Boston Marathon Links to Oklahoma City Bombing

All the news outlets are screaming headlines about the "Boston Marathon Bombings" and how the experts will discover if it is a homegrown terrorists or foreign terrorists.  They assure us they will look at the bomb fragments to determine how the bomb was assembled to identify the person or group who makes the bombs.  They do not mention anywhere about taggants, but why?

Here is an excellent article written from a conservative viewpoint which attacks a NRA, National Rifle Association, coalition against special "identification" taggants dating back to 1995 during the Clinton administration.  It makes me ask: Why has this important tool of terrorist investigations been excluded and not been brought out into the bright light after the Oklahoma City Bombing by Clinton and subsequently after the 9/11 World Trade Center terrorist attack by Bush or Obama?

With TV Shows like CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, even Hollywood has missed this important forensic component in the CSI team's tool box. Going forward as of today, Obama should take on this issue as tenaciously as he does fighting against our 2nd Amendment rights by registering firearms and banning multiple round ammunition clips - Why not under ATF and FBI regulations require registration of  special "identification" taggants? 

 Ratification of the United Nations Agenda 21

UPDATE - International Gun Controls

This UN treaty subjugates our country's sovereignty under the United Nations rules which order our Congress to follow UN gun registrations. Obama, as well as Hillary Clinton, are urging approval and passage to bypass U.S. Constitutional laws. It will further dovetail into an effort by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) currently amassing files on every American citizen and resident to enforce gun controls. This is a separate aside issue to be aware of and protest. It has nothing to do with our terrorist threats but offers great cover and an excuse for the Obama administration to further diminish our 2nd Amendment Rights. As Rahm Emanuel's Misguided Mantra says: 'No Crisis Should Go to Waste'.

Where Are The Taggants?
By DICK MORRIS
Published on DickMorris.com on April 16, 2013

After the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing in 1995, the Clinton Administration called on Congress to pass legislation to require all commercial materials that can be used to make explosives include special taggants -- chemical materials that are not destroyed in the blast but that can survive it to help us pick up the scent to find the culprits.
 
Congress agreed to require detection taggants -- substances included in explosives that dogs can smell and other equipment pick-up to indicate the presence of explosives.  But it refused to pass legislation to require "identification" taggants to help us track down the party responsible.
 
As this column is being written, we do not yet know if the authorities have been able to apprehend any of the killers of the Boston Marathon Bombings. But we do know that they would have a better chance of doing so had Congress acted as it should have twenty years ago and required identification taggants.  Switzerland is the only country in the world that requires such taggants.

What happened? A coalition of the NRA, explosive manufacturers, mining companies and the like complained that taggants would run up the cost of explosives and pose a major inconvenience. They won and stopped identification taggants from making it into the final law.
 
When the Atlanta Olympic bombing happened, many revisited the taggant issue. But there have been no explosion terror attacks on American soil since then and the taggant issue has not come up.
 
It is time it did. This elementary law enforcement tool must be included in our response to this horrific attack.
 
In addition, we must all pray for the health of those who are wounded and the consolation of the families of the dead. But let's learn the lessons of this attack.

Update on Friday, April 19, 2013 at 10:07AM by D.K. Dickey

Bomber Update: The hunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ended Friday night when authorities captured the suspect wanted in connection to the bombing Monday at the Boston Marathon, according to the Boston Police Department. Authorities say the suspect, along with his brother, killed an MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle, according to the Associated Press.

Law enforcement officials in Watertown, Mass., responded to the site of reported gunfire around 7:00 p.m. -- approximately one hour after lifting a lockdown on the area -- where they found Tsarnaev, 19, hiding inside a small boat. Police cornered the suspect, not far from the site of a shootout the previous night that killed his brother and suspected accomplice, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The AP reports that the suspects were identified as ethnic Chechen brothers who had lived in Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in southern Russia. They had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Mass.