Update: No 2nd device in OU explosion (according to Pres. Boren)

[fishwax]

http://www.ou.edu/
http://webapps.ou.edu/DLB_Statement_2.pdf

quote:
The second explosion was the bomb squad making sure that there was not a second device.

:wtf: is that standard? I don't know much (okay, anything) about SOP for bomb squads. Does anyone else know if this is normal/accurate.

Tinfoil Hatters: Feel free to look into Boren's intel connections if you're looking for signs of a coverup.

[hlthe2b]

1. what is the local news reporting?

it is typically harder to keep the basics from the local press/media.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It is SOP to blow up suspicious packages first & inspect after. Safer too.

If you don't think that it is standard operating procedure to blow up any unknown package found in the area of a bomb blast, then you can volunteer to open and inspect all such packages in the future.

Think.

[fishwax]

3. uh, that's why I was aksing the question. No need to be snarky.

but as long as you had fun :eyes:

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. There are too many people like you wanting to excite the tinfoilers.

There is no evidence that Boren's intel connections have anything to do with this explosion.

It is a favorite tactic of Rove and Republican autocrats to divert and divide their opponents by sending them down tinfoil ratholes. Please think and don't play their game.

[fishwax]

5. oh, i don't want to excite the tinfoilers

i'm fairly close to the situation, emotionally speaking, and I don't have any interest in any grand conspiracy theories. I was reading/writing a lot about this story last night, and offering plenty of reasons--such as the easy access to a great number of people offered on the opposite side of the stadium--why a broad terrorist plot seemed unlikely here.

"There is no evidence that Boren's intel connections have anything to do with this explosion."

You're right, of course. And I have a hard time seeing my hometown as being part of a larger conspiracy plot. (If there is any coverup, it will be a result of not of Boren's part in a broad conspiracy, but rather his personal obsession with manipulating public information to "protect" the university's reputation--he's very hands on in any kind of info that gets out about the university.)

"It is a favorite tactic of Rove and Republican autocrats to divert and divide their opponents by sending them down tinfoil ratholes. Please think and don't play their game."

But the information on his connections is there. I didn't start the fire, friend, and the people with their conspiracy theories will do what they do. Everything I said was accurate information, and accurate information is our friend. Some people may use that information to come up with conclusions that seem to me unlikely, but I don't see accurate information as a diversion or division. I think your reply to my OP is more indicative of the tactics of diversion and division, frankly.

If one doesn't think it's a conspiracy (clealry the rational starting point for the conversation), one can convince others of it without (a) pretending not to acknowledge/denying/suppressing facts that might lead away from that point or (b) relying entirely on ridicule. The first is particularly useful for feeding the fire, and when a and b are all you've got, that's what smacks of game playing.

And I'll think for myself, thanks :)