Not quite as dramatic as 9-11, today’s attack during the Boston Marathon still was quite unexpected. The only thing significant about 4/15/2013 was that it was tax day. So it’s pretty odd that in light of this, the attack wasn’t done against something like the IRS. Also, unlike 9-11, no one has claimed anything for the attacks thus far.
Some people said that the world nature of the Boston Marathon made it a significant event to incur the bombing. Call me ignorant in this but I never heard of the event up until this point. That said, they did position the bomb in the JFK library. But I can’t tell if that was symbolic or coincidental since the finish line was close to that point.
With most of the world recently far more focused on North Korea, this event does not really seem connected to them. Strangely, North Korea has been pretty forthcoming about their intentions whereas this act was dishonorable. So I doubt this has anything to do with them.
Hard to say whom or why this occurred at this point in time. The only other significant thing that occurred this day was the falling prices of gold. It seemed as though that situation was completely overlooked compared to what happened in Boston. Not sure if there’s a connection, but it’s hard to discard major events like these when seeing something like this.
My main fear is that the government will eventually use this as an excuse to push an increasing military state agenda. Now, what would be scary (and possibly not surprising if you’re into conspiracy theories) is if this was an internal job to create the justification for revoking more freedoms in the name of terrorism. Let’s hope that it’s just some frustrated insane guy who failed to pay his taxes as opposed to something far more serious.