You Will Anyway: For the Love of Pete

Friday, April 19, 2013

For the Love of Pete

A female CBS reporter this morning just said that "a lot of us would like to see" the second Boston bomber end up like the first (shot and killed by police), because we can find out what they were up to "dead or alive."

These guys, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, are Chechens - a region where Russia has been battling terrorists for many, many years as Chechens continue to fight for independence, although these two brothers seem to have an unlikely sports background (Tamerlan a boxer), and their motive may not have had anything to do with religion - or it may (but that won't matter now).

I suppose we could just kill all foreigners and refuse any travel visas.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

PS
Boston.com (where I'm watching live video feed from CBS surrounding a house in Watertown) showed some CBS video that someone in Watertown took in the night during the shoot-out. (Why she was filming instead of taking cover, I couldn't tell you - maybe she had full body armor on.) It sounded like the end of a large fireworks display. I'd say it's possible the dead and wounded officers were hit by friendly fire. There's a picture purportedly of a house in Watertown where a bullet went through the wall.

The boys' uncle was on a phone interview with the same CBS station. He says he hasn't talked to them since 2009, and he is shocked (but he's calling them "pricks" and "losers"). They informed him that Tamerlan had been killed, which he didn't know, and he said "he absolutely deserved" it. He says if people want to curse him, he is ready to accept it, because he is related to "these bastards." Poor guy. He should probably expect more than curses.

I suppose the interview - or parts of it - will be widely published.

PPS
The same bloodthirsty CBS reporter says that it's un.be.LIEV.able that the younger brother (Dzhokhar) got a high school scholarship that was PAID FOR BY THE CITIZENS OF CAMBRIDGE!

And, Holy Crap! another CBS reporter interviewing another uncle just let him give them the address of the first uncle on air.

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