Dystopian Boston in April 2013 - too creepy to be Believed

George Orwell warned us that the common folk will surrender their Liberty to Big Brother, freedom by freedom, and quickly forget that those rights ever existed.  It does amaze me that Americans are prepared to wage war on a global scale, in order to impose their notions of "Freedom" on other nations  (exemplified by the Two-Party electoral system) but they willingly surrender even the most basic freedoms in their own backyard.  Witness the stunning spectacle of an entire city - Boston U.S.A., staying home, simply because Law Enforcement told them to stay home.  An entire city OBEDIENT to armed authority! And this was the city famed for resistance to the unlawful taxation of Colonial masters?  Boston looked like the set of a Hollywood S.F. movie - you know. those movies which discuss a totally "impossible" dystopian future.  Something like Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451,  a future in which citizen's regularly inform on each other...in the name of "Public Safety".  A movie in which we watch a manhunt coordinated by television, with all citizens participating in a vigilante style exercise of justice, hoping to be rewarded by the gratitude of their government.

In some creepy notion of "helping" the entire city of Boston was reduced to peeking out windows, volunteering all their recent cellphone photos and reporting the slightest "suspicious" movement in their neighbourhood to local, state and federal Law Enforcement.  In fact it was a "tip" and not the patrolling helicopters that led to the shootout between the Tsarnaev brothers and the Watertown Police.   Which will be the next metropolis to be shut down?  New York, Chicago... Los Angeles?


THE REAL CULPRIT IN BOSTON -   THE PEOPLE

It is truly amazing that in a city as diverse as Boston claims to be, and which prides itself as being 'ground zero' for advanced education (Harvard, MIT, etc)  everyone fell into lockstep in both hating and needing vengeance on the Tsarnaev Brothers.  It's as if all morality went out the window, and Bostonians were taking their cues about crime and justice from reading BATMAN comics.  "Harvard Law", indeed!  Not a single academic or news editor in Beantown was willing to raise the possibility that the smothering deployment of intrusive law enforcement in their city, was unwarranted and precedent setting.

Very late in life Ray Bradbury began to muse about his contributions to the ongoing discussion about America's future.  Dystopian America it will surely be, but Mr. Bradbury did not wish to place all of the blame on  oppressive government and thus let the public get away with its own contribution to the madness.  I totally agree.  Bad electoral choices are the fruit of a nation which is opinionated but cannot think.  You can look up what Bradbury had to say, but here is a taste:

Television did not die. It simply shrank to palm size and became a fashion accessory.  The current obsession with turning every subject, every issue, every school lesson, every exchange of information... into a visual experience,  is screwing with millions of "modern" heads.  Howard Fast summed up the danger more than fifty years ago:  "Without words, thought becomes a process of pictures, which is on the animal level and rules out all, even the most primitive, abstract concepts."  The reversion to animal-like response behavior we witnessed in Boston, will certainly spread to other American cities, and it will happen as soon as the next co-ordinated manhunt for "terrorists".   You just know that in dozens of American cities, patriotic posses are laying out their gear, waiting for Government to call "Mount up!"     

What is even creepier than "Black Helicopters" over Boston, is the American need to demonize the TSARNAEV  BROTHERS.  That  calls for a separate blog article.

Boston Bomber - was Tamerlan Tsarnaev executed or just 'finished off' ?

Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev executed or,  to use the euphemism, just 'finished off' in the heat of combat? 

Now of course law enforcement types will not accept the right for this question to even exist. They will bristle and take immediate offence.  Well, my best reply is - You started it.  Or  to be more exact, the Watertown Chief of Police Ed Deveau started it, in a rambling interview he gave to Wolf Blitzer on CNN.    Read edited portions of Chief Ed's long conversation, quoted in a CNN article   HERE.

Watch -  "Watertown police chief gives play-by-play account of Friday manhunt" on SALON  HERE   He said the two  Tsarnaev brothers engaged six of his officers with handguns (although they had a rifle of some sort in one of the escape vehicles).  The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, he says, ran out of bullets and was heroically tackled by Watertown officers, who proceeded to cuff him.

At some point, either before or after Tamerlan ran out of ammo, he heaved one of the pressure-cooker bombs at Watertown officers. Chief Deveau said the blast left a chunk of metal lodged in a nearby car. Several photos exist of the street pavement scarred by the bomb blast.  Somehow, in the melee, the younger brother escaped, and remained at large for the remainder of the day.

While the brother was on the run in Greater-Boston, someone leaked a photo of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's corpse to Internet news sites.  TMZ posted a 'heads up" at 10:32 AM Thursday. TMZ also confirmed the authenticity. Here is a photo-scrape from the TMZ website:

The photo, (top of page) as you will note, is grisly. I don't like looking at it, but you will notice it shows the body after processing by a hospital team. There are scalpel strokes on the chest and a large section of tissue has been removed for examination. You will also note that he is riddled with bullet holes. The media rushed to the hospital AFTER the photo appeared online and demanded answers. The hospital insists that no staff member took the photo, implying that someone in law enforcement took the photo and leaked it.  I don't really care who leaked it, but I took notice of what the examining physician had to say. There were so many  bullet entrance wound that he didn't bother to count them.

What? But Chief Ed Deveau told CNN that his boys tackled Tamerlan and put him in custody. How did he end up so very, very dead?  Did they tackle a corpse?

I wouldn't have cared enough to comment until the bullshit got deeper.  Last night the media started peddling  Law Enforcement disinformation that Tamerlan's own brother had killed him !  The story was  that he ran over him with a car, in making good his escape.  Does that mean that some trophy hunter cut the tire tread mark off Tamerlan's chest?  Of course not.  But it does indicate that Chief Ed Deveau's six heroes have collaborated on a story to explain how the younger brother got away alive.  Here is a sample of the kind of story such police disinformation generates.

Here's another example, a story from Agence France Presse, A.F.P.

And yet another example:

I hasten to insist, that I am not advocating for these two criminals.  But I do want to know the truth of what happened. Even a cursory inspection of the photograph of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body shows bullet holes which suggest he was shot from all points of the compass.  Sorry folk's, but if this guy was tackled and cuffed by Watertown cops, the leaked photo indicates he was finished off where he lay.  Perhaps that's gun shot residue - powder burns hacked off the side of his chest, close to where his heart once beat.

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Boston Bombers were Brothers - Blah, Blah, Blah

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Drudge  8AM -  he leads with a shot of police infantry posing for a picture in Boston.  It's going to be another one of those days in the news biz.   The tongue twisting alliterative headlines are lengthening.  Can you say "Brothers who carried bombs in black  backpacks in Boston"?   It's getting rather ludicrous.   "Black hat man dead .... Bragged of Bombing".

As Drudge would write... "Developing"

Ah yes, a  "BRIC"  Bulletin:
 

"Boston bombing suspect was...a Muslim Boxer".  Well of course he was.  You just can't make this stuff up.  His brother, the baby faced bomber, was a wrestler. But that's not alliterative. 

Boston Business Disrupted, the Braintrust on Edge

My favorite snippet of B - Blah, Blah, Blah today, was published in The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper.

"Bucolic Cambridge, an iconic braintrust that includes Harvard University..."  Nice!

Easter Egg Hunt

The Chechnyan-American brothers seem to have proven their American bonifides by doing what every other American youth does these days... record their day to  day activities in digital images.  In so doing, these rascals prepared themselves well for that popular media game - the EASTER EGG HUNT - a ritual search for pictures which follows every 5 STAR criminal event in the U.S.

This is the older brother, the "Muslim Boxer" who was gunned down earlier this morning. He was hit by multiple rounds fired from different directions. A photo of his thoroughly "ventilated" corpse is on the NET, if you have a taste for crime-porn.  I don't.  What's amazing is that police had the two brothers pinned down in a Boston suburb, engaged them in a sustained firefight, and then the 19 year old  managed to slip the dragnet, for another 12 or more hours!  Incredible.  If the militant young boobs had spent some cash and set up  a couple of safe houses, they'd be sitting back and watching the chaos on CNN. The entire city of Boston was shut done for the day.  The next such national "event" is going to be amazing. 

This is the younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an image scraped from his Twitter account. [The family name is pronounced Joe-HARR tsar-NAH-yev]. I see that the Drudge Report has now (1PM), also labelled him the "Baby Faced Bomber". Satiric minds share commonalities.  Drudge though, won't be the journalist to dissect the performance of the virtual army of law enforcement and military personnel it took to catch this young man.  The media keep repeating the dubious figure,  that "9,000" officers were involved.  Nonsense.

TRAINING FOR INSURRECTION DAY

What is really interesting is that today's admitted deployment number is equivalent to two U.S. Army Regiments, with SWAT teams flown in from as far away as Maine and Ohio.   All that for two homegrown terrorists with no assets.  When a coordinated, well funded terrorist attack or the  long-threatened incidents of insurrection finally happen, of the size and scope that the politicians keep insisting must happen, the U.S. Federal Government will have to deploy soldiers and paramilitary police contingents equivalent to several U.S. Army Divisions to contain it.  Then the "War on Terrorism" will truly have come home, and Canada must generously open its arms to American refugee families.  Boston was as much a dress rehearsal for suppressing insurrection, and the testing of new control methodologies on the public, as it was about catching a couple of bad actors.   ... At least the American media gave North Korea a rest for a week. Small mercies, eh?

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That Marathon Massacre - Hey kids! Can you say "Bomb in black backpack in Boston"

Another "massacre" in Boston.   There's a hubbub in the street outside, I hear the bells tolling... I dash into the TV room and turn on the box... adjust the rabbit ears just a bit to the right.   Ah yes,  there it is.  That's nasty! 

DAILY NEWS - "MASSACRE". Tabloid photo montage.
Much gorier than the broadsheet published by Paul Revere.

Modern journalism.  Ah, yes. It's all about feeding the fetishes, telling the masses how to feel and think, and maintaining "Freedom" and the political status quo - that poisonous but perfected two-party system they call "De-moc-ra-cy".

And so to parody the reportage of that other "Boston massacre"...  you know, the one in 1770 that played out five years before those same propagandists kick-started the American Revolution:  

"The unhappy Sufferers were Martin Richard, Krystie Campbell and Lingzi  Lu Killed.  173   were wounded.  Some  of them mortally."  Engrav'd Printed and Sold by Paul Revere, BOSTON

                                         

A "PRESSURE COOKER"  bomb?  Damn, this terrorist understands metaphor. He's a maniac with a wit.   A pressure cooker. That defines the state of American politics at the moment.  Half of the country is gloating and the other half seething.  Hatreds generated by political partisanship are   driving Americans crazy.   They didn't wait to learn if the latest heinous crime is of foreign or domestic manufacture.  Fists came out of pockets and fingers pointed in all directions.  I think they're going to pop.

Don't believe me?  Look at this little travesty David Sirota posted on SALON this morning:

SOFT TARGET?                                          

I almost choked on my morning toast yesterday, when I heard the Boston Police Commissioner describe the Marathon as a "Soft Target".  What a sick joke!   Watch the blast video for yourself and see how many  armed policemen were patrolling the corridor where the two bombs were planted and detonated near the finish line.  There were even techies on scene wearing "HAZMAT" vests.   They pop into frame within minutes. In fact Boston, like all American cities post - 9/11, is heavily militarized and the halcyon days of concertina wire, baton charges and handcuffs are over.  The supercops of today and tomorrow will not be taking many prisoners.  Here, Blog space being limited,  are just a few samples of what the photo-journalists saw in Boston yesterday:

Boston Fire Department "Medics"

Two Boston Police SWAT armoured vehicles

This one's a pip.  FBI infantry.  

INVESTIGATION TECHNIQUE?

We know that the FBI profilers will get their "man".  You can't scratch your balls in Boston without some 7/11  CCTV lens recording your indiscretion. But this morning's news tells us that the Yanks learned some of their best moves from the...Gulp!.... Canadians:

Sure.  Rat us out as collaborators in the great Orwellian Project known as "HOPE"  and "CHANGE".

Call me a sentimental fool but I preferred America when  Sheriff Andy Mayberry was still on the television set and when the FBI agents wore tasteful suits with nice shoes. Now they don't attend a crime scene, they deploy to suppress and neutralize.  It's getting really crazy down there in those dis-United States!   Some corner druggist needs to tell the American President that strychnine is no antidote to arsenic.
THE PRESIDENT IS AUTHORIZED...

UPDATE April 18-   "SOFT TARGET" in Boston?  Bull.

Here is a bulletin on Pressure Cookers as a bomb component, making the rounds today on the Internet. The document indicates that pressure cookers were put on the watch lists at least two years ago, and which means that all models, foreign and domestic are taggant indexed.  Of course the bad guys probably picked up used items at their neighborhood Good Will store.

The F.B.I. just released photos of their pick of two faces they like for the Boston bombing. Not a lone "nut" after all. Two nuts, yes, but not very damning photos.  You can't tell yet if these guys are Caucasian, Light skinned Blacks, Latinos,  Arabic, or just sun tanned.  And finally a teensy crumb of truth... a ranking police official, in interview on a CNN panel, admitted that police presence at the Boston Marathon was so heavy on the day of the bombing that the bombers were probably prevented from placing the devices where they preferred.   So much for the Boston Commissioners burble about a "SOFT TARGET". 

Maria Santos Gorrostetia Salazar - Mexican hero butchered by Demons from HELL

Shock, horror, revulsion.  These are just words I know, but they were my feelings when, on Sunday, I learned that my cherished Mexican Hero - Maria Salazar, had been executed by a Narco hit-squad and her body dumped in a field. Think of it... To contribute so much of yourself, to give all of your energy and spirit to your people, only to end up as an abandoned corpse in a grainy Youtube video! It is the ultimate indignity.

It's a rotten feeling to be left alone with your thoughts after learning such news. Quite frankly I would enjoy the assignment of joining a posse to lynch the perpetrators of this fiendish crime. I am a peaceful man but I've never flinched from touching shit, if shit had to be cleaned up.  Shakespeare would describe them as "the legions of horrid hell," for in MACBETH one murder begat two, and suddenly the devil has fostered massacre upon massacre, until all of the major characters have learned that their wives and children have been slaughtered. The only medicine for it is "our great revenge".  I believe that the demons who murdered this wonderful woman are human filth, and Mexico has become a cesspool of evil that sorely needs cleansing. The scant solace we might take from this murder, is that her killers will ultimately be butchered by their own kind, because narcotics traffickers ultimately turn on each other.

I have written about Maria in an earlier Blog article.  Having just passed our national Remembrance Day, I am mindful that I come from a country which contributed to Victory in two World Wars - a nation from which soldiers wounded in battle received their return-ticket, back to the safety of Canada's shores. Such men had earned the right to stand down. And what of Maria? She was ambushed and very, very grievously wounded.  Skilled medical professionals saved her from certain death.  What did she do?  She suffered through therapy, got her strength back, and returned to her duties -  courageously working to provide a little security and progress to the people of her community.  Ultimately she stepped down from office, but that did not satisfy the demons of the drug trade.  Like Mao Tse Tung, who couldn't enjoy his bloody victory in 1949, but just had to corner and crush every "class enemy" in China no matter how defenceless, the  Narco-thugs of Mexico cannot rest until they have eliminated every decent person who has spoken out against them.  Why then does the United States media ignore this War on the border?  Why did the Obama government not extend a hand and offer this gallant woman a measure of protection?  The White House crows its electoral victory... it scooped up millions of Latino votes with scarcely an effort.  Mr. Obama, don't repay that massive electoral support in token food stamps and and forgivable federal loans. Help Mexicans still at home, living under constant threat from the Drug menace.  Choose to save the lives of innocent Latinas like Maria Salazar. Be a man, not a lawyer.

I realize that Obama's psychological profile doesn't position him in opposition to drug use, but at least he's a husband and a father, so he should accept our common stake in protecting women and children.  He values his "Michelle." Good for him. Well I valued Maria Salazar, and I could give a god-damn about America's political interests in the Middle East.    Maria was a casualty of a new flavour of genocide - the destruction of a free people by Narco-terrorists who seize territory and operate on a military scale. Mexico's war is a North American war and of far greater significance to those of us who share this continent, than the evils of distant continents. My sneaking suspicion is that because the Yanquis are incapable of suppressing illegal immigration from the South,  that many of them take secret pleasure in watching the Mexicans rip each others guts out.  What else could possibly explain the lack of will to unite American combat forces with Mexican troops, and quickly eradicate the drug enclaves?  

This is what the Demons did to her a few years ago, and what they did to Maria Salazar on Saturday.  Remember it.  And below is how she looked in death. A good woman dumped like a piece of garbage. 

And lest the judgemental among you decide that I am some sort of "Christian crank" spouting off about "demons, I hasten to add that I have no religious convictions whatever.  But what I do believe in, is the presence of evil in this world.  Their are criminal offenders, and their are hardened outlaws, and there are certainly DEMONS.  These are the monsters who will cut off a dozen heads and arrange them for a photograph... men who would hang a dozen people from a city overpass... men who would saunter into hospitals and execute patients... men who machine-gun coffee bars ... these are DEMONS.  You don't  arrest Demons. You don't offer them one last cigarette. You take them to the gutter and you bleed them out.  

This photograph shows Maria Salazar working to make her community a little bit safer... here handing out gear to a volunteer policeman.   

It should not be left unsaid that the President of Mexico and the Mexican General staff did make an attempt to protect Maria's small town.  An Army base was built and a garrison established. It was not enough to save Maria, but it is a start.  (Go to Youtube to see the Presidential ceremony)

And below I offer a graphic which attests to the fact that there are other WOMEN WARRIORS in Mexico. They are unnoticed by the New York media, or the Toronto media establishment for that matter, but they exist nonetheless.  (I scraped this graphic from the Internet about two years ago, and I regret not crediting the source. My apologies to the graphic artist.)

A MURDER TOTALLY IGNORED BY NORTH AMERICAN MEDIA - she was abducted Nov 14, her body found Nov. 15, and identified Nov. 16.  I just did a Google News search (English only) and this is what I find. Nine stories.  What an indictment of criminal neglect.  Oh please tell me what Michelle Obama is wearing today!!   Fracking morons of the media establishment!

What this world needs are more heroes and heroines and far fewer celebrities.  

Breivik Report Released - July 22 Commission is brutal in its treatment of Norwegian Security Apparatus

The Norwegian Prime Minister released the Report of the  22 July Commission today - in Norwegian of course.  Within minutes electronic editions of newspapers worldwide were displaying the same wire story written by  Bjoern H. Amland of the Associated Press, whom we must assume reads Norwegian and read the entire 500 page report. Among Canadian newspapers which ran the story, the TORONTO SUN headline was very typical - "Norway massacre could have been prevented, says commission".  The New York Times was,  as usual, very careful. The full report hasn't been published yet in English translation, so the paper chose to avoid claiming what the English version will contain. Instead the NYT ran a report on the Commission's press conference, but with the same basic headline as everyone else  "Norway Panel on Massacre Funds Litany of Government Failures".  What is available, for those who bother to look,  is a 26 page summary of the Commissions findings, translated to English.  You can download it here - SUMMARY.
The primary conclusions of the Commission: "The attack on the Government Complex on 22 July could have been prevented through effective implementation of already adopted security measures." More important, and this is something the Americans fail to understand - "The Commission realizes, among other things, that the democratic costs related to systems intended to eliminate every risk of terrorist attacks are too high. We have to live with a certain level of risk."

Only our local rag, the Vancouver SUN, chose to monkey with the AP story and attach a ludicrous headline -  "Norwegian commission criticizes police response to far-right fanatic's bomb and gun massacre".

As usual THE SUN simply cannot pass on any opportunity to turn up the volume on examples of "far-right"or  "extreme right" political violence, even if their sloppy headline hijacks another journalists story. If the SUN had even bothered to read the Summary of the 22  July Commissions Report (as NYT staff must have) they would have realized that the commission panel in Oslo  did not trouble itself with the motives of Anders Behring Breivik.  Page 9 - "We have foregone issues related to the perpetrators motive, childhood and state of health, and we have not explored the measures society puts in place for the early prevention of radicalisation."  (Thankfully the panel also disdained reference to the meaningless "Left-Right political spectrum" - something which Canadian journalism is incapable of doing.)   Fanatical Mr. Breivik certainly is, but his modus was not that of some beer swilling, racist skinhead of the "Far Right".  He did not target immigrants, but rather the ruling party of his country who initiated and administered Norway's immigration program. That is why his crimes are so remarkable and worthy of analysis.  Breivik chose to attack the apparatus of Norwegian State Power at its vulnerable core - the private island camp where Party Youth frolic and plan for future electoral victories.  Breivik's was the most significant terrorist attack in the Western democracies since 9/11 in New York because it spread terror among the ruling elite, as much as it did the general population. For that reason it will likely be the template for militant attacks in Western Europe all through this century.

I happen to live in the murder capital of Canada - In Vancouver we hold the record for every category of murder for which records are kept, with the exception of murders within the health care system. The gruesome list begins with terrorist murders - the AIR INDIA Flight 182 Bombing,  the serial killing of women, the serial killing of children, the serial murder of drug dealers, and on down to lesser known sprees, like the demon barber case (killing of native women by forced drinking of alcohol).  All murder involves hate of one form or another, and yet the SUN is extremely selective when it pins "hate crime" labels on its political targets.  The worst example are of course the Sikh butchers who blew an Air India Boeing jumbo jet out of the sky.  Racist the Sikh murderers certainly were.  Political they certainly were.  Fanatical they certainly were.  Untouchable they certainly were ... and still are, because they got away with it.    Were the Vancouver Sikh terrorists  "Far Right"  or "Far Left"?   Or is their hatred more racial than political?  Perhaps their hatred is religious inspired and their politics cynical?  Where should we turn for the answers?  In a multicultural Vancouver such discussions do not take place because they are taboo. Who constantly reminds us of what is taboo? The media.

Political Theatre - ridiculous posing with firearm's is common within the para-military subculture, but Breivik took it up a notch by wearing fanciful insignia like this "Marxist Hunter" shoulder flash.

Keeping Obama (and Mitt Romney) out of the Kill Zone

Pity poor America.  All over the nation brooding men (and a few women) are pondering their limited options and a few will decide to do the unthinkable... commit mass murder. The most dangerous of them have been trained by the United States military and need but a few readily available tools to wreak havoc. Some covet the brass ring of notoriety and others just want to die with an Olympic sized audience watching.  

The recent mass killing in Aurora, Colorado earned a large audience share because it tapped into existing and successful corporate advertising campaigns (owned by Warner Brothers, D.C. Comics, etc).  But I find the fallout from last's weeks Sikh temple shooting a tad more interesting, because while the White House did its damage control with the Indian government (some of the victims were Indian nationals) the Obama re-election campaign did not send their man to Wisconsin, as they did following the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado.  Undoubtedly the U.S. Secret Service would not allow it, because a troubling pattern has emerged in American politics -  office holders rush  to crime scenes. They do it because that's where the  cameras are, and it is where large blocks of votes may be scooped up.  The bad guys know this, and they may well set a trap for a candidate and his security detail.  There will be further mass shootings in the U.S. before the November 2012 election, and it is entirely possible that one of them will be bait for a later more deadly ambush. During this federal campaign season, President Obama and GOP Candidate Mitt Romney must be kept out of the Kill Zone no matter how much their campaigns hunger to exploit human grief or respond to media baiting. 

"Your rifle is only a tool.  It is a hard heart that kills.  If your killer instincts are not clean and strong you will hesitate at the moment of truth." - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman FULL METAL JACKET, 1987

It should never be forgotten that among the worst cases of murder in the U.S. are those which are politically motivated, and too frequently the crimes are pulled off by men who got their training in the military. The military is also the source of the only systematic indoctrination these men have ever undergone.  

Much is made of, as it should be, Lee Harvey Oswald's  service in the U.S. Marines.  The USMC gave him small arms training, but more, it gave him the confidence that he could go up against a Presidential security detail, kill a president, and walk away from the scene.

John Allen Williams (AKA John Muhammad)  also received his small arms training in the U.S. military.  Sometimes known as the "Beltway Sniper" he came up with an innovation which the FBI call the "rolling sniper's nest", a car trunk modified with apertures for use as a shooter's blind.  It is far more adaptable than Oswald's single elevated position along a motorcade route.

Even more dangerous potential bushwhackers are ex-servicemen like Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber.  Such men prefer explosives and in their delusional reality think infamy is an honour.  (In his arrest photo Mr. McVeigh chose to use his trigger finger to give his government "the finger".) One could easily imagine a scenario in which another McVeigh type prepositioned a bomb near a target (say a mosque or temple), have an accomplice commit an atrocity, and then patiently wait for the real target to show up.

President Obama could only go to Aurora for a photo-op because his security people were certain that James Holmes (aka The Joker) was a loner.  In the case of the the shooting of Sikhs in Wisconsin,  Wade Michael Page (who also received his weapons training and indoctrination in the U.S. Army) was part of a network of of ex-military personnel and of an angry subculture.  The S.S. could not be certain that his crime was not bait for a an attempt on the President... and are still not certain. So Obama stays away.   Prudence would dictate that both Obama and Romney stay away from all crime scenes until after the election is concluded.

This press release just went out - and it announces that the upcoming DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION has been declared a "National Special Security Event".   ie. this a blank cheque event as far the security aspects are concerned.  What the authorities most fear is not foreign terrorists making a rush on the convention, but rather an American ex-serviceman (or a group) who might be convinced that they could pull off an Anders Behring Breivik type raid.  Breivik is the fellow in Norway who set off bombs in the capital city to draw the attention of the security forces, and then proceeded to hit his primary target - the summer training facility of the political party that rules his country.  North Carolina is teeming with heavily armed ex-military types, some possibly annoyed with their world, and more than a few who match the description of previous offenders. N.C. is  probably a good state to stay away from,  all of next month.

Romney and Ryan now receive a level of close-in protection that can only be described as the "smother treatment"and I strongly doubt anyone in the crowd can lay a finger on any of the candidates during the 2012 Campaign.  (Romney for example, has stood virtually nipple to nipple with Secret Secret agents on several occasions this summer.) The danger will come from attackers who don't need to eyeball their target.