Posted on 04/20/2013 1:15:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“You must admit that, as an objective observer, it doesn’t take much to not only shut down a city, but also establish control.”
Most cities in the USA wouldn’t have done what happened in Boston Friday. No city I’ve lived in would
My reaction exactly !!!
“Can you imagine running a pot grow house on the next block? Yikes.”
Maybe at an earlier time in my life lol. Had a neighbor blow a hole in my apartment wall once at 3am on a Saturday night. It was an uncomfortable experience when the cops wanted to see our side of the wall
I think that when you have such a large force of government agents out on the street, and you consider how poor their marksmanship and trigger control is in general, that keeping as far away from them, and avoiding as much contact with them as possible is a prudent choice.
To clarify the previous post, it was largely tounge in cheek. In reality, I think the entire concept of them shutting down an entire city to pursue a single terrorist just shows how far down the road to an absolute police state we have gone.
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The next civil war will be very asymmetric.
He was killed when his brother ran over him and dragged his body under the SUV.
I don’t blame them for hunkering down. I would have hunkered too. My point was what he said the day before - the usual unthought-out, sounds-good-but-means-nothing rhetoric, without considering that sometimes hunkering is the prudent thing to do.
I'm afraid it goes way beyond that.
If martial law is declared for trivial reasons or capriciously, that to me defines an illegal act and a basis for impeachment, or some serious local ass-whuppin'.
What will they do if I ignore their orders and go about my business in my own neighborhood? Shoot me for my own safety?
You won't know that for sure til it happens in your city.
Much of this was done in an area they evacuated prior to the door-to-door. One must wonder why they needed to evacuate a sizable area before they could search it - especially since it was an at-home citizen who made the discovery.
Not entirely lunatic if the cell towers have independent power and you have a phone with internet capability.
Several posts and links on this thread dispute that.
I heard the scanners and they were saying that on the scene, at the moment. Believe what you like. There are enough conspiracy theories out there to satisfy everyone. Me? I prefer to stick with facts and my lying ears.
Posts 66, 73 and 79 as well as published pictures of the bullet riddled boat would seem to disprove what you say. But hey, believe what you want.
The Boston lockdown was a dry run, an opportunity coming out of the bombing. Imagine locking down an entire city for one 19 year old with a pistol and at worst, MAYBE a pressure cooker bomb. Look at how ineffective they were as point weapons against the police: older brother blew himself up. The bombs were strictly timer devices, not command-detonated.
You caught those points too, didja?
Putting this into Broadway analogy:
Katrina was the script read-through;
Superstorm Sandy was the rehearsal;
Boston was the dress rehearsal.
I am really concerned - no, worried - what event will be the house lights flashing and the curtain going up on Act 1 Scene 1...
Yep. They have drawn a clear enough picture for our enemies, so that they don’t have to do it themselves with an outright false-flag “Reichstag Fire” moment.
They have announced to the Muslim world that one teenage punk jihadist running around with a pistol is enough excuse for us to impose martial law and daytime curfews.
“Come on, guys, get it together! Try a few Beslans or Bostons or Mumbais, so we can get on with imposing permanent martial law!”
If we are following history’s rhyming pattern, we are due for a Reichstag Fire, Night of Long Knives, and Kristallnacht.
And we will only find out years from now that OF COURSE the DHS was compiling “virtual” gun registration lists, and data-mining Americans to come up with what will become “purge lists.”
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