Greenwald: Why is Boston 'terrorism' but not Aurora, Sandy Hook, Tucson and Columbine?

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75. What men?

people who only spend time on DU or at the Mainstream Media stations, they know for certain that it was the two Tsarneav brothers.

Those of us who spend our among multiple sources of information including Sibel Edmond most excellent web blog know this:

One) There was a backpack implicated in the explosion, due to the fact that said backpack was found at the scene of the bombing. It was blown up but still had identifying marks.

That backpack is dark grey or black in color, and quite importantly, it has a small white square on it.
Two) There are at least four people with such a backpack near the scene of the explosion. Three of these people are later on seen joining a group of people identified as being part of the bombing drill squadron. One of those three no longer has his backpack. (We know there was a bombing drill that day because the Boston Globe tweeted the fact, announcing that there would be an explosion!)

The fourth person is the young nineteen year old brother. He is seen in footage before the explosion with his backpack. It has no white square, so it is not the backpack that ends up gong off as part of the explosion.

As some of the thinking people I hang out with have explained - if there was indeed a drill, and that fact was also mentioned by a track coach who attended the Marathon and spoke with a TV channel 15 out of Mobile, Alabama,
then we don't know what the nineteen year old's involvement was. Perhaps he ad been approached by the FBI and asked to participate. How hard would it be for them to explain they needed some participants at the drill to carry in items tainted with explosives residue, to test the capacity of bomb sniffing dogs to perform in the high crowd capacity setting of the Marathon? This kid was rather a nice person, and he was possibly simply helping out. His mother has told the press that her kids were under the influence of the FBI.

Oh I know, a good decent American citizen can explain to me that our government would never ever hurt any innocent person. Except for all those times we have hurt innocent people. Including Aaron Swartz. (Interesting that it was DOJ in Boston that harassed him so much!) And then going back a little bit further in our history: some one million civilians killed in Iraq, the last big event resulting in us patriotic Americans getting all fire up and wanting to see someone creamed for the injury done to us on Nine Eleven.