Boston Marathon Bombing and Us

I like the way Tan Chuan Jin has conjugated the the bombing of the Boston Marathon with his experience of the bomb attack on the Marriot in Jakarta. Everything can be different but the moment a bomb goes off the carnage are exactly the same. My point? It can happen here with the same resutls.

This might come across as prejudging but do you imagine two bombs would go off if Obama was there? Security would have checked thoroughly. I wouldn't be surprised if Boston Police was in the end found to be complacent, under equipped and/or under provided with intelligence.

The Singapore public have broadly two ways to respond. We can avoid congregating at places where many people would show up especially if the world's media is also there to cover the event (this would be a disastrous lack of confidence) or we can insist the government adequately secure the area. After the silly escape of Mas Selamat, we cannot assume that they are always on top of their responsibilities especially given the poor accountability afterward.

I wonder how many people (I don't think too many) would quietly just avoid showing up in popular events especially our organized marathons. Are we being too smug about customs security?