Posted on 04/21/2013 4:40:36 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
Has anyone heard any specific instances about this?
Every act of terrorism on US soil leads to further erosion of the 1st, (assembly); 2nd, and 4th Amendments.
Sometimes rapidly but invetiably and inexorably gradually.
Many of the people in the "lock-down" area microwaved popcorn and sat on their couches watching the TV as thousands of law enforcement and para-military types streamed through their neighborhoods with police cruisers a-flashing with sirens blaring.
You would think that the populace would be upset about being told to "shelter in place" while some homicidal muslim was apparently running through their neighborhood. But no, they docilely sat on their couches as they did about three months ago when the governor once again told everybody to "shelter in place" as a snowstorm moved through our region. That was also on a Friday. So the typical reaction of citizens here was "another 3-day weekend...yayyy!"
The only good part of Friday was how it took only 30 minutes for a regular citizen to find the culprit once they were told they were free to move about once again.
30,000 cops and a hundred times more police cruisers than were used in the Blues Brothers movie and all for naught. Some dude in a flannel shirt wanders into his backyard to check on his boat and finds the kid just like that.
Didn’t Karl vote for Bammy?
Excellent rant. Spot on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LrbsUVSVl8&feature=youtu.be
Hat tip to Rummy Chick for the video...but yeah, here’s an example. Scary.
True; however, considering the politics of Boston(off the charts leftwing extremism)couldn’t one conclude they basically voted for this kind of action and have been doing so for generations?
This is the first rant by Denninger that I concur with 100%. Right on dude, all the fatazz fed Barney Fifes could not manage to find their own AH’s. Funny how the pussified Bostonians laid down and let the Fatazz Barneys walk all over them.
Blame public education & our ridiculously lax immigration system.
Thanks to them we're currently filled with people who hate us.
With respects to Mr. Deninnger, what could the police have done differently to catch Joker? In addition to the Boston Marathon bombings, he had been involved in the murder of an on duty police officer, and the injuring of another on duty police officer, and was in a shootout including the use of explosives while being pursed by other officers. He was hiding, he was armed, and he may have had explosives. What - TACTICALLY - could the police have done differently once they knew he was on foot in the Watertown neighborhood? If he wasn’t quickly found by dogs and helicopters, how could they KNOW he was not inside someone’s house with the occupants tied up and gagged, waiting until the police leave so he could take their car, unless they go door to door contacting the residents?
Might as well give up the third while we are at it. That way if a scary terrorist shows up at night, the troops downstairs will take care of it.
Not let him drive away (possibly over his brother) would have been a good start. It ended up some guy found him in a boat and the only reason it took that long was because the boat owner was forced to stay inside. The cops could sign more permits (they need shall issue).
TACTICALLY
Park their fat asses at the dunkin donuts and wait since that's all they did in the end anyway.
The police are the experts, why don't you go ask them? I KNOW that martial law is not the effective answer. There are thousands of wanted fugitives in the nation. Are we supposed to go into martial law and perform house to house searches until they are all caught? That is what you seem to support.
Conversely, there are millions of prisoners in the US today. I don't know of any citywide martial law instances to catch them.
OK. Mr. Officer, do you think the tactics used to capture Joker were appropriate?
Officer: "Yes."
Thank you Mr. Officer. Well there we have it, the police are the experts and they all concur that the tactics were appropriate.
The core question here Code, is not what I support, but in THIS operation, what could the police have done differently?
The reality of the situation is that Joker did drive away, and he led the police to a neighborhood in Watertown. Faced with that, and knowing that he was armed and dangerous, what could they have done differently? And I reject the suggestion that parking themselves at a doughnut shop is tactically superior to setting up a perimeter.
Denninger is pitifully lacking in documentation and verification.
In a manhunt with a bleeding perp, I saw nary a “tracker dog” all day....but they might have been on a long break at the doughnut shop or union break.
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