Bombing at Times Square Recruiting Center
Shortly before 4 a.m. Thursday, March 6, an explosive device detonated at an military recruiting center in Times Square. There were no casualties, but the explosion was strong enough to shake the Marriott hotel four blocks away where guests on the 44th floor could feel the concussion of the blast.
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The recruiting station, located on a traffic island surrounded by Broadway theaters and chain restaurants, has occasionally been the site of anti-war demonstrations, ranging from silent vigils to loud rallies. |
Violence against military recruiters has been increasing lately as highlighted by Melanie Morgan.
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Code Pink, an anti-war group that gave more than $600,000 to terrorists’ families in Iraq, is calling for anti-military agitators to escalate attacks on U.S. Government offices where the military work with potential recruits on their futures. The group outlines ways for followers to terrorize recruiters, shut down recruiting stations and stop people from exercising the Constitutional rights to pursue their life’s goals. Anti-war and anarchists groups have already attacked military recruiting centers in Washington, D.C., Berkeley, Calif.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Santa Monica, Calif.; Toledo, Ohio; Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Pittsburgh, Penn.; Haverhill, Mass., and New York, N.Y. This is a partial list. |
It wouldn't be that difficult to watch these groups take the next step from vandalism to outright terrorism. Ecoterrorists have taken to burning and bombing so it isn't much of a step.
We live in a country with a fully volunteer military where men and women choose to serve and protect our freedoms. Instead of being thanked for this, they're characterized by an anti-American left as murderous half-wits with so little going for them they're effectively forced to join the military. Yet their characterizations have done little to diminish enlistment, or sway the overwhelming respect the majority of people have for those men and women serving.
**Update** CBS is reporting that a hooded man on a bike was seen acting is a suspicion manner right before the blast.
Mayor Bloomberg had this to say, ""The fact that this appears deliberatey directed at the recruiting station insults every one of our brave men and women in uniform stationed around the world fighting to defend our freedoms and the things that we hold so dear."
Click the image for the news conference.
Comments
I wonder if these nitwits realized that almost every square inch of that area is covered by cameras.
Posted by: Boogscraft![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.thebrokenchair.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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March 6, 2008 11:14 AM
Apparently not. I'm hearing that someone on a bike was seen and possibly filmed.
Posted by: Ed Z![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.thebrokenchair.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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March 6, 2008 11:26 AM