[Vigilanteman]

. . . how - with all of this out of control surveillance - they did not catch the Boston Marathon bombers.

Probably because it would be racist to profile a Muslim. It is much easier to profile ordinary citizens instead.

Did you ever read Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn? I did way back when I was in high school. It provides splendid insight on the nanny state mindset.

One passage which particularly struck me told of some neighbors who went to the local KGB office to complain about the lack of arrangements made to care for the young children of a couple which had been detained for suspicious activity. Unfortunately for them, the office was short exactly two people of their detention quota for the month. Guess who filled it?

[Chickensoup]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[dennisw]

. . . how - with all of this out of control surveillance - they did not catch the Boston Marathon bombers.

Probably because it would be racist to profile a Muslim. It is much easier to profile ordinary citizens instead.

They should go where the terrorism comes from. From Muslims. The Muzzies can do their internet searches etc in Arabic or Urdu. I doubt the FBI can deal with those languages in volume so they hassle American citizens instead. Visit enough Muszzies this way and they will raise hell and claim racism