NOW do you believe it was a terrorist act?

I talked about this four .. is it now five? .. days ago.  The question about whether the Boston Marathon massacre was a "Terrorist Act".  (Our president, Barack Obama, was reluctant to so typify it on the day after .. did he think it was a natural gas explosion, such as the one in Texas on the same day?)

Since then I've been reluctant to voice my expectations, which was that the people responsible would fit a "Profile".

"Profile".  Nasty word, that' or so we are told by our Liberal friends (several of whom have since DIED at the hands of these profile-exempt young, male, Islamic terrorists).  Our country has had some 'unfortunate' experiences with Terrorists, who (in the 2001 Twin Towers/Airplane Hijacking, etc ad infinitum) denouement were determined to be young, male, Islamic and infected with an extreme version of Islamic influences teaching.

And I did not wish to suggest the same "profile" might fit these TERRORIST attackers on the 147th anniversary of the Boston Marathon, because I was certain that I might myself be "profiled" as a religious bigot.

The difference between them and me, of course, is that I'm not killing people.  They are.  And I don't hate people because of their lifestyle or their religion; they do.

Let me say that again:  I don't hate people because of their lifestyle or religion.

However,  perhaps I might be forgiven for a certain degree of resentment when young, male Islamic extremists who have been provided an open door to my native country return our national acceptance by killing people by indiscriminate bombing at public events.

Uncle Repudiates Nephew:

One of the more interesting side-shows was the video filmed a couple of days ago of the uncle of Dzhokar, who was only recently captured:

Outraged Uncle of Fugitive Bomber Has a Message for His Nephew - :

The outraged uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect currently eluding authorities called on his nephew to surrender and to ask forgiveness from the victims of Monday’s blast. Ruslan Tsarni, of Montgomery Village, Md., told reporters outside his home that he last saw Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarneav in 2005 and said he was ashamed of their actions. “I say Dzhokhar, if you’re alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured,” a visibly angry Tsarni said, adding that he would have alerted authorities if he knew of his nephews’ alleged plan. “I respect this country, I love this country,” the 42-year-old attorney continued. “[The bombing] has nothing to do with Chechnya … He put a shame on our family, he put a shame on the entire Chechyan ethnicity.”

Oh, really?  the ethnicity of Chechya is so fragile that it is subject to shame by terrorist acts?

Uncle Ruslan, may I call your attention to a couple other examples of "Chechyan Ethnicity"?

2002: The Moscow Theater Siege:

The Moscow theatre hostage drama is a dramatic reminder that Chechen separatists are capable of desperate cruelty when they're up against a wall. Some 700 hostages remain captive in a large theater complex Friday, cowering for a third day under the guns of 30 or 40 Chechens — half of them reportedly women in headscarves; all of them reportedly wearing the explosive belts of the suicide bomber — who have threatening to blow the building unless Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya. The Chechens have reportedly set a deadline of 6am, Moscow time (10pm, EST) for their demands to be met, after which they'll begin executing their captives. They have described themselves as "smertniki" — those condemned to death, or kamikaze — and have killed at least one hostage who had tried to flee. Although Russian special forces have surrounded the building, they insist they wont storm it unless the Chechens start executing hostages. Negotiations aimed at a peaceful resolution continue.

Although President Vladimir Putin immediately linked the siege with the global war on terrorism, and charged that the action was planned in a "foreign terrorist center," its roots more likely lie in a long-established tradition among Chechen insurgents of mounting dramatic terror strikes aimed at tilting the balance of power back in their favor. The latest siege is reminiscent of the hostage drama at Budennovsk in 1995, when Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev seized a Russian hospital in order, he later said, to make Russians suffer the way Chechens had suffered. (emphasis added)  Although 166 hostages died when the very same Russian anti-terrorism unit that is currently surrounding the Moscow theater stormed the Buddenovsk hospital, Basayev and his men escaped. And soon afterwards, Moscow concluded an autonomy deal with Chechen leaders.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,383909,00.html#ixzz2R5A8AK00

(Apparently negotiating with Chechens is not necessarily conducive to peace, as they come back again and again no matter what the resolution of previous confrontations.)


Seven hundred hostages held "under the guns of .. Chechans".  In the end, the Russians ended the siege by releasing an 'incapacitating gas" which killed many of the terrorists AND many of the hostages.  Oops!

 If it saves just one child ....
If that is an insufficient example of Chechen Perfidy, consider ... oh, I don't know .. how about the Beslan School Massacre in 2004?

BESLAN, Russia, Sept. 4 -- Hundreds of children, their parents and teachers died in the bloody culmination of a 52-hour siege that began when heavily armed Muslim guerrillas stormed their school Wednesday and ended in an hours-long battle with Russian troops Friday.

The battered, burned and scorched survivors of Beslan's School No. 1, many of them half-naked children, filled the region's hospitals as troops continued to fight through the afternoon with guerrillas holed up inside the school. Twenty-seven of the fighters, described as Chechens, Russians, Ingush and Arabs, were killed, and at least three were captured, officials said.

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And you think that your nephew is "putting a shame on the whole Chechen  ethnicity"?  Seems to me, he's just following the footsteps of those who have gone before him.



Mister Tsarni, I do understand that you are a lawyer, and a peace loving citizen of the United States of America.  I 'get' that you love this country?  What's not to love (unless you're a Liberal, in which case you hate America because Americans are so mean to other people  .. especially if they come from a country where blowing up innocents is a legitimate "protest").



And I 'get' that you are appalled by the actions of your relatives .. young, male, Islamics from a country which is now notorious for exporting terrorists ... and you have called for a peaceful surrender by the last uncaptured and unrepentant (at the time of your statement; I'm sure your nephew is going to issue an apology and a call for peace between our peoples any time now) family member who has been -- um -- blowing up his fellow citizens?

What I do NOT 'get' is why your family has allowed its children to so stray from this peaceful, easy feeling which you publicly espouse?  Am I wrong in my understanding that the Chechen culture includes a patriarchal emphasis, and the family is responsible for every act that family members perform?

(Oh,  if it's any comfort to you,you are perhaps not NEARLY as complicit in these terrorists acts as those Liberals among us who have perhaps pointed your nephews toward other Liberals who encouraged them!)

No, I'm not accusing you, personally, of being complicit in the unseemly youthful high-jinks of your nephew(s).    But I look back to the long, fully documented history of (American Citizen) Muslim patriarchs who slaughter their daughters and nieces for wearing "unseemly" western garb, and I'm just wondering ...

... if y'all folks are so protective of the moral comport of your daughters and nieces, why are you not equally concerned about the righteous upbringing of your sons, and nephew?

I realize this is a confrontational thing for me to say, but I only ask because I'm wondering why your sons, neighbors and nephews seem so FUCKING hell-bent on killing my neighbors?

And if you are REALLY all that concerned, do you suppose that you could take some responsibility, and tell them to ... you know .... knock it off?

I'm a reasonable man, but is that too much to ask?

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(Uncle .. we KNEW who they were, from the moment that the bombs blew up.  We didn't know their names, and we didn't know exactly where they came from. But we KNEW.  Oh, we were too damned polite to point fingers while we couldn't name names,  but still we knew.

And you knew, too.  You were too frightened to target your own "ethnicity", but you surely expected .. was it such a shock when you learned that it came from your own family?  I truly hope it was;  I've had bad people in my own family, and when they did wrong I knew it but I didn't TELL anyone it was painfully obvious that it would come back to my family, eventually.  I hope I would have had the courage to publicly denounce them, as you did ... and I don't really meant to imply that you might have hesitated if there was any doubt at all of their origins.  I truly want to believe that you are a moral man who knows the difference between right and wrong, and who is willing to stand up before the world and denounce the wrong.

But still .. we knew.

Doesn't that hurt you, to know that so many of your culture have shown themselves to be uncivilized, uncaring, barbaric slaughterers of the innocent, and that you are judged by THEIR actions?

Maybe you can tell others of your friends and relatives that killing innocent people is just wrong.  I know we have done the same, but not recently and not arbitrarily.

Somebody has to take the first step.  I think you have deserved the right to be that person.)