Breaking news now on several news channels.
Andy Fuller is running the marathon, hope he is not caught up in this mess.
Breaking news - Explosions at Boston Marathon
Shocking.
Whoever is responsible, whatever the cases, there is no justification for the senseless and wanton murder today.
I am reminded of the words of RFK.
"Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created?
....
For when you teach a man to hate and to fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies that he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your home or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies -- to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and to be mastered.
We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as alien, alien men with whom we share a city, but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in a common effort. We learn to share only a common fear -- only a common desire to retreat from each other -- only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force."
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clip ... ubARXE.mp3
Whoever is responsible, whatever the cases, there is no justification for the senseless and wanton murder today.
I am reminded of the words of RFK.
"Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created?
....
For when you teach a man to hate and to fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies that he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your home or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies -- to be met not with cooperation but with conquest, to be subjugated and to be mastered.
We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as alien, alien men with whom we share a city, but not a community, men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in a common effort. We learn to share only a common fear -- only a common desire to retreat from each other -- only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force."
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/mp3clip ... ubARXE.mp3
