Best one is the guy in the video literally at ground zero and running away with only torn pants.
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Where is the cowboy hatted guy/grey shirt. He was at the first site post bomb- just standing there looking off like waiting for his cue. Then Front page news photo with the wheelchair guy and bloodied stumps- yet he did not have any blood on him. Also notice how all 3guys were on one side of the wheelchair so as not to block the shot.
Boston marathon runner Alastair Stevenson says that before the explosions erupted at the Boston Marathon this morning, he was told by police over the loud speaker that bomb squads and bomb sniffing dogs were part of a ‘training exercise’.
the bag does not look like it went through a blast at all. I doubt it would look that clean either. the shots from the front isn't clear enough to say he has no bag, you can see how it slopes down in the bpics from the back. the shot of the man in the store alcove does have a bag which is contradictoy to the implication. there are plenty of other people with the same size bags. How long can someone watch a race without getting bored and look somewhere else. this is after two hours later.
ronald dahl
whosoever did it ,this is unpardonable. Killing innocent people is by no means a redressal of injustice elsewhere. In my opinion people who do such things are psychopaths/cowards and need to be elimaneted
I guess you are also outraged that the US is creating terror and murdering innocent civilians by drone. Woman and children among the dead. Do you feel that the government forces who implement the drone strikes are psychopaths and cowards? I do.
The human suffering in British Occupied Ireland, by elderly political internees like Marian Price and Martin Corey, is markedly similar to the political internment, introduced forty years ago by the British, which escalated from crisis to disaster, culminating in the deaths of 10 Irish hunger strikers.
Over the past two years, the nefarious work of the Tory Government, in conjunction with their secret services with gestapo like powers, have dismantled the Irish Peace Process into No Due Process, without any legal redress to British injustice in Ireland. This is a simple, provable, glaringly obvious truth, yet, the thought-control mainstream media, manage to somehow turn reality on its head, and make a virtue out of something vile and unspeakably villainous, as fascist political internment without trial, creating the injustices and conditions for endless British war again.
Protest on the street is illegal, with protesters charged for daring to highlight the matter, with another Hunger Strike, appearing to be the only recourse, to peacefully protest this obvious British injustice. Marian Price who already was on hunger strike for 200 days, is extremely ill as a result of force feeding, is now close to 60 and Peter Corey is an old age pensioner, so death is far more likely, rather than justice once again, from the heartless barbarity of British Occupied Ireland.
British imperialism has created a human tsunami of suffering all over the world, with Ireland being its first colony. The simple facts are, that Britain has started 28,000 barbaric and genocidal wars, invading and occupying their colonies worldwide.The British have murdered more than 100 million innocent people worldwide in their colonies, and in Ireland alone, they have disappeared more than 7 million people. Unlike Germany making amends after Hitler, or making any effort to mitigate this suffering, they continue to exploit the massive misery they create, for political advantage, in their neo-colonial Commonwealth. Wherever they have been, be it India, Pakistan, the middle-east, etc., they have left a legacy of division and exploitation. Their tactic of making an example of enforced human suffering, to cow the natives, continues with Marian Price and Martin Corey, straight out of their centuries old invasions of British armies laying siege to cities, with enforced starvation, then hanging numerous locals from high scaffolds, as an example, to strike fear into the natives. The facts are, they cannot make charges in open court against either Marian or Martin, because there simply is no evidence of wrong doing. Their real agenda being, to make an example of what happens to anyone in Ireland, who dares challenge British occupation or injustice.The British have always been the invading terrorists, not those who bravely resist their invasions and occupation. The Marian Price report below testifies to the above conclusion.
Rights Watch (UK) (Formerly British Irish Rights Watch) Mission: Promoting human rights and holding governments to account, drawing upon the lessons learned from the conflict in Northern Ireland. Expertise and Achievements: Since 1990 we have provided support and services to anyone whose human rights were violated as a result of conflict. Our interventions have reflected our range of expertise, from the right to a fair trial to the government’s positive obligation to protect life. We have a long record of working closely with NGOs and government authorities to share that expertise. And we have received wide recognition, as the first winner of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Prize in 2009 alongside other honours. Post (9): 25 03 13: The Continued Imprisonment of Marian Price Easter 2013 marks two years since the imprisonment in Northern Ireland of former IRA hunger striker, Marian Price. Her situation remains controversial. Introduction: Continued concerns regarding the trial and imprisonment of Marian Price It will be two years since Marian Price was returned to prison in Northern Ireland following a political rally on Easter Day 2011. Her position in the criminal justice process and her position in the prison system raise concerns which, on this anniversary, we address below Marian Price and the Criminal Justice System Marian Price was released from prison on licence following the grant of a Royal Prerogative of Mercy in 1980. She was released on compassionate grounds due to ill health in part exacerbated through being force fed in prison and then contracting tuberculosis and anorexia. Following a political rally in Derry/Londonderry on Easter Day 2011 held in support of the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, a dissident republican political organisation, Marian Price was arrested in relation to activities in support of the Real IRA, a proscribed organisation and later in relation to the shooting of two British soldiers at the Masserene Barracks in 2009. These charges were later dropped against her. She still faces prosecution a serious terrorists offences but at this point her criminal trial cannot proceed because Marian Price is unfit to stand trial. Following Marian Price’s arrest the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland determined that the licence on which she was originally released from prison in Northern Ireland should be revoked meaning that she could be sent back to prison on the basis that she had breached the terms of the licence that had followed the grant of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy. In this circumstance the imprisonment of Marian Price becomes a matter for the Northern Ireland Parole Board because, even after this prolonged period of time Marian Price remained on licence and in the same position as many other prisoners released on licence. She is not subject to the same terms of the agreement applying to prisoners released following the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. Her criminal trial, which has been challenged on the basis that Marian Price has no case to answer, has been set back because of her fitness to participate due to her deteriorating health condition. A further factor maybe the evidence held by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland allegedly implicating her in terrorist activities. This secret evidence against her is subject to a special form of testing within the criminal justice system and may not be accessible to the defence lawyers representing her. In addition, when her case does come to trial, it will be heard by a judge sitting without a jury because of the provisions applicable in Northern Ireland to terrorist related offences. These latter two points are of concern when the fair trails rights of the accused are at stake. Marian Price and the Conditions of her Imprisonment When she first appeared before the criminal court Marian Price was granted bail. She was immediately returned to prison on the decision of the Secretary of the State because she was subject to a licence. She was further bailed by a criminal court following the death of her sister earlier this year. She remained subject to remand pending trial because of the existence of the licence and the powers of the Secretary of State who has responsibility for those prisoners on licence in Northern Ireland. Two aspects of this situation are problematic:. First, the terms of the licence maybe known and would usually mean return to prison to complete the original sentence if a further criminal act is committed. However, the licence applying to Marian Price was drafted following the grant of the Royal Prerogative of Mercy the terms of which are not known because that document has been lost. Papers made available from the Cabinet Office and held at the National Archives and the reports of the parliamentary journal of record, Hansard, reveal that Marian Price was released on compassionate grounds. However, the exact terms of her conditional release are not known and therefore the Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland who now have power in relation to her application for release pending trial have to make decision in the absence of the original evidential documents. Second, the Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland have themselves stated that they are not independent from the government in that they appointed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and can be dismissed by him. They are therefore part of the executive arm of the state and not the judicial arm of the state. Further, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland partially devolved criminal justice powers to the Northern Ireland following the Hillsborough Agreement 2010. The Northern Ireland Assembly through its power sharing executive has appointed a Minister for Justice who has discretionary powers available to him to release prisoners on compassionate grounds if he is satisfied that exceptional circumstances exist. Marian Price within the Northern Ireland prison estate: Marian Price was originally detained in an all-male prison because there was no facility available in Northern Ireland to house a separated female prisoner, under the terms agreed between the government and the dissident republican movement and the dissident Loyalist movement. She was later moved to a mixed prison facility but was again subject to isolation through her own choosing as she refuses to be classified as a remand prisoner or as an Ordinary Decent Criminal (ODC) in Northern Ireland prison service terms. Her mental and physical health have declined steadily, exacerbated by her malignant tuberculosis contracted during her previous period of imprisonment when she was subjected to a prolonged regime of force feeding as she undertook a hunger strike in support of her claim to be imprisoned in a facility in Northern Ireland. Last year she moved into a civilian hospital where she remains. The conditions of her detention in a civilian hospital are not satisfactory. Her health care is subject to a prison regime for which there is s no protocol in place within either the Northern Ireland Prison Service or the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Inspectorate. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has recently commented that health care came be a form of torture in certain cases.1 Conclusion: RW(UK) call for the release of Marian Price on compassionate grounds See http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44286 and http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/ Pages/CarerBecomesATorturer.aspx 1 If there is evidence against Marian Price for a terrorist related offence it has yet to be presented by the state to its judiciary. Marian Price has once against become a symbol in Northern Ireland of its troublesome and violent past from which the many wish to move on from. She is once again becoming a possible martyr and it was always politically naïve of the British state to think that this would not be so. Her name is writ large on walls in Belfast and in the Derry/Londonderry. She symbolises the past but is very much in the present. Civil society has protested against the grounds for the imprisonment of Marian Price, the conditions of her imprisonment and the reliance by the British state on secret evidence and closed judicial proceedings. Representations have been made to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, the Minister for Justice for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Inspectorate in addition to the Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland. Marian Price has been visited by NGOs from Northern Ireland including from Rights Watch (UK), the Committee on the Administration of Justice and the Pat Finucane Centre. Representations have also been made to the European Committee on the Prevention of Torture, the International Committee of the Rd Cross and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, whose doctors were critical of her care in prison which facilitated her transfer to a civilian hospital. NGOs are not permitted to observe the proceedings of the Parole Commissioners. A further legal device would be to apply for a writ of habeas corpus. If Marian Price is to be released on compassionate grounds by the Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland it should be without delay; the Minister of Justice for Northern Ireland could exercise his discretionary powers to have her released because of the exceptional circumstances of the case. Finally, the Northern Ireland Court Service could accommodate her trial in hospital if she is fit to take part in the proceedings. In 2011 dissident republican Brendan Lillis was released by the Parole Commissioners for Northern Ireland because he was found to be too unfit to stand trial. 2 We continue to press for the release of Marian Price and she be afforded the right to a fair trial and not treated as a political pawn in a state of execptionalism. Christopher Stanley is Legal Officer with Rights Watch(UK)
British Irish Rights Watch
British Irish RIGHTS WATCH (BIRW) is an independent non-governmental organisation that has been monitoring the human rights dimension of the conflict, and the peace process, in Northern Ireland since 1990. Our vision is of a Northern Ireland in which respect for human rights is integral to all its institutions and experienced by all who live there. Our mission is to secure respect for human rights in Northern Ireland and to disseminate the human rights lessons learned from the Northern Ireland conflict in order to promote peace, reconciliation and the prevention of conflict. BIRW’s services are available, free of charge, to anyone whose human rights have been violated because of the conflict, regardless of religious, political or community affiliations. BIRW take no position on the eventual constitutional outcome of the conflict.
John Pilger is I believe, one of the few remaining ethical mainstream journalists, who reports accurately and truthfully. The elite currently own the Mainstream Stream Media, the Government and the Banking system. The proletarian 99% of "1984"continue to require but bread and circus. It seems like, it is probably all they will ever want while watching TV. The ruling elite or establishment worldwide know this, they have always known this. Perhaps if we ourselves alone, remained with our inherited greed, in a shortsighted unintelligent way and we owned the mainstream media, things would remain same. For John Pilger and those of us who recognize an alternative intelligent form of greed and are aware of the Spirituality of Abundace, rather than our current religions of Austerity, things would be quite different, in reclaiming our natural freedoms and birthright. However the fact is we do not!. If our voices are ever heard on the mainstream media, they will be edited in such a way, as to be used against us. Should any individual among us become a real threat, we will be eliminated, liquidated, call it what you may. It is happening in British Occupied Ireland with journalists, human rights lawyers and political activists. This is the truth in the world we live in. I wish I was wrong but I can wish on one hand and shit in the other but guess which will be full ? John Pilger is a truth teller, we can all be truth tellers with some sort of audience, just for a little while more. We have choices but the sum total of historical experience demonstrates, we really have but one choice. Violence, eventually always produces a reactionary unending violence, as 800 years of British Occupation in Ireland and the reactionary struggle for liberation has clearly demonstrated, with heart breaking consequence. The only alternative tool that I believe can free us is the truth or as the infuriating good book says, "The truth will set you free." Gandhi got a lot of inspiration from the Irish struggle but his doctrine of non-violence prevailed, as it appears Aung San Suu Kyi is in Myanmar. I personally listen and talk regularly to the Big Spirit, no not the Christian religion of my childhood, but I have recalling recently, that the only time the son of the Carpenter, really lost his cool and became violent, was with the money changers in the temple! Right now my principal political concern is Marian Price and the reintroduction of internment without trial in Ireland, where traditional Irish republicans, like Martin Corey are being politically interned without trial. This truly is significant in Ireland's current political climate of creeping fascism under British occupation and in general. Marian Price an Irish resistance icon, is the demonized Tory version of the enemy of their scum state, political laboratory, probing for a reactionary violence, instead of its less reliable false flag operations, to manage the crisis of capitalism and inevitable Ponzi collapse. Those passives of fear and indifference, who enabled the rise of Hitler, are again facilitating the creeping corporate fascism in Ireland and beyond, standing shoulder to shoulder, alongside the reactionary violence of the jackboot fascists in all their forms. We either become agents of truth and organize or we lead our children, into creating a global Nazi police state regime of eugenics. The Spirituality of Abundance basically states there is more than enough in this world for everyone's desires, managed intelligently, while the old religions of Austerity, lead to fascist eugenics, which believe that the world is currently over populated. There are currently very powerful people of the elite, who have plans to eliminate several billion. One does not have to be particularly bright, to see the choices each of us have, and the immediate actions of responsibility that we each need to take, before we loose the internet as a tool of the truth. Whether it be a false flag operation in Boston or wherever, we are running out of time in Ireland, for the truth tellers and truth seekers such as John Pilger with the truths that will set us free!
Boston bomb squad was running "controlled explosion" on the same day
What's not yet being reported by the mainstream media is that a "controlled explosion" was under way on the same day as the marathon explosion.
As the Boston Globe tweeted today, "Officials: There will be a controlled explosion opposite the library within one minute as part of bomb squad activities."
UM Coach: Bomb Sniffing Dogs, Spotters on Roofs Before Explosions
University of Mobile’s Cross Country Coach, who was near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when a series of explosions went off, said he thought it was odd there were bomb sniffing dogs at the start and finish lines.
"They kept making announcements to the participants do not worry, it's just a training exercise," Coach Ali Stevenson told Local 15.
Stevenson said he saw law enforcement spotters on the roofs at the start of the race. He's been in plenty of marathons in Chicago, D.C., Chicago, London and other major metropolitan areas but has never seen that level of security before.
"Evidently, I don't believe they were just having a training exercise," Stevenson said. "I think they must have had some sort of threat or suspicion called in." Stevenson had just finished the marathon before the explosions. Stevenson said his wife had been sitting in one of the seating sections where an explosion went off, but thankfully she left her seat and was walking to meet up with him.
"We are just so thankful right now," Stevenson said.
8:50 p.m. Boston: — LIVE PRESS CONFERENCE, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis speaking: Three confirmed dead. He says there is NO suspect at Brigham and Women's hospital, contrary to reports.
Boston Marathon Explosions: 'Three Killed'
April 15, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -Three people have reportedly been killed after two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
About three hours after the winners crossed the line, there was a loud explosion on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the photo bridge that marks the finish.
Another explosion could be heard a few seconds later, reportedly on the other side of the street.
TV helicopter footage showed blood on the pavement in the popular shopping and tourist area known as the Back Bay.
Fox News reports that ball bearings have been found on the street, which may suggest the blasts were deliberate.
The injured were treated at the scene
The explosions happened as the marathon was still taking place with some competitors pictured finishing the race and others being diverted away from the site.
Runners who had not finished made their way down Commonwealth Avenue and into a family meeting area, according to an emergency plan.
Runners and race volunteers were crying as they fled the chaos.
Smoke rose from the explosions, through flags lining the route of the world's oldest and most prestigious marathon.
The Marathon sports store was reportedly near where one of the blasts took place.
The blasts happened at the event of the marathon
There were two boom sounds heard from inside the Fairmount Copley Plaza Hotel.
Race officials have locked down the hotel.
A photo has emerged which appeared to show the moment one of the blasts took place.
Police made their way through competitors as they ran towards the scene.
Bloody spectators were being carried to the medical tent that had been set up to care for tired runners.
"There are a lot of people down," said one man, whose marathon number identified him as Frank Deruyter, who was not injured.
An aerial view of emergency services at the scene
But marathon workers were carrying one woman, who did not appear to be a runner, to the medical area whose leg was hurt.
A Boston police officer was taken from the course with a bleeding leg injury.
Runner Laura McLean of Toronto said she heard two explosions outside the medical tent.
"There are people who are really, really bloody," Ms McLean said. "They were pulling them into the medical tent."
Cherie Falgoust was waiting for her husband, who was running the race.
"I was expecting my husband any minute," she said. "I don't know what this building is ... it just blew. Just a big bomb, a loud boom, and then glass everywhere. Something hit my head. I don't know what it was. I just ducked."
2 Bombs At Boston Marathon
By Erin McClamApril 15, 2013 "Information Clearing House" -" NBC News" - Two explosions went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday as runners were finishing the race, injuring multiple people, witnesses told NBC News.
Video from the finish line showed screams and an enormous cloud of white smoke, and about 20 seconds between the blasts. The Associated Press reported that bloody spectators were being carried to a medical tent that had been set up to care for tired runners.
Jackie Bruno, a reporter for New England Cable News, said on Twitter that she saw people’s legs blown off.
“Runners were coming in and saw unspeakable horror,” she said.
NBC affiliate WHDH said that storefront windows nearby were blown out.
Will Ritter, the spokesman for a Massachusetts Senate candidate, told NBC News that he heard what sounded like two explosions and saw smoke rising near the Boston Public Library. He said that he saw three fire engines and police running to the site.
“We heard two really large explosions in rapid succession, about a second apart from each other,” Ritter said. “Everybody kind of ducked and hit the ground.”
Janet Wu, a reporter for WHDH, told NBC News that she heard two loud explosions. A witness told WHDH that it sounded like cannon fire.
Massachusetts General Hospital said that it had four patients and was expecting more.
The AP reported that runners and race organizers were crying as they fled the scene.
The race is a signature event in Boston. Race organizers said that almost 27,000 runners competed, representing 96 countries. Tens of thousands of spectators turn out each year to watch.
The Boston police bomb squad was en route. Boston police confirmed there was an incident but did not immediately give details. Police, fire and medical technicians were responding. New England Cable News reported that the emergency response came within seconds.
Federal authorities told NBC News that they had no immediate information. In New York, a spokesman told Reuters that police were deploying counterterrorism vehicles around landmarks, including prominent hotels.
