Boston Marathon hit by explosions

[Twoflower]

I wonder if Wumbo will be there...

I was not. I need to start looking for a new job. We had easily ten trucks there and I was stuck doing the dialysis taxi circuit while I could have been helping people who really needed helping.

On the other hand, listening to the radio traffic from those who *were* there was very surreal.

[Wumbologist]

The people of Boston blatantly financed the IRA bombs for many years.

Now they know what it feels like. Shame it's always the wrong ones that get hurt. That's what bombs are like.

There are no words to describe how much of a fucking cunt you are.

[mistermack]

The people of Boston blatantly financed the IRA bombs for many years.

Now they know what it feels like. Shame it's always the wrong ones that get hurt. That's what bombs are like.

There are no words to describe how much of a fucking cunt you are.

Takes one to know one, twat.

How come it's so bloody awful, when it's americans getting blown up?
But it's a freedom struggle, when the Irish were getting blown to bits, with american bought bombs?
Two-faced cunts.

[Azathoth]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massac ... story.html

Court rejects appeal over secret IRA tapes
AP / April 15, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal that sought to keep interviews with former Irish Republican Army members from being turned over to police in Northern Ireland.

The order leaves in place a lower court ruling that ordered Boston College to give the Justice Department portions of recorded interviews with convicted IRA car bomber Dolours Price. Federal officials want to forward the recordings to police investigating the IRA’s 1972 killing of Belfast widow, Jean McConville.

Price, 61, who died in January, and other former IRA members were interviewed between 2001 and 2006 as part of The Belfast Project — a Boston College oral history meant as a resource for journalists, scholars and historians studying the long conflict in Northern Ireland. Price’s death was not considered suspicious.

The interviews were supposed to be kept secret until the deaths of the subjects. The researchers who ran the project and conducted the interviews have argued that the participants’ lives could be endangered if their identities are revealed publicly because they could be branded as informants.

In October, Justice Stephen Breyer temporarily blocked the interviews from being turned over.

Project director Ed Moloney and ex-IRA gunman Anthony McIntyre, who conducted the interviews, last year challenged the decision by U.S. authorities to subpoena the records.

A U.S. appeals court in Boston found that Moloney and McIntyre had no right to interfere with the police request under the terms of a treaty between the United States and United Kingdom that requires the two to aid each other’s criminal investigations. The court also said criminal investigations take precedence over academic study.

McConville’s killing has received widespread media attention in Ireland because of allegations that Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams commanded the IRA unit responsible for ordering her execution and secret burial. Adams has denied that. Moloney has said he believes the recordings could endanger the peace.

Boston College has argued that because Price is dead, she can no longer be the subject of any prosecution by police in Northern Ireland.

A message was left Monday with a Boston College spokesman.end of story marker

Interesting timing

[klr]

The people of Boston blatantly financed the IRA bombs for many years.

Now they know what it feels like. Shame it's always the wrong ones that get hurt. That's what bombs are like.

There are no words to describe how much of a fucking cunt you are.

Takes one to know one, twat.

How come it's so bloody awful, when it's americans getting blown up?
But it's a freedom struggle, when the Irish were getting blown to bits, with american bought bombs?
Two-faced cunts.

What makes you think that all Americans of Irish heritage (or even all Bostonians) backed the IRA and their ilk?

Stop pigeon-holing.

...

Interesting timing

Yes - it's been rumbling on for years. But in all probability, a completely unrelated story.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

The people of Boston blatantly financed the IRA bombs for many years.

Now they know what it feels like. Shame it's always the wrong ones that get hurt. That's what bombs are like.

There are no words to describe how much of a fucking cunt you are.

Takes one to know one, twat.

How come it's so bloody awful, when it's americans getting blown up?
But it's a freedom struggle, when the Irish were getting blown to bits, with american bought bombs?
Two-faced cunts.

Knock off the personal insults, you two. You know the rules.

[Wumbologist]

Takes one to know one, twat.

How come it's so bloody awful, when it's americans getting blown up?
But it's a freedom struggle, when the Irish were getting blown to bits, with american bought bombs?
Two-faced cunts.

It has nothing to do with Americans or Irishmen or whoever the fuck else. Innocent people were hurt, maimed, lost limbs, and died today and you think this is some grand moment to talk up your super fucking edgy and cool political opinion.

[Wumbologist]

The people of Boston blatantly financed the IRA bombs for many years.

Now they know what it feels like. Shame it's always the wrong ones that get hurt. That's what bombs are like.

There are no words to describe how much of a fucking cunt you are.

Takes one to know one, twat.

How come it's so bloody awful, when it's americans getting blown up?
But it's a freedom struggle, when the Irish were getting blown to bits, with american bought bombs?
Two-faced cunts.

Knock off the personal insults, you two. You know the rules.

Too close to home. Fucking ban me.

[Ian]

The people of Boston blatantly financed the IRA bombs for many years.

Now they know what it feels like. Shame it's always the wrong ones that get hurt. That's what bombs are like.

Fuck you. Fuck you for indiscriminately blaming all of Boston. And fuck you even if you didn't quite mean it like that.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

I don't know the names of all those who donated to the IRA. But I do know that they didn't get condemned in Boston, when they went round the pubs with the collection tins.

Could you please do us a favor and stop being one of those people on the internet? Nobody thinks you're insightful or clever. We all just think you're a troll. Yes, I assume you just post bullshit like this to get a cheap reaction because you like the attention, hence the term troll. If you actually believe what you say, then I genuinely feel sorry for you for being such a loser.

[mistermack]

This is EXACTLY the time, because when america is dishing it out, they NEVER stop to ask if THEY would like it done to them.

It's the simplest lesson, that mothers teach their kids. If YOU wouldn't like it, don't do it to others.

Now they know, perhaps they will think twice about exporting this shit to other people, in the future.

Probably not, though.

[Ian]

Please just go away. Mindless jerkhole.

[klr]

This is EXACTLY the time, because when america is dishing it out, they NEVER stop to ask if THEY would like it done to them.

It's the simplest lesson, that mothers teach their kids. If YOU wouldn't like it, don't do it to others.

Now they know, perhaps they will think twice about exporting this shit to other people, in the future.

Probably not, though.

THEY ... THEY ... THEY ... THEY ...

People do not have collective responsibility in matters such as these.

Take that broken record somewhere else. As an Irish person who never had the minutest sympathy for the IRA and all its works (quite the opposite in fact), I'm finding your monomania on this subject to be pretty tiresome at best.

[mistermack]

Could you please do us a favor and stop being one of those people on the internet? Nobody thinks you're insightful or clever. We all just think you're a troll. Yes, I assume you just post bullshit like this to get a cheap reaction because you like the attention, hence the term troll. If you actually believe what you say, then I genuinely feel sorry for you for being such a loser.

I've never cared about what you think. Or feel. Unless you say something original one day.

But, I won't hold my breath.

[Ian]

Nevermind what I think - I want you to think about yourself from someone else's view. So many runners from around the world were there, plus people in the crowd included little children... and your first thoughts are to not only remember the historic footnote that Boston was one of the US sources of funding for the IRA, but you decided that you ought to comment about it? It says far more about you than it says about Boston. Maybe you'd like to talk about how Boston was the main area of instigation for the Revolution?

You are one of those people on the internet. You either don't see it, or you don't care.

[mistermack]

I had relatives in the Bronx, who collected for the "boys", and Boston was always the main pot of gold.

People were getting blown up with Boston money, and nobody said a word. Now they know it hurts.

Like I said. It's a shame that it's the innocent who get hurt, on all sides. I wouldn't help or support anybody in that shit, from either side. But I'm more than happy to point out that this is what that shit is REALLY like, because the message doesn't seem to have got home.

If the people in Boston who put money in the collecting tins now have a better idea of what their money paid for, then they might feel some bit of guilt, and so they bloody well should.