I think, JMHO, that Boston was a trial balloon to see if the people would accept martial law.
The people loved it.
Law enforcement got overtime and got to play with cool weapons...
Obama got to crow that he got the bad guy.
“I think, JMHO, that Boston was a trial balloon to see if the people would accept martial law.”
I believe that was part of it.
About a month before the attack the ACLU made a comment about the “militarization’ of the police then went silent and said nothing else about it.
The CPUSA made a comment about illegals taking the fight to the streets about 2 weeks before the attack.
Eric Holder, about a week before the attack, made a comment about blacks spending too much time in prison for their crimes.
O’s WH was on the attack against white gun owners.
They were setting it up that any one of the three, whites, blacks, or illegal radicals would have a reason for the attack.
Of course the news media picked white right wing extremist as being behind the attack.