The conspiracy theories about the bombings in Boston are racing around the internet. Ignore them. I am not aware of anyone who has any substantive information about what happened that is not generally available. Which means that no one knows anything. Now is the time for hard, clinical, sober analysis: dispassion is essential. Wait for the evidence; indeed, wait for the evidence to be corroborated by several reliable news sources. And keep your mind completely open to all possibilities as you examine the evidence. One of the lessons of 11 September 2001 is that rumors were allowed to fly free, and hysteria and ignorant thinking was allowed to permeate our discussions, with catastrophic consequences.
Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel is a detainee at Guantanamo. In his words: “I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.” He is currently on a hunger strike with other detainees and has written an op-ed which was published in today’s New York Times. The correct way to think about this op-ed is to imagine that you are the prisoner: can you imagine what your feelings would be if you were in the same circumstance? Is this a standard of justice that you would endorse if you were the prisoner?
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