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Naked Man and the Mossad agent in our midsts

It's full-moon time for conspiracy theorists, of course.

Seth Mnookin considers Naked Man - the unfortunate guy who happened to be driving through Watertown at exactly the wrong time and who wound up on the ground, stripped of all his clothes:

Even if some intrepid reporter does track the naked man down, the morass of conspiracies surrounding the marathon bombing and the twenty-four hours that culminated in Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture last Friday night are not about to disappear; one of the hallmarks of conspiracies is that evidence used to knock them down is interpreted by true believers as proof that they actually exist. But anyone who doesn’t consider himself an Infowars soldier can rest assured that the naked man was just a random guy, who was unlucky enough to look like a suspected terrorist—and lucky enough not to end up seriously hurt.

The Globe's Eric Moskowitz, who interviewed Danny the Mercedes Owner, tweets this morning:

I understand why Danny wanted to stay private. Among the many conspiracy theory emails I've received, one just asked if I was a Mossad agent.

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On the subject of unresolved pieces of the story, I haven't heard anymore about the supposed bomb they detonated at Charlesgate last Friday. It seems a little random it was there. is there confirmation a bomb was there and if so is there reason to believe the Tsarnevs put it there or is there a copy cat still out there?

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I was listening on the scanner for almost the entire manhunt. It sounded like what happened at Charlesgate was that they pulled over a taxi with (IIRC) two middle eastern occupants. A lot of police rushed to that location, to the point where someone high-ranking got on the radio and ordered no more assets to that location. All this turned out to be nothing - and if you were listening to the radio there were a lot of incidents where the police got really excited about something for a little while but it turned out to be nothing. I'm assuming that after a lot of police went to that area they found some suspicious packages. I don't know if they did a controlled demolition. I would be very surprised if there was an actual bomb. There were a lot of "suspicious packages" that turned out to be nothing.

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NECN show a vid of them blowing it up... pffft and Boston Herald wrote:
Meanwhile, there was also a suspicious device found near the Charlesgate Apartments near Kenmore on Thursday that was detonated by a bomb squad. Asked about the device, Boston police spokeswoman Cheryl Fiandaca said, “To the best of my knowledge it was not a pipe bomb.”

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was a false alarm, according to my friend who was already at work nearby.

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I've seen repeated questions on youtube asking why people were being wheeled away in wheelchairs instead of ambulances arriving.

Here's the answer:

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Wheelchairs are always at the finish line to assist injured and exhausted runners after they finish.

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The victims were being wheeled to a medical tent , set up for said runners, around the corner and off-camera in most footage. The tent was quickly transformed from a site for after-race care to an emergency triage station.

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The immediate area around the bombings were barricaded and an active crime site with 2 bombs having just gone off. It would have been dangerous and almost impossible to quickly get ambulances into those areas.

Good lord.

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One wonders what kind of conspiratorial scheme these people envision that involves (1) willingness to kill or mutilate dozens of people, but (2) being sure to have wheelchairs on hand, because that's just being considerate.

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One of my son's friends, 18 years old with floppy black hair and of Armenian ancestry, was quite literally locked in his room by his mother last Friday.

Former Soviets take no chances with these things. I guess Naked Man's experience means that her concerns were valid.

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says we aren't being told the full story. The dudes boat gets towed to an undisclosed location, and fools still believe that the case is closed.
Yes, and Whitey was living in California this whole time.

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I can understand the "naked man" situation given the time and the place, but where is the coverage/critique of the rest? The State Police shooting at the unmarked Boston Police SUV and nearly killing two BPD officers? The MBTA cop obviously shot and nearly killed by friendly fire, the bullet removed from his femoral artery not consistent with the weaponry of the Islamic terrorists? Boston Police Supt. Mousey Evans, with no jurisdiction, literally calling the shots at the boat in Watertown, not in Boston nor even in Suffolk County? Menino, like a broken record, repeatedly mumbling "One City?" Yet some Globe columnists are calling for Commissioner Ed Davis to run for Mayor!

Best yet, media "critic" Dan Kennedy praising the Globe's Kevin Cullen as the "voice of the city" even though Cullen, aping the disgraced Mike Barnicle, claimed that the little 8 year-old victim had run out onto Boylston Street to greet his father as dad "just finished the marathon." Wasn't the true story sad enough? Bill Richard, by all other published accounts, had not run the marathon but perhaps the story in the Globe sounded better if he had. The only thing missing was the white terrorist making friends with a black-Jewish nurse at Beth Israel (Barnicle). Shameless.

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Individual gov't and police agencies have been unable or unwilling to provide accurate information on how the events developed and how responses were determined.

This entire affair should be studied head-to-toe, by a panel granted legal authority to gather information.

This should be done in order to find the truth but also to determine what went wrong and what improvements can be made to future responses.

Let's learn from this tragedy.

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The FBI was in charge of the scene, and Boston officers were granted mutual aid powers per the Watertown chief.

Radio misinformation and cowboys were the reason for the shitshow on Friday.

Bombs (grenades from the radio) made that scene probably hopelessly chaotic, especially after possible news of a terror cell involving multiple plots.

Every officer who fired a round will be doing a report for the FBI (who I believe will be taking info from the state police investigation )

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I liked this post because of the title.

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Time to wheel out Menino!: sajkaghiuhgapuignpvbyt "One City"

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I have relatives that live on Franklin St., Watertown. They are still in lockdown, they came out to visit us since no one can go down that street still. Bullet holes in their home and what a story they have to tell of that Friday night. They were basically "guarded" in their home, not allowed any tv or radio. Weren't allowed to answer the phone. I assume it was for their safety but they feel they were looked at suspiciously. Still no where near normal for them, although they do appreciate the presence still there to keep the gawkers away. And the guy with the boat, he came over to talk to them and told them how he came across the perp in his boat. Scary stuff on such a nice quiet street.

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1). In the CNN video, the guy who is arrested with no resistance and photographed by FBI agents on camera looks like the spitting image of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

2) So far, no one has ID'd this man. Why not? What's the big deal? If authorities want to instantly shred the conspiracy theories, all they have to do is ID the guy who was detained, which is perfectly legal.

3) Authorities obviously know who the naked guy is. They took his picture. Why not release a high-resolution photo of the guy with ID and a description of why he was arrested?

4) Not all conspiracy theories are created equal. Robert Kennedy Jr. is on record saying the evidence clearly points to a conspiracy in his uncle John Kennedy's murder. In a 1999 civil trial, A 12 person jury heard 70+ witnesses and ruled unanimously that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed as the result of a conspiracy. The Gulf of Tonkin, which launched the Vietnam War on a false pretext, was a conspiracy.

5) The FBI has admitted that it has been tracking Tamerlan for several years. Family members say that he was being closely monitored.

6) "The United States has been narrowly saved from lethal terrorist plots in recent years — or so it has seemed. A would-be suicide bomber was intercepted on his way to the Capitol; a scheme to bomb synagogues and shoot Stinger missiles at military aircraft was developed by men in Newburgh, N.Y.; and a fanciful idea to fly explosive-laden model planes into the Pentagon and the Capitol was hatched in Massachusetts. But all these dramas were facilitated by the F.B.I., whose undercover agents and informers posed as terrorists offering a dummy missile, fake C-4 explosives, a disarmed suicide vest and rudimentary training. Suspects naïvely played their parts until they were arrested." - From "Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I." By DAVID K. SHIPLER, The New York Times, April 28, 2012

7) The Bush Administration blatantly lied to the American public to create a false pretext for invading Iraq, in violation of international law. More than a million people are dead as a result. These lies were loyally parroted by the mainstream media over and over and over again, despite much evidence to the contrary.

In conclusion, there is absolutely nothing irrational about mistrusting either official accounts of what happened in Boston or the mainstream media's reporting of these events. Proving an official version of events false is not contingent on producing an alternative theory of what occurred, a "conspiracy theory," so to speak. But it does put a spotlight on government lies and deceptions.

I write this as a patriot of the U.S. who loves his country, and believes that the American people deserve better than to die in wars built on a web of lies.

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