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Boston Marathon Bombers Framed: FBI, DHS Prime Suspects
reacting calmly to the first explosion his family were perpetually monitored by
before leaving the area but, if any an FBI agent.
emotions surfaced on him, it appears
they were surprise and agitation. Not even snippets of what transpired in
Subsequent footage of him buying milk court were documented for the public.
at Whole Foods was framed as evidence All that was given to indicate a trial ever
that he appeared without remorse took place were cartoons, underlining the D
but, if it does reveal something, cartoonish nature of the growing fiction. E
it’s his lack of concern about the If the crimes weren’t publicized as post- C
world possibly coming down on him 9/11 “terrorism,” more of the public E
soon. The Tsarnaev trial exhibits are likely would have found it suspicious and P
available for public viewing. There are perhaps outrageous that something as T
dozens of individual links to pictures, simple as afterimages of the trial weren’t I
videos, electronic data, etc. but none provided, because presenting nothing O
of them can be considered legitimate but a comic reel of the trial of the United N
evidence that the brothers were behind States’ #1 living alleged terrorist is openly
what happened or that anyone was disrespectful to Americans.
legitimately hurt. It wasn’t until after
the public release of the exhibits and To add to any remaining illusion of
the defense’s needless portrayal of him legitimacy, several crisis actors were
as guilty that a motion for acquittal reused to help paint over the legal process
of all thirty charges was filed because of trying and sentencing him. Some
prosecution “failed to introduce specialized in mourning on command,
evidence “sufficient to establish each although the acting was generally quite
essential element of the offenses poor. Some simply regurgitated lies. A
charged beyond a reasonable doubt.” It few pawns read scripts from positions of
received no meaningful attention. authority and spoke matter-of-factly about
things they admittedly had nothing to do
It is said Dzhokhar was allowed to with and otherwise knew nothing about.
see autopsy photos of his purportedly One of few equally informative reporters
dead victims but they are, to this day, assigned to cover the sentencing, Emily
forbidden from public viewing. Despite Rooney from WGBH TV claimed [1:42] to
purportedly having been the only one have been listening to it but only discussed
given this privilege, he reportedly was how exceptionally complex the jury’s
never allowed to as much as talk to finding was, while shakily stumbling over
other inmates and his discussions with basic descriptions that apply to every trial
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