The comments overwhelmingly support Ron Paul — and question Yahoo’s headline bias.
We can now declare martial law and float a lie to avoid early scrutiny. We can lie and say he had a gun and attempted suicide.
What if an in innocent person (or family) had been negligently shot dead during this shelter in place order in Boston, what story would the float to keep people calm? That’s just part of the sausage making process now, right? That’s how they serve the greater good.
How do you reel this all back in? We’ve crossed the rubicon, this stuff is reminiscent of the Russian KGB or East German Stazi.
Once the local/city/state law enforcement is starved for ammo and the Feds have 1.7 billion rounds, won’t they be easy to defacto federalize? => you bet, those proud men, they’ll cum cheap!
Paul is correct.
Not only did their SWAT tactics go entirely too far in dragging people out of their houses for no reason, the entire event was a replay of the Keystone Cops.
Even down to the capture of the remaining bad guy.
A tracking dog could have found him in minutes.
My neighbor can follow the blood trail of a wounded deer at 10:00 PM, pitch black dark with nothing more than a flash light...no dog needed.
When other hunters lose their deer, they call on him to find it.
And then to top it all of, some scared about to pee in his pants cop fires a shot, causing all of the other cops to think they were being shot at so they fire away like crazy.
And then we find out that the BG didn’t even have a gun.
And to top it all off, the local cops, FBI, mayor and who knows who else all go on TV and congratulate each other on what a great job they did.
But then what do you expect from a state that would elect the likes of Ted Kennedy, Kerry and the rest of the crazy libs that run the state and the city.
I have yahoo as my home page and the comments are overwhelmingly conservative. Yahoo headlines and stories would make Orwell blush.
I agree the Boston police went way too far. Shier totalitarianism measures were not only pointless(taking everyone off the streets did not enable them to find the terrorist and indeed hindered the effort.)
The Boston police & political leaders effectively gave to the terrorist a far greater achievement than they could ever have imagined. They allowed by proxy the terrorist to shut down an entire city and forced everyone to hide in their homes in fear.
What on earth do did Massachusetts’s political leaders think the terrorist were trying to do?