[Lacey]

When I was a kid, we worried about the Russians. We practiced going to the basement of the school in case of a nuclear attack. How odd to see those as less terrifying days — and to long for them.

Look like Susan kinda got her wish.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

See something, shoot something.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

-- Thomas Jefferson

[Reddy]

bfl

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I hope the Saudi man had nothing to do with it.

TRANSLATION: "Please let it be a bitter, bible-clinging gun-clutcher so we can take more rights and property away from them."

[Norm Lenhart]

:So this is my answer: I’d give up a lot. “

Then you deserve none. Funny. My daughter VOLUNTEERED to go to the place of ‘others’ in mid war to keep your pathetic, sorry ass free from terror. And you can do nothing but give it away. I’m glad America has people like her in it. You? You are human garbage.

[Billthedrill]

How much of our liberty and privacy are we willing to give up in the hopes that it might stop terror?

None, Susan. Because all the gun control in Massachusetts didn't stop these people from killing...

I'm a middle-aged, well-dressed (mostly), respectable-looking white woman. No one is really interested in me, terrorism-wise.

...from killing you, Susan. Because they are after you. If you're so stupid you think the problem is racism then you deserve it.

[Meet the New Boss]

As I write this, Monday night, I would not want to be a Muslim going through security at Logan Airport. Just for instance. And I don't blame the TSA if they pay more careful attention.

This woman is such a fool.

NOW she has no problem with the TSA singling out muslims for extra scrutiny???

Not long ago she would have been indignantly calling them islamophobes and threatening lawsuits.

[Gaffer]

"So this is my answer: I'd give up a lot. You want to put cameras on every corner? Fine with me. I don't care who pats me down at the airport. Pat away. Keep the confidences of my clients, but otherwise, my email is an open book. Mine my data; listen to my conversations. If it will keep my children safe, I don't care.

1) Is this the hagged out supposed lawyer/commentator seen on TV?

2) I'd only like to be able to get in this b!tch's face and tell her that HER insecurities about the safety of her children is not wholesale license to condemn my Constitutionally affirmed rights, NONE whatsoever.

Go bark it up another tree; you don't get any empathy here you hagged out, has-been, two-bit excuse for someone with a brain.

[Cyber Liberty]

“It’s about me! Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me! ME!!! Hear me?!?

“I was raped where the bomb went off! Hear me roar! Me!”

What is it with Democrats, anyway? Personalize *everything.*

[listenhillary]

If it will keep my children safe, I don't care.

Has it worked so far? Lets all live in government monitored controlled housing, government provided food, water and sanitary facilities so we can be safe from terrorism.

Wait a minute... Don't we have about 2 million people living like this now? In American prisons?

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

Samuel Adams

[ClearCase_guy]

I hope the Saudi man had nothing to do with it.

Absolutely the wrong thing to wish for. From past experience, 99% of the time, the terrorism comes from a man from the Middle East (often a Saudi). If this horrible case follows that pattern (and a Chechen will do, thank you) then we've narrowed the field of focus. Time for profiling. Time for suspicion based on cultural, religious and ethnic background. It just makes sense.

Life gets a lot more complex if the Japanese, the Eskimoes, the Methodists, the Kansas farm girls, and the Norwegians start planting bombs. With a diverse set of enemies, we'd really have our hands full.

Our best case scenario is for someone like a Saudi to have done this -- then we know how to approach mitigation. Profiling is long past due.

[RoosterRedux]

I was raped around the corner from where the bombs hit.

Eeeeeew!

Some like Susan is probably why a Boston rapist because the Boston strangler.

[Old Sarge]

But, we were told it HAD to be a white male heterosexual Tea Party Bible-thumping gun owner with a pressure cooker!

Wolf Blitzer (CNN) would NEVER lie!

Chris Matthews (MSNBC) would NEVER lie!

Salon.com even PRAYED for it to be a white guy!

Stay drunk, Susan. But you don’t need me to tell you that...

[Mr. K]

This is amazing. For someone so clueless to actually tell us the clues she is missing...

[Tupelo]

Nice hand wringing piece from Susan.
The entire northeast is paralyzed by the ‘manhunt’ for a teenager. Boston is locked down. BOSTON!! The Birthplace of Liberty is now reduced to huddling under the kitchen table like the Old Man, Mother and Randy, trembling with fear while Randy (The Police) tries to protect them with his 200 shot Red Ryder BB gun.
The metro sexual revolution has emasculated the entire region. Make that evolution, there ain't enough balls left to revolt against anything.

[shhrubbery!]

Susan, a lot of these questions you ask could be rendered partly moot, if only we exerted the political will to defend our borders.

And by defending borders, I mean not only constructing a fence across our southern border, but also stopping the awarding of easy legal status to persons from countries that have proved to be our enemies. Like say, Chechnya...Saudi Arabia...Somalia...

[ScottinVA]

When I was a kid, we worried about the Russians.

Interesting... I didn't know Tsarist Russia was a threat all those years ago. Learn something knew every day.

[ScottinVA]

I'd give up a lot. You want to put cameras on every corner? Fine with me. I don't care who pats me down at the airport. Pat away. Keep the confidences of my clients, but otherwise, my email is an open book. Mine my data; listen to my conversations. If it will keep my children safe, I don't care.

Well, Susan, would you submit to having government officials search your home on occasion, just to ensure you're not harboring unsavory people, keeping offensive documents, downloading distasteful photos or eating unhealthy foods?

Are you OK with having a GPS placed on your vehicle to ensure you're driving "safely" and not exceeding the number of miles the local commissars are willing to allot to you on a daily basis? Does the idea of living in a "sustainable habitat" such as a small apartment in a highrise in which every activity -- inside your apartment and out -- is monitored via video camera?

I never cease to be amazed at the number of people who claim to be American, yet would oh-so-readily surrender their God-given freedom in exchange for some perceived increase in security. During the era of the Taliban, Afghanistan had no shortage of "security." Ditto for Pol Pot's Cambodia, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. "Security" was never in short supply there... you were deemed to be property of the State.

[Colonel_Flagg]

"I'm a middle-aged,"

Yep.

"well-dressed (mostly),"

Umm...

"respectable-looking"

Ummm...

"white"

I'll grant you that.

"woman."

Debatable.