Bomb in NYC injures 29 people
 

I believe there was also an explosion yesterday in NJ. The governor of NY suspects the bomb in NYC was an act of terrorism, but no one has suggested the two acts might be related to each other yet.

Thank God no one was killed this time...
Hope they scrape up the vermin who did this and lock him away.

I wonder if it's related to the explosion in NJ during a marine race. Or even to the Minnesota mall stabbing spree. Just seems to be too much of a coincidence, you know what I mean?

Unfortunately such events are so commonplace today that I think it may all be just that - a coincidence.

I'd bet my life on it being related to NJ. Horrible event.

Well, when top EU and American politicians end up fabricating monsters to fight other monsters, what do you expect, really.

Politicians make up monsters?

No, they create them. I used the wrong verb, my bad.

But politicians can also lie about who the enemy is or how he came to be. In the last few years we've been hearing how evil the Russians are, but well guess what, it's not the Russians who have been performing attacks in Europe and in the USA lately.

You sure about that?

Until they mess with the Old Continent it's all good. USA and Russia have been going at each other for decades now.

I wonder if Palin can still see what they're doing from her window.

Ask Tina Fey - she's the one who gave people the impression that Palin actually said that.

Yes, Palin said you could see Russia from Alaska and not from her house. Kinda funny how it's the thing people remember the most about her when she's probably said way worse things back in 2008.

Putin/Russia gets sh*t done. Unlike us.

yeah, US and EU intervention in Syria hasn't done us any favor. Nor did the goddamn Arab Spring. And now we have the ref... migrant crisis on our hands. Wonderful :trolleye:

This is so horrible. I hope they catch whoever did this and they are brought to justice. At least no one was killed, but it could have been much worse. Didn't hear about the NJ bombing though. It sucks that these things have to happen.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/17/us...ive-trash-can/

No one got injured, though.

Jesus Christ, this is a horrifying mindset. Do you consider murdering journalists, rigging elections, and violating basic human rights on a whim to be "getting **** done"?

I think he meant Syria in specific. At least that's how I interpreted his post. I mean, if he was referring to Russia's domestic policies it wouldn't make much sense since Russia isn't exactly close to being heaven on Earth.

Oh no, I'm not defending the sh*tshow they have going on over there (remember Crimea?) but they handled the ISIS/Syria crisis pretty well IMO.

Russia is a corrupt country, but they mean buisness.

Trust nothing and no one. Don't even trust yourself.

Fear is the only true motivator, so stay afraid.

But you can trust the power of steel.

This you can trust.

They caught the bomber.

I saw on the news they knew who it was and had relatives of the suspect in custody. They got the person in question then? Good!

I read that 29 are injured. Is there no death toll only injured?

Yep

According to Obama(see link above) no one got killed.

Awesome to hear the jerk got caught.

Terrorist... The terrorist got caught...

Alleged bomber, if we're going to split hairs.
We don't know that he's a terrorist, nor can we assume the person of interest that was caught is guilty. That's for the court to decide.

But seeing as the guy currently in custody was trespassing when he was caught, and then fired on police...I'd say jerk is pretty accurate.

I think if you bomb something you should be considered a terrorist by definition.

Sure. The same thing should also be said for dudes who shoot up movie theaters full of people. But it's not.

You don't consider them terrorists? I do.

School shooters are the only sub catagory I give

I'd consider them terrorists too. Really anyone who uses an atmosphere of "fear" to further an agenda is a terrorist. Whether that atmosphere relies upon actual violence, or the perception of impending violence.

However, in the media, terrorist is a term relegated to either people who are actively trying to further a political agenda, or mass-murders who aren't white.
And since we don't yet know if this guy had a political agenda, I feel it's too soon to go tossing around the term.

You are more than welcome to disagree with me.

Breivik is white and pretty sure he is considered a terrorist by the media. Just like all those far-left and far-right organisations who committed bombing throughout Europe in the 70s-80s were labeled as terrorists back then.

Ofc since Islamic terrorism seems to be the biggest in the world in the current century, people ended up equating Islam with terrorism. Even though it's inaccurate. The media just plays its part in order to sell papers.

Ah, my bad. I forgot to make the "In America" stipulation.
Sorry about that.

This guy in New York? The few reports I'm seeing that mention he's an American citizen are from international sites.
Most domestic sources are quick to point out that he wasn't born in the US, as if that somehow makes him less a citizen.

Well... everything was on-point except "sell papers."

Only people buying newspapers these days own pet birds. :trazz:

Yes, I figured you meant USA, but nowadays in Europe we don't really fear internal terrorism from other white folk anymore either. Just from Middle Eastern folk. So what you've said probably applies here somewhat as well.

I guess many Middle Eastern Americas are 1st and 2nd generation Americans. Plus, USA, no matter how diverse it might be it still was meant to be a European like country and the majority is white, so I can see why that sort of thing happens. Not saying it's right, considering it's a country of immigrants form all over the world but I can see why people might overlook the fact that an Afghani guy might be as American as an Irish American guy is.

Well, you know what I meant anyway :P

And the cycle begins anew.
Honestly I can't wait to go home for the holidays so I can hear all about how Italians were persecuted when they first came over. How horrible and unspeakable it was when they were stripped of their language and culture and blah blah blah.

And then in the next breath how people coming over now should not be allowed to speak their language, or make their own food, or retain their customs.

But I digress.

Yes I know they suffered discrimination at first. In the first half of the 20th century Europeans still had lots of bad blood among each other, so we were all dicks to each other, you see. Not like nowadays where we claim to hate war and call ourselves the zenith of human civilisation!

Terrorists are just as much jerks as gang members who shoot innocent people or anyone who commits murder. That's why I called him a jerk.