I just have serious doubts that 4chan is better at investigating crimes than the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Well, like, there's 4chan, which is basically a conglomerate of people with an overinflated sense of ego, and then there's the investigative power of the FBI, so I am doubtful 4chan will help solve this, myself.[DOUBLEPOST=1366226675][/DOUBLEPOST]Ah, I see Charlie beat me to the explanation. Didn't notice the next page.
Dave
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To you & Charlie: The FBI is indeed checking into this kind of thing. But they are also asking for pictures and stuff like that. 4chan has shown itself to be very, very good at taking pictures and coming to correct conclusions about the why's and wherefor's. I'm not saying they would do it while the FBI couldn't, but remember it's the FBI that dropped everything to chase Richard Jewel and Dr. Hatfill. They did so to the exclusion of actual evidence and ruined their lives. The scrutiny of 4chan could very well be a deterrent in the mis-identification of a scapegoat.
http://truthinjustice.org/hatfill.htm
While obviously the FBI isn't infallible and can, like any organisation or individual, be corrupt, I feel that its scope and training are far and away above those of 4chan. I'm also highly, highly cynical of 4chan and the personality that comes from it, but this is not the thread for that. I'll concede that many more eyes and efforts toward transparency may indeed be beneficial, but I do temper that statement with a level of scepticism.
(Also why and wherefore mean the same thing)
This x 1,000,000.
fade
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True, but "whys and wherefores" is an idiom. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/whys+and+wherefores+of
Oh. I had no idea.
Dave
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It's something we old people know.
BananaHands
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And get off their lawn, Chad Sexington
Okay...
Why I don't trust the internet (4chan included) to find the person or people responsible. Amateur Internet Crowd-Sleuthing
GET HER!
You might as well have just addressed Chad in that post.
I am a total party pooper. Just ask my children.
Dear Everybody,
We are absolutely sure that "unnamed sources" have "speculated" that "the bombing incident" was caused by a "flying monkey." We can produce evidence of these unnamed sources making this speculation if you want.
Yours truly,
The Media
(My point being they can just pass the buck to whoever they apparently get their info from)
Hey, there's a whole 24 hours they gotta fill with news, and another 24 hours after that, and another after that, and so on. What else are they going to fill it with? There just aren't enough facts for a whole day!
Can't they just do what HLN did? Cut back to 9 hours of actual news and 15 hours of Nancy Grace?
Dave
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Yup. And while I seriously don't believe that this is anything other than an accident, man the timing and placement is just weird.
What can we say? It's been a hell of a week, and we've got three more days of it - or at least 2.66 days. Authorities in West are treating this as purely an accidental fire, and until they say otherwise, I'm going to refrain from speculatively linking it to the Boston bombing or the ricin letters (especially since the suspect in the letter issue has been arrested). One thing I do know, though - ammonia is exceptionally volatile.
Dave
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Oh, and I take back what i say about 4chan. They are now going full conspiracy theory saying that Navy Seals did this - specifically a Mercenary-style group called Craft International. They are saying this is a false flag to take away from (among other things) CISPA and a report on American torture.
So...yeah. Never mind.
So...yeah. Never mind.
Yeah, the rest were apparently just suspicious packages that turned out to be regular mail. It's like those 3 or 4 unexploded bombs that EOD teams dismantled in Boston that didn't actually exist.