Explosions

Esplanade's Mugar

Boston media have exploited the Boston Marathon bombing extensively. The uninformed or remote listener/watcher would assume that Boston is still reeling and learning from the explosions on Boylston Street in April. Not so. In my neighborhood last evening, the evening of Independence Day, illegal fireworks blasted loudly and frequently until the early morning hours. There were no police sirens. There were no long pauses which would have indicated some police intervention. There was obviously none.

 

No, all the State Police and municipal police available were monitoring the annual corporate event on the Esplanade, an entertainment venue devised by a wealthy (by birth) Boston businessman and free market capitalist.  That event attendance was nearly halved this year. In anticipation, the national commercial TV broadcasters who usually televise the event had pulled their money and cameras.

 

Meanwhile, in my economically humble and heritage-diverse neighborhood, there were no police available to secure the peace for the citizen who wanted to get some sleep in preparation for a working-class job in the morning. The same illegal New Hampshire gun powder which maimed and amputated in April was being ignited liberally everywhere. Must have been hundreds of pounds of the stuff, judging from the noise.

 

I wonder if any of those many individuals who are standing behind litigation lawyers to secure more than the readily dispensed $8,000 for "psychological trauma" stemming from the Marathon bombings (despite their lack of any evidence of contemporaneous medical impact from the explosions) were blasting the polluted skies with gun powder smoke last night in celebration of the money they anticipate securing from the well meaning contributors to One Fund.