Posted on 04/22/2013 5:34:44 PM PDT by lowbridge
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Monday the countrys interpretation of the Constitution will have to change to allow for greater security to stave off future attacks.
The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry, Mr. Bloomberg said during a press conference in Midtown. But we live in a complex word where youre going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
Mr. Bloomberg, who has come under fire for the N.Y.P.D.s monitoring of Muslim communities and other aggressive tactics, said the rest of the country needs to learn from the attacks.
Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11, he said.
We have to understand that in the world going forward, were going to have more cameras and that kind of stuff. Thats good in some sense, but its different from what we are used to, he said.
The mayor pointed to the gun debate and noted the courts have allowed for increasingly stringent regulations in response to ever-more powerful weapons.
Clearly the Supreme Court has recognized that you have to have different interpretations of the Second Amendment and what it applies to and reasonable gun laws
Here were going to to have to live with reasonable levels of security, he said, pointing to the use of magnetometers to catch weapons in city schools.
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good post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=B_Gb6i5DF9k&NR=1
they had armored vehicles, machine guns, armor etc.
all this for 1 guy
they ordered a lockdown where no one could leave their house and no one could go into their house. This is against freedom. I would sue these commies
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