I think we may have taken some things different from the recent
Boston Bombing. Like millions of folks, I watched the 24 hour
news channels for those four days. At first I was wondering what
was going to happen. If it was going to be escalating. (You can
check my early post here about that). Concerned about the
victims. And still am.  But then , what got me, was how the
authorities reacted. To me, and I bet to many others, it came
clear that the bombings were finished and that it was the act of
a couple of individuals . Mostly amateurs then soon their names
were discovered. The authorities went ballistic. It wasn't the
bombers who kept the city terrorized, but the authorities,
politicians . And the media keeping everyone stirred up while
these two tried to hide. According to one report I heard they
had over 3000 regular Boston police pulled away from their
regular , though extremely important, duties for this. Not to
mention the national guard keeping the populace contained and
businesses shutdown. I wonder w