The surviving Boston bomber is hard to figure out
Bruce Siegel
I've been fascinated by the psychological makeup of the younger brother. Usually, when a crime of this type is committed, you'll hear at least one or two acquaintances say,"I'm shocked. He seemed like such a good person."
But in this case, EVERYONE who knew the younger brother says that. The following is from this article:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/21/us/tsarnaev-brothers-relationship/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
"Dzhokhar was kind-hearted, too. When he wasn't wrestling in high school, he volunteered at an after-school program to help kids with autism and Down syndrome.
"He was a funny comical guy. He had me laughing a lot," said Peter Tenzin, who co-captained the wrestling team with Dzhokhar. "After wrestling practice, he would rather go down and spend time with kids with learning disabilities than relax and go home."
The gist of the piece is that it was the older brother who was the leader, and it was easy to see signs of radicalization in him in recent years. And Dzhokhar, it's said, followed around his older brother like a puppy.
Still, it's hard to reconcile what Dzhokhar did with his life before the incident. He wasn't a loner, an outcast, socially inept, a school dropout, political, religious, or even sad or angry, according to those who knew him. Other than who is brother was, there doesn't seem to have been a single sign, of any sort, that Dzhokhar was capable of plotting to kill and maim innocent strangers.
Obviously, there's more we need to learn about this kid. But if the press had dug up the slightest negative or problematic thing about him that might help to explain his actions, they'd obviously love to be able to publish it. But so far . . . nothing.
A most unusual case, in my experience!
Bruce Siegel
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Steve Echard Musgrave
" So want to mention a very difficult subject before you here, completely openly.It should be discussed amongst us, and yet, nevertheless, we will never speak about it in public.Just as we did not hesitate on June 30 to carry out our duty, as ordered, and stand comrades who had failed against the wall and shoot them.About which we have never spoken, and never will speak.hat was, thank God, a kind of tact natural to us, a foregone conclusion of that tact, that we have never conversed about it amongst ourselves, never spoken about it, everyone shuddered, and everyone was clear that the next time, he would do the same thing again, if it were commanded and necessary.Iam talking about the "Jewish evacuation": the extermination of the Jewish people. It is one of those things that is easily said. "The Jewish people is being exterminated," every Party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we're eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, ha!, a small matter."And then along they all come, all the 80 million upright Germans, and each one has his decent Jew. They say: all the others are swine, but here is a first-class Jew . Most of you will know what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when there are 500, or when there are 1000. And to have seen this through, and -- with the exception of human weaknesses -- to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned . Decent
Heinrich Himmler
Poznan Concentration Camp
Rebel prisoners in our hands are to be subjected to a treatment finding its parallels only in the conduct of savage tribes and resulting in the death of multitudes by the slow but designed process of starvation and by mortal diseases occasioned by insufficient and unhealthy food and wanton exposure of their persons to the inclemency of the weather....Congressional Globe, 38th Congress, 2nd session, 1/24/1865, pg. 381
passed and signed
by Abraham Lincoln.
A Federal POW Guard tells of the result "During a period of ten months I was a member of the garrison of the Rock Island Military Prison. There were confined there about ten thousand men. Those men were retained in a famishing condition by order of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War. That order was approved by Abraham Lincoln. It was read before the inside garrison of the prison sometime in January, 1864. It was read at assembly for duty on the 2d, in front of the prison. It went into effect on the following day. It continued in force until the expiration of my term of service, and, I have understood, until the close of the war.
When it was read, Colonel Shaffner, of the Eighth Veteran Reserves, was acting Provost Marshal of Prisoners. I think that it was Captain Robinson who read the order. It reduced the daily allowance of the captives to about ten ounces of bread and four ounces of meat per man.
Some time in January a batch of prisoners arrived. They were captured at Knoxville. Sixty of them were consigned to barracks under my charge. They were received by me at about 3 in the afternoon. One of the prisoners inquired of me when they would draw rations. I told him not until the following day. He said that in that case some of his comrades must die, as they had eaten nothing since their capture several days before - the exact period I cannot state. That evening at roll call one of the prisoners exhibited symptoms of delirium. He moved from the ranks, and seemed to grasp for something, which I understood to be a table loaded with delicacies. I returned him to the ranks, where he remained until roll call was over, when I left. On the following morning he and two others were dead.
The mortality report among the new Rebs was extraordinarily large. I think it amounted to about ten per cent of the entire number. It created an interest among the company commandant, and was the subject of many expressions. From the rebel orderlies I learned that the symptoms in each case were the same. There was no complaint; no manifestation of illness. Some dropped while standing on the floor; others fell from a sitting posture. All swooned and died without a struggle.
Some of the prisoners had money sent them. It was deposited with the Provost Marshal, and their orders on the sutler were at first honored, but supplies from this direction were soon prohibited; the sutler's wagon was excluded from the prison.. Supplies from relatives of prisoners, consisting of clothes, food and stationery came for some. The parcels containing them were distributed from "Barrack Thirty." The boxes were examined, everything in the shape of subsistence was removed, and the box and its contents delivered to the prisoner; the food it contained was destroyed before the face of the tantalized captive.
i have lived in Turkey and Indonesia it is not just a matter of Islam. There are two million six hundred thousand Muslims in America and two guys did this. If 1% of that population was radicalized there would be a bombing or shooting every day. From all indication Timothy McVeigh went from agood soldier and person to mass murder in a brief period of time.
