No sooner had the dust quite literally settled
on the tragic Boston marathon bombing, than the conspiracy lunatics were out in
force.
It seems as if their absurd “9-11 missiles
hit the Pentagon” fantasies and the equally insane “Sandy Hook shootings didn’t
happen” stories weren’t crazy enough. Now people are sending me bullshit about
mysterious “contractors” dressed in “uniforms” at the scene, all carrying black
backpacks.
Some loon posting on the site “Global
Research” (whatever that is) has posted a long diatribe about the “contractors”
seen at the Boston marathon. “Who were
they? What were they and the FBI doing” the crackpot writes.
One of the pictures they are using is
below, showing the “contractors” allegedly moving about the area.
This–and something apparently put out by
Alex Jones’s Infowars (thankfully I haven’t seen it and don’t want to) has
sparked off the conspiracy nuts. I have now even seen someone saying that the
“amputations” suffered by victims of the blast were fake as well, and that the
Chechan brothers involved in the Boston manhunt were somehow set up or were
“false flag operations.”
I can cry when I read this drivel. What the
hell is wrong with people that they must believe—and circulate—this drivel?
A child of ten with Google could have told
them who the mysterious “contractors” are—they are National Guard Civil SupportTeams (CSTs) who are at almost EVERY big public event. Each U.S. state and
territory has at least one of the specially trained National Guard response
teams.
Members of the New York CST team were in
fact dispatched to Boston on the Friday before the event, and were scheduled to
be in place at the Marathon on the Monday.
Here is a picture of the CST team, taken
shortly after the blasts at the Boston marathon finish line, in which their
identification is clearly visible.
Why was the FBI present so quickly on the
scene? Why, because the event was in midtown Boston, and the FBI offices
(Center Plaza, Boston, 02108) is literally 8 minutes away from the road where
the bombing took place. You expect them not to come?
As to the claims that the “amputations were
fake” and that the whole thing was a “false flag” operation—it’s just too
pathetic to even reply to.
As the New Observer so succinctly put it:
the real reason why the Muslim world is pissed at the US is because it
correctly perceives America as doing Israel’s dirty work for it in the Middle
East, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. This
in turn allows Islamists to incite extremists to attack America and Americans
to “take revenge” on the infidels.
How much more simple can it be? Or is the
simple truth too straight forward for the conspiracy cranks to bear?
