And you may have been too -- my point was just that the Boston bomber search was closer to martial law than the NYC emergency action, and even the Boston incident isn't close to martial law. On a scale of 0-100, NYC is a zero, and Boston was a 5 or 10.
Fair ‘nuff.
Boston was more hunkered down, rather than martialed down. But no one was keeping you off the streets, except in the areas where the two douchebags had been seen.
And no home or building was searched without the permission of the owner.
Bags were searched on the subway. Again, no one who refused was searched. They simply could not get on the train.
My Son in Law was one of the folks doing those searches.