where CC condones papers please checkpoints in the general sense.

Persians aren't Middle Eastern.

It's interesting how little a still can convey because I would guess that the bald guy next to him is the bomber because he's wanting to see the explosion.

It is to me IDK what you class as the middle east where your from

You're kinda saying all middle easterners look the same, but there are pretty distinct physical differences between, say, an Arab and a Persian.

No I'm kinda saying that Iran is in the Middle East if you read what you quoted me on

I was referencing the earlier post as well.

While a categorization of a "Persian" ethnic group persists in the West, Persians have generally been a pan-national group often comprising regional people who often refer to themselves as 'Persians' and have also often used the term "Iranian" (in the ethnic-cultural sense). As a pan-national group, defining Persians as an ethnic group, at least in terms used in the West, is not inclusive since the ethnonym "Persian" includes several Iranian people including the speakers of Modern Persian. Some scholars, classify the speakers of Persian language as a single ethnic unit (the ‘Persians’) and exclude those Iranians who speak dialects of Persian, or other Iranian dialects closely related to Persian;[36] however this approach to ethnicity in Iran is erroneous, since the designation Iranian (Irani) as an ethnic term has been used by all these ethnic group in Iran, including the "Persians" irrespective of their origin, language and religion.[36] -- Wiki...

I knew an Arab from Iran before.

we are talking about sematics here, the guy at the back could be israeli or Ejyptian or from anywhere around that area

Fair enough, it's just not happening in Boston right now from what I can tell walking around the area. They might be checking going into some hotels and buildings too.

One story on Bloomberg says that guy in the graphic wheelchair photo helped ID white hat guy.

http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/201...attackers.html

EDIT: not sure which guy now

Iran is in the Middle East (IMO), but Persians aren't originally Middle Eastern (they're from Central Asia).

Kinda semantic. How are people defining the Middle East? I understand it as basically everything from Egypt, the Levant, Syria, and Anatolia in the West, plus the Arabian peninsula, Mesopotamia, and the Iranian plateau. Differing views?

I'm not sure it's semantics nittery. You're tossing around 'that area' in ways that makes me raise an eyebrow a bit. There are some very important religious, cultural and political differences between Iran and the rest of the countries typically said to be in the middle east.

This nittery is AIDS I say


We're all humans. **** nationalism, religion, race, ethnicity, **** it all.

I'm so glad that guy in the wheel chair lived. I ****ing guarantee you that he will run another marathon. So awesome he witnessed one of the guys.

Intrestingly, this photo was found by a Reddit user, not released by the FBI AFAIK