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Professor: We Used 'Too Much Force' Capturing Boston Bombers(barf alert)
Fox News ^ | 4/22/13

Posted on 04/22/2013 2:12:57 PM PDT by Impala64ssa

City University of New York Professor Ruth O'Brien complains in an op-ed that "too much force" had been used against Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by the police. -snip- This said, the mortuary pictures of the older brother of the two are extremely disturbing, raising questions as to whether the Boston Police Department captured him with too much force. I understand the explanation offered by Katharine Q. Seelye, William H. Rashbaum, and Michael Cooper. Yet, it does not ring true. A picture is worth a thousand words that will keep our ears ringing as we recoil from this photo. Images have a way of searing themselves into our memory in a way that can’t be undone. We have an emotional memory, not just a rational one that is exemplified by words. While terrorism is about causing fear — again an emotion — we do have to account for our conduct in these extreme times when adrenaline is running high. At my home, to at least offset this, we turn off all media. I couldn’t believe my sons’ explanation when they got home about one brother running over the other one. So I found a place to read about this, and I recoiled after seeing the picture. Still, we all know that terrorism, like crime, “leads if it bleeds” with the established media. The established media fixates on the domestic-violence or crime-of-passion aspect of terrorism, and it, too, inculcates more fear in all of us.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: academia; boston; bostonmarathon; ccny; idiotprofessors; tsarnaev
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Rhetorical question:was this b*ctch equally repulsed be the images of the limbless bombing victims clinging to life, or the images that leaked out of Gosnell's abort-o-mat? This is the type mindset that that convinces herself that Martin Richard's death was a pre-adolescent suicide.
1 posted on 04/22/2013 2:12:57 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa
terrorists are to be treated with the highest respect, innocents are to be treated with greatest possible indignity and cruelty.

Why hasn't anybody socked this idiot 'professor' in the jaw yet?!
2 posted on 04/22/2013 2:14:15 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: Impala64ssa

I think the brothers used “too much force” in killing and maiming people with bombs at the marathon. Liberals are sick criminal, terrorist lovers.


3 posted on 04/22/2013 2:14:54 PM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Impala64ssa

LORD, SPARE US THE PROFESSORS!....


4 posted on 04/22/2013 2:15:20 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Impala64ssa

He was captured by professors?


5 posted on 04/22/2013 2:15:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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The police officers were to sacrifice their lives and render their children fatherless so that the beloved-by-liberals terrorist animal could be gently brea-hugged like an unruly toddler.

and liberals wonder why we hate them for saying such stupid crap?
6 posted on 04/22/2013 2:16:02 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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I love that loser and pansies recoil at pictures. I stood up and clapped when I saw it, made copies and posted it on my wall.

I hate weak-wristed pansies. They have had a big part in the undoing of this great country.


7 posted on 04/22/2013 2:16:23 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Impala64ssa

Keep talking Ruth, keep talking. You are a very effective advocate (for the conservative side, that is).


8 posted on 04/22/2013 2:16:35 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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was this b*ctch equally repulsed be the images of the limbless bombing victims clinging to life, or the images that leaked out of Gosnell's abort-o-mat?

Leftist scum dream of the day when they get to legally rip the heads off of 8 year olds.
9 posted on 04/22/2013 2:17:07 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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I hope that his mail box is being bombarded with the most graphic of images of the REAL victims of this terrorist act.
10 posted on 04/22/2013 2:17:13 PM PDT by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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No doubt this professor would be urging calm and to just board the boxcar. Twerps like this never stand and resist.


11 posted on 04/22/2013 2:18:06 PM PDT by Ray76 (Do you reject Obama? And all his works? And all his empty promises?)
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This is why we should send Ruth O’Brien the next time we need terrorists arrested.


12 posted on 04/22/2013 2:19:38 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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I’ve seen the picture. I wonder if the writer realizes that the huge gash in the guy’s side is where the doctors operated while trying to keep him alive?


13 posted on 04/22/2013 2:22:13 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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Just as I suspected.

Beaten with 'too much force' by the ugly stick.

14 posted on 04/22/2013 2:23:33 PM PDT by relictele
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Not enough force, and accountability to those who let the terrorists in, and removed the dogs.

"What difference does it make?"

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same,
or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
"
President Ronald Reagan

15 posted on 04/22/2013 2:23:54 PM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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Unpopular, but my observation was that once the location of the #2 bomber was known, the police exhibited absolutely no fire discipline.....you could hear their supervisors yell to “cease fie, cease fire” throughout the video clip as the troopers fired full auto against apparently no return fire.....


16 posted on 04/22/2013 2:24:15 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (A Strong Man Armed who guards his home, lives in peace.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Reality is often disturbing to the people that live in a make believe worlds.


17 posted on 04/22/2013 2:24:28 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: Impala64ssa

Liberal scum, like this professor, do this everytime the police use force.

That is why our cities look like sewers full of arrogant criminals.


18 posted on 04/22/2013 2:24:50 PM PDT by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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19 posted on 04/22/2013 2:24:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: stephenjohnbanker
LORD, SPARE US THE PROFESSORS!....

Get rid of tenure.

20 posted on 04/22/2013 2:25:04 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Cyprus - the beginning)
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