[Hemingway's Ghost]

You look at that picture and tell me who are those people at that moment more affraid of the terrorist or the police?

Of course people were afraid.

A homicidal islamist terrorist was loose in a residential neighborhood. Earlier that night he and his brother had carjacked, robbed money, and murdered a 26-year-old MIT cop named Sean Collier. Something on the order of 200 rounds were spent. The younger brother actually killed the older brother by running him over in the street to escape from the cops.

Then the next day, paramilitary police roamed several blocks of the residential neighborhood searching door-to-door for the islamic terrorist, who, we have every reason to have believed, would have been perfectly content to go out in a blaze of glory.

Of course people were scared. The whole effing day was unsettling. The whole week was.

And you're latching on to this fear to make political hay.

[Kartographer]

You are the one latching on the the fear and using it to justify the superintendence of that fear over the Constitution. Israel suffers such attacks repeatedly, but you don't see them cowering in their homes send police and troops out to run rough shod over their own, is it to much to expect the same from Authorities here?

You justify their actions in the name of security and advocate the self-surrender of freedoms in the name of security and the state.

Benjamin Franklin - "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

[driftdiver]

“Then the next day, paramilitary police roamed several blocks of the residential neighborhood searching door-to-door for the islamic terrorist, who, we have every reason to have believed, would have been perfectly content to go out in a blaze of glory.”

There are very good reasons to believe there are a significant number of terrorists in the US waiting for orders or the right time to attack.

Is law enforcement justified in doing warrantless searches until they find them?