Incomprehensible violence: Eight year old
Martin Richard shows what
he was all about, before he was killed in
the Boston Marathon attacks.
Anonymous Attacks and the Vain Search for 'Absolute Security' (Polityka, Poland)
"The greatest difficulty in detecting and combating terrorism takes
a very specific form when the perpetrator - either overwhelmed with some sick
need to protest or simply mentally ill - doesn't care to reveal their identity.
This is a completely different form of terrorism than that practiced by al-Qaeda,
which publishes all of its intentions on the Internet, or Anders Breivik, who stood before video cameras making political
and pseudo-philosophical sermons. ... But we know that murderers will always
find a weapon. It is impossible to establish absolute security in any community."
It is the first bloody
terrorist attack in the U.S. since September 11.
The worst is an
anonymous attack.
The annual marathon in
Boston, Massachusetts, organized in the state's capital city since 1897, is one
of the symbols of America and the oldest such event in the world. Terrorists,
as usual, choose symbols to target that not only to kill and injure, but intimidate
and create a threatening atmosphere.
Posted By Worldmeets.US
As these words are
written, America is waking after a night of asking the main question: who
planted the bombs? Although Pakistani Taliban, linked to the foiled attack on New
York's Times Square in May 2010, stressed in a statement that they want to
attack America, but they immediately denied it was them. The first associations
made by Americans after September 11 run in the direction of al-Qaeda,
especially given the assassination of its spiritual leader Osama bin Laden.
But in America, after
all, there is no shortage of native lunatics willing to kill for ideological
reasons. The date of the attack has sparked anxiety - in the U.S., it was the
last day to submit tax returns. It's possible that the extremists seized upon
this to mount a demonstration against
the system. The greatest difficulty in detecting and combating terrorism takes
a very specific form when the perpetrator - either overwhelmed with some sick
need to protest or simply mentally ill - doesn't care to reveal their identity.
This is a completely different form of terrorism than that practiced by al-Qaeda,
which publishes all of its intentions on the Internet, or Anders Breivik,
who stood before video cameras making political and pseudo-philosophical
sermons. In Turkey in the late 1970s, where victims were found randomly on the
streets, the world had to deal with similar forms of anonymous protest, and the
terrorists didn't even bother to send explanations to the authorities.
The bitter paradox of
the Boston Marathon is also tied to the fact that the last mile was dedicated
to the memory of the victims of the school of Newtown, where four months ago
(December 14, 2012), an armed madman killed 20 children in cold blood. President
Barack Obama has pursued a legislative initiative to limit access to firearms,
and has even partially broken the resistance of the influential National Rifle
Association. But we know that murderers will always find a weapon. It is
impossible to establish absolute security in any community.
