9/11, America is attacked, and we were violated. We retaliated. We got Saddam. We got bin Laden. We thought we were done being attacked, hurt,
violated, rocked to the core, being taken advantage of.
Monday April 15, 2013, Boston Massachusetts. Everything changes. This was supposed to be a regular day, minus
it being Tax Day. This was the day of
the Boston Marathon. A time honored tradition
in Boston, where people from all over the world come to participate; to be a
part of something bigger then themselves.
Instead, this turned into tragedy, which ended with the
deaths of four innocent people.
There are a lot of questions that are still unanswered, and
for the questions that we get an answer to, there are ten new questions being
asked.
I would like to take you back to the early 2000s. A family from Dagestan by the name of Tsarnaev
comes to America claiming asylum from their homeland. They bring with them four small children, two
boys and two girls. This family is
immediately given assistance from the government. They receive welfare (cash money for people
with young and dependent children) and food stamps. The father did not have a job and the mother
did home facials. If we fast forward a
couple of years, this family had made trips back to the homeland they were
allegedly fleeing from. I am not sure
about you, but if, hypothetically speaking, I was seeking asylum from another
country, I would not be traveling back to said country. FOR ANYTHING.
This is where the questions begin. Were these people really in need of
political refuge? Why, if they were in
such desperate need of freedom, did they return home? Should this have been given a second look?
As time went on and the family remained in America, the
children were able to get an education here, be provided for, with assistance
from Massachusetts, and really have all the freedoms they claimed they were
being persecuted for back in Dagestan.
While living in Boston the mother of these two bombers was
caught shop lifting from a Lord & Taylor store.
This is mighty ironic, seeing as how her sons were identified off a
camera at a Lord & Taylor store in the days following the bombing. (Mama Tsarnaev has outstanding larceny
charges against her.)
Eventually, post theft, the parents decide to return to
Dagestan. Which again begs the question,
why the need to claim political asylum?
Enter Mother Russia.
Our comrades in the frozen tundra of the former Soviet Union gave us a
ring and informed us they were concerned that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, bombing
brother number one, had some radical terroristic tendencies and should be
watched. So the FBI does a little
investigation and can’t seem to come up with anything to warrant any
concern. So in 2011 Tamerlan decides to
take a six month trip to the homeland. RED FLAG. RED
FLAG. RED FLAG. Does
no one else seem to see the problem with this.
Mother Russia made a call, we don’t usually chat with the Soviets. Our relationship would be classified as “it’s
complicated”, so if they are taking the time to warn us about this guy, we
should probably take it seriously.
The FBI put Tamerlan and his mother on a terror watch list, called Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, or TIDE for
short. So bomber number one was on a watch
list here, on the radar of Mother Russia for possible ties to terrorist
organizations, yet he somehow takes a six month trip to a terrorist hotbed
region of the world and nobody notices? Not only were they added to TIDE, but
the Russians have a recorded conversation between Tamerlan and Mama Tsarneav,
where Tamerlan talked about jihad. Now
there are reports coming out that the Saudi’s warned us of possible terrorist
tendencies from Tamerlan.
So Tamerlan
comes to America, gets on welfare, travels back to the country he was allegedly
fleeing from, gets put on a terrorist watch list, is being watched by not one,
but three countries, and yet, still travels freely in and out of the United
States. Does anyone else see the problem
here?
Our younger suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarneav is a different story, one that is still
unfolding. He was a kid when the family
came here. He was part of school sports teams,
and was just a party kid; pot smoking, booze drinking, college kid. As he is living in America, partaking of all
the greatness she has to offer, he decides to become an American citizen; on
September 11, 2012. Oh the irony. Dzhokhar had every advantage afforded to him,
yet he killed 4 innocent people, and injured hundreds.
There are so many questions that still need to be answered. The ones that are sticking out in my mind all
surround why these people were even allowed to stay in this country, when
clearly, they were not really seeking political asylum when they were traveling
back and forth, as if it were a normal everyday thing. Another question is what did our intelligence
community know? Did they drop the
ball? What is the purpose of all these
national security precautions that were put in place post 9/11? Why did someone with known terrorist
tendencies get what seems like a free pass, yet grandma Betty is stripped
searched in the middle of the airport by TSA?
Where did we go wrong?
Who gets held accountable to the proverbial dropping of the ball? Do we need more precautions put in place to
stop something like this from happening again?
Where were all the precautions that were supposed to be there?
Did we jump the gun in not classifying Dzhokhar as an enemy
combatant? Are there more people
involved? Could there be international
ties?
Like I said, there are too many questions that need to be
answered, and we deserve the answers to these questions.
