Boston Bombing an imitation of Jolie's SALT? America infiltrated,
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
April 20, 2013 4:35pm CST
Art is an imitation of life. That is the saying. But in the recent years, we see people in real life imitating the movies.
In the Boston Marathon bombing, two suspects, blood brothers from Chechnya, Russia, acted as if they were guilty, for they did put up a fight. One died, the other fled, was caught, and now confined in a hospital under heavy guard.
More interesting is the amount of information coming out: the brothers were positive haters of America, but, they had blended in, just like ordinary Americans, and as calmly and as naturally, they would wreak havoc without being suspected as terrorists, and had it not been for the cameras, they would not have been caught.
America had been infiltrated, not by super spies but by ordinary people pausing as neighbors, co-workers, friends... And as we see in this Boston Bombing, students! Who would think these young people are terrorists? Not the classmates they mingle with everyday. Not the teachers who discuss lessons with them everyday. Not the auto mechanic they brought their cars for check up...
Angelina Jolie's character SALT showed how the terrorists were made. Perhaps that is what this yahoo report is implying: http://news.yahoo.com/boston-bomb-suspect-hospitalized-under-heavy-guard-181337320.html If so, it is life imitating art.
8 responses
@vycess (1588)
• Saudi Arabia
20 Apr 13
I'm not into the news nowadays, thanks to mylot I'm able to be updated here. Also thanks to people like you who post news topic here. I read a post earlier about Boston bombing and it is good that they caught the guy. But very unfortunate to those people who have been affected by the event.
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@burrito88 (2774)
• United States
21 Apr 13
You should be careful about the 'news' you read on MyLot because it can colored by the opinion of the poster.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
29 Apr 13
It is good to be updated with the current news, it is our source of information and we need these info, not just for knowledge but also to get us by with our lives.
The internet has input so much, many strange things happen every minute, that is why you must take precaution and discernment about what are the true, the facts, as against the plain viral by virtue of sensationalism... etcetera.
@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
20 Apr 13
Thanks eileen for this discussion,
I hear what you are saying and think sensationalism does not help defuse. However I see it in reverse, as art is imitating life as it should be.
My reasoning is in the article, Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as "an excuse for invading other countries."
The motivation comes not from watching a movie or playing a video game but deep seated beliefs in something. This something by the way I think may have little to do with any religion but destructive cells that use and abuse religion to obtain their own selfish desires or revenge.
God Bless
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@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
21 Apr 13
I remember playing this video game once where if you ran over people it was a good thing and got in my car right after it and it passed in my mind for about .01 seconds as I was still into the game however I would not be such an airhead to actually go and harm someone from something I'd seen on a screen. I am speaking for myself.
Those that listen to people that tell them that a God wants them to go kill children are not thinking clearly at all! It is not true and they are being used like this 19 year old was by listening to that kind of propaganda. It is so wrong on so many different levels. It is also wrong with a God of peace (Allah) which is something this guy's Uncle said publicly. What the 19 year old did was deliberate, shameful and against everything his family believes in.
In my opinion, it had nothing to do with a movie or a video game!
I am not saying some of the stuff out there is healthy but don't believe that was the cause of this terrible event in Boston. @burrito88 (2774)
• United States
21 Apr 13
Years ago there was a Charles Bronson movie where he played a pilot who flew a helicopter into the exercise yard of a Mexican prison to help an American prisoner escape. Later someone else tried the same thing in reality.
However, you don't need movies or TV to tell someone how to make bombs or be a terrorist. The type of homemade bomb used in Boston was described on the Internet.
And you don't have to be an illegal alien to be a terrorist. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was planned and carried out by Americans who had served in our military.
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@blue65packer (11826)
• United States
21 Apr 13
I have not seen Angelina Jolie's,movie Salt. So I have no idea if what you say is true or Yahoo is reporting. I don't doubt it know. Other crimes have been commited in the past after what is seen on tv or at the movie threaters. It is a crazy world we live in and I believe anything is possible,
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@fatimaobien (156)
• Philippines
21 Apr 13
It is for this reason why I believe that art, movies, novels and all media can be used to promote love, forgiveness, kindness or anything that can promote common good or peaceful co-existence. Too much violence and hatred can create in us a pseudo-hatred, esp. if such medium is too influential to make it real in my mind.
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@dionysianspirit (161)
• Canada
23 Apr 13
Throughout the last 100 or so years and the rise of the entertainment industry around the world, we have seen odd similarities in dastardly crimes and real life occurrences. The actions of a minority; like extremists or those with mental disabilities, unfortunately cannot condemn a vast majority to censorship.
The answer here is learning how to help people with mental disabilities and greatly improve screening processes in one time offenders and potential immigrants/refugees.
One or two bad apples ruin it for the other 98 or 99 far too often..and if society is going to carry on and form a universal friendship which helps guarantee peace, then we need to learn to stop looking for easy ways out and tackle the real problem.
If our entertainment and our imaginations are forbidden due to the actions of a few barbaric extremists, then we as a collective species have lost the game of life.
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
20 Apr 13
America is a pretty big place. Once you count up the estimates for illegal immigrants, people here on "visitation" that never manage to leave, and all the people who just hide out under the radar, we're realistically a nation of close to 400 million. What really shocks me sometimes is that these incidents don't happen more often here.
It doesn't take a spy or even someone hiding out to be an America-hating terrorist. In this nation, you can stand in the middle of the street and scream and cry about how much you hate the nation. In fact, many do. And, for me, that goes to show that it takes a special kind of moron to go through with bombings.
Ironically enough, we might give people like these jobs as professors and let them teach kids.
Strange nonsense, this stuff.
