And it showed where the top man’s loyalty lies.
Bush’s fault. Just ask Obama.
The glorious National Para-Police were ready to swing into action to save us from the generic unnamed terrorists in Boston!
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AND...
When the terrorist was finally discovered by a guy tinkering with his boat and found to be unarmed...to avoid scrutiny the police floated the lie for two day that the terrorist WAS armed and had attempted suicide.
What if an inocent person or family had been negligently shot dead, what story would they float to keep people calm -serve the greater good.
If it’s permissible to lie to avoid scrutiny and call it maintaining calm or serving the greater good, you can do whatever you damn well please.
Welcome to Mexico.
At a secondary level are the pols, bureaucrats and administrators who *think* they're in charge and think they're actually serving the proles and doing a good thing by directing people to stay in doors, and demonstrating they'll use all the power and influence at their command to keep people safe, rights be damned. These people think that if they didn't dispatch armed swarms, they would be criticized for not doing enough.
The next level down are the footsoldiers. I'm guessing that the overwhelming majority of cops and National Guardsmen involved in this were there for the most altruistic of reasons...to get the bad guy. While those motivations are to be lauded, their willingness to "just follow orders," can be frightening when the motives of those actually giving the orders go unquestioned.
At the bottom are the compliant masses who felt safer when their streets were occupied and their homes were being searched.
All these strata are necessary for the initial imposition of tyranny, and sadly we have no shortage of folks willing to jump on board and fill their assigned roles.
One of the challenges faced by President Bush after September 11th was in suggesting how Americans should react.
If I'd been president in September, 2001, the United States would have put an abrupt end to global jihad against America, Israel, and western culture in general.
If you're too stupid to admit you're in a war, there's not much chance you'll win it.
SHE JUST GAVE THEM THEIR MIRANDA RIGHTS!!!!!
Get used to it, folks... IEDs are going to be a daily part of life in America, just as they are in other parts of the world. The enemy is inside the gates, now.
The policies needed to stop terrorism are taboo to the Left and the Rinos and that is to secure the border, kick out the jihadis and their enablers in our government and restructure immigration, period. Zero has the media in his pocket and we have too few people willing to act on changing the above problems.