The Era of Manufactured Crises:Orwellian Nation State Politics and Media Controls are the Opiates of the Masses

The headlines of this week alone are a conglomerate of manufactured crises and it needs to be said that the masses love to have it so.

Anyone would be upset realizing that what happened in Benghazi, Libya was no mistake. The events that happened there were not without warning or calls for help. However, we ask all the wrong questions when it comes to Benghazi. We’ve been asking “Why didn’t Clinton authorize greater security,” and “Where was Obama in all this,” and “Who ordered the stand down command?” All wrong questions.

You’d be wise to remember that after the Assassination of Ambassador Stevens and the Manufactured Crisis that a YouTube video set off the attack there were weeks of riots across the Islamic states over the false YouTube video report. I remember doing a post on the riots and demanding the release of the “YouTube” video because I knew there was no such video and I was curious as to why/how all these Islamic states were rioting over something that never existed.

The questions we should be asking are, “Why was Ambassador Stevens there in the first place,” and “Why was he traveling with the CIA (agent “Shawn Smith”),” and, “What set off the mob if it wasn’t the YouTube video we were told insulted Islam?” What was their purpose in Libya? Weren’t they under direct orders from the State Department and/or the White House itself? I would ask, not just “who gave the stand down orders,” but also,“Who gave the assassination orders to kill Stevens and his crew, and what did they know that they had to be killed and a whole fake story had to be constructed?”

[N4TM confronted all these issues straightaway on 9/14/2012 *Flashback http://news4themasses.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/mass-media-wins-benghazi-staged-attack-leads-to-new-war-in-libya-and-north-africa/]

Ever wonder how the Media was able to sustain the lie over Benghazi for so long? Remember the riots in other Islamic Countries over the “YouTube Video?” All the MSM were reporting on this AP, Reuters, CNN, FOX news, as well as your favorite alternative news agencies and “independent” journalists. There were videos and still photographs, real rallies that took place in support of those fellow Muslims who were insulted by a fake YouTube video that never existed. Remember here in the US there was a witch hunt for the director of the fake movie? He was even fake arrested and his fellow extras who appeared in the iPhone made move were interviewed! Let’s not forget all this surrounded the coverage of this story and all the MSM were there, now all of a sudden a few MSM have jumped on the “We demand to know the truth about Benghazi” bandwagon. I suggest you think long and hard about where these “independent” thinkers were in the hours and days right after the Assassination. They were following orders reporting the same as everyone else, and today the few who’ve branched off to “demand the Truth on Benghazi” are still following orders. (It’s called controlled opposition)

[N4TM reported on this 9/18/2012 *Flashback http://news4themasses.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/muslims-unite-mass-media-fuels-the-flame-of-dis-information/]

The other major fake story breaking this week has been the IRS plunging into the depths of the private citizens of America and their political affiliations. Truly, this is breaking news, that for over a few years the Government has been monitoring “fringe” political groups and “Christians?” I’m sorry but I’m not impressed or highly threatened by this headline. Those who know have been bemoaning for just as long if not longer that the Government has swelled in omnipotence and omnipresence. And clearly those who know that this has been going on for years also know that it wasn’t the love child of Obama but it began long before El Manchurian became potus. So let us dissect the IRS story just a little. It was “leaked” by whom, the White House, for what reason, to distract the people who are the main group demanding truth about Benghazi (The Assassination of an Ambassador and his spies)? Both crises were manufactured as distractions from what the Shadow Government has been doing all along. That’s the one question not being asked, “What is the government really doing when we’re all distracted with the fake stores dished out to us on a continual basis?”

Opiate of the Masses

The masses love to have a new cause to rise to. There’s a whole market out there for locos who have enough money and are willing to cry on tv and radio and sing the national anthem off key while selling you their clothing brand and vacations where you can join them in learning about Americana History. There’s people telling you to call your congressman and Senators to demand answers on “Benghazigate” and for someone’s job to be lost over the IRS “scandal.” There are people who keep you on the hamster wheel of doom and gloom, sudden death and destruction, sucked to the constant streams of twitter feeds, twitchy, and Facebook posts of the “next shoe to drop,” or the next “big breaking scandal” that will reveal what a Cretan Obama is. You must admit it, all the while, you simply love it and gobble it down like it’s manna from heaven rather than raise an eyebrow as to why they would have you on the constant opiate of falsity. There’s a certain media personality who has close to One Billion hits a month. He supposedly “reports” the news headlines, but often times you’ll notice he also creates them. With that many readers/visitors to his site he’s often the one Breaking the News to the cable MSM news outlets. His site consists of RSS feeds from all major information ‘disseminators.’ He doesn’t simply tell you what’s going on, he’s also very capable of swaying public opinion. I don’t believe that he’s fueled by a desire to provide information for the masses for their benefit, but I would take a huge guess and submit that his motives are not altruistic but are part of the problem. And with 1 Billion hits a month why wouldn’t he prove to be working for the machine?

For those waiting for your headlines:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/16/after-irs-targeting-tea-party-says-their-fears-confirmed/

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/irs-official-on-targeting-tea-party-it-is-absolutely-not-illegal/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/17/second-irs-official-to-leave-amid-tea-party-scandal/

http://www.christianpost.com/news/pro-life-groups-say-irs-targeted-them-too-96177/

IRS asked anti-abortion group about content of public prayers- http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/irs-conservative-group-2009-members-pray-193833144.html

Black Pope Francis calls for New World Order in a different way

Pope Francis urges global leaders to end ‘tyranny’ of money

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/10061700/Pope-Francis-urges-global-leaders-to-end-tyranny-of-money.html

□ N4TM Commentary:
Pope Frances called for the end of tyranny over the poor by the world’s elite. Remember Pope Benedict’s call for a new global currency. As you read the article you’ll understand that Pope Francis is not asking for something less than what Pope Benedict asked for he is simply asking for the same thing in a different way. The article mentions Pope francis comment about working towards the common good. What Francis wants to do is level the playing field and enable the poor to have the same opportunities as rich people do; however, this will never happen. The elite know it and the poor know it, so to make such a claim is pointless. Both previous Pope Benedict and current, Black/White Pope Francis, work for the same Elite organization and construct. Neither will ever really relinquish the power and the money that they have over the Catholic Church nor over the world in general. Please note that references to Pope Francis as the “Black Pope” is in regards to his status as a Jesuit.

My response to Matt Drudge @DRUDGE

MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) tweeted at 4:39 AM on Tue, May 14, 2013:
Would nation have the courage to remove its first black president IF proved he is corrupt?
(https://twitter.com/DRUDGE/status/334271729214054400)

□ N4TM Commentary:

Let me be clear, the American people would not remove Barack Obama even if:

● He admitted to targeting ambassador Stevens in Libya Benghazi himself,

● An eyewitness in the room with Obama came out and stated he heard Obama give the stand down order for assistance for ambassador Stevens in Benghazi,

● It became revealed that Obama through his CIA goons were responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing.

● the IRS were ordered and directed by Barack Hussein Obama to target Tea Party members,

● The Ricin letters were a psychological op directed by and requested by Barack Obama,

● the Aurora killer, the Sandy Hook killer, the Tucson killer, were directed by an orchestrated from the Barack Obama administration in an effort to perpetuate a gun control debate and seizure of the American people’s guns.

● Eric Holder would come out and conduct a press conference stating that Barack Obama gave him direct orders to sell guns to Mexican drug traffickers instigating what we now refer to as “Fast & Furious.”

● It were determined that the Barack Obama administration directed the removal of Gaddafi in Libya for the sole purpose of gaining control of that country for strategic reasons.

●  It became evident that Barack Obama’s “Obamacare” was constructed for the sole purpose of issuing a mark of the beast which would in affect render Christians in FEMA camps.

● If Barack Obama came out publicly and stated not only is he NOT an American Citizen but that he is in fact “god” (the Anti-Christ) and should be worshiped, the American people would still NOT remove him from office.

Any one of the above bullet points could be revealed via “breaking news,” or whatever, and it would not matter. None of the American people will ever rise up against Barack Obama to dethrone him or remove him as president of the United States. As I stated in a tweet “the American people are zombie drones spying for Obama.” Americans do not have the will nor the desire to fight against him. They will not spend 1 minute away from their Facebook or Twitter feeds in order to stand up for their own civil liberties.

The American people are under strong delusion.

You heard it here first.
Here’s an update we’ll see how this pans out over the next few hours but here it is as it stands now. .. “Breaking News”
◆◇◆◇ “BOMBSHELL… ABC Analyst: West Wing Of White House Authorized IRS-Gate Targeting (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 3:49 PM” ◆◇◆◇ Source:Gateway Pundit

Justice Department spies on Reporters

Associated Press says Justice Department spied on reporters’ phone calls in sweeping surveillance campaign

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/13/4327784/associated-press-says-justice-department-spied-on-reporters-phone

“The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative’s top executive called a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into how news organizations gather the news.

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls.

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies.

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,” Pruitt said.

The government would not say why it sought the records.” Source: FoxNews

□ N4TM Commentary
Obama’s administration spying on US citizens is not “breaking news” to us paranoid folk. I have been saying it all along.  This weekend, in an effort to distract from the growing Benghazi debacle, a story leaked that the IRS had targeted “tea party members. ” Today, news that the Justice Department taped AP reporters phones is adding more fuel to the fire. It’s a good thing for Obama that Americans are overwhelmingly apathetic to being spied on, and totally adjusted to not having civil liberties to consider fighting over these new findings.  If it weren’t for years of pre-conditioning us to accept invasions into what was once termed “privacy” Obama might have had to worry about riots. Lo, even the few hot blooded Americans left won’t fight back (there’s no ammo available for a civil war in America), back to Bad Piggies. Next up, we’ll find out those FEMA camps were made for Christians!

I read this post via a tweet of this picture link Here This disclaimer was in place for filming of the new Captain America sequel (filming in Washington D.C). I just thought the wording on this sign was over dramatic and kind of errie. It also made me wonder if Marvel llc. should write these for the US Government and post them all over America!

#Gosnell: Guilty of Murder

GuardianUS (@GuardianUS) tweeted at 0:38 PM on Mon, May 13, 2013:
Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell found guilty of murder http://t.co/6k7nJ3HEvV
(https://twitter.com/GuardianUS/status/334030009830346752)

□ N4TM Commentary
The long awaited verdict is good news. 

VA Christian Woman Arranges Burial Of Boston Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/11/va-woman-has-no-regrets-over-role-in-burial-of-boston-bombing-suspect/

□ N4TM Commentary
According to this article a Christian woman in Virginia arranged the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s body. He was buried at a Muslim cemetery. She called it “an interfaith effort,” and referenced Christ’s command to love your enemy as her reason for aiding in the burial of the Boston bomber.
Read linked article for full “story.”

Newtown votes to demolish Sandy Hook Elementary

ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) tweeted at 0:57 PM on Sat, May 11, 2013:
Newtown officials voted in favor of plan to tear down Sandy Hook Elementary and construct new building http://t.co/boBnVtGBw0

(https://twitter.com/ABC7/status/333309841965723648)

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Tempe Teen Arrested for IED reveals 4th Amendment Issues, FISA, and our utter Ignorance

This is Joshua Prater, an 18 year old senior in high school. He was arrested because the family “cleaning lady” discovered what she believed to be an explosive device in his room. She not only removed his personal belongings she also took photos of other items in his room that she believed to be “suspicious.” This anonymous cleaning lady then took the “bomb” to the local Fire Department. Here is the official story below:

“When firefighters saw the device, they contacted Tempe Police’s bomb squad. Bomb investigators came out and confirmed the device was a legitimate IED.

“They had it X-rayed, they saw it was a valid IED. It was something that wasn’t big, but could cause serious injuries and the death of someone,” said Tempe Police Sgt. Mike Pooley.

They disabled the device and detectives responded to search the home, located in the 1600 block of E. Candlestick Road. There, they found materials used for making improvised explosives, according to police.

They arrested Joshua Prater, an 18-year-old student at Marcos de Niza High School.

He was booked on charges of misconduct involving weapons and possessing a prohibited weapon.

According to a police report, Prater admitted to building the IED, but said he made it about eight years ago and didn’t know it was filled with explosive powder.

The IED was made out of an empty CO2 cartridge, hobby fuse and was filled with a low explosive powder, match heads and fireworks. It meets the definition of an improvised explosive device, as defined under “misconduct involving weapons.”

It isn’t clear what Prater intended on doing with the device.

The cleaning lady put herself in danger when she transported the device to the fire station, but police say she may have saved lives by coming forward.

“She did the right thing. This a very dangerous device that could have killed somebody.”

Prater’s parents apparently told police he learned how to make the bomb from his friends. Prater’s next court date is May 15.

The investigation is ongoing.” Source: MyFoxPhoenix

Why does every MSM just sit on stories that scream for further investigation? I just have common sense questions really that you would think a “real journalist” would have also, and don’t they get paid to get the whole story? I guess because we are all accustomed to regurgitated news reporting we have forgotten how to think critically. If I may, I have some questions:

Who is this cleaning lady? Why don’t we have her name? Joshua was been thrust into the news with his mug shot all over the national press yet he has not been convicted (yet) of any wrong doing, but the highly trained covert operative- I mean “cleaning lady” who removed Joshua’s property from his home remains anonymous.

Did the cleaning lady have a grudge against the family? If she had concerns about Joshua’s room items did she ever approach Joshua’s parents first to ask why he had “devices” in his room?

As far as we know Joshua has not been a problem child. There are indications that he was a straight ‘A’ student. Already news organizations were attempting to distribute a psychological write up on the guy trying to find out if he was a “loner” or had made any mention of wanting to blow up his school-which none of that is true. Joshua Prater admitted to making the device, (did he know enough not to give information to police without an attorney present?) 8 years prior, which would have made him a mere 10 year old kid fiddling with explosive devices. His interest in things that go “boom” for a ten year old are not out of the ordinary.

I think this story has less to do with the fact that he had a device in his home that had “potential” to do harm, and more to do with his Fourth Amendment rights being infringed upon.

Who is this cleaning lady to determine what she deems a “weapon?” So, if someone has a real weapon, like a gun in their home and the cleaning lady says, Oh, that’s a gun that “could” kill someone I’m going to take it to the police. Then are you arrested for having a gun in your home? Is the government going to make people register their fireworks and CO2 cans in their home? How about registering kitchen knives, and attack dogs? When does it end? In prison criminals find ways to make weapons out of the most bizarre things. I have an old rocket I bought at a hobby store, I haven’t used it yet. If I set it off in the wrong place it “could” do harm, should I be arrested? I don’t have a pressure cooker, just a few waffle makers and a slow cooker, but hey if I threw them at people it could harm people, should I be arrested? Is the meter-man working for DHS too? How about the cable guy who comes into the house to bring my DVR? Does he have the right to search my personal belongings and then give whatever he deems as evidence to the authorities?

Maybe what this is really about is FISA?

What’s FISA, you ask? That’s just sad, you should know that the United States Government has whitewashed our Fourth Amendment by passing and amending the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) to be used against American citizens. Oh yes, you would do well to research this bill that was recently revised in 2013. You may remember a certain crazy person in congress trying to filibusterer a “drone” issue? Yeah, it goes beyond giving JTF and DHS the right to survey you via drone. The FISA is invasive, they know everything-everything. Between FISA ,CISPA, and it’s grandaddy the Patriot Act; and let’s not forget the emerging Agenda21, there are no civil liberties in the US. Freedom of speech is targeted, the right to bear arms, the right to a lawful search and seizure, all gone. GoogleGlass is going to obliterate any shred of privacy we had left just going to the market or the gas station. Perhaps the cold hard truth is we haven’t been “free” for a long time. So, now that you know you’re a fish in a bowl, how does that make you feel?

The use of this video is not an endorsement of this person or the links he advocates for. *Links are never an endorsement.

Read These:

Huffington Post: FBI doesn’t need Warrant to view your Email etc.

Reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act- 2013- PDF 13 pages-

https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

U.S. Admits Surveillance Violated Constitution At Least Once

Supreme Court Makes It Harder To Challenge Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Justices block lawsuit over foreign intelligence surveillance

“And also in 2012, the FBI submitted 15,229 National Security Letter requests for information concerning 6,223 different U.S. persons (“excluding requests for subscriber information only”), down somewhat from the 16,511 requests (concerning 7,201 different persons) the year before.

As an instrument of public oversight, the annual reports on FISA are only minimally informative.  They register gross levels of activity, but they provide no measures of quality, performance or significance.  Neither counterintelligence successes nor failures can be discerned from the reports.  Nor can one conclude from the data presented that the FISA process is functioning as intended, or that it needs to be curbed or refined.

Congressional leaders blocked efforts to impose new or stronger public reporting requirements when the FISA Amendments Act was reauthorized late last year. However, Sen. Jeff Merkley and several Senate colleagues asked the FIS Court to summarize its opinions in such a way as to facilitate their eventual declassification and disclosure.  This request has produced no known results to date.” Source FSA- FISA Surveillance Applications Rose Slightly in 2012

Original Tempe Teen Headline discovered here: http://www.azfamily.com/home/PD-Explosives-found-at-Tempe-home-student-arrested-206530681.html

**UPDATE**
AZ Family “Channel 3″ whose patent company is CNN, tweeted this picture this week taken by the “Cleaning lady,”

Click on image to enlarge. What you sees here looks like trash. One fellow tweeter suggested perhaps there was enough to construct an M80 not a “bomb,” add the Tempe Bomb squad asserted. Keep in mind that the cleaning lady removed this teen’s property, without a warrant, she then took the “IED” to the Tempe fire department who took the material to the Tempe “Bomb Squad,” who in turn arrested this kid at his High School. This story is Ridiculous! I wouldn’t be surprised if this young man’s parents decided to sue Tempe Police for violating his 4th Ammendment rights. I have mind enough to show up to this kids hearing on Friday.

Young Teen Dies in Toronto Marathon after brush with history at Boston Marathon 2013

Strange coincidence? This young lady of just 18 years old was with her family at the Boston Marathon and was safe in their hotel by the time the bombings went off. Emma Van Nostrand and her family are runners. Emma trained to do her first full marathon in Toronto Canada. Just shy of the finish line Emma suffered heart failure. I first heard of this story on Twitter. I follow @PacePerMile who tweeted this:

Pace Per Mile (@PacePerMile) tweeted at 1:13 PM on Tue, May 07, 2013:
Family wants answers after teen dies during marathon – Brampton Guardian http://www.pacepermile #news http://t.co/6d3zMrgi96
(https://twitter.com/PacePerMile/status/331864432705679361) Below is an excerpt from that article.

Family wants answers after teen dies during marathon

Left a legacy. Emma van Nostrand, 18, was running in the GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon. Emma was about three kilometres from the finish line — so close to celebrating with her parents, who also ran Sunday — when she collapsed and later died in hospital. Facebook

• Karissa Donkin/Torstar Network
• May 07, 2013 – 10:40 AM

TORONTO— The van Nostrands saw tragedy and mayhem unfold around them at this year’s Boston Marathon.
The Cape Breton family escaped unharmed, making it back to a hotel before a bomb exploded close to where father Steve van Nostrand’s family members stood earlier, cheering him on during the race.
But the family of six from tiny Coxheath, N.S., who are all long-distance runners, encountered their own tragedy Sunday in Toronto, where Emma van Nostrand, 18, was running in the GoodLife Fitness Toronto Marathon.
Emma was about three kilometers from the finish line — so close to celebrating with her parents, who also ran Sunday — when she collapsed and later died in hospital.
Now the family is trying to piece together Emma’s final minutes, looking for clues about why and how a healthy teenager with no medical problems could die so suddenly.
“It absolutely doesn’t make any sense to us. Emma was very fit, very strong. She’s been training for over two years,” her father, Steve van Nostrand, said Monday after flying back to Nova Scotia. The family has been promised a copy of the coroner’s report once it’s complete.
Though Sunday was Emma’s first full marathon, she was no stranger to long-distance running.
She started at 12, following in the footsteps of her runner parents, and completed several half-marathons. She worked out with a personal trainer and ran with her cousin several times a week.
“She basically lived with the two best coaches you could have around here,” said Chris Milburn, president of the Cape Breton Road Runners.
Emma was up by 5 a.m. on Sunday, tweeting that she was freaking out about the big race. Throughout the day, she appeared to pace herself well and stopped for water, Gatorade and snacks often, her father said.
Just after 11 a.m., near the 31-kilometre mark on Lake Shore Blvd. W., she collapsed.” End of quote click here for full article.

I checked back to see what they discovered of this young lady’s sudden death. The choice of words/phrase of her condition was disturbing:

A ‘walking time bomb’: Nova Scotia teen who died running Toronto marathon had rare heart defect- National Post May 8th 2013

“The 18-year-old Nova Scotia woman who collapsed running a marathon in Toronto last week and later died had a rare heart defect that often goes undetected.

Emma van Nostrand’s father told the CBC an artery in his daughter’s heart constricted as she ran, which then caused her heart to stop.

“One of her major arteries is not at the normal angle coming in through the heart,” Steve van Nostrand told CBC, after speaking to a coroner. “It’s something that’s both very hard to revive a person from that situation even if you’re in a hospital, you can’t always revive them. Also it’s sudden and unpredictable and nothing you can easily test for.”

With the heart defect, his daughter was a “walking time bomb,” van Nostrand told the CBC.

Toronto EMS said Emma had no pulse and was not breathing when she collapsed on Lake Shore Boulevard near Roncesvalles Avenue around 11:08 a.m. on Sunday, two kilometers from finishing the GoodLife Fitness Toronto marathon.

Paramedics tried to revive her at the scene and while transporting her to hospital. Despite efforts to intubate the teenager to help her breathe and administer intravenous fluids and medication, her vital signs remained absent.

Emma was the second of four siblings in her family. The school board in Coxheath, N.S has offered crisis counseling to her classmates in the small community. She was in Toronto to run the race with her parents.” End of Quote, Source National Post (staff writer -no name listed).

At the start of the Toronto Marathon a moment of silence was observed for the victims of the Boston Marathon just weeks prior. You can view video of that moment of silence here.

Teen who collapsed at marathon had heart abnormality

Read more: http://www.cp24.com/news/teen-who-collapsed-at-marathon-had-heart-abnormality-1.1271993#ixzz2Sm81kg00

I am saddened by this young woman’s death. It’s horrible that any young person die so suddenly and mysteriously. I was immediately alerted to this story because the tweet mentioned that the family had just “survived” the Boston Marathon. I thought it was odd, weird; what is the probability of nearly being in a bombing at a marathon to go on to another marathon and die of heart failure so young? For that reason alone I followed this story. People do die at Marathons. I’ve heard of it happening before; and it happened at a race I was in once. There are medical staff at organized races for a number of reasons, the main reason being that there are people who aren’t ready for a race and suffer a great deal. People can “hit the wall,” which is when you just bonk and pass out from the combination of physical strain, dehydration, heat exhaustion, etc. The greater dangers probably exist outside of the controlled environment of an organized run. Runners also get hit by cars when they are out training for runs. One example of this is a young lady in AZ, a local, had won the PF Chang Rock & Roll Marathon a few years back and just a week after her win she was hit by a car while training on her bicycle. It was tragic, she was at the start of a great year and was already pretty accomplished for herself. I’m a slow runner, most of my non-running friends can pass me with no training! I know the value of training having done 4 half marathons and a few other distances in the past three years of picking up the sport. What Emma represents is the true spirit of the love of the sport. She was young and her death was untimely; however, I liked that her father encouraged others to not be discouraged by her sudden death but to continue running. I thought perhaps the timing of this was errie and perhaps it was related to Boston. I don’t know if it is related to Boston outside of this young woman having been at that event. There are some questions I have over this story that don’t seem to be addressed in any of the articles I read thus far, but I’ll keep them to myself for now. I think there needs to be caution when we see stories that bear some “relation” to the Boston Bombing. As someone once said, the truth will be revealed.

“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.” James 4:14

Here’s another tragic story: A woman went for a jog and was mauled to death by four pitbulls. see here

AZ FAMILY: Explosives found at Tempe home, student arrested

http://www.azfamily.com/home/PD-Explosives-found-at-Tempe-home-student-arrested-206530681.html

□ N4TM Commentary
A high school kid building IED’s in his home isn’t cool, but now the cleaning lady is doing search and seizure?  This is a result of losing our fourth amendment right.  Imagine the possibilities without our civil liberties.