All right, scared panickers who are now demanding for blood good peace-loving folks who've surely shown their best side in the last few days! Calmed down somewhat from all the shock & drama already, have we? Now that one suspect is down, the other captured, people cheering on the streets and babies finally being able to sleep calm at night, and
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See 404's response. Sometimes far too often we US citizens just come off as better than everyone else and their tragedy is our back page news.
Pax Americana, you reap what you sow. Anyone who thinks otherwise is living fantasy. We killed a lot of innocents before and after 9-11. This is the price: global judgement.
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*sigh* unfortunately it's the best we got for now. Pretty soon, even typing these words might get me a 'visit'.
Or not. They tend to leave us taxed citizens alone. Don't slaughter your milk cows, etc...
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33% of those victims were Chinese nationals.
But what about the 100 or so people who died in car accidents in the US that day? Are they worthless in comparison too?
As I tried pointing out in another thread, when something happens that happens all the time, it's not really news.
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Did you get all that tribute with the 14 who died in West Texas?
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The fertilizer plant explosion in the US didn't result in such tributes. People from all over the world come to see and compete in the Boston Marathon. You would just as well be reading things if this happened at the Olympics in Brazil.
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Now you're trying to compare apples and orange
Like sporting event bombing deaths and dismemberment, and wartime deaths and injuries?
Because that's what you were doing.
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