Boston Marathon explosions

[Pakuni]

That was guaranteed long before I started posting

Perhaps, but you've raised the level of histrionics to a remarkable level.
Bravo.

[nyg]

People are jumping to conclusions all over the place and it happens all the time, on the left and on the right. It's sickening.  On the left we have a bunch of folks insisting it is a domestic terrorist, probably a white guy, hates gov't, tea party type.  I invite you to MSNBC, Huff Post, Salon, Daily Kos, etc....all over the place.  On the right, people want to insist it's more Islamisicists, jihadist types.  

Sorry, but people are making conclusions all the time.

And yes, many people care about Bill Ayers.  Many more give him a free pass as well as those that have interacted with him over the years.  Personally, I find it absolutely stunning that a known Domestic terrorist that was involved in several bombings that killed three people but targeted many others was allowed to teach at a university....wait, no I'm not...I'm not surprised at all.   And the fact the very people in paragraph one that can't wait to jump to these conclusions about who did it, including a few that have said "domestic terrorism is even" worse, basically ignored Ayers....I find it the height of hypocrisy.  Absolute height of it.


I'll finish with what the father of one of the dead said yesterday.  "I hope they find the bastard and fry him".  Damn right, but of course that would also be "wrong" in the eyes of many...so we enable these people to keep drawing air, give them three meals a day and keep moving on with their lives while 3 are dead (I've been reading it's more), while many are without limbs.  Its sickening, but we refuse to treat criminals like criminals all too often.  I pray for these families and I hope this father gets the justice he demands.  Sadly, I doubt he will....Massachusetts has no death penalty....so there will be no frying...this person or persons will live to see the sun rise and set for years to come.

This is a Title 18 federal crime.  Use of a weapon of mass destruction to injure or kill.  Just like Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph.  Rudolph took a plea and is at Federal Supermax in Colorado, McVeigh was not that fortunate.

[Lennys Tap]

Anti-education?   

Death Penalty also in countries not run by despots.  If you want to go there, should we look into those countries that have universal health care that are run by despots...great false equivalency on your part and awesome straw man...the daily double.

Sorry, I'm with the father of one of those murdered.  You can choose to be with someone else, but these people should be exterminated from the planet. 

Everyone is "with the father". His sorrow and pain are unfathomable, and the idea of "frying" those responsible is appealing. My problem with the death penalty is that DNA testing has turned  the whole process upside down, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt (rather than beyond a "reasonable" one) that more than a few on death row are actually innocent. Add to that the human element (ambitious and sometimes unscrupulous prosecutors, coerced confessions, etc.) and the certainty that the death penalty requires becomes a bridge too far for me. And believe me, I'm anything but a bleeding heart.

[Henry Sugar]

Perhaps, but you've raised the level of histrionics to a remarkable level.
Bravo.