I am reluctant to read any more about the terrorism in Boston. It isn’t because I don’t want to know. It isn’t because I don’t care. It isn’t because I am grossed out. It is because I don’t know how much of what I read I can believe.
Remember the killing of the school children. Almost everything we read in the first week was fantasy by a sensationalist, gun hating press. They contradicted or quoted each other. They did no research and blamed everyone that they did not like.
Do we have the same thing going on in Boston? Were these two men really guilty or were they just scapegoats of a police department that needed to justify the budget for their swat team? It would be so easy to believe that two disenchanted refugees from a Muslim country brought their hatred and insanity to our shores. It would even fit what we know to be the current view of many Muslims. But is it true?
I would suggest that we do the hard thing. Wait and seek honest answers. Don’t demand that the local DA come up with indictments just to make us feel good. Allow the wheels of justice and investigation to turn. Some things cannot be rushed.
Don’t believe everything you read just because it fits your desire for quick reassurance.
homo unius libri
Funny how they don't want guns up there, but they cheered the men who carry them. People are fickle. Now someone wants to outlaw pressure cookers!
ReplyDeleteOne of the things I noticed in my reading what the comments about all the bullet holes the police seemed to be leaving behind.
DeletePressure cookers are just the tip of the iceberg in dangerous objects that need to be banned. I think of pencils and paperclips also.
Grace and peace.