The problem with taking every single one of those conspiracy theories at face value is that every single one is based on the following assumptions:
Nobody in the world wants to actually cause harm to American citizens, simply because, nobody wants to actually harm American citizens.
Nobody in the world is capable of causing harm to American citizens through methods of third or fourth generation warfare, because that's the rules, and only powerful governments break the rules, when they are not busy enforcing them.
Any attacks previously prevented by government action were false attacks, therefore no attack on the American public has been genuine, successful, or independently sourced by non-government entities.
That's why mental health becomes an issue of debate with conspiracy theorists, since a lot of their assumptions are going to be just plain wrong.
Piecing together circumstantial evidence is one thing, but coming to "rock solid conclusions" is generally a requirement for taking action, whether it is legal action, or sending out a torpedo to do a hit. I would shudder to think of what would be happening with some of those conspiracy theorists actually being in command of a few death squads, but lets face some reality here, that is precisely how the early stages of the next revolution will work. Thus, we need to keep a level head when accusing certain people and agencies of crimes worthy of retaliation. The cowards who think they can just spout any bullshit they want with the expectation that it makes someone's red phone ring and then action just happens, need to get regarded in that light. The reason I am not into mobilizing resources on this from a patriot movement standpoint is that it is not our fight and will not be our fight until we have a better handle on what went down, and even then, might already be in the process of getting handled by the community that was victimized by the bombing.
As for properly evacuating wounded vs getting it done as quickly as possible, my vote is getting it done quickly, using the wheelchair is better than waiting for a proper stretcher. Blast damage can do different things to different people and is not going to be the same as say, their leg being severed by some sort of cutting damage. We also don't know how a lot of those people ended up. "injured" can mean some bo-boos on the hand, or they had to get amputated above the knee and will eventually die of complications in a few years.
Not every bank robber gets caught, not every murderer gets caught, not every murder is preventable, not every theft is solved, not every prosecution is successful, not every terrorist gets nabbed in the nick of time, not ever soothsayer who claims to have some sort of inside analysis on what someone "might" do is right.
The feds had nothing else on the Tsarnaev brothers at the point the FSB gave the "warning". What they had was the identity of the brothers, some bad word from the FSB which is notorious for being dishonest, and even the most rabid of conspiracy theorists are not willing to take the Mossad seriously on much of anything. The day foreign intelligence services start handing lists of names over the FBI of people who then are expected to just be hauled off to Gitmo or "suicided" in a back alley somewhere is the day this country has already lost everything.
The feds can be some of the absolute worst conspiracy theorists of all, but in the Boston case, their ties to Boston and the Boston mob are so incredibly tightly intertwined, I keep thinking that any response on their part to a terrorist attack is going to be 110% authentic and genuine because that response would go entirely within the scope of their longstanding alliances with the Boston political machine and local mafias. NOBODY in Boston would want that shit going down on their doorstep and they would all cooperate, just like they did, to handle the situation effectively.
Now if they ever found sufficient cause to blame a larger conspiracy, nobody is going to be telling them what to do one way or the other from some Texas blogger's office.
What clued me in on this was the video of Boston where all of the usual local players were present, but there were some things NOT happening.
1. DHS apparently sent no troops to those streets. The locals were not having it, and even among the feds, it was local feds only. They crowded the streets to establish turf. That was only half to show force to the local population, the other half of that purpose was to show turf to any outsiders who thought they were going to step in and control the situation. It was a simple and basic race to get their troops on the streets first and establish area dominance.
2, There was apparently no special legislation waiting in the wings, already written, to be introduced before the smoke cleared. I really think it was a surprise to those in Washington DC. Everyone wants to find out who did what and what they are dealing with before making any conclusive statements about it. It's not like those other incidents where they had statements and legislation all in motion so quickly that you know damn well they saw it coming.
Too many official decisions in the Boston situation were made in panic, on the fly for that to have been planned by the government ahead of time.
For example, if someone knew what was going on ahead of time, that Saudi never would have been arrested, and while I think Glenn Beck might be on to something, I am not willing to accept the idea that the Wahabbis would place that much responsibility for an operation that high profile on a supposed command element guy who is that young. It is just not their culture to do so. I could be wrong and I have been wrong about some things before, but I don't think the Beck theory is the correct one.
If anything, I think it might be entirely possible that there was more than one operation going on at that stage, and the Tsarnaev brothers blew other people's cover when they did their attack. It is not exactly unheard of in high tempo environments where multiple independent terror cells bump into each other's operations, like the Saudis doing a dry practice run and command recon on the marathon in preparation for an attack next year, and then they happened to get caught on the edge of the action of someone else's attack.
